Can you give me a brief description of the biblical terms "Zion" and "Babylon"?

Answer 1

In the OT, Zion refers to Israel, and Babylon refers to Iraq.

Answer 2

Babylon was a city founded on the Euphrates river in what is now Iraq. For many hundreds of years it was a major center of political and religious power in that region. Zion is a name for the Heavenly City as well as Jerusalem. That's why the Jews are often referred to as Zionists, although usually in a derogatory manner.

Answer 3

In early judiasm "Zion" or "the hills of Zion" were used of Jerusalem, but they later took on the connotation of "Heaven."

Ancient Babylon conquered Israel repeatedly, and finally took them captive, leaving a tenth of the people not taken as slaves. All the fittest, best, and brightest people were taken to the city/nation of Babylon, in modern Iraq. Because of the cruelty and legnth of the captivity, "Babylon" became a code word for everything the real Babylon had done to Israel. In the book of Revelation the word "Babylon" is used to describe the false religion and the capturing nation who, in the end-times, will rule the world before Jesus comes back to deliver His people from this, future, captivity.

Answer 4

Mount Zion is where Jerusalem is located. In New Testament theology Zion refers to the Heavenly Jerusalem that is to come.

Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

Babylon refers to a false religious system where earthly things like money and power are the motivating factors instead of love for Jesus.

Revelation 17:4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations."

Sexual immorality refers to worshiping idols like money and power.

Answer 5

Zion is used to depict the mount of God. It is also a description of the church, a place of refuge.

Babylon means confusion from the tower of Babel incidence. It was the center of false religion in the OT, a mighty world empire, and it is the system of false religion in the endtimes causing confusion for the world.

Answer 6

I don't know about Zion. But Babylon is the USA!

Answer 7

Zion was the city of king David and his life was 1107 to age 70 is 1037 BCE

Babylon to Promised Land Captive and ended king 606 BCE Matt.1:1-17;

THERE WILL BE NO KING UNTIL CHRIST IS KING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Answer 8

Babilon is an old city on earth, and Zion is the old heaven!

Answer 9

http://www.gotquestions.org/Zion.html

http://www.gotquestions.org/search.php?zoom_sort=0&zoom_query=babylon

Those links will give you TONS of info.

Answer 10

why? do you think about usa :) :) :), i dont know but dont be sure of what ppl say about relation