2.) Babylon/harlot was charged with the all the bloodshed. Jesus charged Jerusalem/Sanhedrin/priesthood of the earthly 1st century Jerusalem with the all the righteous bloodshed. No other scriptures ascribe the blood of the righteous to anyone else.
Revelation 18:24 And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.
Matthew 23:35-36 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Not Babylon, but THE HARLOT...............You are conflating the two, The Harlot is seen and Judged in Rev. 17, and Babylon the Great is JUDGED in Rev. 18.
The Blood of ALL THE Prophets and Martyrs can't be on Jerusalem as Rev. 17 says HAS TO BE THE CASE !! We have to follow Scriptures, just like the RCC can't be TAGGED with this because they weren't around when the Prophets & Saints of old were killed, then Jerusalem can't be blamed for ALL THE BLOOD of these same Saints/Prophets of old AND the Martyrs of Jesus Christ. When is this going to sink in to people ? FOLLOW THE CLUES...unless every clue fits, you must acquit !!
Rev. 17:4 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.
So THE HARLOT, has to have the Blood of the Saints AND the Martyrs of Jesus on her hands.
NOW THINK !! Only ONE ENTITY FITS all the clues. The RCC wasn't around to kill all the Saints and Prophets of old. The Jews didn't rule Jerusalem for 2000 some odd years. And the Jewish people {which is what Jerusalem means when it says Oh Jerusalem etc. etc.} again I repeat.....AND the Jewish people didn't kill all the Saints and Prophets, nor did they kill all the Martyrs of Christ, heck the Jews haven't even been around/in control of Jerusalem, or in a position of power to kill Christians for the last 2000 years. But Islam has killed many Christians, Rome did kill many Christians because they wouldn't worship THEIR GODS, likewise Islam has that same test in many cases, all infidels MUST DIE. Babylon also killed many Jewish Saints of Old.
ALL of these were killed, both the Saints of Old, Prophets {even those Prophets killed by Jews} AND the Martyrs of Jesus by ONE COMMON DENOMINATOR............False Religious peoples !! Or those who knew not the true God, and that includes Jewish Kings who killed the Prophets when they came forth and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD", those Jewish Kings, unlike David, refused to acknowledge their sins, they refused in many cases to stop worshiping their FALSE GODS, and in many cases killed the Prophet of God. Likewise, all the Saints of old and Prophets were killed by IGNORANT PEOPLE who served FALSE DEITIES !!
And no one would murder us Christians if they knew the Living God would they ? Because then they would know that Allah is not a real God, thus they wouldn't murder Christians.
So ALL FALSE RELIGION has killed all the Saints/Prophets
AND Christians EVER KILLED !! Not the RCC, not the Jews !!
ADD UP THE CLUES and you get the answer !!
Who is the ONLY ENTITY that can have all the blood of the Saints/Prophets
AND Martyrs of Christ on her hands again ?
Only
ALL FALSE RELIGION............None other.