Friday, April 19, 2019

Revelation 17:1-2

 "And behold, I am coming quickly. 
Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book."     
Revelation 22:7  NASB

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries." 

One of the seven angels 
Revelation 15:1  I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues--last, because with them God's wrath is completed.

who had the seven bowls 
Revelation 15:7  Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever.

came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment
Revelation 16:19  The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.

of the great prostitute
Revelation 17:5  The name written on her forehead was a mystery: BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 17:15-16  Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire."
Isaiah 23:17  At the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
Revelation 19:1-2  After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants."

who sits by many waters 
Jeremiah 51:13  "You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be destroyed."

and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries." 
Revelation 14:8  A second angel followed and said, " 'Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!' (Isaiah 21:9) which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
Revelation 18:3  "For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."

(parentheses are mine)

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