Judging the Infamous Harlot

 Vision 11- REVELATION17:1-18

Subject: Babylon the Great rides a scarlet-colored wild beast that finally turns on her and devastates her

Time of fulfilment: From 1919 to the great tribulation

JEHOVAH'S righteous anger must be poured out to completion, seven bowls of it!   When the sixth angel emptied his bowl at the location of ancient Babylon, it fittingly ssymbolized the plagueing of Babylon the great as events move swiftly toward the final war of Armageddon.  (Revelations 16:1, 12, 16) Likely, it is this same angel that now reveals why and how Jehovah executes his judgments.  John is stuck wit wonderment at what he next hears  and sees: "And one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying:  'Come, I will show you the judgment upon the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth  committed fornication, whereas those who inhabit the earth were make drunk with the wine of her fornication."" - REVELATION 17:1, 2.

"The great harlot "!  Why so shocking a designation?  Who is she?  Some have identified this symbolic harlot with ancient Roe. But Rome was  a political power. This harlot commits fornication withe the kings of the earth, and this evidently includes the kings of Rome. Besides afer her destruction, "the kings of the earth" are said to mourn her passing. Therefore, she cannnot be a political power.  (Revelation  18:9, 10)  Additionally,  since she is mourned also by the world's merchanges, she could not picture big business.  (Revelation 18:15, 16)   We read, however, that  'by her spiritistic practice, all the nations were misled.'  (Revelation 18:23)  THis makes it clear that the great harlot must be a worldwide religous entity. 

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