The Revelation- Re.17:5-7 “Mystery of the great Harlot”

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The Holy Spirit presents the apostasy of the State-Religon as a mystery, a tableau. The name ‘Mystery, Babylon The Great’ tells it. Babylon is about to come up for judgement which gives a handle for all the world governments with whom Israel played a whore worshiping their false gods. What is this woman guilty of? St John saw her so arrayed in purple and scarlet color,’having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.” From whence did she acquire this decadent life style. In Ch.18 we have the answer. Here her golden cup was filled with the filthiness of her fornications.

What is more she had acquired a taste for wine, ‘the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. The martyrdom of St. Stephen for instance and Jesus also referred to the saints that belong to the list…

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The Revelation- Re.17:1-4 “Upon Many Waters”

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“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters.” (v.1)

the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters is not simply about Jerusalem which are surrounded by mountains. “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.”(Ps.125:2). So in order to understand the great whore we must begin from the term ‘many waters’. We came across the angel of the waters in the preceding chapter.

“And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood./ And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt…

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The Revelation- Re.17:1 “The Great City”

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“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters” (v.1)

The Ch.15 began with ‘Another Sign in Heaven, Great and Marvelous’ in which the seven angels made their appearance. We already pointed the curious feature these last plagues signified was the term ‘temple’ in place of the throne of God in preceding chapters. “And, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.”(15:5) The wrath of God that these angels mete out to the ungodly nation must begin with the temple of God. It is in this sense St Peter writes, “For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who…

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The Revelation-Re.16:17-21 “The seventh angel”

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And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. “(v.17)

The Holy Spirit here uses the narrative mode of Inversion in visual terms. Before the seven angels with trumpets would sound we have this for a starter. “And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”(8:5) The same narrative mode of the Advent of the Son in the fulness of time holds another reverse action, it was in his ascension. Similar inversions we see in many sayings of Jesus, For instance, “So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”(Matt.20:16)

In response to the seventh angel, there was response…

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