What do the waters represent where the whore sits in Revelation 17:15?
Revelation 17:15 identifies the waters where the whore sits as people, multitudes, nations, and tongues. In the context, this symbolizes a worldwide religious system operating among all those populations, not literal waters, and it is the sphere of the whore’s influence.
Les teaches that in Revelation 17:15 the waters are people, multitudes, nations, and tongues. That means the whore’s sphere is a worldwide religious system, not a literal body of water. He points out that this system rides on the beast and is subsidized by it. Later, the ten horns hate the whore, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. Les says this is symbolic language showing the Antichrist will destroy that religion.
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.