Chapter Thirty-Five/Executing Babylon the Great - Devastating the Harlot

 God's people are not the only objects of the enmity of the ten horns. The angel now draws John's attention back to the harlot: "And he says to me: 'The waters that you saw, where the harlot is sitting, means peoples and crowds and nations and tongues.  And the ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshly parts and will completely burn her with fire.' "- REVELATION 17:15, 16. 

Just as ancient Babylon relied on her watery defenses, Babylon the Great today relies on her huge membership of "peoples and crowds and nations and tongues." The angel appropriately draws out attention to these before telling of a shocking development: Political governments of this earth will turn violently upon Babylon the Great. What will all those "peoples and crowds and nations and tongues" do then? God's people are already warning Babylon the Great that the water of the river Euphrates will dry up.  (Revelation 16:12) Those waters will finally drain away completely. They will not be able to give the disgusting old harlot any effectual support in her hour of need. - ISAIAH 44:27; JEREMIAH 50:38; 51:36. 37. 

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