Revelation 17:1-10

 WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

      By Necessity Slightly 

             Paraphrased      

1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven (concurrent?) bowls came and said to me, “Come, I’ll show you the {meanwhile} judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of earth have committed fornication.” {I.e, powers and politicians are in bed with her.} “And the dwellers upon Earth, have become drunk with the wine of her indecencies.” 3 And then he carried me (John) away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of insulting slanders, and it had seven heads and ten horns. {A many headed geopolitical beast, Dan.7:7,19.} 4 The woman {riding the beast} was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup (to drink) full of abominations and impurities. {Drinking her effects and side effects.} 5 And on her forehead was written a name, “Mystery Babylon the Great, Mother of Prostitution/Sex Slavery [porné - probably from pernémi - to export for sale] and of all Earth's Abominations [bdélygma - from bdelýssō, derived from bdēō, to reek {stink to high heaven ..as the saying goes} abhorrent, detestable]”. {$ity Babylon with it’s bright but garish streets and dark alleys, with a forehead/psyche/mind of ‘mystery babble’ - all confusion. Beast & $ity, Socialism & Capitalism both gone extreme. Oligarchy, but which ends up going all armageddon at each other(? in the valley when assembled against Israel? Just a recurring question. Yet verses 12 and 16 for sure.}

     6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of saints, and of martyrs, and of Jesus.” And when I saw her I wondered greatly. 7 But the angel said, “Why do you wonder? ..I’ll tell you the mystery of the woman ($ity) and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. 8 The beast you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the abyss” {of potential, which imperfect is} “and goes to destruction.” {History repeats, first was the Roman Empire later ‘Holy’ Roman Empire; then a modern last days “was, wasn’t then was again” after the 13:13 event. Which event was carried out by an oFFice.} And those upon earth whose names are not {yet} written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder, seeing the beast that was, and is not, and will be {and will become biG, finally given breath”/life/authority especially when one from the 13:13 office lawlessly steps in}. 9 This all calls for a mind with wisdom.

     The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated. {Empires?} 10 They are also seven kings, five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.”

     {Note - Prophecy repeats -> ‘smaller’ scope to —> full scope at culmination of history. Spiritually Babel Tower restored, all hell breaks loose, but slowly from our point of view, at least until the ‘cresting’ and culmination? Jn.15:4,5 “I am the vine, ye are the branches, abide in Me.”}

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