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Revelation 17 talks about Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.

And there are as many opinions about Mystery Babylon the Great as there are people, I think.

And we don't really have to answer the question about Mystery Babylon.

That is to say, if we're safe in Christ and studying prophecy,

studying the word, we don't have to understand just every little thing. And let's face it,

after all, Babylon is in the future. The whole prophecy about Babylon, oops, maybe not.

Maybe we do have to be concerned about the identity of mystery Babylon the Great.

Maybe it's not so far in the future as we think.

Maybe it's happening right now.

Revelation 171 there came, one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials and talked

with me, saying unto me come hither, I'll show unto thee the judgment of the great angels, which had the seven vials and talked with me, saying, unto me, come

hither, I'll show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters,

with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth

have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication, and so he carried me away in the spirit

into the wilderness, and I saw a woman

sit upon a scarlet-colored beast full of names and blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and precious

stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her handful of abominations and filthiness

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