Spoke 17
The Brazen Whore
Revelation 17  Isaiah 17 Esther
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit
upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with
gold and precious stones
and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of
her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with
the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Revelation 17.3f
Brazen blasphemy characterizes the Great Harlot. Her forehead declares
her reprobate mind, as
it is written (Jeremiah 3.3):
... thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
The modern Hebrew words
 (Prutzah, Prostitute) and
 (Pritzuth, Prostitution/Licentiousness)
perfectly express the quality of open and unashamed impudence ascribed to the Great Whore.
Both are from the fundamental
Peh KeyWord  (Paratz) meaning breach, break open, burst, part, or
break in pieces, hence debauchery and moral dissolution.
This all comes from the essence of the
Peh
- Resh root characteristic of Spoke 17.
Rabbinical Tradition describes Vashti as
having the character of Pritzuth in their
commentaries on Esther (cf. Purim)
which begins with the drunken
revelry of King Achashverosh and his
ostentatious display of the "the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his
excellent majesty":
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and
his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces,
being before him: When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of
his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days. And when these
days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in
Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the
garden of the king's palace; Where were white, green,
and blue, hangings, fastened
with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and
pillars of marble: the beds
were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white,
and black, marble.
And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,)
and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king. And the drinking was
according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the
officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
The descriptions of Achashverosh's feast and that of the Great Whore are essentially identical. Both
describe the sumptuous colours - purple, red/scarlet - and wine drunk in golden cups/vessels.
Likewise, both involve extreme excesses of sinful godless revelry. Both reveal the essence of Pritzuth.
The story of Esther then tells of Haman's attempt to rally all the people in every province against the
Jews, to destroy them. This sea of people is a common theme linking Spoke 17 of
the Inner Wheels of Revelation and Isaiah with the |
