He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution.
And on her forehead a name was written, a secret. I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. I wondered with great amazement.