‘Day 294

Revelation 17:1-11 is describing the end time apostate religious system that will bring the whole world under its control. It is giving us descriptive insight into the beast of Revelation 13:1-8 whose mortal wound was healed – here we are seeing “the healing.” It is another short-lived union of religion and politics as per the middle ages.

These four points will clearly identify the bad women, or church, that Revelation 17 is describing:

Firstly, it has to be a worldwide power (17:2). Secondly it leads the world astray from God’s word (17:3). Thirdly it unites church and state (17:3) and fourthly it is a persecuting power (17:6). So, we cannot be looking for a church in the corner somewhere. This has to be a church that has been involved in world politics, for she has been in bed with the Kings of the earth, “with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication” (17:2). Fornication is an unholy alliance.

Her teachings do not line up with the Bible, and all the world is drunk with the wine of her beliefs, such as the immortality of the soul, eternal torment, and worshipping on Sunday in place of the seventh-day Sabbath. Babylon the Great is a system made up of paganism, Catholicism, and apostate Protestantism that holds all these beliefs in common.

A beast in Bible prophecy has always represented political power.Therefore, women riding on a beast is the uniting of church and state. The harlot sits on many waters and on a scarlet beast, meaning she is in control. The water in Bible prophecy represents people, nations and languages (tongues.) “And he said to me, “The waters which you saw where the prostitute sits are peoples and multitudes, and nations and languages.” (Rev 17:15.)

This is a worldwide religious movement that controls the people of the earth through miraculous manifestations, persecution, and economic control (Revelation 13:13-18).