what is Babylon?

Answer 1

Babylon: definition:1. The later name given to Babel. This city of renown was located along the Euphrates River on the Plains of Shinar approximately 870 km (540 mi) E of Jerusalem and some 80 km (50 mi) S of Baghdad. The ruins of Babylon extend over a vast area in the form of a triangle. Several mounds are scattered over the area. Tell Babil (Mujelibe), in the northern part of the triangle, preserves the ancient name and is located about 10 km (6 mi) NE of Hilla, Iraq.

2. The Babylonian Empire was also referred to by the name of its capital city, Babylon, and was centered in the lower Mesopotamian valley.

However, the Bible book of Revelation talks about 'Babylon the Great'........

Among John’s visions recorded in the book of Revelation appear pronouncements of judgment against “Babylon the Great,” as well as a description of her and of her downfall.—Re 14:8; 16:19; chaps 17, 18; 19:1-3.

In Revelation 17:3-5, Babylon the Great is described as a woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, richly adorned, and sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild beast having seven heads and ten horns. Upon her forehead a name is written, “a mystery: ‘Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.’” She is also depicted as sitting on “many waters” representing “peoples and crowds and nations and tongues.”—Re 17:1-15.

To make a very long story short, 'Babylon the Great' is the entire empire of false religion...and soon that empire will be destroyed, as prophesied in the Bible.

Answer 2

The last sentence you quoted is both the clue and the key. 'Babylon the Great' represents what holds the Jewish people captive -- an allusion to the 'Babylonian Exile', the captivity of the exiles of the ancient kingdom of Judah, conquered by Chaldean Babylon about six hundred years earlier. Here the 'captivity' is allegorical. John believed that the Jews (and Jewish Christians) were held 'captive' by the 'seduction' of idolatry, pursuit of luxury, and Hellenistic philosophies current in the Greek-Roman society of their day. In this passage he urges his readers (Jewish Christians) to 'come out of her' and become devoted again to God: to follow the Lamb, and not the Beast. He is also taking a direct slap at the Roman Empire. Comparing the Roman Empire to Babylon is very apt -- the Romans had very recently captured and sacked Jerusalem, and destroyed the Temple, just as the Babylonians had done six centuries before.

Answer 3

Babylon was the Mesopotamian capital in Old Testament days, and afterward became a Judeo-Christian metaphor for any evil, wicked, oppressor.... most notably, Rome.

Today's Rastafarians consider the US to be Babylon.

Answer 4

Babylon the Great mentioned in the Bible is the world of false religion. There was also an ancient city named Babylon, and before that, in its place there was a city named Babel.

Answer 5

First of all the New Testament story of Jesus is obviously false, and that's why the Jesus story in the Koran is different from the New Testament version.

Babylon is Christianity! The Catholic Church is the mother, and all the different Churches that came from it are her child whores!
The Catholic Church wrote the Bible and it is the beginning of, or mother of Christianity.
Christianity is the pagan cult in Rev. 17:5 BABYLON the Mother of Whores.

Also the Catholic Church wrote the Bible which is fabricated in many places. The story of Jesus in the Bible is different then the Quran because it's a copy of Mithraism.

jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschristianit...

1) Hundreds of years before Jesus, according to the Mithraic religion, three Wise Men of Persia came to visit the baby savior-god Mithra, bring him gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense.

2) Mithra was born on December 25 as told in the “Great Religions of the World”, page 330; “…it was the winter solstice celebrated by ancients as the birthday of Mithraism’s sun god”.

3) According to Mithraism, before Mithra died on a cross, he celebrated a “Last Supper with his twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac.

4) After the death of Mithra, his body was laid to rest in a rock tomb.

5) Mithra had a celibate priesthood.

6) Mithra ascended into heaven during the spring (Passover) equinox (the time when the sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length).
Babylon is Christianity! The Catholic Church is the mother, and all the different Churches that came from it are her child whores!

The Catholic Church wrote the Bible and it is the beginning of, or mother of Christianity.
Christianity is the pagan cult in Rev. 17:5 BABYLON the Mother of Whores.

Just common sense can tell you that Christianity is brainwash from the beginning.

Answer 6

a city located in the south part of the Euphrates river east bank. southwest of Akkad and Northeast of Elam.
The city is famous for its zigernaunt pyramid that was supposed to have been built to try and reach heaven by mortal men. Also god made the people speak different languages so that they could not understand what each was saying to stop the building.From which the term Babel arises.

Answer 7

The Catholic Church is Babylon the Mother of whores, and all the different Churches that came from it are her whore children.

Answer 8

WAS. It was a town many thousands of years ago, in what is now Iraq.

Answer 9

it is a word that starts with B

Answer 10

The world of " false religion ".....