1. Revelation 17:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Who are “the kings of the earth”?

Revelation 17:2 (ESV)

2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”

The same phrase appears in Psalm 2:2 to describe the rulers of the world, that is, the mighty men who conspire “against the Lord and against his Anointed.” In the battle announced in Genesis 3:15, the “kings of the earth” default to the side of the seed of the serpent against the Seed of the woman.