The Great Whore of Revelation

More mental gynastics! No one said Rome had anytihng to do with God of the Bible. The text defines it as "MYSTERY BABYLON" which is the counter religion to God's way and Rome was dominated by false religion.

Roman CAtholicism is nothing more than Babylonian religion Christianized - same false religion.

 

More mental gymnastics. The only city on planet earth that presently reigned during the time that John wrote that could be said to rule over the kings of the earth was Rome.

Even a novice in history realizes this and every history book in existence acknowleges this. There was no greater or more dominate empire on earth than the Roman Empire that John could refer the reader to (Rev. 17:18).

Moreover, it would to be a PRESENT city then reigning that John was not only familiar with but all the seven churches of Asia would recognize without explicitly naming it. Go figure.......

 

More mental gymnastics! John is speaking of a present city ruling over the kings of the earth that was well known to himself and to the readers in Eastern Turkey.

To say this was Judaism is laughable!

Next, I suppose you will attempt to argue that John was exiled on Patmos by Israel????????????

 

The dots are EASY to connect but what you are suggesting is pure myth. Rome not Israel exiled John on Patmos. Rome not Israel reigned over Eastern Turkey where the readers of this letter lived. Rome not Israel was presently reigning over the area where all congregations of Christ presently existed when this letter was written.

 

The only thing you have proven is that your good at empty rhetoric and mental gymnastics!

Here are the facts.

1. John identifies the Great Harlot with a city

2. The city presently reigns over the kings of the earth


Jerualem has not reigned over the kings of the earth since Solomon. Jerusalem was not reigning over any kings when Jesus lived. Jerusalem was not reigning over any kings when John lived. Jerusalem has not reigned over any kings from the Babylonian Captivity until the present. Instead Jerusalem has been under the reign of foreign kings since the Babylonian captivity until 1948. This is the time of GENTILE dominion.

The seven churches did not live under the rule of Jerusalem.

Your position is historical wrong and theologically laughable.

 

The seven churches did not live under the rule of Jerusalem.

Your position is historical wrong and theologically laughable.





Here are the facts.

1. John identifies the Great Harlot with a city

2. The city presently reigns over the kings of the earth


Jerualem has not reigned over the kings of the earth since Solomon. Jerusalem was not reigning over any kings when Jesus lived. Jerusalem was not reigning over any kings when John lived. Jerusalem has not reigned over any kings from the Babylonian Captivity until the present. Instead Jerusalem has been under the reign of foreign kings since the Babylonian captivity until 1948. This is the time of GENTILE dominion.

I know it greives the Catholic apologists on this forum that it is utterly impossible to avoid the cold historical fact that Revelation 17:18 and the present tense "reigneth" in relationship to "the kings of the earth" cannot historically fit any other city known to John and his readers other than Rome. To infer it is Jerusalem is historically a joke that not one shred of history will validate.

It also greives them that John is not speaking of SECULAR Rome but rather SPIRITUAL ROME in union with but dominating the secular state or "MYSTERY BABYLON."

The historical fact is that the mystery religions of Babylon dominated secular Rome and Ceasar was the man god of Rome and worship was offered to him. The historical fact is that every single Gentile Secular one world Government was dominated by Babylonian religion.

The very title "Pontifex Maximus" was the title of the High Preist of the ancient pagan Roman religion and the title taken by the ceasars and comes from the Babylonian religion. The very colors and the concept of the college of cardinals were taken from the Babylonian Religion and the ancient pagan "college of pontiffs." Some of the earliest coins of Rome presented her as a lady sitting on seven hills. The "sacramental" idea is purely pagan and condemned by Paul in Romans 4:5-12.

 

Where in the world do you get this idea? The text does not say or state or infer that Rome ruled over Babylon! Indeed, it is the very reverse. Rome is called "MYSTERY Babylon" and it is this "MYSTERY" religion that rules over Rome. The term "MYSTERY" attached to "Babylon" is a clear clue that it is SPIRITUAL babylon not literal babylon he has in view and Rome is being identified according to this SPIRITUAL characterization of Babylon - the MYSTERY religion.

It is the pagan Babylonian Religoin that is ruling over Rome and through Rome over the rest of the Roman World. It is pagan Babylon adopted by the apostate Church in Rome that continues after the destruction of secular Rome. It is this apostate spiritual Babylonian Rome that continues to ride the secular Beast right up to the final "hour" when the ten kings turn on her and destroy her and then turn and fight Christ at His second coming as described in the very next chapter (Rev. 19:12-20) along with the Antichrist and false prophet.

 

That is not the point at all. From the perspective of John and the Seven Churches Rome ruled over their known world and was as much as a dominant one world kingdom just as Babylon had been under Nebuchadnezzar. Most likely ancient Babylon had not ruled over every king in the world or over every nation in the world but it ruled over the kings of the world as the dominant one world government.

Spiritual Babylone "MYSTERY" Babylon or the RELIGIOUS Babylon ruled over secular Rome and secular Rome ruled the world as the one dominant one world government. So "MYSTERY" Babylon still rules over the world through Roman Catholicism as she is the dominant one world religion that rules over the kings of this earth. There is no secular government on earth that is more wide spread or dominant upon the face of the earth than Roman Catholicism and she rules from Rome.

 

Revelation 17:18 is found in the PRESENT TENSE thus demanding that such a city was PRESENTLY reigning over the kings of the earth.

Was Washington D.C. existent then?

It does not take a rocket scientist to see that John is talking about the only city that he could possibly know of right then reigning over the kings of the earth - the one and only one world government - Rome.

There had been many previous one world governments and all cities and yet none of them had reigned over all the earth and all the kings but they were nevertheless the dominant one world governments who reigned over the kings of the earth and what kings they did not rule over did not attempt to challenge their world dominance.