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Introduction
Revelation 1 - Introduction
Revelation 1:1-3 - Prologue & Benediction
Revelation 1:4-8 - Epistolary Introduction
Revelation 1:9-20 - A Vision of the Son of Man
Revelation 2-3 - The Seven Churches
Revelation 2:1-7 - The Letter to Ephesus
Revelation 2:8-11 - The Letter to Smyrna
Revelation 2:12-17 - The Letter to Pergamum
Revelation 2:18-29 - The Letter to Thyatira
Revelation 3:1-6 - The Letter to Sardis
Revelation 3:7-13 - The Letter to Philadelphia
Revelation 3:14-22 - The Letter to Laodicea
Revelation 4-5 - The Throne Room
Revelation 4:1-11 - A Vision of the Throne Room
Revelation 5:1-14 - The Lamb is Worthy
Revelation 6-8:5 - The Seven Seals
Revelation 6:1-8 - The First Four Seals
Revelation 6:9-17 - The Fifth and Sixth Seals
Revelation 7:1-17 - Who can Stand on the Day of the Lord?
Revelation 8:1-5 - Anticipation of Further Judgment
Revelation 8:6-11:19 - The Seven Trumpets
Revelation 8:6-13 - The First Four Trumpets
Revelation 9:1-21 - The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets
Revelation 10:1-11 - The End is Near
Revelation 11:1-14 - The Two Witnesses
Revelation 11:15-19 - The Seventh Trumpet
Revelation 12:1-15:4 - The Seven Visions
Revelation 12:1-17 - The Woman, Child, and Heavenly Hosts Versus the Great Dragon
Revelation 13:1-10 - The Beast out of the Sea
Revelation 13:11-18 - The Beast from the Earth
Revelation 14:1-5 - The 144,000
Revelation 14:6-13 - The Proclamations of the Three Angels
Revelation 14:14-20 - The Harvest and Judgment
Revelation 15:1-4 - The Glory of God fills the Heavenly Sanctuary
Revelation 15:1-4 - The Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb
Revelation 15:5-16:21 - The Seven Bowls
Revelation 15:5-8 - The Glory of God fills the Heavenly Sanctuary
Revelation 15:5-8 - The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath
Revelation 16:1-21 - Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath
Revelation 17-19 - Judgment
Revelation 17:1-18 - The Great Prostitute is Judged
Revelation 17:1-6 - The Vision
Revelation 17:7-18 - Vision Explained
Purpose of Book
The purpose of Revelation is to challenge/encourage believers, who are expectantly awaiting the reign of Christ, to live faithfully for Him despite worldly circumstances, persecution, and the cosmic battle between God and Satan.
Main Point
The woman, Babylon, is exposed by the Lord.
She looks luxurious and powerful, but in reality she is a cruel mistress who kills the saints.
Ultimately, God ordains for Babylon to be killed by the beast and the 10 kings.
Revelation 17:1-6 - The Vision
1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
Contrast of the two peoples of the world - New Jersualem and Babylon
Babylon leads to death
New Jerusalem leads to life and is beautiful
Babylon is the great prostitute leading countless people to spiritual adultery against the true triune God
Babylon is now judged
She is seated on many waters - authority and enthroned
The kings/leaders of the world have aligned with Babylon AND so have ALL the earth dwellers
The lure of Babylon is overwhelming to the hearts and minds of many
3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.
John is taken away into the wilderness - the place of death
The woman represents Babylon who is Rome
The beast is the first beast from Revelation 13
Blasphemous names - hates God and pretends to be Him
7 heads and 10 hours - just like the dragon
Scarlet - terrifying and the same color as the dragon
4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
The woman looks beautiful, stunning, and is covered with royal wealth, BUT she is a cruel mistress
Her golden cup that looks luxurious is filled with sin
5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”
The woman is now identified as Babylon
This is Rome, but also symbolic of all godless cities with economic power
6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
The cities kill the Christians because they are against her own agenda
When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
John’s response is to marvel at the woman
Revelation 17:7-18 - Vision Explained
7 But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel?
I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
The angel tells John that he will reveal the identity of both the woman and the details of the beast
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction.
The beast, as we’ve previously talked about, is the roman empire
People assumed the Roman empire was dead due to Nero’s death, but Vespasian brought the empire back to prominence
Ultimately, however, the Roman Empire is going to be destroyed
This is also symbolic moving forward - great human nations will come and go, but ultimately God will destroy them all
And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
The ones who will marvel are not those in Christ, but those who are unbelievers
Book of life
9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; 10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.
The seven mountains refer to Rome which was founded on seven mountains
Here is the difficulty, there are over 50 different interpretations regarding these verses… FIFTY!
I believe this speaks symbolically of the totality of rulers who have complete authority
11 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction.
This verse also is a difficult verse to interpret - this chapter is more challenging than all other chapters in Revelation
The number 8 in Judaism and early Christianity has eschatological significance
12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.
10 Kings
Together both the beast and the 10 kings will have authority as final judgment comes close
13 These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.
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