Revelation 17
Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
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- The “great harlot” that forms the global government and its global culture.
- The woman is one with the beast.
- The global government is here.
- The last government is here.
- Global leaders surrender their autonomy to the global government.
- Global government of the beast grows to hate the “great harlot”.
The “great harlot” that forms the global government and its global culture.
“Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication….Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.” Revelation 17:1-2, 15
The “one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls” refers to the angels of Revelations 16 that pours out the Seven Last Plagues on the world. This angel explains the judgment being brought against the “great harlot who sits on many waters”.
A “great harlot who sits on many waters” is letting us know that the “great harlot” is global, in every city, state, and nation around the world, as quoted, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.” Revelation 17:15 “Harlotry”, or prostitution, means to entice peoples and nations away from God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit through the enticements of the flesh. Those enticements include social approval, economic welfare, physical pleasures, and comforts in exchange for giving self to the atheistic culture. Those fleshly enticements also include empowerment with uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, extraordinary skills and talents, uncanny authority over others, fabricated emotional responses, etc.
A “prostitute” is someone who draws people away from God for the purpose of forming an ungodly partnership. She entices others to abandon Jesus Christ, and tramples on the Holy Spirt with physical and emotional pleasures. In this case, the prostitution is to form a global partnership built on the thing which has power over physiology and is able to form what people think, feel, do, and speak. It is all about physical benefits and nothing to do with the Spirit. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people, and as it lives and speaks through them, they are conformed to their place in life. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.
The “…the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication…” The “kings of the earth” refers to countries of the United Nations and the inhabitants of the earth refer to the global culture. This is the global government of the beast and its global culture. The countries forming the global government are committing fornication with the “great harlot”. This means they form a partnership, through the United Nations, to oppose belief in God, dismiss the need for Jesus Christ, and oppose the presence of the Holy Spirit. They are fornicating with the beast that gives them what to speak, do, think, and feel. The inhabitants of the world are made to deny God, reject Jesus Christ, and fight against the presence of the Holy Spirit. They are being “made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
The global partnership made with the “great harlot” began when the United Nations was established in 1945, immediately after WW2, as described in Daniel 8:1-14. The global nations began to implement the agenda of the global government through their national, state, and local governments. Thereby making all the population subject to cultural/heritage changes which denies God the Creator, Jesus Christ, and the holy Spirit.
The global agenda is to bring all peoples and nations under the influence of the beast that governs through what people are given to speak, do, feel, and think. This beast gives life to the image of the beast to speak and live through people everywhere. By what they are given to say and do they are groomed to the mark of the beast.
The woman is one with the beast.
“So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.” Revelations 17:3-6
The Apostle John was carried into the wilderness by the Spirit, which is to say that in the Holy Spirit he saw the world without God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. 2000 years ago, John saw a vision of the wilderness of this world that we are living in today.
John saw a woman dressed in purple and scarlet sitting on a scarlet beast. Isaiah 1:18 describes “scarlet” as being the color representing deep sin. The scarlet beast is the one who denies God [6], rejects Jesus Christ [6], and opposes the presence of the Holy Spirit [6]. The woman is also dressed in purple, which represents honor, royalty, dignity, esteem, and respect. The woman and the beast are bonded together by the scarlet of their deep sin, they are bonded together by the “6-6-6”. The woman is given honor, respect, and dignity for bonding with the beast.
The number of the beast is the number of a person, as described in the post on Revelation 13:18.
The woman and the beast describe the culture of today, which is global. Today’s culture is united from city to city around the world by their denial of God the Creator [6], their rejection of Jesus Christ [6], and opposition to the presence of the Holy Spirit [6]. They are molded to the scarlet beast that has power over physiology to give them what to speak, do, think, and feel. Those who welcome this beast are welcomed into today’s culture with dignity, respect, esteem, and honor. They honor one another who honors the beast. Our Lord Jesus says this, “How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?” John 5:44
The global government prides itself in economic prosperity as it progresses forward in establishing the global economy. This involves having authority over all the world resources within every country around the world. With dominion over the world economies, the global government becomes the supplier of all the people’s needs. This is described as the woman “…adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls…”
The woman riding on the beast, which is full of the names of blasphemy, has seven heads and ten horns. This means blasphemy is on all seven continents and within the ten kingdoms of the world. In the days of the Apostles, they didn’t have a clue about the seven continents around the globe, so the Holy Spirit spoke to them in symbolisms, such as “seven heads”. The realization that there were seven continents on the planet happened in the 20th century. It was not until the 1950’s to the 1970’s that researchers began to understand the processes of plate tectonics, which led to the identification of the seven continents we know today. The prophecies of Revelations are for us today. We are living in the times of the global government of the beast.
Today, we know that there can be two major nations on a single continent, such as China and Russia on the continent of Asia, thus ten horns with seven heads. Blasphemy means for the beast to set itself up as God, within the temple of God [our body]. The beast does that by giving people what to speak, do, think, and feel. This is the one “… who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 ” The “he” in this verse is the “man of sin”. Click here for a post on the man of sin” .
All across the globe, on all seven continents and every nation on those continents, we see “…a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness…” of the woman riding on the beast. The “golden cup” is to persuade the global population to drink by making them feel esteemed, enriched, and empowered. Within that “golden cup” are abominations and filthiness. Abominations and filthiness are behaviors and things that are against God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. The dignity of people is lifted up when they drink from the golden cup that causes them to live by the beast that gives them what to speak, do, think, and feel. They mock the process of sanctification and direct their disdain toward a life of Holiness.
On the forehead of the woman is written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Babylon represents the global government of the beast and is associated with the captivity of the Israelites, as spoken about in such books as Ezekiel and Daniel. [And others such as 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah.]
The woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Today, in the United States, we are seeing Christianity being driven into extinction, as described in Revelations 12. Where have all the followers of Jesus Christ gone? With that, there are Christians literally being imprisoned and murdered for their faith in Jesus Christ. That is happening in places of Africa, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and others. In fact, the majority of countries of the United Nations are atheists who oppose the Gospel of Jeus Christ and all of Christianity. When the United Nations become the undisputed one world government, Christians will be targeted for elimination. This will include persecution, imprisonment, and murder.
As spoken about in Daniel 8, the new world order was formed around 1945 or so. Just before that time, before the end of WW2, millions of Jewish people [often referred to as God’s Holy people] were slaughtered by Hitler’s Germany during the Holocaust.
The global government is here.
“But the angel said to me, “Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” Revelations 17:7-8
The woman riding on the beast is described in the previous section and is global. The beast carrying the woman is the beast carrying the global government of today. That is the beast that has power over physiology and governs by giving people what to speak, do, think, and feel. That is the beast that gives life to the image of the beast to speak and live through people everywhere. The people are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.
In the previous section, the beast and the woman are described as being molded as one, and the beast gives rise to “Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth.” Revelations 17:5 That is the “Babylon”, or government of the beast, we are seeing in the world today. That is the beast that was but is not [or was not during the time of John who wrote the book of Revelations], but would ascend from a place without God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. That would describe Babylon. Babylon was a “world” power in the past and held the Israelites captives. Babylon did not exist at the time that John wrote Revelations, but John said that beast would rise again. But when it does, it will be brought to its destruction.
The beast of the global government has risen and is here today. The “Babylon” spoken about in the previous section [Revelations 17:5] is the global government of the beast today. Babylon existed before the days of the Apostle John, did not exist during the days of John, and has risen again under the formation of the United Nations [called Babylon in Revelations]. The United Nations was formed in 1945, immediately after WW2, and brought the beast with it, as described in Daniel 8:1-14.
Today’s global government and its global culture will go to its destruction, as described in Revelations 18. The power center of the beast is destroyed in the Fifth Plague of Revelations 16:10-11, which renders the global government and its global culture powerless. The beast giving people what to speak, do, think, and feel will no longer be functioning. The Battle of Armageddon comes in the Sixth Plague of Revelations 16:12-16. Our Lord Jesus Christ returns when the Seventh Trumpet sounds in Revelations 11:15-18 Global warming is instrumental in bringing the destruction of the power center of the beast, and global warming is the Fourth Plague of Revelations 16:8-9. The more powerful the United Nations become as the one world government the more intense the effects of global warming become.
Today’s population marvels at seeing the beast. All the inhabitants on this planet marvel at the beast, except we whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. They marvel at the beast’s power over physiology and the ability to give people what to speak, do, feel, and think. They marvel over the empowerment given to them with uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, extraordinary skills and talents, uncanny authority over others, amazing physical abilities and feats, fleshly pleasures and healings, and fabricated emotional responses. “And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelations 13:7-8 The “him” in this verse is the beast of the image and mark of the beast.
The last government is here.
“Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.” Revelation 17:9-11
The realization that there were seven continents on the planet happened in the 20th century. It was not until the 1950’s to the 1970’s that researchers began to understand the processes of plate tectonics, which led to the identification of the seven continents we know today. The prophecies of Revelations are for us today. We are living in the times of the global government of the beast. This present global government is the last government that this world will ever know. Jesus Christ returns to set up the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.
This verse plainly says that the “seven heads” are “seven mountains” where the woman sits. Those “seven mountains” are the seven continents of the world. The woman is described in the section on Revelations 17:1-2 and the section on Revelations 17:3-6. The government of the beast is on all seven continents. There are also “seven kings”, from which the final and eighth “king” arises. When the Apostle John said that “one is”, he is referring to the time when he was living, probably referring to the Roman Empire. There were also five previous “kings” that John refers to [such as Babylon], which had fallen. Then another king would arise, beyond the natural life of John, and remains for just a short while. This would be like Hitler’s Germany which remained only a short time.
The beast that was [Babylon}, but did not exist during John’s lifetime, would be the “eighth king”, which is of the seven previous kings. That means the “eighth king” would be like the government of Babylon, the Roman Empire, Hitler’s Germany, etc. They all intended to expand their territory to rule all the world around them. They all persecuted, imprisoned, and slaughtered the children of God [referring to the Jewish people] and Christians. The difference between those “kings” and the “eighth king” is that the “eighth king” governs over all of the seven continents and is not claiming one large territory but is claiming the whole world as its domain. This “eighth king” despises God, Jesus, the presence of the Holy Spirit, Christians, and all of Christianity. This is “Babylon”, as spoken about in Revelations 17:5 and Revelations 18:2. This is the government of the beast that the United Nations ushered in when it was established in 1945, as described in Daniel 8:1-4.
The global government of the beast goes to its destruction as described in Revelations 18. The beast reigns on this earth for “42 months”, as described in Revelations 13:5-6. By reading that post, we see that those “42 months” began when the United Nations ushered in the government of the beast in 1945 and ends in the Fifth Plague of Revelations 16:10-11 when the power center of the beast is destroyed. This present global government is the last government that this world will ever know. Jesus Christ returns to set up the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.
As we read in the next section, there are “ten kings” who receives authority with the beast who rules over the world as the “eighth king”. The eight king is not one of the “ten kings”. The “ten kings” receive their authority from the “eighth king”. That is, the “ten kings” live for the global beast that governs through what they are given to speak, do, feel, and think.
Global leaders surrender their autonomy to the global government of the beast.
“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because He is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with Him will be His called, chosen and faithful followers.” Revelation 17:12-14
In the previous section on Revelations 17:9-11, the “eighth king” has global dominion, and in the verses of this section, the “ten kings” receive their authority from that “eighth king”. However, the “eighth king” is not one of the “ten kings”.
The “ten horns” represent “ten kings” who had not yet received a kingdom in the Apostle John’s lifetime [the writer of Revelations] nor any time before that. Those “ten kings” would come in the future, and we are living in those future days, the days of the global government of the beast. Those “ten kings” receive their authority along with the beast. In other words, they receive their authority as long as they accept the authority of the beast. This is the beast that has power over physiology to govern by giving people what to speak, do, think, and feel. The governing authorities receive their authority with the beast for “one hour”.
The “ten kings” are spread across the globe on all seven continents. This would be like Russia and China are two kings on the continent called Asia, etc. Some continents have one major power, for example, on North America that would be the United States of America [for now]. As of today, the global government is still growing into becoming established as the undisputed one world government, and territorial disputes exists across the globe. The United Nations intends to eliminate political and religious boundaries in the process of creating its global territory and governing districts. For “one hour”, the “ten kings” will rule with the beast.
The “ten kings” have one purpose, which is to establish the one world government and a global culture. They believe this is the way to peace, security, and prosperity for the world. In fact, that is the premise on which the United Nations was established immediately after WW2, and it brought the government of the beast with it, as described in Daniel 8:1-4. In order to establish that global goal, the “ten kings” have given their power and authority to the beast. Governments of nations around the world have given their authority to the beast by allowing it to govern through them. The beast governs through them by giving them what to speak, do, think, and feel. People in every nation around the world are familiar with the “Sustainable Development Goals” of the United Nations, which is evidence of how governments of every nation have given their authority to the global government of the beast.
People in every city, state, country, and nation across the globe oppose belief in God, oppose Jesus Christ, and oppose the presence of the Holy Spirit. That’s because the beast that gives them what to speak and do has waged war against the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. The beast intends to give life to the image of the beast to speak and live through people, to make it a requirement, a commandment. People everywhere are being groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do, “…but the Lamb will triumph over them because He is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with Him will be His called, chosen and faithful followers.” Revelation 17:12-14
Global warming is instrumental in bringing the destruction of the power center of the beast, and global warming is the Fourth Plague of Revelations 16:8-9. The more powerful the United Nations become as the one world government the more intense the effects of global warming become.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
Global government of the beast grows to hate the “great harlot”.
And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” Revelation 17:16-18
The beast and ten horns are the global government of the beast. The ten horns represent the ten major kingdoms around the world, and the beast is the beast that governs by giving people what to speak, do, think, and feel. The governing authorities govern according to the will of the beast, that’s why it’s called the global government of the beast.
The global government grows to hate the harlot. They hate her because she is the one who corrupted people through the sins of the flesh. They do not want their global culture to be infested with people indulged in fulfilling fleshly desires. At first, it was OK what the harlot was doing because it put people’s focus off of the Spirit, off of God, away from Jesus Christ, and in opposition to the Holy Spirit. It made people focus on the beast that gave them what to speak, do, think, and feel. After that, the global government seizes control to become the undisputed one world government, and they decide it’s time to clean house. This is the description of having a form of Godliness but denying the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ [2 Timothy 3:5].
An example of that happening today is seen through the “cashless society”. The governing authorities rightly believe that “the love of money is the root of all evil” [1 Timothy 6:10]. For that reason, they are planning to remove all cash, globally, in order to reduce the sins of the flesh. Click here for a post on the “GENIUS Act” which i slaying the framework for the digital currency. At the same time, they discourage belief in God, they discard the need for Jesus Christ, and they oppose the presence of the Holy Spirit. Today’s culture, which is global, is being created with no righteousness and no wickedness which amounts to having no soul. This is by the judgment of God because without Him that is what this world becomes, “Because I will cut off both righteous and wicked from you, therefore My sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north…” Ezekiel 21:4 Click for a post on Ezekiel 21.
The image below is a resemblance of the soul of those who target the sins of the flesh for elimination but belief in God is not considered, the need for Jesus Christ is discarded, and the presence of the Holy Spirt is thrown out. They are those who welcome the presence of the beast to give them what to speak, do, and think as their emotions are fabricated. Righteousness and wickedness both are cut off as they are more like human robots than spiritual beings as created by God.

The global government of the beast will make the harlot that promotes the sins of the flesh desolate and easily visible as they eat her away and burn her with fire. The war against the flesh will be waged without the Holy Spirit as Jesus Christ is scoffed at. They will rely on power and might instead of the Spirit. Today’s culture, which is global, is of one mind in that purpose because the beast gives them what to think do, feel, and say in every city around the world. Every people and nation around the world have given their country to the beast. This continues until the will of God is fulfilled, to bring utter destruction to the government of the beast.
“…having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!…always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth…so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith…but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all…” 2 Timothy 3:5, 7, 8-9
Once the Holy Spirit is taken out of the way, the only way left to control sin is by police action, mob mentality, military force, etc. The world is led into lawlessness and the eventual collapse of this present world. God’s purpose is fulfilled in that way because “…the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23
And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth. That “great city” is the city of “Babylon” which is the global government of the beast, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.” Revelations 18:2-3
“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11
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