Revelation 17:2-3

The Great Prostitute and the Beast

² _z with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and _a with the wine of whose sexual immorality _b the dwellers on earth have become drunk." ³ And _c he carried me away in the Spirit _d into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on _e a scarlet beast that was full of _f blasphemous names, and _g it had seven heads and ten horns.

1. Cross References
   Revelation 18:3
   For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.
   Revelation 18:9
   And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
   Isaiah 23:17
   At the end of seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
   
2. Cross References
   Revelation 14:8
   Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.
   Jeremiah 51:7
   Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord 's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
   
3. Cross References
   Revelation 3:10
   Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
   
4. Cross References
   Revelation 21:10
   And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
   
5. Cross References
   Revelation 12:6
   And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
   Revelation 12:14
   But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
   
6. Cross References
   Revelation 12:3
   And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
   
7. Cross References
   Revelation 13:1
   And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
   
8. Cross References
   Revelation 17:7
   But the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
   Revelation 17:9
   This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated.
   Revelation 17:12
   And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.