Revelation of John 17:1-6
The Great Prostitute and the Beast
1Then aone of the seven angels who had bthe seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of cthe great prostitute dwho is seated on many waters, 2 ewith whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and fwith the wine of whose sexual immorality gthe dwellers on earth have become drunk.” 3And hhe carried me away in the Spirit iinto a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on ja scarlet beast that was full of kblasphemous names, and lit had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman mwas arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned nwith gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand oa golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5And on her forehead was written a name of pmystery: q“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” 6And I saw the woman, drunk rwith the blood of the saints, the blood of sthe martyrs of Jesus. ▼▼Greek the witnesses to Jesus
When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
Revelation of John 17:8
8The beast that you saw uwas, and is not, and vis about to rise from wthe bottomless pit ▼▼Greek the abyss
and ygo to destruction. And zthe dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in aathe book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because abit was and is not and is to come.
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