11WHY THE WHORE OF BABYLON RIDES A RED BEAST
According
to Revelation 17:3 the woman rides a scarlet colored beast.
So he carried me away in
the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored
beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
What
does this signify? To get our answer we
go to Scripture and we see what scarlet means in the Bible and how it is used.
Red (Scarlet) in the
Bible
●Sin-Sins as scarlet
-Isaiah
1:18
●Symbol of redemption,
cleansing from sin
-
Numbers 19:6, Leviticus 14:51
●Costly prized colored
material
- 2 Samuel 1:24; Proverbs
31:21
●Wealth
-
Lamentations 4:5
●A sign of honor and
royalty
-Daniel
5:7
●Lover’s lips compared to
a thread of scarlet
-
Song of Solomon 4:3
●A symbol of powerful and
mighty men-Shield of his mighty men made red, valiant men are in scarlet
Nahum
2:3
●Mockery of royalty- Jesus
given scarlet robe
-
Matthew 27:28
●War and bloodshed-The red
horseman of Revelation
-Revelation
6:4
Does scarlet Beast
represent the blood of the martyrs?
The Whore is drunk with the blood of the
martyrs, and the scarlet beast would seem to represent the blood of the martyrs
in its entirety but it does not, it accounts for the war that is waged on the
Saints, but even more so that her sins have reached to heaven and her sins are
as scarlet, which includes her deeds against the Saints. Isaiah 1:8
So
the Beast and the fiery red dragon of Revelation 12 is red because of its sins
but also lines with the other red representations in Scripture: the empire’s
wealth, kingship, power, and honor in the eyes of the world. It also represents
its military valor and is the color of unredeemed sin.
While
red symbolizes unredeemed sin, the red thread used in the Temple fabrics
represents the blood of Jesus, which has the power to negate unredeemed sin and
make it white as snow. Isaiah 1:9
confirms, “Thou yours sins be as scarlet
they shall be white as snow”.
Thus
we have symbolism in the Gospels of when the Roman soldiers mocked Jesus, by
placing on him a red robe, it was also symbolic that he was now taking on the
sins of the world represented by the red robe.
Matthew
27: 27-31 provides the account of the scarlet robe being put on Jesus to mock
him. More than mocking Jesus, the
scarlet robe symbolized Jesus taking on Himself the sins of the world. The passage reads:
27 Then the soldiers of
the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around
Him. 28 And they stripped
Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. 29 When they had twisted a crown of
thorns, they put it on
His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and
mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 Then they spat on
Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head. 31 And when they had
mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him away to be crucified.
Notice that the robe was removed because the 2
Corinthians 5:21:
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of
God in Him.
The scarlet robe symbolizes Jesus being made sin,
taking on our sins and the reason that the robe is discarded and Jesus then put
on his own clothes is because this place of becoming sin and being numbered
with the transgressors was temporary and ended when he shed his blood and
resurrected to the right hand of the Father.
In conclusion the Scarlet Beast and the Whore in
Scarlet is a picture of her and her sin which takes her and all who believe her
teachings to eternal death.
This is an excerpt from the free online version of my book Whore of Babylon in Bible Prophecy: A Book of
Revelation Mystery Revealed
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