A review of Revelation 17 in the context of the business workplace

1. ACE Men’s Bible Study
Revelation
Fall Semester
2016

2. ACE Men’s Bible Study

3. Revelation 17 Synopsis
• Great Prostitute (Babylon) riding the Wild Beast, then the Wild Beast
destroys the Prostitute
• Two Babylons are to be judged
• Ecclesiastical or Religious Babylon (Apostate Church)
• Commercial Babylon
• Two different cities? Two locations? Two forms of government?
• Two perspectives on the same city?
• Wild beast – Anti-Christ & the restored Roman Empire which he rules
• Woman is the city of Rome and the Apostate church
• “Babylon is a former Rome and Rome is a future Babylon” Augustine
• OT Babylon persecuted God’s people – Hebrew children in the furnace

4. Two Babylons of Revelation
Ecclesiastical Babylon
• Hated by the wild beast
• Destroyed at the start of the last
3.5 years of the tribulation
• Destroyed by the wild beast
Commercial Babylon
• Loved by the world
• Destroyed at the end of the last
3.5 years of the tribulation
• Destroyed by the return of
Christ

5. Revelation 17 Synopsis
• 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit[b] 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. 9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on
which the woman is seated; 10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the
other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while
• The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and
go to destruction.
• Anti-Christ and the restored Roman Empire
• Failed attempts to restore the Roman Empire – Charlamagne, Napolean, Hitler,
Mussolini
• Anti-Christ wins the admiration of the people worldwide
• Seven kings:
• Five fallen: Julius Caesar (assassinated), Nero (suicide), Caligula (assassinated),
Claudius (poisoned), Tiberius (poisoned)
• One is: Domitian (assassinated) – living in John’s day
• One about to come: Anti-Christ