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Who is the woman sitting on the “scarlet beast”?

She is found in the wilderness sitting on a “scarlet beast” and drunk with the blood of the saints, adorned with plunder from the nations. I believe the scarlet beast is the red dragon, and the woman riding it is the same woman that fled into the wilderness away from it. Since fleeing to the wilderness, this woman has made herself rich with those fallen from the beast and his mark. Additionally, she is accused of living sensuously, which is the same accusation against false believers who use God’s grace as a license to live immoral lives. Joseph’s offspring had two halves, the fruitful and the forgetful. I believe Jesus who was the supposed son of Joseph also had two halves to His offspring, and the fruitful half is taken, and the forgetful half eventually is here if they do not wakeup.

³ Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems. ⁴ And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

⁵ And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne. ⁶ Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days. (Revelation 12:3-6)

³ And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, ⁵ and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” (Revelation 17:3-5)

¹⁸ The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.” (Revelation 17:18)

⁸ “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come. (Revelation 17:8)

² And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. (Revelation 20:2-3)

⁴ For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. (Jude 4)

⁵¹ Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.” ⁵² He named the second Ephraim, “For,” he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” (Genesis 41:51-52)

²³ When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli, (Luke 3:23)

²⁶ “He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’ ²⁷ “I also shall make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸ “My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him. ²⁹ “So I will establish his descendants forever And his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰ “If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments, ³¹ If they violate My statutes
And do not keep My commandments, ³² Then I will punish their transgression with the rod
And their iniquity with stripes. ³³ “But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him, Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. (Psalm 89:26-33)

¹The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, ² “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother; ³ and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. ⁴ Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah. (Ezekiel 23:1-4)

References

Revelation 12:3-6

Revelation 17:3-5, 18

Revelation 17:8

Revelation 20:2-3

Jude 4

Genesis 41:51-52

Luke 3:23

Psalm 89:23-33

Ezekiel 23:1-4