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Robert R. Taylor

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3.x - 4.x

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This Scholarly Commentary on the Book of Revelation is in Book Format
for TheWord and has a little over 500 pagers. The author was born in 1930
and passed away in 2023.

This Commentary is designed to enable students to easily study and understand
the Book of Revelationn. This volume begins with an Introduction and outline;
then each chapter of Revelation is discussed in its own chapter; next is a chapter
on twenty-six lessons learned from Revelation. The book ends with three appendices:
two chapters of issues and answers from Revelation and one chapter containing the
seven beatitudes of Revelation. Brother Taylor brings years of Bible study and writing
to this work. He has produced a Mighty fine Commentary that can be used for a
six-month or year-long Bible class study—or for an in-depth personal study of the Book
of Revelation. Each Chapter features an outstanding variety of questions.

Here is a portion of one of the Chapters below:

INTRODUCTION
Whoredom or harlotry is used in the Bible in both physical and figurative ways. The same is true with fornication and adultery.
The context will determine whether it is physical fornication or figurative fornication. Whoredom or fornication in a physical way
refers to sexual intercourse between people who have no right to be intimate. Harlotry or adultery may be used regarding people
who are unfaithful to God. James 4:4 speaks of adulterers and adulteresses. These are people who have broken their vows to
God. Wayward Judah and Israel in the Old Testament both were guilty of whoredom— leaving God and hearkening after man
made gods and goddesses. Therefore whoredom means being unfaithful to God and His system of truth.

THE WHORE OR HARLOT IDENTIFIED
(Rev 17:1-6)
(1) And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will
shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; (2) With whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Verse 1—Commentators are divided about the identification of this whore (KJV) or harlot (ASV). (1) Some take the position that
the whore or harlot is representative of Jerusalem of Palestine. This seems highly unlikely. Jerusalem of the first century did not
have this kind of controlling power over kings and nations. (2) Some contend that this refers to the apostate church or Papal Rome.
But Papal Rome was in the future and did not pose the first century threat to saints contemporary with John. (3) I am thoroughly
convinced that pagan Rome with her infamous emperors is the thrust of Revelation 17 plus Revelation 18 as well. In Revelation 17:9
the harlot sits upon seven hills. Jerusalem was built on four hills—Moriah, Zion, Acra and Bezetha. Rome was the well known seven
hilled city. Pagan Rome of the first century was the world power. Her tentacles of authority reached into vast parts of the first century world.

We are not told which of the seven angels received this delegated command to educate John relative to this sordid scene that met his eyes.
John was invited to “come hither.” John was eager to know what was a mystery to him at first. There is a promise issued. It was to be a
judgment revelation. John would be shown what faced Babylon, the great harlot or whore, by way of coming punishment. The whore or harlot
sitteth on many waters. Babylon of old had set on many waters. Babylon of the Old Testament has become Rome of the New Testament.

Verse 2—Kings have been seduced by this harlot or whore. They were allied with her in a fornicating framework. It was elicit and therefore no
real help to either her or they. Graphically, John speaks of these kings as being intoxicated with the wine of her fornication. Rome was their total
master and they were her docile imps or puppets who had no control. They were completely controlled by this manipulative master, this pernicious
power.

(3) So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. (4) And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.

Verse 3—John was transported by this angel, one of the seven, into the wilderness. What he beheld must have been repulsive to the sensitive soul
and sterling saint like the aged John. The woman was a harlot, a fallen woman. There was nothing pure about her. The beast upon which she sat was
pagan Rome—not Jerusalem—not Papal Rome of future generations. There was fullness of gross blasphemy descriptive of this beast. Blasphemy
means to speak against or to rail. Pagan Rome and his infamous emperors hated the very God Christians worshipped. They hated His only begotten
Son. The observed beast had seven heads and ten horns. Here was completeness of diabolical power and corruptible authority. The seven heads and
ten horns are identified later in Revelation 17 as being the seven hills and ten kings (v. 9-12).

Verse 4—The beast was scarlet colored and so was the harlot. She was arrayed in purple and scarlet. Scarlet has frequently been associated with
women who seek to seduce men into immoral entanglements. She was decked with gold, precious stones and pearls. She was anything but poor by
worldly standards. Her cup was not made out of cheap metal but of gold. Abominations, filthiness and fornication filled her cup. She represented
everything a woman should not be. What a sharp contrast between this woman and the radiant woman portrayed in Revelation 12.

(5) And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH. (6) And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw
her, I wondered with great admiration.

Verse 5—In ancient times a fallen woman had the name of her disgraceful occupation written or tattooed on her forehead. Every beholder knew well the
type of woman she was. It was not hidden from anyone who witnessed her. Part of her name may have been MYSTERY. However, what she was is no
longer concealed but openly recognized. She was Babylon the Great. She symbolized Rome to all John’s alert readers. She was not great in character
and reputation by any means but great in lust, seducing powers and corrupting influences, etc. She was the MOTHER OF HARLOTS. She was the very
epitome of womanly wickedness. Women can rise to noble heights. She can also sink to ignoble depths of depravity. The latter described her. She
overflowed with earthly abominations. First century Rome was a sewer of everything vile and despicable. Roman writers even described their city in just
such terms as did John.

Verse 6—She was drunken with the blood of saints. Nero was a mass murderer of Christians in the A.D. 60’s when he ruled in ruthlessness. Domitian was
a mass murderer of saints in the A.D. 80’s and 90’s. They hated Christians with as much passion as Hitler and the Third Reich did Jews in the 1930’s and
1940’s. Nero and Domitian were happy to add martyrs by the masses to their murderous catalogues of crimes.

We would expect that John would be amazed and would marvel at the enormous evil he witnessed from Babylon the Great and this Mother of Harlots. It was
not an admiration and marvel based on godliness and righteousness. Rome and her emperors were void of such virtues.

Here is a copy of the Table of Contents Below:
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Revelation Introduced And Outlined
Chapter 2 - The Glorious Godhead And The Beautiful Christ (Rev. 1:1-20)
Chapter 3 - Letters To Ephesus And Smyrna (Rev. 2:1-11)
Chapter 4 - Letters To Pergamos And Thyatira (Rev. 2:12-29
Chapter 5 - Letters To Sardis And Philadelphia (Rev. 3:1-13)
Chapter 6 - The Letter To The Church In Laodicea (Rev. 3:14-22)
Chapter 7 - Jehovah On His Throne (Rev. 4:1-11)
Chapter 8 - The Lamb And The Sealed Book (Rev. 5:1-14)
Chapter 9 - The Opening Of The Six Seals (Rev. 6:1-17)
Chapter 10 - The Number Of The Sealed (Rev. 7:1-17)
Chapter 11 - Sounding Of The Four Trumpets (Rev. 8:1-13
Chapter 12 - Sounding Of Trumpets Five And Six (Rev. 9:1-21)
Chapter 13 - John And The Little Book (Rev. 10:1-11)
Chapter 14 - The Two Witnesses (Rev. 11:1-19)
Chapter 15 - The Dragon, The Woman And The Son (Rev. 12:1-17)
Chapter 16 - The Sea Beast And The Earth Beast (Rev. 13:1-18)
Chapter 17 - Victory Of The Lamb And Judgment On Babylon(Rev. 14:1-20)
Chapter 18 - The Heavenly Song Of Victory (Rev. 15:1-8)
Chapter 19 - God’s Wrath Unleashed (Rev. 16:1-21)
Chapter 20 - Judgment Upon The Harlot (Rev. 17:1-18)
Chapter 21 - The Sure Fall Of Babylon The Great (Rev. 18:1-24)
Chapter 22 - “Alleluia: For The Lord God Reigneth” (Rev. 19:1-21)
Chapter 23 - The Most Abused Chapter In The Book of Revelation (Rev. 20:1-15)
Chapter 24 - The New Heaven And The New Earth (Rev. 21:1-27)
Chapter 25 - “Blessed Are They That Do His Commandments” (Rev. 22:1-21
Chapter 26 - Twenty-Six Lessons Learned From Revelation
Appendix 1 - The Book Of Revelation: Issues & Answers (No. 1)
Appendix 2 - The Book Of Revelation: Issues & Answers (No. 2)
Appendix 3 - The Seven Beatitudes In The Book Of Revelation