Key Thought: Revelation Chapter 17 describes the end-time apostate religious system as a harlot riding a beast. With her daughters, Babylon seduces the world against God.

March 23, 2019

1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 17:1,2.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is this prostitute that sits upon many waters?
   (Note: In Jeremiah 6:2, Isaiah 51:16, 2 Corinthians 11:2 – a woman is a church. Being a prostitute shows her unfaithfulness. Rev 17:15 tells us the waters are multitudes, peoples, nations.)
3. Personal Application: How hard is it to go against popular opinion? Don’t you usually like to try and agree with people? Share your thoughts..
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “Why has this woman committed fornication with the kings of the earth and the inhabitants of the world?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Revelation 17:3-7.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What is the significance of the purple and scarlet colors and the decorations of precious stones and pearls?
3. Personal Application: What are the similarities of this woman with Jezebel in the Old Testament? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “If Babylon’s wine represents the confusing teachings of the Catholic Church mixing superstitions and paganism with Christianity, then who are her harlot daughters?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Revelation 17:9-11.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. What does it mean that the beast was, is not, and yet is?
3. Personal Application: What does it mean that the beast comes out of the bottomless pit? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “What does it mean that the beast was of the seven and is the eighth?.” How would you reply to your neighbor?
   (Note: Five fallen kings: the enemies of God’s people – Egypt, Philistines, Babylon, Medo-Persia. Greece. One is: Pagan Rome in John’s day. Other not yet come in John’s day – Papal Rome – the seventh. Received a deadly wound and rose again – the Papal/Protestant coalition yet to come – the eighth.)

4. Have a volunteer read Revelation 17:12-18.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. Why do these ten kings give their power and strength to the beast and then turn around and hate the beast and burn her with fire?
3. Personal Application: How can people who claim to be Christian actually be making war on Jesus? How is that possible? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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