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Revelation 17 and 18. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me,

Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,

with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual

immorality and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth

have become drunk and he carried me away into the spirit into a wilderness and I

saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of to a purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls holding in her hand a golden cup full

of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality and on her forehead was written

a name of mystery.

Babylon the Great, mother of prostitutes and of Earth's abominations.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the Saints,

the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

When I saw her, I marveled greatly, but the angel said to me,

Why do you marvel?

I will tell you the mystery of the woman,

and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.

The beast that you saw was and is not and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth

whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the

world will marvel to see the beast because it was and is not and is to come.

This calls for a mind with wisdom.

The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated.

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