Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Mystery
The mother
Bible References
Upon
Revelation 7:3
"Do no harm to earth or sea or trees, until we seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads."
Philippians 3:19
Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!
Mystery
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the secret force of lawlessness is at work already; only, it cannot be revealed till he who at present restrains it is removed.
2 Timothy 3:1
Mark this, there are hard times coming in the last days.
The mother
Revelation 18:9
And the kings at the earth who committed vice and wantoned with her shall weep and wail over her, as they watch the smoke of her burning;
Revelation 19:2
True and just are his sentences of doom; he has doomed the great Harlot who destroyed earth with her vice, he has avenged on her the blood of his servants."