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In what is being presented from the Word of the Lord there is no animosity, nor purpose other than to seek and find the truth, as it is recorded in the Word. It is an imperative that we properly identify the true ìbloody city.î The scriptures are really quiet plain as to the emotions of the Lord toward the city of Jerusalem. We begin with a mysterious, unnamed city found in the book of Revelation. This city is destined to be the seat, the place of the throne of the antichrist when he reigns for three and one half years on the earth. The woman, is the amalgamation of the religions of the world which will be united under the insistence of the antichrist. How smart the devil is, almost universally, this woman is taught to be Rome and the Roman Catholic church. That is a clever misdirection concealing the truth of the last day harlot church. Rome will be a part of it, as will every religion on the earth, but positively not the whole of what is presented in Rev. 17:18.
While the Roman church is a presence, to some degree, in perhaps every country of the world. What is more powerful than to fuse all the religions of the world into one. Consider Isaiah 4:1. The figure is that of a woman. The scriptures speak of the gathering of a religious body in a feminine tense. The number seven is a divine complete number, in other words the final thing. This is the religion of the one world government. The seven women approach one man (the antichrist) requesting that they have the privilege of being called by his name, in other words they seek a polygamous relationship but recognize the value of being willing to bear his name. They will continue their own beliefs and conduct their worship in their customary fashion (their own food and apparel). His name upon them will be the manner of the removal of reproach which some have against religion of any kind. His name makes them legitimate, but at the same time, by their action they condemn themselves into an eternal hell.
Those who would be active in commerce must have the number, NAME or the mark of the beast indelibly tattooed, either in their right hand of forehead. Rev. 13:16-17 The harlot church will be the very center of commercial activity until she is destroyed by a day of severe judgments. Rev. 18:7-19 This city, while called Babylon, is not historic Babylon but the religious Babylon (mixture of confusion) of the last days. Is it circumstantial that the major religions of the world all look toward one city, Jerusalem, as their holy city.