“And he carried me away in the power of the spirit into a wilderness. And I caught sight of a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild beast that was full of blasphemous names [accumulated down through the existence of the Seven World Powers] and that had seven heads and ten horns.

³³ At his observation point out there in the “wilderness” the apostle John became a spectator to the “judgment upon the great harlot,” the destruction of Babylon the Great by the scarlet-colored wild beast with seven heads and ten horns.