Jovial,
The book is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and it is all about him.
Everything in that book is in relation to Jesus, even the wickedness and rebellion of the people.
Even the people know, in the sixth seal, that it is the wrath of the Lamb that they are hiding from.
So when it comes to the great whore, it is whoredoms against Jesus that is the issue.
Revelation
17: 1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials,
and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither;
I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon
many waters:
Ancient Babylon never went a whoring from the LORD, as they were always lost Gentiles.
Jerusalem, in the old testament, went a whoring from the LORD:
Jeremiah
3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast
not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them,
as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with
thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no
latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be
ashamed.
Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom,
and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when
shall it once be?
Ezekiel 16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these
things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
35 ¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with
all the idols of thy abominations,
and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
39
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down
thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall
strip thee also of thy clothes,
and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
41
And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon
thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from
playing the harlot, and
thou also shalt give no hire any more.
So, for the new testament, and in particular, the book of Revelation, it is someone who goes a whoring from Jesus.
Because she was his, but turned from him, to go a whoring from him, she will receive a double judgment:
Revelation
18: 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double.
Jerusalem, in the old testament, went a whoring from the LORD, and them received a double judgment:
Isaiah
40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath
received of the LORD’s hand
double for all her sins.
Jeremiah
16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double;
because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance
with the carcases
of their detestable and abominable things.
There are two women and two cities.
The one is the Lamb’s bride, contrasted by the whore that went a whoring from him.
The one is New Jerusalem, compared to his bride (21:9-10), contrasted by Mystery Babylon the Great.
However, both are in relation to Jesus.
It looks like the very last thing before Jesus returns, is the destruction of the whore.
There is so much praise and worship in heaven over her destruction, that the four hallelujahs are right there in chapter 19.
Chapter 19 is the climax, it is the return of Jesus, when he is revealed to the whole world.
The contrast of Babylon to the coming kingdom of Jesus, is profound.
The entire thing is all about Jesus, including the whore and her destruction.
Gino