Money -> The Great Prostitute

Revelation 17:1-6 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

The Judgment of the Great Prostitute Babylon

17 And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.” ³ And he carried me away into the wilderness in the Spirit,^[a] and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand full of detestable things and the unclean things of her sexual immorality. ⁵ And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: “Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.” ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.

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Lately, I've thought a lot about how money changes people for the worst. Just look around and think about this for a moment. Think about yourself. Has money changed you? Isn't money like a prostitute?

Think about some of our world leaders like Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. Money seems to be on their mind almost all the time. They think that the more money they can get, the more power they will have. I single out these two only because what they do affects the whole world.

The temptation to sin that money brings is rampant, even in our Christian leaders. Money brings us into bondage, makes us slaves but through the power of Jesus Christ, we can be delivered out of that bondage.

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I've been thinking about and studying in Revelation chapters 17 and 18. These chapters talk about Babylon and a powerful harlot / prostitute. I found out a few things in my studies.

In the Bible Encyclopedia, I found out that Babylon in Semitic means "the gate of god (little g)". The Hebrew name is 'Babhel' and comes from the root word 'balal' which means "to confound". 

I believe that Babylon here in Revelation is a symbol of Satan and his kingdom, and the harlot is a symbol for money that Satan uses to entice us with.