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




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Revelation 14:8
A second angel followed him, calling, 'Babylon has fallen,
Babylon the Great has fallen,
Babylon which gave the whole world the wine of retribution to drink.'

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Revelation 17:5
on her forehead was written a name, a cryptic name: 'Babylon the Great,
the mother of all the prostitutes and all the filthy practices on the earth.'

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Revelation 18:21
Then a powerful angel picked up a boulder like a great millstone,
and as he hurled it into the sea, he said,
'That is how the great city of Babylon is going to be hurled down, never to be seen again.

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Deuteronomy 4:35
'This he showed you, so that you might know that
Yahweh is the true God and that there is no other.

False Religion is Identified by:

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