Revelation 17
Proof scriptures · 1
Jeremiah 51:13
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Proof scriptures · 14
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Jeremiah 3:6-8
Israel and Judah played the harlot.
Ezekiel 16:15-17
Jerusalem played the harlot with many lovers.
Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot!
Revelation 17:15
The waters… are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Hosea 2:2-5
Plead with your mother, for she is not My wife.
Revelation 18:4
Come out of her, My people.
Jeremiah 51:13
Babylon “dwellest upon many waters.
Ezekiel 16:15-17, 28-29
Jerusalem described as a harlot, committing spiritual adultery with the nations.
Matthew 23:37-38
O Jerusalem… behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Revelation 11:8
Jerusalem spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where the Lord was crucified.
Ezekiel 16:30-35
God calls Jerusalem a harlot who played the whore with many lovers.
Hebrews 8:13
...that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine…
Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Proof scriptures · 9
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunken.
Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot!
Hosea 2:5
I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water.
Revelation 18:3
The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.
Ephesians 5:18
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 11:2
I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Daniel 7:7
…a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible… it had ten horns.
Daniel 7:25
…he shall speak great words against the most High…” (blasphemy).
Revelation 17:3
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Proof scriptures · 20
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Matthew 4:1, 8
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness… the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world.
Ezekiel 16:15-17
Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot.
Daniel 7:7
A fourth beast… it had ten horns.
Revelation 13:1
A beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns.
Hosea 2:5
I will go after my lovers.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
Daniel 7:7-8
Fourth beast with ten horns, blaspheming God.
Ezekiel 23:14-17
The harlot’s lovers are depicted as “men portrayed upon the wall… girded with belts…
Revelation 17:4-5
Woman Clothed in Purple and Scarlet, Gold and Jewels, Holding a Cup of Abominations; Name: Mystery, Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken…
Isaiah 47:1-13
Babylon pictured as a proud, rich woman.
Proverbs 7:10, 17-18
The attire and seductive ways of the harlot.
Luke 4:5-6
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
John 1:10-11
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Psalm 2:7-8
Thou art my Son… Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.
Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot!
Ezekiel 16:15-19
Thou didst trust in thine own beauty... and playedst the harlot because of thy renown.
Revelation 18:16
Clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet...
Ezekiel 28:13
…every precious stone was thy covering…” (luxury and pride).
Revelation 17:4
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Proof scriptures · 8
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand.
Ezekiel 16:15-17
Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot.
Isaiah 1:21-22
How is the faithful city become an harlot! Thy silver is become dross.
Revelation 18:16
The great city… clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold.
1 Timothy 6:10
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Revelation 19:8
Fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Nahum 3:4
…because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms…
Revelation 17:5
And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
Proof scriptures · 11
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Jeremiah 3:3
Thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Ezekiel 16:15
Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot.
Revelation 14:1
Having His Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Revelation 22:4
They shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.
Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot!
Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not My wife.
Ephesians 3:3-5
By revelation he made known unto me the mystery… which in other ages was not made known… but now revealed unto his holy apostles…
Colossians 1:26-27
The mystery which hath been hid from ages… which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Timothy 3:16
Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh…
Jeremiah 51:49
…as Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Proof scriptures · 10
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Matthew 23:34-35
I send unto you prophets… that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?
Revelation 18:24
In her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets.
Revelation 6:9-10
I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God.
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.
Jeremiah 51:34-35
Babylon has “devoured me, crushed me…
Isaiah 47:6
I was wroth with my people… thou didst show them no mercy.
Ezekiel 23:37-39
Harlot Jerusalem “filled the land with blood.
Revelation 17:7
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Proof scriptures · 10
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Daniel 7:7
A fourth beast… it had ten horns.
Revelation 13:1
A beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns.
Ezekiel 16:15
Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot.
Revelation 17:18
The woman which thou sawest is that great city.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17
Come out from among them, and be ye separate.
Revelation 18:4
Come out of her, My people.
Daniel 7:17, 23
Four beasts = four kingdoms.
Ecclesiastes 3:15
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been…
Daniel 7:11
…I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
Revelation 17:8
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Proof scriptures · 13
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Revelation 13:3
I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:12
The first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 20:1-3
An angel… laid hold on the dragon… and cast him into the bottomless pit.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil.
Revelation 13:8
Whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Colossians 2:15
Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Genesis 1:26-28
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Psalm 8:6
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.
Romans 5:17
…they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Matthew 28:18-19
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore…
Revelation 5:10
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Jeremiah 51:25
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth…
Revelation 17:9
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Proof scriptures · 8
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Daniel 2:35
The stone… became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Daniel 7:7
A fourth beast… it had ten horns.
Revelation 13:1
A beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns.
Isaiah 2:2
The mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains.
Jeremiah 51:25
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain.
Zechariah 4:7
Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain.
Daniel 2:35, 44-45
Great mountain fills the earth (God’s kingdom) vs. mountains of the kingdoms of men.
Revelation 17:10
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
Proof scriptures · 7
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Daniel 2:21
He removeth kings, and setteth up kings.
Daniel 7:24
The ten horns are ten kings that shall arise.
Revelation 13:3
One of his heads as it were wounded to death.
Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth set themselves against the LORD.
1 Timothy 6:15
The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings.
Revelation 19:16
King of kings, and Lord of lords.
Revelation 17:11
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Proof scriptures · 21
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Revelation 13:3
One of his heads as it were wounded to death.
Revelation 13:12
The first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
The man of sin… the son of perdition.
Revelation 19:20
The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet… cast alive into a lake of fire.
John 17:12
None of them is lost, but the son of perdition.
Revelation 20:10
The devil… was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.
John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
John 5:24
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Hebrews 9:26
But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Colossians 2:14-15
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us… having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
1 Corinthians 6:2
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?
Luke 10:19
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions…
Ephesians 6:12
We wrestle not against flesh and blood…
Romans 16:20
The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly…
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb…
2 Thessalonians 1:9
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord…
Ephesians 2:20-22
Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone…
Hebrews 8:13
A new covenant… the first old… ready to vanish away.
Matthew 21:43
The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Daniel 7:24
…the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise…
Revelation 17:12
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Proof scriptures · 12
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Daniel 7:24
The ten horns are ten kings that shall arise.
Revelation 13:1
A beast… having seven heads and ten horns.
John 19:15
We have no king but Caesar.
Luke 23:12
The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together.
Revelation 17:17
God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will.
Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth set themselves… against the LORD.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
…after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders…
Daniel 7:25
…shall wear out the saints of the most High…
1 John 4:3
…this is that spirit of antichrist…
Revelation 13:4
…they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast…
Isaiah 5:20
…call evil good, and good evil…
Revelation 17:13
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Proof scriptures · 8
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth set themselves… against the LORD.
Luke 23:12
The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together.
John 19:15
We have no king but Caesar.
Acts 4:27
Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together.
Revelation 17:17
God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will.
1 Corinthians 1:10
That ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you.
Psalm 2:2, 6
The kings of the earth set themselves… against the LORD, and against his anointed… Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Revelation 17:14
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Proof scriptures · 11
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth set themselves against the LORD, and against his anointed.
John 19:15
We have no king but Caesar.
Acts 4:27
Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together.
Colossians 2:15
Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Revelation 19:16
King of kings, and Lord of lords.
1 Timothy 6:15
The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
1 Corinthians 15:54-57
Death is swallowed up in victory… thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus.
Romans 8:37
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Revelation 1:6
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father…
2 Timothy 2:12
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him…
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. “Waters”
Proof scriptures · 11
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Revelation 17:1
The great whore that sitteth upon many waters.
Isaiah 17:12-13
Woe to the multitude of many people… like the rushing of mighty waters.
Jeremiah 51:13
O thou that dwellest upon many waters.
Revelation 13:7
Power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Revelation 5:9
Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Revelation 7:9
A great multitude… of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.
Psalm 9:7
But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
Psalm 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Ezekiel 23:25-29
…they shall take away thy nose and thine ears… they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
Jeremiah 50:13
…every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Proof scriptures · 8
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Ezekiel 16:37-41
I will gather all thy lovers… they shall strip thee of thy clothes… and burn thine houses with fire.
Jeremiah 50:41-42
A people shall come from the north… they shall make her desolate.
Revelation 18:8
She shall be utterly burned with fire.
Leviticus 21:9
The daughter of any priest… if she profane herself by playing the whore, she shall be burnt with fire.
Revelation 19:2
He hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication.
Ezekiel 23:25-29
They shall take away thy nose and thine ears… they shall strip thee also of thy clothes.
Jeremiah 50:41-46
Nations come against Babylon to destroy her.
Revelation 17:17
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Proof scriptures · 9
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 21:1
The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD.
Acts 2:23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken.
John 19:11
Thou couldest have no power at all against Me, except it were given thee from above.
Revelation 17:13
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Isaiah 46:10
My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.
Psalm 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee.
Jeremiah 51:13
…abundant in treasures… thine end is come.
Isaiah 47:5
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
Revelation 17:18
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Proof scriptures · 10
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Revelation 11:8
The great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets.
Galatians 4:25
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is.
Hebrews 12:22
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God.
Revelation 21:2
I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.
Revelation 21:9-10
Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife… the great city, the holy Jerusalem.
Isaiah 47:5-7
Babylon called “the lady of kingdoms.
Lamentations 1:1
Jerusalem as “the city… that was great among the nations.
Daniel 2:31-35
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