Chapter 17 - The Harlot: Babylon The Great Babylon’ s Characteristics, vv. 1-6 Babylon’ s Relationship To The Sea Beast, vv. 7-14 Babylon’ s Unmistakable Identity, vv. 15-18 Begin to see the judgment pictured in reverse order as enemy introduced. Ch. 17 = The Fall of Babylon (v.1 "the great whore") #Revelation 11:8 * where our Lord was crucified #Jeremiah 2:20; 3:9; 4:30; 4:30; 51:4, 7 * (Literal Babylon) "great whore" = the fornication is figurative of religious unfaithfulness "Waters" is explained in v. 155 as "peoples, mulitudes, and nations..."