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In Revelation 17 Babylon is guilty of committing "FORNICATION" and is a "*****". Now what is fornication? Well, we need to find out the BIBLICAL meaning of fornication. In the Bible, fornication is the act of committing adultery against God by mixing with other Pagan nations and practices (traditions) and going after other gods. Look at how God described this in the book of Ezekiel speaking to His people ...



Ezekiel 16:26-32 ...'You have also committed FORNICATION with the Egyptians your neighbours, great of flesh; and have increased your *****DOMS, to provoke me to anger. You have played the ***** also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yes, you have played the HARLOT with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing you doest all these things, the work of an imperious WHORISH WOMAN; In that you buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scornest hire; But as a wife that committeth ADULTERY, which taketh strangers instead of her husband.'

Have a good read also of Ezekiel Chapter 23.

God's people in the Old Testament committed fornication against God and became a *****. And this is the important Biblical point. When God is talking about people committing adultery and being a ***** in a prophetic, spiritual sense, like He is in Revelation. He is talking about people committing adultery AGAINST HIM. And the only people who can be guilty of committing fornication (adultery) against God today are 'professed' Christians.

Let me give you a literal example of a husband and a wife. Can the wife commit adultery against her husband by going after another man? Yes, because she is married to her husband.

Now can any other woman commit fornication or adultery against the husband? No, because they are not married to him.

So the same is with God. Those outside the Christian faith CANNOT commit adultery against God because they are not "married" to Him in the first place.

Only Christians can commit adultery against God, because Christ Jesus is the husband (Bridegroom) and the church is His wife (bride). So Babylon the Great HAS to be a professing Christian church. Do you see this vital truth?

So why can't this be Islam? Because Islam rejects Jesus Christ as it's Saviour and therefore Muslims are not 'married' to Christ. He is not their 'husband'. Therefore they cannot commit adultery against God and be a *****, because they are not married to Him in the first place.

Also Islam does not have the proper system of organization or the global political reach to be able to have control over the 'kings of the world'. Plus Muslims can't agree amongst themselves and are constantly warring against each other.

No, there is only ONE religion which is regarded as the 'mother' church who has the world political reach to be Babylon!

And here is more proof ..

In Revelation 18 we read about the judgment of the ***** of Babylon. And in verse 23 it says ... "the light of the candle shall shine no more at all in thee, and the voice of the Bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more in thee." ... Now, have a good think about this. Whether we take this symbolically or literally, there is only one kind of place this could be talking about. If we take this symbolically, then the bride and Bridegroom is a Biblical reference to Jesus Christ and His church (2 Corinthians 11:2; Matthew 25:6). Also, if we take this literally, then where do we see brides and bridegrooms? IN A CHURCH. So Babylon has to be a professed Christian church.

NOTE: Babylon cannot be America or any other country, because Bible prophecy clearly portrays a country as a BEAST, not a woman. See Daniel 7:23 and Revelation 13. These BEASTS represent countries.

God has given us a number of identification marks so that we need not second guess who the ***** of Babylon is, also known as Babylon the Great. But first, just to confirm before we get into the various identification marks of Babylon, a woman in prophecy represents a church.

2 Corinthians 11:2 ...'For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.'

Isaiah 62:5 ...'For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.'

Christ Jesus is the "husband" of His church and the church is the "bride". And just as the woman in Revelation 12 represents the pure church of Christ, the woman in Revelation 17 represents a fallen, apostate church. So if the ***** of Babylon represents a church, then it obviously cannot simply be a city like New York or any other religion like Islam. It HAS to be a professed Christian church.

"The penetration of the religion of Babylon became so general and well known that Rome was called the 'New Babylon'." (Cardinal Gibbons, Faith of our fathers 1917 ed. p. 106)

So what is the main symbol of this woman riding the beast? It is a clear symbol of a uniting of church and state. With the church the one being in control.

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/the-*****-of-Babylon.html

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