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The great prostitute

Revelation 17:1–6

In this Sunday’s sermon on Revelation 17:1–6, we are introduced to the great prostitute—an image drawing on the prophetic warnings against Jerusalem, Israel, and other ancient cities like Tyre and Nineveh. This woman represents a city marked by sexual immorality, spiritual corruption, and violent idolatry. She is clothed in priestly garb yet allied with Satan, bearing the marks of impurity, blasphemy, and bloodshed. Her cup is full—not of blessing, but of abominations. Yet this is not the end of her story: her judgement is certain. Join us as we unpack this vivid portrait and consider what it reveals about the nature of evil and the faithfulness of God’s justice.

Revelation 17:1–6

The Great Prostitute and the Beast

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, 2 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.” 3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in 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. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” 6 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.

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