Revelation - God's Response
11: Revelation 17:1-19:1: Responses, Scenes of Judgment After burning incense in the Temple, a priest would intone God’s verdict in the responses. Again, the complete response is seven-fold, repeating the pattern of earlier parts of Revelation. List of 7 Judgment Scenes: 1. The Whore of Babylon 2. The angel’s explanation 3. The Fall of Babylon 4. The Escape of the Saints 5. The Lament over the City 6. The Fate of the City 7. The Wedding Feast of the Lamb 1. The Whore of Babylon - Revelation 17:1-6 John is shown a vision of the antichrist, Satan’s power in the world, and the spirit that lies behind all false governments. The images would have had very powerful symbolic meanings. Woman/Whore : A woman is often used to represent worldly powers, that of nations other than Israel, or that of Israel when she turns from the Lord. Isaiah 23 refers to Tyre as a prostitute 15…it will happen to Tyre as in the song about the prostitute : Wilderness : a place that is in the world but not of the wo...