Revelation 17:3

And He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

17:3

And He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: (The place of learning and choices; A Place of learning how to make Godly choices; and of testing)

and I saw a woman (The Soulish part of Man)

sitting upon a Scarlet (Color of Blood; counterfeit salvation)

beast, (Fallen level of Man)

full of names of blasphemy,(Not having become a new creature in Christ.

Genesis 17:5; II Corinthians 5:17, I John 3:9,10;)

The Harlot is riding on a saved Carnal Beast. (The Church built with hands.) having,  seven heads and ten horns.

(Trying to reach perfection through the law of works)

(NOTE: Revelation 1:4; 12:3; 13:1,2,10,11; 16:8;)

The Harlot are those who are carnal living in the flesh, not living by grace, but who have returned to (Mr.Law) the law of works, (Committing, Spiritual adultery) trying to please God by a set of rules they cannot keep and by trying to please Him by what they can do. They do not realize that unless they are practicing righteousness, being cleansed to walk in the light, where God’s Grace flows, then their works amount to nothing.  Only Grace makes them eternal.

Jeremiah 51:58;

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon (Harlot Babylon) shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for nothing; and they shall be weary. (Dead temporal, works of their hands)

Their works are just that, theirs. They have no Grace producing them, therefore, their works are dead. They are trying to please God from their own efforts. The works of their hands (Lawlessness). These are not Practicing Righteousness; they are not walking in the Light where God has prepared works that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10) Therefore, works from our own efforts are dead, of the flesh, temporal and not eternal. They are dead works which are corrupted and consumed by death.

Revelation 17:4

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her immorality,

17:4

And the woman was arrayed (Clothed herself) in purple (Color of royalty) and scarlet, (Color of salvation)

and decked (Adorned; Literally, gilded)

with gold and precious stones and pearls, (That which is spiritual, but she can’t understand them because these things are foolishness to her, for they must be spiritually appraised. I Corinthians 2: 13-15;)

having in her hand a golden (God’s Word, which she distorted in her own thinking)

cup (Bowl; A Shallow cup, Temple vessels, Head, receptacles for the anointing oil of the Holy Spirit. A Vessel; which, is also described as a utensil, a tool, particularly used in the kitchen, pertaining to food) (NOTE: Revelation 11:4; 16:1 @ Zechariah 4:1)

HER CUP IS NOT FILLED WITH THE WATER FROM WHICH WE NEVER THIRST (John 4:14) BUT IS,

full of abominations, (The Greek word: Bdelugma, # 946 meaning: Detestable; To abhor. To turn away in disgust and loathing. From # 948: To turn away from the stench. That which is detestable to God)

This is what she is feeding to others, (Spiritual) food and drink which is defiled. (Polluted with the thinking of the flesh)

Malachi 1:7;

You are presenting defiled (Polluted with the thinking of the flesh) food upon my altar. But you say, How have we defiled You? In that you say, The table (From where we are to receive His Spiritual food) of the Lord is to be despised. (Note: Revelation 2:24)

Isaiah 28:7-8;

And these also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet (False prophet) reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. :8; For all tables (From where we are fed spiritually) are full of vomit (Defiled food) and filthiness, without a single clean place. (Not one Church built with hands is feeding the sheep pure, unadulterated, spiritual food. Isaiah 66:1-3. Acts 7:48-53; Acts 17:24,25;)

Ezekiel 34:2,5;

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord: Woe to the shepherds have been feeding themselves! (By selling the spiritual in order to supply their own physical food.) should not the shepherds feed the sheep? (Pure, undefiled, spiritual food) :5;And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts (Carnal Man, Dogs and Swine have returned to their own defiled food, which is vomit II Peter 2:22; to the bestial level of thinking) of the field, and were scattered.

even the unclean (Polluted. Not Pure, adulterated)

things (Defiled food. Polluted with the thinking of the flesh)

of her immorality, (Spiritual adultery, Married to Mr. Grace, But returning to have relations with Mr. Works of the Law. Fleshy, no longer Practicing Righteousness; to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry.)

They didn’t measure the Temple, they have failed the test.

II Corinthians 13:5; Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you–unless indeed you fail the test? (NOTE: Revelation 2:10; 6:6; 9:2,10; 11:1;)   

Isaiah 64:6;

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags. (Polluted garments)

Revelation 17:5

and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

17:5

and upon her forehead (Where we think) (Note: Revelation 7:3)

Deuteronomy 11:18;

You shall therefore, impress these words of Mine in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, (Works, which are a sign and attest to the fact, that the words were heard and understood, the Works, confirm the Word) and they shall be on your forehead, (Thinking) between your eyes. Words and Works are the Two witnesses found in Revelation Chapter 11.

a name written,  MYSTERY, (That which is hidden, secret and cannot be understood unless in the Light. Mark 4:11;)

BABYLON THE GREAT, (The great confusion, Mans temple of pride, with self on the throne; The Church built with hands.)

THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS As the True Church produces a child and has other children, (NOTE: Revelation 12:1-4,17;) so too, the Harlot produces children. (NOTE: Revelation 2:23; 11:8; 11:13; 17:5;) When we connect ourselves to a Harlot we become a Harlot and one with her. She is the mother of Harlots because she produces Harlots.

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS (That which is detestable to God; loathing. to turn away from the stench in disgust.)

OF THE EARTH. (Earthly thinking)

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood (Presenting ourselves as a Bestial Blood Sacrifice; Not a living, pure, holy and acceptable sacrifice to God. Romans 12;1)

of the saints, (Holy, blameless, perfect by Practicing Righteousness.) (Note: Revelation 5:9; 14:3; 21:19,20,21,27;)

Matthew 13:30; Let both grow together (In the Harlot Church, the church built with hands.) until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to Burt them; but gather the wheat into my barn.)

We are not a Saint, until we separate.

In Matthew 13, we find the parable of the Sower and also, the Wheat and the Tares. (Deceived by half truths of False grain, in which, to make false spiritual bread. Those who are not abiding in the Light) The wheat grow together with the tares (When we are a Natural or Carnal man, we grow together in the False Church, the Harlot Babylon, the earthly Jerusalem, until we mature and become perfect, having a love for the Truth, becoming a Spiritual Man by Practicing Righteousness.)  until the harvest. At that time the angels, separate the wheat (Those who abide in the Light by practicing  righteousness No longer walking in the flesh, but walking in the Spirit. When we practice righteousness, and are sanctified, which means: Cleansed and set apart, we are separated for service, Mature and Perfect, which makes us Perfect as He is Perfect, Holy as He is Holy, We abide in His vine and produce His fruit of Righteousness. Righteous words, for we are a Word Tree. Abiding in the True Tree of Life. Therefore, a Saint. I John 3:7;) from the tares and the tares are burned, by God’s consuming Fire. (The Goats and the Tares are those who are connected to the Harlot Babylon, or, are Heathen.)

and with the blood of the witnesses (the Word and Works, John 5:30-39;) of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

Hebrews 12:24;

and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. (Bestial Blood Sacrifice)

1 John 1:7;

but if we walk in the light, (Spirit) as He is in the light, we have fellowship One with another, (Restored fellowship between us and the Creator) and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Isaiah 51:21;

Therefore hear now this, you who are afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: (Not with the true anointing of the Holy Spirit.) Read Isaiah 59:1-3.

Revelation 17:7

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore do you wonder? 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

17:7

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries (Sustains, serves, advances and upholds)

her, which has the seven (Perfect) heads (thinking)  

and the ten horns. (Power of the Law of Works) Total seventeen [17].

This is trying to reach perfection, through, The works of the Law.

7 (# of perfection) & 10 (# of the works of the Law) = 17,

Satan’s Counterfeit of the number 17

(NOTE: Revelation 12:3; 13:1, 2; 16:8; 17:3.)

Revelation 17:8

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and yet is.

17:8

The beast (Fallen from Grace man, to the bestial level.) that you saw

was, and is not;

II Corinthians 5:17;

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

Isaiah 23:13; Read 23:14-18.

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: (Wanderers; as it were, demons; to lay waste; to destroy) this people *was not*; the Assyrian (This is the Hebrew word, #804, Ashshuwr, meaning: Asshur or Assyria from word, #833, meaning:  A step; to go forward; to be lifted up, exalted ) founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; (Place of learning, a place of choices) they set up their towers; (Lofty thinking) they overthrew the palaces (Temples, placed SELF on the throne) thereof; they made it a ruin. (Desolation)

Isaiah 10:5;

Ho, Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

Sennacherib, king of Assyria has come to destroy the land. God knows we are so full of pride, that we will not believe anyone but ourselves. So, in His great wisdom, He lets our own thinking destroy us.  He knows we have to prove to ourselves that our way does not work. God allows us much patience, to learn that His way is perfect, without flaw. We all will learn to hate unrighteousness and love righteousness when we return His rightful throne of thinking to Him. But in order to do that we must see that we are the abomination that causes desolation. We have to learn that our way only leads to heartache.  Our land must be destroyed, because it is cursed. But God has a plan.

Jeremiah 29:11; for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 2:19;

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing, that you have forsaken the Lord your God, and that My fear is not in you, says, the Lord of hosts.

and is about to come up out of the abyss, (Sea of Mankind, Form the Greek word #12 Abusos meaning: Depthless, Abyss; deep, (bottomless) pit. a variation of #1037, Buthos: The Sea; a variation of #899, Bathos, mystery deep, profound, as going down,) (NOTE: Revelation  1:7; 2:13; 9:1; 9:20; 13:1;17:8; 21:3,5;)

Revelation 13:1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

and (he, the Beast) to go into perdition. (Is going to destruction, desolation. The son of perdition)

We must see that, we are the abomination of desolation, without Jesus on the throne of our lives, for we are the Temple of God. When we are not lining up our thoughts in agreement to His Word, then we have become a synagogue of Satan. When we recognize our desolation, without Christ, in control we recognize how we are (Were) the Beast. (That was) Therefore, when we give the throne back to our Creator, we become NEW, old things pass away, the Beast then IS NOT, the Beast still, yet is. (Still alive, with our same memories and life experiences but, with renewed thinKing. If and only if we Practice Righteousness, no longer buying and selling the  Spiritual meant to be free, then, we are no longer fallen to the bestial level, but raised and seated with Christ.)( NOTE: Revelation 2:9;)

Colossians 3:1-10; 

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. 5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. (Self is on the THRONE, ungodly thinking) 6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, 7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. :9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old man with its practices:10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

II Thessalonians 2:3,4;

:3, Let no man mislead you in any way: for [it will not be,] except the falling away (From Grace) come first, and the man of sin be revealed, (This is when we see our OLD BESTIAL NATURE, we Are the Man of Sin) the son of perdition, (the Son of destruction):4, he that opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sits in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. (UNGODLY THINKING ON THE THRONE OF OUR LIVES, IN TEMPLE OF OUR BEING, INSTEAD OF JESUS HAVING HIS RIGHTFUL SEAT.)

I Corinthians 3:16;

Know you not that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

And they (Those who still hold on to their bestial nature)

that dwell on the earth (still filled with earthly thinking)

shall wonder, (Those still in The Beast are full of pride, and say to themselves that this could not mean them)

whose name (The Beast, old fallen nature, old self, Colossians 3:9;)

has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, (The beast’s name is not written in the Book of Life)

when they behold the beast, (When they see those who practice righteousness)

that was, and is not, (The beast that was is us without God on the throne of our lives. When we recognize our desolation when Christ is not on the throne of our lives, and we begin to practice righteousness, then we become NEW, and the Beast then IS NOT.)

and yet is. (We remain in this body of flesh so long as we remain on this earth and the parousia has not occurred.  So long as we remain in the flesh, there exists the possibility that we will not continue practicing righteousness and that we could fall back into our old bestial nature.  This is what it means to “return to our own vomit.”  This is why the beast still IS.)

Galatians 2:19,20; 

For through the Law I (The beast hat was)  died to the Law, so that I might live to God. :20; I have been crucified (And is not) with Christ; never the less, I live (And yet is) and it is no longer I (The old beast that was) who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.