Who is this "Babylon the Great"? Why is it important?




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Revelation 14:8
And another, a second angel, followed, saying,
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great,
that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication.

  2

Revelation 17:5
and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

  3

Revelation 18:21
And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great
millstone and cast it into the sea, saying,
Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city,
be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

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Deuteronomy 4:35
Unto thee it was showed,
that thou mightest know that Jehovah he is God;
there is none else besides him.

False Religion is Identified by:

Its history of bloodshed and immorality and by
leading people away from the true God