Slide 1 · Slide 10 I. The Vision Concerning Babylon (17:1‐6a) II.The Interpretation Concerning Babylon (6b‐18) The Woman Rides the Beast

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Dr. Andy WoodsSenior Pastor – Sugar Land Bible ChurchPresident – Chafer Theological Seminary

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Slide 3 Seven Bowls (Revelation 16)

1st Bowl (16:1‐2) – Boils

2nd Bowl (16:3) – Sea becomes blood

3rd Bowl (16:4‐7) – Freshwater destroyed

4th Bowl (16:8‐9) – Sun scorches man

5th Bowl (16:10‐11) – Darkness

6th Bowl (16:13‐16) – Euphrates dried

7th Bowl (16:17‐21) – Greatest earthquake

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Slide 4 7. The Seventh BowlRevelation 16:17‐21

a) 7th angel pours out the bowl (17)

b) Lightning & thunder (18a)

c) Greatest earthquake (18b)

d) Jerusalem destroyed (19a)

e) Babylon destroyed (19b)

f) Every mountain & island moved (20)

g) 100‐pound hailstones (21a)

h) Man’s sinful reaction (21b)

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Slide 5 Revelation 16:19“The great city was split into three parts, andthe cities of the nations fell. Babylon the greatwas remembered before God, to give her thecup of the wine of His fierce wrath.”

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Slide 6 Revelation 17:1

“Then one of the seven angels who had theseven bowls came and spoke with me, saying,“Come here, I will show you the judgment ofthe great harlot who sits on many waters.”

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Slide 8 5 Non‐Chronological Parenthetical Insertions

1. Rev 7 – 144,000 Jews

2. Rev 10:1‐11:13 – Announcement of no more delay and the two witnesses

3. Rev 12‐14 – Israel’s flight, two beasts, six scenes of hope

4. Rev 16:13‐16 – Gathering of the nations to Armageddon

5. Rev 17:1‐19:6 – Babylon’s fall

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I. The Vision Concerning Babylon (17:1‐6a)

II. The Interpretation Concerning Babylon (6b‐18)

The Woman Rides the BeastRevelation 17

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Slide 11 I. The Vision Concerning BabylonRevelation 17:1‐6a

A. Her introduction (1a)

B. Her judgment (1b)

C. Her immorality (2)

D. Her influence (3)

E. Her appearance (4)

F. Her title (5)

G. Her persecution (6a)

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Slide 13 II. The Interpretation Concerning BabylonRevelation 17:6b‐18

A. The Interpretation Promised (6b‐7)

B. The Beast & His system (8‐14)

C. Babylon (15‐18)

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“And he carried me away in the Spirit into awilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on ascarlet beast, full of blasphemous names,having seven heads and ten horns.”

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“We believe that the English translators have misledmany by printing (on their own authority) the word‘mystery’ in large capital letters, thus making itappear that this was a part of ‘the woman’s name.This we are assured is a mistake. That ‘mystery’ isconnected with the ‘Woman’ herself and not withher ‘name’ is clear from v. 7, where the angel saysunto John, ‘I will tell thee the mystery of the

Woman, and of the beast which carrieth her.’”Pink, The Antichrist, 262.

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Slide 18 Two Rules of Interpretation

Search the immediate context

Walvoord: 26X

Search the remote context

Old Testament

Thomas: 278 / 404 verses

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Slide 20 B. The Beast & His SystemRevelation 17:8‐14

1. The Beast (8)

2. The Seven Heads (9‐11)

3. The Ten Horns (12‐14)

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1. The Beast (8)



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“And he deceives those who dwell on the earthbecause of the signs which it was given him toperform in the presence of the beast, tellingthose who dwell on the earth to make an imageto the beast who had the wound of the swordand has come to life [záō].”

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“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life [záō], says this.”

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Slide 24 Revelation 20:4‐5

“4 Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgmentwas given to them. And I saw the souls of those who hadbeen beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus andbecause of the word of God, and those who had notworshiped the beast or his image, and had not received themark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came tolife [záō] and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 Therest of the dead did not come to life [záō] until the thousandyears were completed. This is the first resurrection.”

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Slide 25 2 Thessalonians 2:6‐7

“6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in histime he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery oflawlessness is already at work; only he who nowrestrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.”

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Slide 26 How Satan Imitates God and the Antichrist Imitates Jesus Christ

NO. CATEGORY JESUS CHRIST ANTICHRIST

1. World prepared in advance Gal. 4:4 2 Thess. 2:7

2. Revealed at the proper time Gal. 4:4 2 Thess. 2:6

3. Claim of deity John 14:9 2 Thess. 2:4

4. Heralded by a forerunner John 1:23 Rev. 13:12

5.Forerunner comes in the Spirit and power of Elijah

Luke 1:171 Kgs. 8:37‐38; Rev. 13:13

6.Empowered by a higher source

1 Cor. 6:14 Rev. 13:14

7. Member of a TrinityPhil. 1:2; Acts 5:3‐

4; John 14:9Rev. 16:13; 20:10

8. Head of a Church Eph. 5:23 Rev. 2:9; 3:9

9. Miracle worker Acts 2:22 2 Thess. 2:9

10. Resurrection from the dead 1 Cor. 15:3‐6 Rev. 13:3, 12, 14

11. Given a throne Rev. 3:21 Rev. 13:2

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Slide 27 How Satan Imitates God and the Antichrist Imitates Jesus Christ

NO. CATEGORY JESUS CHRIST ANTICHRIST

12. Ruling a political kingdom Isa. 9:6‐7 Rev. 13:5

13. Ushering in world peace Isa. 9:6‐7 Rev. 6:1‐4

14. Activity in the Temple Luke 2:41‐50 2 Thess. 2:4

15. Putting an end to animal sacrifices

Heb. 9:26‐29 Dan. 9:27

16. Length of ministry Over 3 years Rev. 13:5

17. Sealing ministry Eph. 4:30 Rev. 13:16‐17

18. Presentation to Israel as her Messiah

John 1:11 John 5:43

19. Covenant with Israel Gen. 15:18 Dan. 9:27

20. Reception of worship Zech. 14:16 2 Thess. 2:4

21. Establishing Jerusalem as the center of worldwide worship

Zech. 14:17 2 Thess. 2:4

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1. The Beast (8)



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“Here is the mind which has wisdom. The sevenheads are seven mountains [oros] on which thewoman sits, 10 and they are seven kings; five havefallen, one is, the other has not yet come; andwhen he comes, he must remain a little while.”

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Slide 34 Revelation 11:8“And their dead bodies will lie in the street ofthe great city which mystically is called Sodomand Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.”

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Slide 35 Galatians 4:24

“This is allegorically speaking, forthese women are two covenants:one proceeding from Mount Sinaibearing children who are to beslaves; she is Hagar.”

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Slide 37 Daniel 2:37‐38

You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God ofheaven has given the kingdom, the power, thestrength and the glory; 38 and wherever the sons ofmen dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds ofthe sky, He has given them into your hand and hascaused you to rule over them all. You are the head ofgold.

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Slide 38 7 Kings or Kingdoms (Dan. 2:37‐38) (Revelation 17:9‐10)

1. Egypt

2. Assyria

3. Babylon

4. Persian

5. Greece

6. Rome I

7. Rome II

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1. Egypt

2. Assyria

3. Babylon

4. Persian

5. Greece

6. Rome I

7. Rome II

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1. Egypt

2. Assyria

3. Babylon

4. Persian

5. Greece

6. Rome I

7. Rome II

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1. Egypt

2. Assyria

3. Babylon

4. Persian

5. Greece

6. Rome I

7. Rome II

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Slide 43 CHART OF NATIONS

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Slide 44 Daniel 7:12

“As for the rest of the beasts, their dominionwas taken away, but an extension of life wasgranted to them for an appointed period oftime.”

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1. The Beast (8)



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“In the days of those kings the God of heavenwill set up a kingdom which will never bedestroyed, and that kingdom will not be left foranother people; it will crush and put an end to allthese kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.”

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“As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom tenkings will arise; and another will arise afterthem, and he will be different from the previousones and will subdue three kings.”

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Slide 50 CHART OF NATIONS

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“Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourthkingdom on the earth, which will be differentfrom all the other kingdoms and will devour thewhole earth and tread it down and crush it.”

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“(3) From among those ten kingdoms there will arise oneindividual who will have control over the whole dominionof the ten kings (Dan. 7: 8, 24; Rev. 13: 1‐10; 17: 13). Ingaining his authority three of the ten kings areoverthrown. (4) This final authority over the empire iswielded by one who is marked by blasphemy, hatred ofGod’s people, disregard for established law and order,who will continue for three and one‐half years (Dan. 7:26). (5) This final form of world power will have world‐wide influence (Dan. 7: 23).”

J. Dwight PentecostThings to Come, Page 321‐22

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Slide 53 Arnold FruchtenbaumFootsteps of the Messiah, Page 36

“This stage was seen in both Daniel 2 in the ten toesand in Daniel seven in the ten horns...the One WorldGovernment will divide into ten kingdoms that willcover the whole world – not merely Europe. It hasbecome common today to refer to the ten kingdomsas being in Europe only, especially the FormerCommon Market, now the European Union. But thetext does not allow for this kind of interpretation. Atthe very best, the European Union might become oneof the ten, but it could hardly become all of the ten.”

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“A careful reading of the Daniel passage states thatonce the Fourth Empire rules the whole world, then thisOne World Government will split into ten kingdoms.This requires the ten kingdoms to cover the entireworld, not just the territory known as Europe. It wouldbe a mistake to make too much of the European Unionas being the Ten Division Stage. It would be far moreconsistent with the text to view it as possibly one of theten, but not the entire ten. More consistent withDaniel's prophecy is the recommendation of the Club ofRome that the world be divided into ten administrativedistricts to avoid a world economic collapse.”

Arnold FruchtenbaumFootsteps of the Messiah, Page 36

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“The ‘ten horns’ could represent ten nationsof the end times, or perhaps more likely tendivisions of world government that willcome into existence. Out of this confederacywill arise the ‘little horn’ or the ANTICHRISThimself empowered by Satan. His control andinfluence over the peoples of the world willbe amazing!”

David HockingDavid Hocking, Babylon: Its History and Prophecies (Tustin, CA: Hope For

Today Publications, 2015), 90.

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Slide 57 The Environmental Handbook (1970)

“...let's look at a few "root" mistakes the old‐timers are aboutto make in the context of their new eco‐concern. I use ‘oldtimer’...to indicate anybody‒regardless of age‒whose framesof reference are products of OLD TIME, i.e., the industrialrevolution phase of history...They are about to initiate massiveprograms within old frames of centralized authority of thenation. Nations are such an artificial construct from anecological point of view that any further energies poured intothem are almost certain to do more long‐term harm than good.Nations…must be phased out as quickly as possible andreplaced with tribal or regional autonomouseconomies…Boycott the words "national" and "international.”

Keith Lampe, "Earth Read‐Out," in The Environmental Handbook: Prepared for the First National Environmental Teach In, ed. Garrett De Bell(New York: Ballentine Books, 1970), 6.

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“The sovereign nations of the pastcan no longer solve the problems ofthe present; they cannot ensuretheir own progress or control theirown future… And the Europeancommunity itself is only a stageon the way to the organizedworld of tomorrow.”

Jean Monet, Memoirs (New York: Doubleday, 1978), 524.

Jean Monet (1888‒1979)

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Slide 59

“The contemporary quest forworld order will require acoherent strategy to establish aconcept of order within thevarious regions and to relatethese regional orders to oneanother.”

Henry Kissinger, New World Order (New York: Penguin, 2015), 371.

Regionalism

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Slide 60

“In a private, paid speech to a Brazilian bank on May16, 2013, Hillary Clinton said: ‘My dream is ahemispheric common market, with open trade andopen borders, some time in the future with energythat is as green and sustainable as we can get it,powering growth and opportunity for every personin the hemisphere.’ This secret speech was releasedas part of the Podesta emails obtained by Wikileaks.”

Open Borders

http://www.breitbart.com/live/third‐presidential‐debate‐fact‐check‐livewire/fact‐check‐yes‐hillary‐clinton‐wants‐open‐borders/

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“As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom tenkings will arise; and another will arise afterthem, and he will be different from the previousones andwill subdue three kings.”

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“(3) From among those ten kingdoms there will arise oneindividual who will have control over the whole dominionof the ten kings (Dan. 7: 8, 24; Rev. 13: 1‐10; 17: 13). Ingaining his authority three of the ten kings areoverthrown. (4) This final authority over the empire iswielded by one who is marked by blasphemy, hatred ofGod’s people, disregard for established law and order,who will continue for three and one‐half years (Dan. 7:26). (5) This final form of world power will have world‐wide influence (Dan. 7: 23).”

J. Dwight PentecostThings to Come, Page 321‐22

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Slide 66 C. The Beast & His SystemRevelation 17:15‐18

1. Her Influence (15)

2. Her Destruction (16‐17)

3. Her Identification (18)

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Slide 68 Parallels Between Jeremiah 50‐51 & Revelation 17‐18

Jeremiah Revelation

Associated with a Golden cup 51:7a 17:3‐4; 18:6

Dwelling on many waters 51:13 17:1

Intoxicating the nations 51:7b 17:2

Same name 50:1 17:5

Persecution of the saints 51:49 17:6; 18:24

Stone sinking into Euphrates 51:63‐64 18:21

Sudden destruction 51:8 18:8

Destroyed by fire 51:30 17:16

Final, uninhabitable 50:39 18:21

Deserved 50:29 18:6

God’s people flee 51:6, 45 18:4

Heaven rejoices 51:48 18:20

Dyer, "The Identity of Babylon in Revelation 17–18 (Part 2)," 441‐43.

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Slide 69 OT Descriptions of Babylon in Rev 17–18

Revelation 17–18 Old Testament

Waters 17:1 Psalm 137:1

Babylon the Great 17:5 Daniel 4:30

Mother harlots 17:5 Genesis 11:1‐9

Fallen, fallen is Babylon 18:2 Isaiah 21:9

Will not see widowhood 18:7 Isaiah 47:7‐9

Colorful attire 17:4; 18:16 Daniel 5:7, 16, 29

Sorcery 18:23 1saiah 47:9‐13

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Slide 70 Genesis 11:1‐41 Now the whole earth used the same language and thesame words. 2 It came about as they journeyed east, thatthey found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.3 They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks andburn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone,and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, “Come, let usbuild for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top willreach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name,otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face ofthe whole earth.”

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Slide 71 Spread of the Mother‐Child CultMother Child

Assyria Ishtar Tammuz

Phoenicia Astarte Baal

Egypt Isis Osirus/Horus

Greece Aphrodite Eros

Rome Venus Cupid

Asia Cybele Desius

India Isi Aswara

Roman Catholicism Mary Jesus

Israel Queen of Heaven (Jer. 7:18; 44:17)

Tammuz (Ezek. 8:14‐15)

Alexander Hislop, Two Babylons

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Slide 76 Parallels Between Jeremiah 50‐51 & Revelation 17‐18

Jeremiah Revelation

Associated with a Golden cup 51:7a 17:3‐4; 18:6

Dwelling on many waters 51:13 17:1

Intoxicating the nations 51:7b 17:2

Same name 50:1 17:5

Persecution of the saints 51:49 17:6; 18:24

Stone sinking into Euphrates 51:63‐64 18:21

Sudden destruction 51:8 18:8

Destroyed by fire 51:30 17:16

Final, uninhabitable 50:39 18:21

Deserved 50:29 18:6

God’s people flee 51:6, 45 18:4

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Slide 77 ONE BABYLON

Rev. 17 Rev. 18

Same name 17:5 18:2

City 17:18 18:10

Same clothing 17:4 18:16

Holding a cup 17:4 18:6

Fornicating with Kings 17:2 18:3

Drunk with wine of immorality 17:2 18:3

Persecuting believers 17:6 18:20, 24

Destroyed by fire 17:16 18:8, 18

Destroyed by God 17:17 18:5, 8


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Slide 79 “MYSTERY” IN HARLOT’S TITLE? REV. 17:5

And on her forehead a name was written:MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHEROF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OFTHE EARTH. (KJV, NIV)

… and upon her forehead a name was written, amystery, “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHEROF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OFTHE EARTH.” (NASB)

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Slide 80 Revelation 17:18“The woman whom you saw is the great city,[polis] which reigns over the kings of the earth.

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Slide 81 BullingerThe Apocalypse or “The Day of the Lord”, 509

“It is indeed surprising how any mistake could havebeen made in the identification of this woman. Forthe Holy Spirit first shows us her very name upon herforehead. Then, in verse 18, He tells us as plainly aswords can tell anything, that ‘the woman which thousawest is that great city, which reignest over the kingsof the earth’, and chap. xvi. 19, as well as xvii. 5,identifies this city with Babylon. God says it is a ‘city.’He does not say a system or a religion, but a ‘CITY.’”

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Slide 82

“Whatever else is said aboutthe harlot, she is first a city,not an ecclesiastical system.”

Charles H. Dyer“The Identity of Babylon in Revelation 17–18 (Part 2),” Bibliotheca sacra

144 (October‐December 1987): 436.

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Slide 83 John F. WalvoordThe Revelation of Jesus Christ: A Commentary

(Chicago: Moody, 1966), 267.

“Babylon, ecclesiastically symbolized by the womanin Revelation 17, proposes a common worship and acommon religion through uniting in a world church.This is destroyed by the beast in Revelation 17:16who thus fulfills the will of God (Rev. 17:17).Babylon, politically symbolized by the great city ofRevelation 18, attempts to achieve its domination ofthe world by a world common market and a worldgovernment. These are destroyed by Christ at Hissecond coming (Rev. 19:11–21).”

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Slide 84 Revelation 18:10“standing at a distance because of the fear ofher torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city[polis], Babylon, the strong city! For in one houryour judgment has come.’”

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Slide 85 ONE BABYLON

Rev. 17 Rev. 18

Same name 17:5 18:2

City 17:18 18:10

Same clothing 17:4 18:16

Holding a cup 17:4 18:6

Fornicating with Kings 17:2 18:3

Drunk with wine of immorality 17:2 18:3

Persecuting believers 17:6 18:20, 24

Destroyed by fire 17:16 18:8, 18

Destroyed by God 17:17 18:5, 8


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Conclusion

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Slide 88

“The LORD bless you and keep you; theLORD make his face shine on you and begracious to you; the LORD turn his facetoward you and give you peace.” (NIV)

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Rev. 9:1-2-Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. 2 He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

Rev. 20:1-Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Rev. 20:3-and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

Rom. 10:7-or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

Rev. 13:3-One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.

Dan. 7:11-Then I continued to watch because of the boastful words the horn was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain and its body destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.

2 Thess. 2:8-And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

Rev. 19:20-But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Rev. 20:15-Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

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Rev. 13:18-Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and

his number is six hundred and sixty‐six.

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Gal. 4:24-These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.

Isa. 2:2-Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it.

Isa. 41:15-Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff.

Jer. 51:25-“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD, “And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the crags, And I will make you a burnt out mountain.

Dan. 2:35-Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff

from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Dan. 2:45-Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.

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Dan. 7:11-Then I continued to watch because of the boastful words the horn was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain and its body destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.

2 Thess. 2:8-And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

Rev. 19:20-But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

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John 17:1-Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You.

1 John 2:18-Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

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Rev. 19:19-Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.

Rev. 19:16-On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords.

Matt. 25:31-When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.

Jude 14-Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones.

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Jer. 51:13-O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.

Ps. 137:1-By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered.

Rev. 5:9-And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.”

1 John 2:2-and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

Rev. 7:9- After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands.

Rev. 11:9- Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

Rev. 13:7- Rev. 13:7-It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him.

Rev. 17:15-And he said to me, “The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

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Dan. 11:36-37-36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.

2 Thess. 2:4-He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Jer. 51:30-Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.

Rev. 18:8-Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

Rev. 18:18- When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, ‘Was there ever a city like this great city?’

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Isa. 45:4- For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me.

Conclusion

Num. 6:24-26-The Lord bless you, and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you, the Lord lift up His countenance on you, And give you peace.’

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Slide 1 · Slide 10 I. The Vision Concerning Babylon (17:1‐6a) II.The Interpretation Concerning Babylon (6b‐18) The Woman Rides the Beast