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The “whore” implicates a religious system. The kings of men co-opt her influence to create a legacy, yet, she is an illegitimate wife and a thief of agency.
"Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!"
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my insight,
2that you may maintain discretion
and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3Though the lips of the forbidden womana drip honey
and her speech is smoother than oil,
4in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death;
her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6She does not consider the path of life;
she does not know that her ways are unstable.
This woman is juxtaposed to the Bride of Christ who has made herself ready for her one husband.
the beautiful woman in revelation 12 is israel , who was promised the messiah would Be born a son of man . after Jesus is born and taken to heaven to rule from his throne , israel was shortly after persecuted and scattered when Jerusalem was destroyed and so
Many slaughtered during the siege of Jerusalem ad67-70
much of the church also still in Jerusalem suffered and died of the siege Jewish Christians.
but the point is the woman is kept for a time but later pursued by the dragon o to the desert . Where later a woman appears in the desert having a different look and garments and riding upon the beast holding the cup of indignation’s.
we’re seeing Israel’s fall from beautiful , to a whore that constantly worshipped false idols and never honored God who was like thier husband and demanded they only worship him. Many ot prophets tell the story of Israel's Whoredoms and adulteries
The beautiful woman just one example of several
“Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:2, 7-14,
But this is what they became
“But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and
playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. And
of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and
playedst the harlot thereupon:
the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Thou hast also
taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
And tookest
thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Thou hast also
committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; But
as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God;
Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated;
I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
And I will tryl also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.”
Ezekiel 16:15-18, 22-23, 25-32, 35-39 KJV
that last part is what revelation is talking about here
“And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these
shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast,
until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”
Revelation 17:16-17 KJV
Your right it’s about e religious system of the Old Testament laws of Israel and the nation of Israel once a chosen and beautiful woman wearing a crown , but Thy ought transgressions and whoredoms with other gods , later appears Che he’s garments holding indignation and riding on the beast