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THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERY BABYLON REVEALED Pg 2

Seven Similarities of the 2 Babylons(2)

1.    Both commit fornication with kings of the earth (Rev. 17:2; Rev. 18:3; Rev. 18:9)

2.    Both shed blood of saints (Rev. 17:6; Rev. 18:24)

3.    Both have cups of sin (Rev. 17:4; Rev. 18:6)

4.    Both are called a great city [as is also Jerusalem (Rev. 17:18; Rev. 18:10-21; c/p. Rev. 11:8)]

5.    Both are called Babylon the great (Rev. 17:5; c/p. Rev. 14:8; Rev. 16:19; Rev. 18:2)

6.    Both are clothed in scarlet and purple and decked with precious stones (Rev. 17:4; Rev. 18:16)

7.    Both are made desolate (Rev. 17:16; Rev. 18:18-19)

8.    Both are called the great whore (Rev. 17:1-3; Rev. 19:2)

Mystery Babylon

In Revelation, chapter 17, Mystery Babylon is defined as: a great whore [prostituting] city:

1.    That sits upon many waters [many peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues],

2.    With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and

3.    [With whom] the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication

4.    Who sits upon a scarlet colored [bloodstained] beast:

        a.     Full of the names of blasphemy,

        b.     Having 7 heads, which are the 7 mountains (7 mountain kingdoms) on which the woman—the great whore [prostituting] city—sits, and

        c.     Having 10 horns, which are 10 kings:

                11.     Which have receive no kingdom as yet, but

                12.     Which receive power as kings one hour with the beast (the eighth mountain kingdom with a king),

                13.     Who have one mind,

                14.     Who God has put in their hearts

                        aa.     To fulfill His will and

                        bb.     To agree to give their kingdom unto the beast (the eighth mountain kingdom/king),

                15.     Who make war with the Lamb and are overcome by Him, and

                16.     Who hate the great whore [prostituting] city, and

                17.     Who make the great whore [prostituting] city desolate by burning her with fire,

        d.    That was, and is not, and yet is,

        e.    Who ascends out of the bottomless pit and goes into perdition [destruction],

        f.     Of whom the whole world wonders after whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,

        g.    Who is the eighth king [kingdom with a king] and

        h.    Who is of the seven [kingdoms with kings, 5 of which are fallen in John’s day, one is, and the other not yet come], and

5.    That is arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and

6.    [That is] decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,

7.    Having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, and

8.    Upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH,

9.    Who is drunken with the blood of saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus,

10.    Who is hated by the 10-horn kingdoms with kings

11.    Who the 10-horn kingdoms make desolate and naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire,

12.    Who is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

From this a shorter definition would be:

        Mystery Babylon is a great whore [prostituting] city that sits upon many waters [peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues], with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. She also sits upon a scarlet colored [bloodstained] beast, full of names of blasphemy, having 7 heads and 10 horns, who is the eighth king [kingdom with a king] and of the seven [heads] [5 of which are fallen—in John’s day—one is, and the other not yet come], and is arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, and upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, who is drunken with the blood of saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and is hated by the 10-horn kingdoms with kings who make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. She is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.   

The Mystery of Mystery Babylon Revealed

        The great whore [prostituting] city of Mystery Babylon sits upon the eighth scarlet colored [bloodstained] kingdom of the Antichrist. But, she is of the seven mountain kingdoms(3) who have persecuted or will yet persecute God’s people [prophetically speaking and in context, Israel]. She can be traced back to Babel [Babylon], the city which Nimrod attempted to build in rebellion against God (Gen. 10:8-10; 11:1-9). She is defined as…that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth (Rev. 17:18).

        The great mystery of Mystery Babylon is that she has existed as a great city [which reigneth over the kings of the earth] in every kingdom which has oppressed God’s people. In the Roman Empire [the 6th kingdom to oppress God’s people], Rome was that great city. In the revised Roman Empire (c/p. Rev. 17:12) [the 7th kingdom which is about to oppress God’s people], Rome—or at least the Vatican City portion of Rome—is the only great city inside the old Roman Empire at this writing which could conceivably posture itself into a position to oppress God’s people in the territories formally ruled by Rome [see also Endnotes #28 and 29 on Revelation 17:18, The Chronological Revelation (c/p. Rev. 17:18)].

        For worship of the Antichrist to begin under the direction of the false prophet (Rev. 13:11-14), this great city and its influence has to be destroyed. This is done by the 10-horn kings at the  middle of the Antichrist Covenant week of years (Rev. 17:16; Dan. 9:24-27). These 10-horn kings then give their kingdoms to the Antichrist (Rev. 17:17), and form the revived Grecian Empire—the eighth kingdom and final kingdom to oppress Israel (Rev 17:10-11).

     Here is the great mystery: the eighth kingdom must also have its Mystery Babylon: that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth—a literal Babylon—which is destroyed by God under the 7th vial of wrath (Rev. 16:19; Chapter 18; Rev. 19:2-3). Although the Antichrist will desecrate the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem (Dan. 9:27), Jerusalem is not the headquarters of the Antichrist. It cannot be because the spiritual name for Jerusalem is Sodom and Egypt (Rev. 11:8), and not Babylon the great (Rev. 14:8; Rev. 16:19; Rev. 18:2, Rev. 18:10, Rev. 18:21).

        I believe that unquestionably the union of both spiritual mystery Babylon and literal Babylon will be fulfilled in Dubai, capital of the United Arab Emeritus. (See Dubai  ; also Dubai Projects).

      

ENDNOTES:

bullet2. Ibid.
bullet3. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and Revised Rome to come.

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