Unpacking Mystery Babylon in the U.S.

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Below is a video made by voiceofREASONSofficial, detailing the influences of mystery Babylonian religion on the foundation of the American culture we know today.

After having watched this video, it makes me wonder about the purpose of this country in world history. We were made to believe that we had nothing to worry about, that we could be whatever we wanted to be. But for the common man, thats simply not the case. If one wants to put themselves on display for the entire world to see, they must come to understand the nature of the world. Which is inherent evil, passed down since the dawn of humanity.

The Whore of Babylon or Babylon the Great is a symbolic female figure and also a place of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. Her full title is stated in Revelation 17 as Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth

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This view holds that Babylon of the time of the end represents a world-spanning global, anti-God system. Usually, the system is partitioned into ecclesiastical and commercial elements which are associated with the Harlot (Rev. 17:1+) and the city (Rev. 18:1+), respectively:

Babylon stands for all that is the world, as over against the call of the heart of God. . . . There is a form of Babylon which is political, and there is a form which is religious.

What is before us now is mystic Babylon, that huge system of spiritual adultery and corruption which holds sway over the whole prophetic scene. It is scarcely possible [writing before 1860!] to conceive of a huge system of wickedness eagerly embraced by the nations once called Christian. It will nevertheless be so.2

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[Isaiah Isa. 13:6 is a] prefigurement of the final destruction of Babel (Babylon), connoting prophetically the disordered political and governmental system that characterizes the earth during “the times of the Gentiles” (Luke Luke 21:24; Rev. 18:1-24+). This political Babylon, together with ecclesiastical Babylon . . . shall be destroyed at the second advent of Christ. Political Babylon stands in contrast to the divine order (Isa. Isa. 11:1Isa. 12:6) with Israel in her own land, the center of spiritual blessing and the divine world government of the King-Messiah (Isa. Isa. 2:1-5).3In this view, the term Babylon is not to be associated with any physical location, but denotes the practices which originated in Babylon and then spread throughout the world. Thus, to destroy “Babylon” is to destroy these religious and commercial systems, wherever they may be found.

Ancient Babylon is better understood here as the archetypal head of all entrenched worldly resistance to God. Babylon is a trans-historical reality including idolatrous kingdoms as diverse as Sodom, Gomorrah, Egypt, Babylon, Tyre, Nineveh, and Rome. Babylon is an eschatological symbol of satanic deception and power; it is a divine mystery that can never be wholly reducible to empirical earthly institutions. It may be said that Babylon represents the total culture of the world apart from God.4We believe this view while having some measure of truth, is inadequate. It properly accounts for the global influence clearly attributed to Babylon (Rev. 17:5+, Rev. 17:15+, Rev. 17:18+; Rev. 18:24+), but in doing so it also overlooks many aspects which are difficult to interpret as pertaining to anything other than a specific physical location. Babylon is called a city and is associated with the Euphrates River. She is destroyed at the hands of the Beast and his ten kings (Rev. 17:16-18+), but they themselves are not destroyed by this same event. Yet they represent worldly ungodliness in the extreme. At her destruction, she becomes a dwelling place for demons (Rev. 18:2+). Mention is made of merchants, ships, musicians, and craftsmen. Furthermore, she is differentiated from the nations which she influenced (Rev. 14:8+; Rev. 17:2+; Rev. 18:2+, Rev. 18:23+). If she deceived the nations (Rev. 18:23+), how can she be those ungodly systems whom she herself produced by her deception? Another weakness of this view, which is shared by other views, is the artificial distinction which is made between The Great Harlot and the city Babylon. We believe this distinction is brought to the text, but not derived from the text which indicates they are one and the same (Rev. 17:18+Rev. 18:21+Rev. 19:2+).5 A variation of this view takes Babylon to be a literal city, but as any commercial center at the time of the end which God chooses to judge, wherever located: “As far as we are concerned, the ‘city’ that represents commercial Babylon could be any great port city in the world to which the commerce of the world should be transferred, and which should thus head up the whole idea of commerce to be brought into judgment and sudden destruction.”6 Thus Babylon could have been Liverpool when it was a great shipping port or New York today or any ungodly city of tomorrow. The “city” represents the concept of commercialism, wherever God happens to decide to judge it when the time is right. But contrary to Barnhouse and others, Scripture knows of no commercial Babylon as opposed to any other noncommercial Babylon. See One or Two Babylons? See The Great Harlot See Babylon is Babylon!

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In John’s vision, the dragon was enraged at the woman who gave birth to the male child and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring. The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. From the sea rose a great beast with ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns. On each head was written a blasphemous name. The beast resembled a leopard but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.

One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound but the fatal head wound had healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshipped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast. They asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, to slander his name, his dwelling place, and those who live in heaven. It was given the power to wage war against God’s people – and to conquer them. It was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast – all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world.

Whoever has ears, let him hear: “If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.” This calls for patience, endurance, and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

Then I saw a second beast coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing the fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword yet lived. The second beast was given the power to give breath to the image of the first beast so the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.

It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads so they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.

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  1. Edward O'Hara on November 15, 2021 at 1:12 pm

    As John lays it out in Rev.17 the woman that rides the beast is the harlot. The beast with 7 heads and ten horns itself is the system the harlot rides/controls. A great book/video that shows how this has worked is A WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST by Dave Hunt. And together the woman and the beast with all the ships and trade make up what John calls mystery Babylon.

    This is important because only by Understanding this can we see how the beast system made up of 7 heads and ten horns that so many mistakenly conflate to be the harlot actually destroys the harlot as John says in Rev.17:16-18.

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