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"Babylon the Great" is supported by people in many nations |
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Scriptures from the New Jerusalem Bible
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Revelation 17:1
One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls came to speak to me, and said, 'Come here and I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute who is enthroned beside abundant waters, | ||
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Revelation 17:3
He took me in spirit to a desert, and there I saw a woman riding a scarlet beast which had seven heads and ten horns and had blasphemous titles written all over it. | ||
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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 1:1
A revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him so that he could tell his servants what is now to take place very soon; he sent his angel to make it known to his servant John, | ||
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Revelation 17:15
The angel continued, 'The waters you saw, beside which the prostitute was sitting, are all the peoples, the populations, the nations and the languages. | ||
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Babylon the Great is a symbol, not a literal woman Like a rider of a horse controls an animal, she controls or influences nations and people She "sits on many waters," which represent "Peoples and crowds and nations and tongues | ||||
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