So then, by your interpretations I would assume you would interpret Revelation 17:16 thus:
"And the ten leaders of Europe (the ten horns) which thou sawest upon Satan (upon the beast), these shall hate the Roman Catholic Church (the harlot), and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire."
Not exactly. As I gave you my interpretation of that verse
which is not a mere substitution because that verse in and of itself is a not a stand alone.
The Vatican is the headquarters of the RCC, which sits on many waters, but itself is headquarters in Rome, the city of the seven mountains (hills). And if a person wants to get even futher technical about it, the woman could be considered as Semiramis, which her son was Tammuz, which Semiramis/Tammuz religion spread in different forms into all cultures of the ancient world from babylon. Tammuz is in the bible. Practically speaking as far as a visible entity, the woman is the Vatican and the RCC.
The ten end times kings (leaders of Europe) will at that time crescendo their resentment of having to cater to the Vatican and the RCC and have an over-riding reason to destroy the Vatican for the reason I stated of the Vatican being a impediment to the Antichrist-beast's agenda.
The actual beast is in the bottomless pit, verse 17:8, first part, as told to John by the angel. John does not see the actual beast himself, when he is in the bottomless pit. The second part of verse 17:8 is the beast after the beast has ascended out of the bottomless pit, in respect to the Antichrist a different person who the beast will possess. The Antichrist is who people will see be killed and come back alive.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: [that part of Revelation 17:8 is referring to the ancient person associated with Babylon, Nimrod imo]
and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. [that part of Revelation 17:8 is referring to the end times Antichrist, who will be killed for going into the temple and claiming to be God. God brings him back alive as the strong to delusion to them who believed his claim in the first place, at which time the unclean spirit of Nimrod will possess him]
The beast ties three persons together.
1.
Satan - who empowers the beast, with his own power and that of fallen angel and demonic realm.
2.
The ancient person - Nimrod, himself empowered by Satan back in his day, as a giborim, leading the world in unified rebellion in his day of the tower of Babel.
3.
The end times Antichrist - he gets into practicing the occult and draws upon occultic powers, as it says in Daniel 8:
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and
understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper,
and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause
craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
In Daniel 11, the end times willful king, the same Antichrist person, is using occultic craft again in this verse...
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god:
for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall
he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
The Antichrist will be heavily into the occult. It is no wonder that he himself at the zenith of his power will eventually be possessed by the unclean spirit of Nimrod, a giborim himself, which translates that when he died he became a demon.
Once a person realizes that the Antichrist will be into the occult early on in his career then everything will make a lot more sense.