John was on the Isle of Patmos writing the book of Revelation.
And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
Revelation 17:18
Babylon is a city: Rome
The USA is not a city.
This principle escapes your interpretation and you overcomplicate things and miss what is obviously lying before you.
JLB
Jerusalem is the "Great City" spoken of in Revelation chapters 17-18, why do you disregard the presented scriptural truth?
In Revelation 11:8 "The Great City" is identified as Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was crucified, why do you deny this truth?
Jerusalem Is Mystery Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots!
Jerusalem Is Guilty Of All The Earths Blood, And That Of The Prophets, As Rev 18:24 States.
"Rome Didn't Exist To Be Guilty Of The Prophets Blood"
Revelation 18:24KJV
24 And
in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Matthew 23:30-37KJV
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that
ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth,from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Jerusalem Is The "Great City" Where The Lord Was Crucified
Revelation 11:8KJV
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 14:8KJV
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 17:18KJV
18 And the woman which thou sawest is
that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18:10KJV
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.
The Jewish Levitical Priesthood was clothed in purple, scarlet, precious stones and gold.
Revelation 17:4KJV
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Exodus 39:8-13KJV
8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
Ezekiel 16:15-16KJV
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst
the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst
the harlotthereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Jerusalem Is Built Upon Seven Hills/Mountains, Just As Rome
Revelation 17:9KJV
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
The Seven Hills Of Jerusalem, By Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D.
the City of Jerusalem as it existed in the time of Christ Jesus was also reckoned to be the "City of Seven Hills." This fact was well recognized in Jewish circles. In the
Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer, an 8th century midrashic narrative (section 10), the writer mentioned without commentary (showing that the understanding was well known and required no defense) that
"Jerusalem is situated on seven hills"(recorded in
The Book of Legends, edited by Bialik and Ravnitzky, p. 371, paragraph 111). And, so it was. Those "seven hills" are easy to identify.
If one starts with the Mount of Olives just to the east of the main City of Jerusalem (but still reckoned to be located within the environs of Jerusalem), there are three summits to that Mount of Olives:
- The northern summit (hill) is called Scopus [Hill One],
- The middle summit (hill) was called Nob [Hill Two],
- The highest point of Olivet itself, and the southern summit (hill) was called in the Holy Scriptures the "Mount of Corruption" or "Mount of Offence" [Hill Three] (II Kings 23:13).
- On the middle ridge between the Kedron and the Tyropoeon Valleys there was (formerly) in the south "Mount Zion" [Hill Four] (the original "Mount Zion" and not the later southwest hill that was later called by that name),
- The "Ophel Mount" [Hill Five],
- To the north of that the "Rock" around which "Fort Antonia" was built [Hill Six],
- And finally, there was the southwest hill itself [Hill Seven] that finally became known in the time of Simon the Hasmonean as the new "Mount Zion."
