What is the Babylon of Revelation?
Babylon is Rome:Rome, the city of the seven hills{Revelation 17:9 - And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.}
Babylon is modern day Iraq:Jeremiah 50:24 - I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. Jeremiah 51:37 - And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. These Old Testament scriptures testify that Babylon will no longer be inhabited, Babylon today is or was or attempting to be rebuilt by Saddam Hussein.
Babylon is New York:Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues.Revelation. Apparent Similarities—Mystery Babylon vs. New York City
Revelation 18:8: “Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.” It did happen in one day – death, mourning and fire.
Revelation 17:7 - And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of
the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The Statue of Liberty{woman}and the Beast which carries her{USA}
9b-10: “they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.” Much smoke, many standing afar off seeing the torment, the towers fell in just over an hour.
19: “And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.” The images of people escaping from the buildings covered head to toe in soot comes mightily close to this verse. Many were certainly made rich by the activities at the World Trade Center.
21: “And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” The World Trade Center is no more.
Babylon is the United States of America:Similarities between USA and Babylon:1.Babylon is a land where there is sorcery{Astrology}we see it in newspapers and in magazines.2.Babylon is the great whore that sits upon many waters:Revelation 17:1 - And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. The USA is encompassed by water, oceans.
3.Babylon is a land full of idols:The USA IS full of statues and idols.
Babylon the Great:Revelation 17:5 - And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Strongs concordance: Mystery:3466 musterion moos-tay'-ree-on from a derivative of muo (to shut the mouth); a secret or "mystery" (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites):--mystery.
Mystery:something that was once secret and is now revealed.
What do you think?