Revelation 17:1-2 (TS2009)
And one of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying to me, “Come, I shall show you the judgement of the great whore sitting on many waters, with whom the sovereigns of the earth committed whoring, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her whoring.”

In prophecy a woman either symbolizes God's faithful people (Isaiah 54, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 5:25-27, Revelation 12) or unfaithful or godless people (Jeremiah 3, Jeremiah 51). Whoring symbolizes idolatry (Leviticus 20:5, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 4:12, Hosea 6:10, Ezekiel 23:30). In prophecy the sea or the waters symbolize foreign nations that are separate from God's people (Psalms 144:7). The symbolic meaning of earth, as opposed to sea or water, is stability (1 Chronicles 16:30-32). Earth is the footstool of God (Isaiah 66:1). Wine is linked to loose behaviour (Ephesians 5:18) and making the nations go mad (Jeremiah 51:7). This entity makes the nations go mad.

Revelation 17:3 (TS2009)
And he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast covered with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

In prophecy the meaning of the "wilderness" has to do with the condition of God's people after they turn their backs on God and start intermingling with foreign nations and their ungodly traditions (Isaiah 64:10). The wilderness is a place of trial for Godly people (Mark 1:12, 1 Corinthians 10:5). Isaiah speaks of the Wilderness of the Sea in relation to Babylon (Isaiah 21:1). Likely this refers to a situation in the world when God's people will experience trial. The symbolic meaning of a beast is a kingdom or empire (Daniel 7:23). This beast with seven heads and ten horns coincides with Satan's final global empire.

Revelation 17:4 (TS2009)
And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup filled with abominations and the filthiness of her whoring,

The colors purple and scarlet are associated with rulership (Daniel 5:29, Matthew 27:28). In the Scriptures the colors purple and red are associated with Tyre (Ezekiel 27). Tyre was an ancient Phoenician city which was known for its wealth and commerce and for its significant role in trade and its interactions with Israel, particularly during the reigns of Kings David and Solomon. King Hiram I of Tyre allied himself with David and Solomon and provided architects, workmen, cedar wood, and gold to build the royal palace in Jerusalem, as well as the Temple. Tyrian purple and red were also worn by the Roman emperor. So Babylon the Great has power over the beast she rides. The golden cup is associated with Babylon (Jeremiah 51:7). It is filled with abominations which are false gods (2 Kings 23:13).



Revelation 17:5 (TS2009)
and upon her forehead a name written, a secret: Babel THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE WHORES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Something that is written on someone's forehead is an inherent part of that person's being (Jeremiah 3:3). Revelation 14 also mentions this: If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark upon his forehead or upon his hand, he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of Elohim, which is poured out undiluted into the cup of His wrath. (Revelation 14:9-10a) It is like a permanent mark or a seal (Revelation 7:3). The forehead has to do with a person's faith. That her name, or her identity, is a secret likely indicates that she is somewhat hidden and excercises her power from behind the scenes. She is the mother of false religion and false gods.

Revelation 17:6 (TS2009)
And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of YHWSO. And having seen her, I marvelled – greatly marvelled!

Babylon the Great is responsible for the killing of God's chosen ones. The Messiah was persecuted and killed in Jerusalem by the Jewish authorities who rejected Him because He posed a threat to their power. The Jewish authorities manipulated and used the Roman authorities to kill the Messiah. Stephen was killed by the Jewish authorities (Acts 7). After Paul, who used to be a persecutor of God's people, became an apostle of the Son of God he was persecuted himself by the Jewish authorities (Acts 9:29, Acts 13:50, Acts 14:19). The disciples were killed by the Jewish authorities centered in Jerusalem. The Messiah said: Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! ... (Matthew 23:37) and to the Pharisees who wanted to kill Him: You are of your father the devil (John 8:44) and in Revelation: those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not (Revelation 3:9). The Jewish authorities centered in Jerusalem, who denied the Messiah and killed Him and His disciples, represented Babylon the Great. The Jewish authorities had the power to deceive and manipulate the Jews and the Roman authorities for their own gain.

Revelation 17:7-8 (TS2009)
And the messenger said to me, “Why did you marvel? Let me explain to you the secret of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the pit of the deep and goes to destruction. And those dwelling on the earth, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, shall marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

The beast that goes to destruction is Satan's final global empire. All the people on earth that don't worship God will marvel or worship the final beast empire.

Revelation 17:9-10 (TS2009)
Here is the mind having wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. And there are seven sovereigns: five have fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he has to remain a little while.

Each head or mountain also has a sovereign. Of the seven empires five have fallen, one is at the time of the vision, and another is yet to come. The last one is to remain only "a little while" which indicates this is about the final global empire in the time of the end. The five fallen empires that affected God's people throughout history are Egypt, The Assyrian Empire, The Babylonian Empire, The Medo-Persian Empire, The Greek Empire. The empire that is during the time of this revelation to John is the Roman Empire. The empire that is still to come and remains only a little while is Satan's final global empire. The period between the Roman Empire and the final global empire is irrelevant because there is no divine intervention. Only in the time of the end the Son of God will return to the earth.

Revelation 17:11 (TS2009)
And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes to destruction.

The heads are subsequent empires, the seventh head is the final global empire. The complete beast, including the head empires, represents the eight beast. So the final global empire completes this beast and brings into existence this eighth beast.
There seems to be a parallel to the complete statue in king Nebuchadnezzar's Dream and it has to do with the worship of the false idol, the abomination. Nebuchadnezzar's false idol in his dream is completed with the feet representing the final global empire. The false idol is in the likeness of a man. King Nebuchadnezzar's sin before he was made low like an animal was his pride, he boasted about himself: Is not this great Babel, which I myself have built, for the house of the reign, by the might of my power and for the esteem of my splendour? (Daniel 4:30) Therefore God punished him: Let his heart be changed from man’s, let him be given the heart of a beast, and seven times pass over him. (Daniel 4:16) Interestingly, seven "times" equals seven years (Daniel 4:32) and this also happens to be the duration of Satan's final global empire.
Possibly this eighth beast is the false prophet from Revelation 13, the beast that had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. It came into existence when the global final empire was completed.

Revelation 17:12-13 (TS2009)
And the ten horns which you saw are ten sovereigns who have not yet received a reign, but receive authority as sovereigns with the beast for one hour. They have one mind, and they shall give their power and authority to the beast.

The ten horns are ten kings or leaders that give their power to Satan and his final global empire.

Revelation 17:14 (TS2009)
They shall fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Master of masters and Sovereign of sovereigns. And those with Him are called, and chosen, and trustworthy.

They shall fight with the Son of God but He will destroy them.

Revelation 17:15 (TS2009)
And he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and crowds, and nations, and tongues.

Babylon the Great has power over large parts of the world.

Revelation 17:16-17 (TS2009)
And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the whore, and lay her waste and naked, and eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For Elohim did give it into their hearts to do His mind, to be of one mind, and to give their reign to the beast, until the words of Elohim shall be accomplished.

Close to the beginning of the time of the end the ten leaders of the future global empire will make an end to Babylon the Great and her influence on world events. Likely because Babylon the Great is an obstruction to their desired global empire and has been using and abusing them for her own gain. Therefore they hate her and will plot to destroy her.



Revelation 17:18 (TS2009)
And the woman whom you saw is that great city having sovereignty over the sovereigns of the earth.

Which entity had and has power over the kings or leaders in this world? It must be related to money and the financial system. In the days of the Messiah it were the money-changers in the temple that were overseen by the political-religious leaders... It may have to do with Zionism as it has great influence on world events and it was responsible for the creation of the modern state of Israel. Zionist organizations have tremendous power in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond. Often they force these nations to do what is good for Israel, not what is good for the nations. This is done by means of bribes and corruption. It is no secret that Zionist families who pretend to be Jewish have amassed tremendous financial wealth by which they further influence world events in their own favor, not in favor of the nations they use and abuse.



Revelation 18:1-2 (TS2009)
And after this I saw another messenger coming down from the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his esteem. And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Babel the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hated bird,

Maybe this means that the political-religious entity was controlled by demons and with its destruction these demons have lost their vessel.

Revelation 18:3 (TS2009)
because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her whoring, and the sovereigns of the earth have committed whoring with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her riotous living.

The Gospels relate that the Messiah was furious when He saw that the temple in Jerusalem had become a place of money change and trade (Mark 11:15-18). The political-religious leaders, the scribes and the chief priests, made their fortune with these ungodly practices in the temple and sought to kill the Messiah because they perceived Him as a threat to their power. They were responsible for the killing of the Messiah and His disciples. There is no doubt that the political-religious Zionists, who are responsible for the creation of the modern state of Israel, have tremendous power over the United States and other nations on earth. They exert their power largely from behind the scenes by means of lobbies, blackmail, extortion, and by using their tremendous wealth which they accumulated with their control over the banking world.

Revelation 18:4-7 (TS2009)
And I heard another voice from the heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. Because her sins have piled up to reach the heaven, and Elohim has remembered her unrighteousnesses. Render to her as she indeed did render, and repay her double according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix for her double. As much as she esteemed herself and lived riotously, so much torture and grief give to her, because in her heart she says, ‘I sit as sovereigness, and I am not a widow, and I do not see mourning at all.’

Just like the corrupt Pharisees in the Messiah's time said they represented God, this entity says it represents God or does God's work on earth. Babylon the Great regards herself as a queen and claims she is not a widow which means that she regards herself as representative of God (Jeremiah 51:5). Israel is the state created by ultra-rich Zionist families who abused the Word of God to fulfill their own desires. They claim to represent the God from the Hebrew Scriptures, but in reality they are doing Satan's will. In Revelation 12 God's people are represented by the woman clad with the sun who gives birth to the 144,000 who will form the government headed by the Son of God. The whore of Babylon is the adversary of God and His people, she's a whore of Satan.

Revelation 18:11-19 (TS2009)
“And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their merchandise any more – merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stone and pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all citron wood, and every object of ivory, and every object of most precious wood and bronze and iron and marble, and cinnamon and incense, and fragrant oil and frankincense, and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and cattle and sheep, and horses and carriages, and bodies and lives of men. “And the fruit that your being longed for has gone from you. And all your riches and splendour are lost to you, and you shall find them no more, not at all. “The merchants of these, those who became rich by her, shall stand at a distance for fear of her torture, weeping and mourning, and saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city that was dressed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! For in one hour such great riches was laid waste.’ And every shipmaster, and every passenger, and sailors, and as many as work the sea for their living, stood at a distance, and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like this great city?’ “And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she was laid waste.’

Global trade will completely halt because the global financial system will completely crash and nobody is able to buy anything anymore. This will happen in a flash because in one hour such great riches was laid waste. Ezekiel prophesied against Israel in his day...

Ezekiel 7:19 (TS2009)
They throw their silver into the streets, and their gold becomes as filth. Their silver and their gold is unable to deliver them in the day of the wrath of YHWH. They do not satisfy their appetite, nor fill their stomachs, because it has been their stumbling-block of crookedness.

Israel was punished because of its abominations. Likewise Babylon the Great will be punished for her abominations. Another strong indication is given by the Messiah Himself...



Revelation 17:18 (TS2009)
And YHWSO went into the Set-apart Place of Elohim and drove out all those buying and selling in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It has been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

The political-religious leaders in Jerusalem used the temple of God as a place for banking and trade in order to enrich themselves. The practice to use temples for banking and trade originated in the Babylonian Empire. It seems that this ungodly practice was incorporated by the Israelites, a practice they perhaps learned during their Babylonian captivity. The Messiah said: No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon. (Matthew 6:24) Likely Babylon the Great is in control of large parts of the world through her control of the global financial system, the Western banking system set up by the wealthiest and most powerful Zionist families in order to enrich themselves more and more at the expense of the rest of the world. But it will crash and it will automatically cause the destruction of Babylon the Great. This also means that the ten kings or leaders of Satan's final global empire can set up a new global financial system and that no one should be able to buy or sell except he that has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:17)

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