WHO IS MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT?

"And upon her forehead was a name written,.  MYSTERY
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS .AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" ..(Rev. 17:5 KJV).

Revelation chps.17 and 18 show clearly BABYLON means Rome,
not the ancient city on the Euphrates. If the Bible can symbolize
Babylon as a lion (Dan.7:4), and Jerusalem as Sodom (Rev.11:8),
it can symbolize Rome as a Babylonish harlot. Symbols were used
to hide the real meaning of a word, because, in this case (time of
John), Rome was in power, and how long do you think a book
would last that equated Rome to that of a "whore?"


The harlot woman is a city set on 7 hills; Rev.17:9 positively
identifies the woman as Rome [place cursor on that verse], see map
at lower right, where the old wall of Rome enclosed the 7 hills she
was built on: Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine,
Quirinal and Viminalis.


The woman rides into the tribulation period on the Beast; the
7 headed 10 horned Antichrist (i.e. Beast)  kingdom. However,
Rome does not rule with the Antichrist. Her long rule had been
previous, over the kings of the nations in past history.


Before continuing I would like to state that there are some true
Christians in the Catholic Church, as there are in evangelical
churches (of which I am a part of). In my opinion both of these
Christian denominations teach about one half God's truth, and
the other half is 'traditions of men' (false). I do not profess to
know it all, but I do know what is false! I am no ones judge__
in the following I will only be stating facts of history:


Even though in the time of John the Roman Catholic Church was
not yet in existence, it is clear to historians, the "voice" of Rome
was idol worship, Babylonish in nature. From the time of the idol
Baal to the Roman gods Jupiter, Zeus, etc., then the "mothers of
heaven", Diana, Venus, etc., on down to mother Mary (present).


The "woman" (Rome) is called a harlot for what she allows to be
done in her body (Vatican City) by image worship. This woman
rides into the last half of the tribulation on a scarlet ten horned
beast. Since Babylon the Great (now Rome) only rides the Beast
(Antichrist), she is not to be confused with the Beast himself. Her
intimacy with the Beast stems from her need for the governmental
power of the Beast to assure her a monopoly on religion.

I want to make it clear that she (Rome) will not be the Endtime
A.C. kingdom. This harlot woman will be the personification of
false religion of all time. And God will cause the 10 horns (kings)
on the beast (AC) that she rode into power on, to turn on her;

"And the ten horns...on the beast...shall hate the whore...and
burn her with fire" (Rev.17:16). Rome will be destroyed...


This beast with 7 heads and 10 horns (Rev.17:3), is first told
about in Daniel 2:39, in the statement, [the] "...third kingdom of
brass..." (Alexander's Greek kingdom) in last days will be revived
by the Antichrist and rule all the world. So the Arab-Alexandrian
brass kingdom is the same kingdom as the 3rd kingdom in land
area but is the 4th kingdom in time, and ruled by the Antichrist.
This Antichrist beast kingdom in Dan.7:7, has 10 horns but no
heads. This is in 555 B.C.... no heads (7 Arab kings) yet.


Dan.7:8, Daniel considered the (10) horns and there came up
another "little horn" (A.C.) starting to rise in power as a man.
Then Daniel sees that this little horn subdues 3 of these 10 kings
(Dan.7:24), making him the 8th, before the 7th is through ruling.


Rev.17:4,5,6__ This ancient harlot Babylon (now transferred to
Rome) from post flood to now, makes her about 4000 years old.
She has many harlot daughters, idol worshippers, or cults who
worship images, sun, moon, stars, animals, etc. John "wondered"
how she (Rome) could martyr so many around the world. This,
of course, was carried out with the help of political governments;
Caesars, the Spanish Inquisition, England, France, etc. In fact,
millions of people, who refused to recognize the authority of the
church of Rome, were killed by the papacy.


Historian W.E.H. Lecky wrote: "The church of Rome has shed
more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever
existed among mankind." (Rise and influence of rationalism in
Europe, volume 2, page 32).


Rev.17:15,16,17,18_ Tells us the ecclesiastical church system of
Rome controls nations and peoples. Rome during John's time
ruled over kings by the power of Caesars, and after that the
Catholic Popes ruled kings; a fact of history.


In conclusion, God states in Rev.18:8,9,10, that He is going to
destroy this great city [woman] that He again calls "Babylon" in
verse 10 [put cursor on above verse]. Today Babylon is not in exist-
ence, God had already made it desolate in the ancient past, and
said it would be desolate (uninhabited) forever (Jer.51:61-62).
So how can God destroy a city that is not there?_In John's day,
Rome was the ready personification of Babylon;_the world in
rebellion against God._ So in view of this, and what I covered in
the above article, Rome has to be the personification of Ancient
Babylon as represented by the harlot woman (i.e. false religion).

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