who is the great whore of babylon that the book of revelation speaks of?

Question

i heard it was the catholic church, is this true! note: it wouldn't affect me even if it was, i'm babtist, but serious answers only please, thanks!

Answer 1

A clue to understanding the identity of babylon the great can be found in the 2 things on which she symbolically sits.

Revelation 17:18 describes her as 'the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth', this allows her to sit on 'many waters', which means 'peoples and crowds and nations and tongues' - revelation 17:1,15

In verse 3 in the same chapter she is also seen sitting on a 7 headed 'wild beast', and beasts in the bible are commonly used in the bible as symbolising political powers, or organisations.

This indicates that Babylon the Great, is the embodiment of an exalted empire, one that dominates other authorities and their subjects. This can only be the empire of the world’s false religions.

Also the name 'babylon the great' gives us a clue as to the identity. ancient Babylon was the focal point of false religion, which in course of time infected the whole world. Babylonish religious practices, doctrines, traditions, and symbols have permeated all parts of the earth and are reflected in the hodgepodge of the world’s many thousands of religions. Political kingdoms and empires have risen and fallen, but Babylonish religion has survived them all.

Answer 2

who's she?call of that whore With some study contained in the right direction..Bible depending.. on the grounds that those are statements made contained in the Bible..the answer will be discovered to be "the international empire of pretend religions"---mom. The word she and whore (actually not downgrading females) is used for instance the fornication (study exhibits this to be the acts of and pretend coaching of the religions of the international ) of the pretend Religions affiliation with worldly Governments and commerce. the international because it really is termed contained in the Bible and at present is made up of the three factors of society. Political, commerce and pretend religions. Babylon the whole is the international empire of pretend religions - not singling out any faith yet yet all religions which have teachings and ideology that got here out of Babylon. the daddy of Babylon the whole might want to be said at John 8:40 4 and Revelation 12:9 those Revelations were prophecies for the destiny and were not referencing to the present time or era. Revelation a million:a million-3 will make sparkling that John develop into not the least bit in touch with even if the e book might want to be banned or not.

Answer 3

Church that worships Idols, had a woman before Jesus Christ, had a World Influence (the Pope)

Great Whore Of Revelation – Part-2
The Great Whore of the Book of Revelation can be understood by putting aside the traditional teachings of men. Overcoming tradition and the ceremonial worship of men is the ultimate challenge of any man of God. People throughout the world are opposed to any challenge of pagan and ungodly traditions. May the ones that are truly seeking God read this article and judge it's contents by the scriptures of God's word and the facts of history.

Answer 4

As some one mentioned here, Catholic church is not the heart of all churches.

Roman catholic church came in to being after the conversion of Constantine empror to christianity.

But Catholics believers claims that they are real christians and St Peter (one among the 12 apostles of Christ) was their First Pope. Since St Peter was an Apostle of Christ he could had never been the Pope of Catholic Church; for catholic church is full of paganism.

The whore of Babylon is not just the catholic church. But it represents all the the aclaimed christians those who are left behind at the coming of Jesus Christ (the first phase of his Coming) 1 Thessalonians 4 : 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Answer 5

I am also a baptist and beleive that it will be the vatican. In the book of revelations ch 17 & 19 speaks of the whore and refers to the #7 symbolically over and over. The vatican is called the city on the seven hills, and in the way that they reach out and compromise the Word of God (Bible) is the purpose that they are called the "whore" That does not mean that catholics are "bad people"it just means that there leaders are mistaken in some areas.

Answer 6

Since the Catholic Church is the heart of all Christianity, yeah, not only is it the whore, but all her daughters too - every church and denomination that has been birthed from the Catholic Church. At this time, there's over 50,000 but to name a few...
Protestant, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, etc, the list goes on.

Answer 7

The fundamentalists say it is the ccatholic church, but we all knowthey are a little crazy from beingbrainwashed. The great whore of babylon is a city, probably in Iran or iraq, since that iswhat was once the country of babylon.Along thet igris and euphrates rivers

Answer 8

Okay, its Rome. The old roman empire that persecuted and killed christians way back in the day. Read the verse in context, and do a little research, you'll understand.

Answer 9

I was taught that it could be the spiritual leader of the church that worships the coming Antichrist.

Answer 10

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