Once A
Whore, Always A Whore
In
Chapter's 17 & 18 we see allusion to the rise and vivid description of
the fall of Babylon .
There are peculiar parallels throughout history that show when the "spirit
of Babylon "
rears her ugly head, God smack it back down. When the forces of Babylon unite to act in a
united front against God in apostasy, God destroys it. So it was then, so it will
be again.
In
Genesis 11:1-9, Babylon (as Babel) historically symbolized by the tower
reaching to heaven, proposed to maintain the union of the world through a
common worship and a common tongue. God defeated this purpose by confusing the
language and scattering the people.
As
mentioned in Genesis 11 there was unity of the world through a common worship and
a common tongue. Based in this premise I would have to say that the prominence
of Nebuchadnezzar who/which was the first world empire and was followed by a
decline from which it would never official recover from after the
Neo-Babylonian era is also influential to the thinking of the "Babylon concept".
There are
mention of cult-like practices like the Babylonian Mysteries which gave birth to the ubiquitous Mystery
Religions that were all over the Middle Eastern area that involved idol worship
that inevitably led to Baal Worship. These satanic Mystery Religions of Babylon
gave birth to countless others all of which offered a counterfeit religion and
counterfeit God in opposition to the true God. They always have been in existence as an affront to God and according to Revelation, they will also be around in the end to flip-off God then too.
Through history we see the ubiquitous nature of these Babylonian mystery religions, practices and
miscellany eventually even find their way into the Romanism or Romanization of
Christianity and the inclusion or attempts to include features of this cult
into the Christian faith—which continues until today. It can be seen in modern
Roman Catholicism and modern "academic" liberalism. We see hints of this in the RC concepts of "the Queen of Heaven". Although this concept is oft denied it is clear that the RC has practically made Mary the equivalent of Jesus if not supplanted Him in some respects. To me this is abominable. It appears in the
last death gasp of this satanic religion/cult it will resurface again in the
last days in the period right before the return of the Lord to the world. This
all appears to be the allusion on Revelation 17:5.
There
seems to be a “worldwide Babylon ”
that will need to be dealt with by Christ also. This final destruction will be
both in ecclesiastical (church/religious) and political forms. It is shown in
John’s vision as representing false religion. Babylon is the name for a great system of
religious error. To a
lesser extent Babylon
also has political, economic and as already mentioned spiritual aspects
attached to it. All of these aspects make them unique “Babylon-esque” when they
are specifically set-up, established or built upon the premise of usurping
God’s rightful position above all of mankind. The
overall principle becomes manifest in Chapter 17 in that man with the impetus
of Satan makes a blasphemous attempt to institute a world religion completely
contrary to divine revelation but also unwittingly fulfill God’s will that the
kingdoms of the world will eventually come under the domain of the Beast which
will crushed by the coming of Jesus Christ.
To me, it
is clear Babylon appears to be the hotbed of
Satanic/demonic activity as if it is a portal from Hell and is the abode of the
demonic whether it be geographical Babylon or Babylon as a mindset. The
power and wealth that comes from Babylon-type organizations like the Roman
Catholic Church always seems to have been accumulated or acquired in the
absence of God. Due to
the nature of Babylon ’s
overwhelming apostasy, it is demanded that, “double unto her according to her
works”. The city of Babylon politically is now
destroyed historically, the power and religious character of Babylon are destroyed at the second coming.
All will marvel at her fall.
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