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This "Babylon the Great" is supported by people in many nations | |||
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Revelation 17:1
And one of the seven angels that had the seven saucers came and talked with me, saying “Come here, I will show you the sentence of the great prostitute seated on a great water, | ||
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Revelation 17:3
and he carried me away to a desert in the spirit. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of names of blasphemy, with seven heads and ten horns; | ||
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Revelation 17:5
and written on her forehead a name with a secret meaning, “Great Babylon, mother of the prostitutes and abominations of the earth.” | ||
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Revelation 1:1
Jesus Christ’s revelation which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place, and which he sent by his angel and indicated to his servant John, | ||
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Revelation 17:15
And he said to me “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and masses and races and languages. | ||
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Babylon the Great is a symbol, not a literal woman Like a rider of a horse controls an animal, she controls or influences nations and people She "sits on many waters," which represent "Peoples and crowds and nations and tongues | ||||
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