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Mystery Babalon is 1st century Jerusalem before the Temple was destroyed by Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Than what is the conection to the end times? The temple is to be rebuilt and the sacrifices started again.
If we refer to Revelation 17, then Babylon is a metaphor of the Roman Empire.
Revelation was written to the Seven Churches of Asia. It is best to assume that what was written in the book was fully understood by the original audience of the first-century, and does not refer to events beyond their own knowledge and age (else, it would have not been written specifically for these churches).
Babylon is that spirit which does, or tries to do, etc, what Babylon in the OT was trying to do with or to the Israelite people back then, etc. Many Jewish people did not go back to Jerusalem when the time came, and many of them had began to already become a part of the Babylon culture, etc, and had even started serving other gods, all but forsaking their own gods and/or God, and/or own culture and own God/gods, so that it was impossible to, even just only believe for some of them now, or ever go back to that now ever again, etc...
Good question for a Dispensational Futurist. In full disclosure, I used to be one and now I am not. Too many holes and a very messy system of exegesis. I had to research other views and found that the early church was mostly partial Preterist which is what I am now. So I re-read Revelation 17 with the lens of a first century Christian. It made much more sense! The book tells us in the beginning that all that is in its pages are to take place soon just as Jesus Christ of Nazareth predicted that ,that generation will not pass until all has been fulfilled. It's fulfillment was in 70AD.
So the book of Revelation is completed? Jesus has returned? Babylon has been destroyed? The beast has been thrown into the pit of fire? Satan is bound up? Could it be that Jesus was referring to the generation that was born at the beginning of the end times? Not the generation back then? What sense does the book of Revelation make if it has already been fulfilled? When has the world been cashless? I do not agree that this was something from the past since it is Jesus' Revelation not seperated Revelations of the end times taking place over a non sequential time line.
You don't seem to understand the term "partial preterist". Most of revelation has already been fulfilled over the last 1900+ years. We have some things still to unfold yet.
Except it repeats/changes faces, and was written with that in mind, so that it might be seen, all throughout this time, etc...
