"who Is Mystery Babylon The Great-the Mother Of Harlots?"

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The Revelation informs us the secret would be ended when these things were complete: Rev 10:7 however in the days of the voice of the 7th angel, when he is about to sound, then is completed the mystery of God, according to the great tidings, which he declared to his servants the prophets. John the Revelator, inspired by Christ, informs us that the Great Whore is not just any whore, however is Jerusalem that wonderful city (Rev 11:8)! The NT does not care about the geographical area of old Babylon. It distinctly shows the reference to Babylon as a philosophy. Similar to when John is motivated to write Jerusalem as Sodom and Egypt. It is the ideology the Jews revived with them from old Babylon and ended up being idolatrous by substituting what God had given them with their oral traditions that Jesus typically ripped on them for.

Jesus continues in Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem (not Israel they were distributed amongst the Gentiles and no longer a people, though part of them would repent in Judah), that kills the prophets, and stones them that are sent unto her! He predicted her home would be desolate-in other words, ...
... no even more House of Judah (Jews) to have unique condition with Yahweh God!

Jerusalem is also called a "Whore" or "Harlot" in a number of circumstances in the OT. The word "Whore" can likewise be equated as "Idolatress". Jerusalem the harlot, adulterous wife, former husband Yahweh's other half of harlotry, the land dedicates wonderful harlotry, they have actually left their God to play the harlot, we read throughout the OT.

This only makes good sense too, due to the fact that only a people Yahweh God had been married to could be described as "a Great Harlot (Rev 17:1) and "Mother of Harlots (Rev 17:5)." Even a people that reside in a most despicable manner would not be referred to in this magnitude of extramarital relations, unless they had actually defiled a relationship with God Himself e.g. Isa 54:5 a "For thy Maker is thy husband ...". Numerous before Israel had actually committed acts of unfaithfulness, fornication, adultery, etc. as we find this in OT passages we've mentioned, but would not fit this description unless they had actually done the utmost abomination by breaking their covenant with God Himself and getting rid of the Christ. The descriptions in bold "fantastic and mother of harlots" singles Jerusalem out amongst all whores. It's also interesting that numerous expressions in the Bible are the same we utilize today, e.g. the mother of all wicked. In the coming passage in Jeremiah discover the extra focus God applies "the House of Judah's (Jews - 2 southern tribes)" infidelity toward Him, rather than "the House of Israel (10 northern tribes non-Jews that were not around and not a people of God Hos 1:9 et al)". Compare the following statement, to how He shows favor towards "Israel's 10 northern tribes", due to the fact that God remained married to "Judah" and Judah had witnessed "Israel's" penalty and still continued with her treacherous ways of idolatry and whoredom:.

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and offered her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, however went and played the harlot. 11 And the LORD stated unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself even more than treacherous Judah.
Christ's Parousia, the First Resurrection, the Judgment [destruction of the harlot Jerusalem olden Jer 3:1 -8 'Jeremiah in fact utilizes the word HARLOT when explaining Jerusalem', Rev 18:7, 24 this harlot was she who eliminated the prophets as Jesus said; also we have in Isa 1:21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.], her destruction and the inauguration of Christ's Kingdom were all concurrent occasions [Heb 8:13, 2Tm 4:1, Mt 16:27 -28], when one happened they all took place within close proximity ... Mal 2:11 -12 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loves, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god. Jehovah will certainly cut off, to the man that doeth this, him that wakes and him that answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offers an offering unto Jehovah of hosts.

In this chapter Jerusalem (the capital of the southern kingdom) and Samaria (the capital of the northern kingdom) are pictured as harlot sisters of one mother (the nation of Israel). This is paralleled in Revelation where harlot Babylon is said to be intoxicated of the blood of the martyrs and saints (Rev. 17:6), and that she is guilty of all the righteous bloodshed on the Land (Rev. 18:24). This is the exact same bloodguilt that Jesus announced versus the leaders of Jerusalem in Matthew 23:29 -37.

"And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup filled with abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder."(Rev 17:3).

This Harlot of all Harlots made political allies with the world (Rome), and had rebelled to the point of eliminating her husband and declined to recognize it. She hated the image of God in the flesh (Jesus Christ), disliked the things He had to say, hated what He stood for and disliked His saints that represented Him, viz. This would be done by "the avengers for the wrath of Yahweh God to him that does evil" using His "ministers" (the Roman militaries - Romans 13:4).

And the lady whom you saw is the wonderful city (Jerusalem), which reigns over the kings of the earth (land). For her sins have actually reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities ("you who kill the prophets" [Luk 11:49; Mat 23:34, 37] God sent out to them, and their habits with Jesus and the Apostles showed their true colors had not altered one bit, except for the even worse!). Render unto her even as she rendered, and double unto her the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double(Rev 18:5, 6, 7b; 17:18). So Jerusalem was the city and kingdom that did reign at that time, this is tough for Preterists since they wish to put Jesus as ruling prior to AD70 and this alone makes their positions implausible.

"The Beast Destroys the Whore: Rome Destroys Jerusalem".
And the 10 horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the harlot; they will certainly make her desolate and naked, and devour her with fire.

The Number of the Beast: 666 (Revelation 13).

Just the Lamb of God. The Destruction of Jerusalem, the Whore: Fallen, fallen in Babylon the great! A queen I sit I am no widow, mourning I shall never see so shall her plagues come in a single day, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she shall be burned with fire.

God announces that her lovers would turn on her and burn her with fire (vv. 35-43). This is precisely what occurs to harlot Babylon in Revelation 17-18; the beast she is dedicating whoredom with (Rome), turns on her and destroys her with fire (Rev. 17:11 -18). In Ezekiel, this speaks of the sixth-century BC destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by Nebuchadnezzar. In Revelation this mentions the AD70 damage of Jerusalem and the Temple by Titus (cf. Dan. 9:26 -27).

The Son of man came in heavenly power to supplant Judaism by a much better covenant, and to make the kingdoms of the world His own, which parousia dates from the fall of Jerusalem and its holy place. The mourning of 'all the tribes of the land' (not all nations of the globe) was coincident with the desolation of Zion, that our Lord appropriately foretold it in language drawned from Zech. xii, 11,12" (Biblical Hermeneutics, 446-447).
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