1. Revelation 17:18 The woman whom you saw is the GREAT CITY, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
2. Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies will lie on the street of the GREAT CITY which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
a. The GREAT CITY is Jerusalem and we know this because that's where Jesus was crucified.
3. Jerusalem is the only city referred to symbolically in the Bible as Sodom see Deuteronomy 32:28-33; Isaiah 1:9-10; Jeremiah 23:14, and Ezekiel 16:46-57.
So, we know that the GREAT CITY is where the Lord was crucified. We also know this same place is called Sodom and Egypt, all from Revelation 11:8
4. Revelation 14:8 And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that GREAT CITY, because SHE has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of HER fornication."
5. Revelation 18:20 "Rejoice over HER, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on HER!"
a. This is saying: God has punished HER, Jerusalem because of what she did to the apostles and prophets . Notice the past tense of what this is saying.
b. Every time we read Jerusalem is disloyal to God, Babylon is referred as Her/ She. She is mentioned as a "harlot" or "adulterer" See also Ezekiel 16 She played harlot with the Egyptians and the Assyrians (Ezekiel 16:26, 28). Both Israel and Judah played the harlot with the idolatrous nations surrounding them Jeremiah 3:6-9.
6. Revelation 18:24 And in HER [Jerusalem] was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slaughtered on the earth."
a. Babylon could not refer to any other city in any other time period.
7. Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.
a. All prophets die in Jerusalem
8. Matthew 23:29-39; Luke 11:49-53 - Jesus said that the blood of all the prophets in history would fall upon Jerusalem in His own generation
9. Revelation 17:1, 15; 19:2 - Babylon is described as being a harlot.
a. Revelation 17:1 The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast 17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,
b. Revelation 17:15 Then he said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.
c. Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her."
10. SHE/HER is described as being arrayed in purple and scarlet (Revelation 17:4). These were the colors of the clothing for the high priest and the colors that made the Temple more attractive. Exodus 28:5-6; 39:1-2.
a. Revelation 17:4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
b. Many think this is Rome or the Catholic church because they say the woman is the church. Did the Catholic Church kill the prophets? NO!
c. Babylon is referred as Her/ She. She is mentioned as a "harlot" or "adulterer" She played harlot with the Egyptians and the Assyrians (Ezekiel 16:26, 28). Both Israel and Judah played the harlot with the idolatrous nations surrounding them. (Jeremiah 3:6-9).
11. Mystery Babylon are those that killed the prophets, Jerusalem! (Matthew 23:27-38, Revelation 17:5, 18:24)
a. Babylon of Revelation is the Old Covenant Jerusalem which
was destroyed in AD 70.
b. Revelation is the judgment of Babylon. The first century Christians knew
Babylon was in their geographical location. It would mean nothing to them if
America, Russia, China or even Iraq, Iran etc. would be described as Babylon.