--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Apostolic | The Medieval Period | Era of Modern | The Last Period | | Sects | Reformation ----------------+---------------------+----------------+------------------- DRAGON | LEOPARD-BEAST | TWO-HORNED | FALL OF Rev. 12:3, 4, | Rev. 13:1-10 | BEAST | BABYLON 7-17 | | Rev. 13:11-18 | Rev. 14:1-9 ----------------+---------------------+----------------+------------------- PURE WOMAN | WOMAN SECLUDED IN | | 144,000 ON MOUNT Rev. 12 | THE WILDERNESS | | ZION | Rev. 12:6 | | Rev. 14:1-6 ----------------+---------------------+----------------+------------------- TEMPLE AND | HOLY CITY TRODDEN | TWO WITNESSES | WITNESSES TRUE WORSHIP | DOWN | SLAIN | RESURRECTED Rev. 11:1 | Rev. 11:2 | Rev. 11:7-10 | Rev. 11:11-14 ----------------+---------------------+----------------+------------------- | GREAT BABYLON | HARLOT | GOD'S PEOPLE | Rev. 17:1-6 | DAUGHTERS | CALLED OUT | | Rev. 17:5 | Rev. 18:1-4 ----------------+---------------------+----------------+------------------- FOURTH | REIGN OF THE | | CHRIST'S KINGDOM BEAST | "LITTLE HORN" | | TRIUMPHANT Dan. 9:7, 23, | Dan. 7:8, 20-25 | | Dan. 7:26, 27; 24 | | | 2:34, 35 ----------------+---------------------+----------------+------------------- [Sidenote: Great Babylon] A more particular description of the antitypical Babylon is given by the Revelator in the seventeenth chapter, as follows: "And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 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. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, 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 a 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" (verses 1-6).