“Beauty on the Beast“ Revelaon 17:1-18 Pastor Dave Greenhood | September 5, 2021 Intro: cr. Rev 14 “It has fallen, Babylon the Great...who made all the naons drink the wine of her sexual immoralies which brings wrath.” cr. Rev 16:19b with more details in Rev 17, 18 I. A Descripve Metaphor for Babylon vs. 1-6 A. A Notorious Prostute Seducing the World v. 1 cr. Rev 15:1 … 16:1 … 16:17 … 16:19 “a loud voice from the sanctuary” … “a woman” … prostute … notorious “sits on many waters” cr. Rev 17:15 v. 2 “sexual immorality” … through the ages turning humanity toward religious substutes Woman … Prostitute … “False religion” B. An Expanded Descripon Idenfying the Woman v. 3 Beast … Scarlet… “World Government” cr. Rev 13:1 “to a desert” … “woman sing on a scarlet beast” … “seven heads, ten horns” … v. 4 “dressed in purple, scarlet … adorned” v. 5 “a crypc name” … “Babylon the Great” ... “mysterion” … v. 6 Note the groups: “saints” of the Hebrew Scriptures; “witnesses to Jesus” from the Church era; Joining into those “Jesus people” of the Tribulaon era II. A Detailed Meaning of Babylon vs. 6b-18 A. A Revived Empire v. 6-7 John “astonished” Why? “woman and the beast“ of v. 3 v. 8 Specifics: “come up from the abyss” ... “those who live on the earth … astonished” “names ...not wrien in the Book of Life”