Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Revelation 17

• About the title: “Budda and Symbols. A high and lifted up Budda was the center of the celebration on October 7th, 2023 when Israel was attacked by Hamas Terrorists.
• A harlot is symbolic of an idol worshiper versus the worship of God.
  
  

SYMBOLISM

Below: A painting of a medieval understanding of the beast and the harlot, which has the Tower of Babel on her head; One government, one language, one religion, one currency. The men are on their knees worshiping her. The waters are in the background. A confusion of the symbolic, making it literal.

Jerusalem has consistently been lured by the worship of cultic religions (which are all traced back to their beginnings at the Tower of Babel) and called a harlot in scripture.
Genesis 10 Nimrod was the original founder of Babel (Babylon) and his “Tower of Babel.” It is interesting to note that every organized system of religion in the world today has traces of ancient Babylon and can be traced to the worship there. http://www.allabouthistory.org/ancient-babylon.htm

• Hosea 9:1 Judgment of Israel’s Sin – Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God.
  
• Isaiah 1:21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers…I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross (sins), and take away all your alloy (worthlessness).²⁶ I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning.
  Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.” ²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with justice ,and her penitents with righteousness.
  
• Jeremiah 3:1 But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
  
• Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers (blessings) have been withheld, And there has been no latter rain (Messiah). You have had a harlot’s forehead; You refuse to be ashamed.
  
• Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen your adulteries And your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made clean?”
  
• Ezekiel 16:31 Jerusalem’s Adultery – “You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment.
  
• Ezekiel 43:7 And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.
  
• Ezekiel 43:9 Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever (Millennium).
  
• Hosea 4:12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God.

• Isaiah 1:²⁵ I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy.

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See: {1 of 4} Revelation 17 – The Harlot
See: {2 of 4} Revelation 17 – The Beast
See: {3 of 4} Revelation 17 – Isaiah 21
See: {4 of 4} Revelation 17 – Symbolism

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