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Jesus said that trib will be the worst ever, while many worse catastrophes have hit on earth since then.
Wrong wording. Scripture never says that the Great Tribulation will be the "WORST EVER". These are YOUR words. Scripture says that there will never before or after be a tribulation "SUCH AS" the Great Tribulation. That means a CERTAIN TYPE of tribulation that would never be duplicated. You are putting your own interpretation of those words and spinning it to mean that it is speaking of an unequalled AMOUNT or LEVEL of intensity that would be the "worst ever". That's not what it says.
There's no mention of Babylon in that verse, nor the surrounding ones. You're just guessing again.[/COLOR]
The scripture says that "the great city" is where our Lord was crucified. This is Jerusalem in Rev. 11:8.
Then the interpreting angel says in Revelation 17:8 that the imagery of the harlot called "Mystery Babylon" IS "that great city". Which has Revelation referring back to its own earlier reference to "the great city" in Revelation 11:8, which was Jerusalem.
Have you never even heard of the rule of first mention? That is the writing technique being used here to identify "the great city" Jerusalem as "that great city" Mystery Babylon in Revelation. Not to mention a rebellious Jerusalem was called a "harlot" long before back in Isaiah 1:21: "How is the faithful city become an harlot!"
First, Jerusalem is NOT a port,
Jerusalem operated as an inland port. A center of commerce for the ancient trade routes that ran through this district on their way north. Each feast day celebration brought members of every nation through Jerusalem's gates to worship and offer sacrifices. Not to mention, the Temple was given costly gifts from every nation, which were stored in the Temple's treasuries. Once that Temple was burned up and broken down to the last stone in AD 70, that source of commerce dried up, causing merchants and seafaring men to mourn over their lost trade.
I've no problem with recognizing that the Roman Empire persecuted Christians horribly, especially during Nero's reign in particular for 42 months from the AD 64 fire at Rome until just before Nero's death. But Christ put the blame for the martyred death of prophets and saints squarely on Old Jerusalem; blame which is recorded for us multiple times in the gospels. Rome's governor may have authorized Christ's crucifixion, but it was at the insistent urging of the priesthood leadership, who Stephen claimed were "the betrayers and murderers" of Christ (Acts 7:52). The high priesthood called down a blood curse on their own heads and their children's for killing Christ, and they got what they asked for.
Rev. 16:4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
That, of course, will include all streams & rivers which empty into the Med.
You've got the wrong area. The region of "rivers and springs of water" has always been the Jordan valley at the top of the Dead Sea. The land that Lot saw was "well-watered everywhere, like the land of Egypt..." This region is well known for its hot springs and rivers that converge on this flat disc-shaped Jordan plain. There are even the remains of a Roman aqueduct there today, showing that this Jordan Plain has provided a source of drinking water for surrounding areas in times past.
The time when this Jordan Valley plain became filled with blood was during the AD 66-70 period of time when Placidus was commissioned to chase down a mass of Jewish fugitives from the battles in Galilee. He kept them on the run all the way down the Jordan River, and ended up trapping them all against the swollen flood waters near Jericho. There he slaughtered them, and many drowned in the Jordan, trying to escape. Their dead bodies littered the landscape in this Jordan Valley, polluting the ground water, and literally giving the Jews "blood to drink" by the corrupted water sources. The angel said this was a fitting retribution for the Jews who had killed the prophets and saints. Being such a blood-thirsty bunch, they were "worthy" of having blood to drink.
And I reminded you the destruction of J & the temple was the culmination of the "days of vengeance", which was NOT the great trib.
And this is the third time I have reminded YOU that Luke 21:22-23 says that the "Days of Vengeance" are the very same as the "GREAT DISTRESS IN THE LAND". That is, "Great Tribulation" in the land of Israel.
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