If this is a fact, you should easily be able to provide scripture that states the harlot is false religion.
I do, you are like most, you have preconceived notions and you are blind to the facts. You saying that the book of Revelation has to say something in a scripture is quite funny to be honest. The book of Revelation is one big CODE BOOK and John uses the Old Testament to encode it with. Out of 404 verses in the book of Rev. 289 come from Old Testament Phraseology. We are old for instance in CODE who the Woman (Israel) of Rev. ch. 12 is by reading Genesis 37:9. We are told what the cups the woman (Harlot) is drinking from means by reading Daniel ch. 5, MENE, MENE, TEKEL. Go read it.
Now I suppose its OK for you to say it means Jerusalem because it dosn't say that either does it? You surmised it and brought it in fro another scripture, the problem is you used the wrong scriptures and I do prove its wrong in the thread. God tells us who Babylon is, who He sees as Babylon in Rev. chapter 16, at the 6th and 7th Vial.
Rev. 16:19 And
the great city(Jerusalem/Earthquake) was divided into three parts, and the
cities of the nations fell {Those Gathered at Armageddon FALL and as you see next God sees the as BABYLON} and
great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
So who are these NATIONS THAT FALL at Armageddon? Well lets look and see:
Rev. 16:12 And the
sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the
kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the
beast, and out of the mouth of the
false prophet.
14 For they are the
spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
So WHO IS BABYLON sir?
We are told aren't we? The Kings of the East (not China) who I see as Iran, Iraq etc. etc. Notice the Euphrates is mentioned. And then the KINGS of the WHOLE WORLD !! Babylon is the Whole World. Just what I say. The Harlot is not Babylon and Babylon is not the Harlot.
God does not BURN Jerusalem the City Jesus is going to be King in for 1000 years, this is nonsensical reasoning. Nowhere is this said in the passages, you surmise that by thinking there is only ONE Great City, which is just beyond unbelievable reasoning. There were MANY GREAT CITIES back during that time, Jerusalem, Rome, Damascus, etc. etc. etc. Babylon is used as a Metaphor because Saran's Kingdom is BABYLON !! It seems to go right over your head that half of Revelation is about Codes and Metaphors. You take on verse about a Great City and try to pigeonhole Gods use of vocabulary, I hate it when people, I hate when people do that. Any GREAT CITY could be the subject, we have to sift through the facts and come up with the answer, like I did above in Rev. 16:19, we know Jerusalem is where Jesus lands on the Mt. of Olives, this that Great City is Jerusalem. But the GREAT CITY of Rev. 17:18 is something John SAW. Now lets go through what he SAW in his vision !! You want me to post his FULL VISION? Its only 4 verses.
HERE'S WHAT JOHN SAW: BELOW
Rev. 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery,
Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
What was that Great City he saw ? Its simple in reality, if we take away the pride and let God lead us unto these truths.
So you think the Kings are going to destroy Jerusalem where it says the Beast will make his abode in Daniel 11:45, that makes no sense at all. But what does make sense is this.
What does the Beast and his Kings want? They want the Beast to be worshiped as the ONLY GOD! So what is their first move? To destroy Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism etc. ALL RELIGIONS, thus in so doing they bring Judgment to the Harlot or ALL FALSE RELIGION. And that is what the very next verse says if you want to read it (Revelation 17:17) says God put it in their heats to fulfill His will. Thus the Harlot is Judged at this time and KILLED OFF. Islam will be wiped out. Its the JUDGMENT of the Harlot, a physical City can't be judged man, come on. By this time the 2/3 of Jews will be killed and the 1/3 of Jews who repented will be in the Wilderness, being protected by God Himself, but you think Gods going to JUDGE an inanimate object, a CITY !!
The Judgment is the Harlot, ALL FALSE RELIGION. That which God hates !!It fits all of the DESCRIPTIONS also. On MANY WATERS.....Jerusalem is not on many waters. And later on we are told what this means. It means PEOPLES.....NATIONS.....MULTITUDES......TONGUES. This is telling us very clearly that the Harlot is MANY NATIONS (Whole World) and she is among many Peoples, Languages and thereby she is many different Multitudes.
Jerusalem even being mentioned is in reality MIND BOGGLING.
