And 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 war which is sitting on many waters, with which the kings of the earth committed fornication, and with the wind of her fornication the inhabitants of the earth became drunk." He said he took me away in spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names and having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and portals, and she held in her hand a golden cup of abominations as a guarantee of her fornication; and over his head was written in eights, a mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of wars and abominations of the earth." And I resolved that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, in the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I was very amazed because the angel said to me: "Why are you so amazed? I will tell you." the mystery of the woman and the contented beast with seven heads warns that the beast you saw was and is not, and is about to come out of the abyss and go to destruction and the inhabitants of the earth whose names were not written in the book of life on the foundation of the world, they will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not in the future." This requires a mine that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits; furthermore they are seven kings, of whom five fallen, one is alive and the other has not yet come; and when he comes, you will have to stay only if soon. As for the beast that was and is not, he is an eight but belongs to the seven, and goes towards destruction 10 horns you have seen, our 10 kings have not yet received the kingdom, that is, they will receive royal power for an hour, together with the beast. These are united in giving up their power and authority to the beast; lamb, and the lamb will conquer the fur he is Lord of lords thinking of the reeds and those with them are called and chosen and faithful.
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