Understanding Who and What is the Babylon of Revelation.

[Mr GLee]

Umm....

The LITERAL Babylon was destroyed many centuries ago. It was non-existent when Revelation was written. That is one reason why Babylon refers to anything other than literal Babylon. The question itself makes literal Babylon non-literal when is adds "confusion, or false religion." LITERAL Babylon would LITERALLY refer ONLY to the city of Babylon or the country of Babylon. The Revelation text even specifies "city."!!!

Revelation 18:9-10
And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'

The verse does not state, "the great confusion, Babylon, the strong confusion." The verse does not state, "...the great city, false religion, the strong false religion." To say the word "Babylon" is indicative of confusion is to make the word non-literal, to treat it figuratively as a symbol of metaphor for confusion (not to mention you've confused Babel with Babylon). Lastly, the literal Babylon and its figurative significance as a place false religion are not mutually exclusive conditions.

Literally meaning gate of the gods.

 

[Josheb]

Literally meaning gate of the gods.

Which, again, would not literally mean "confusion" or "false religion," as was asserted in the other post. If we took the word literally we'd have to conclude the city is the gate of God (or gate of the gods)....


...and there's a whore there dressed in red and purple .


Proverbs 7:1-22
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your intimate friend; that they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, and I saw among the naive, and discerned among the youths a young man lacking sense, passing through the street near her corner; and he takes the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness. And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. She is boisterous and rebellious, her feet do not remain at home; she is now in the streets, now in the squares, and lurks by every corner. So she seizes him and kisses him and with a brazen face she says to him: "I was due to offer peace offerings; today I have paid my vows. Therefore, I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you. I have spread my couch with coverings, with colored linens of Egypt. I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses. For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey; he has taken a bag of money with him, at the full moon he will come home." With her many persuasions she entices him; with her flattering lips she seduces him. Suddenly he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter.....


Literally.

 

[Hobie]

Are you Adventist?

Far from it..