Mystery Babylon
“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:4-5.
Through the ages, the book of Revelation has been a complete mystery to men. Even today many churches don’t teach it because it seems too hard to understand. And honestly, I think a lot of people are afraid of it and think it will never pertain to them in their lifetime.
However, the title Revelation means “the unveiling” or “to make known”. It also has a time stamp on it which reminds me of Daniel 12:8-9:
8. And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9. And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
When John wrote the book of Revelation he had no idea what it meant, but just as Daniel was told, when the time comes the people of that moment would understand it.
Of all the theologians today, I think Pastor and author Hal Lindsey has explained the meaning of Mystery Babylon the best.
The Whore of Babylon in the book of Revelation represents the one world government of the Antichrist. Just as the Antichrist is accompanied by a false prophet, the one world government is also accompanied by a false global religion. This is Mystery Babylon.
To understand the specifics of this false religion, we have to go back to where it was birthed.
Just after Noah’s flood, the area of Mesopotamia was getting back on its feet. A man named Nimrod, the great grandson of Noah, built a city-state called Babylon. We get a description of him in Genesis 10:8-10:
8. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
The memory of the flood was still fresh in Nimrod’s mind so he decided to build the Tower of Babel. He thought that, should there be another flood, the tower would stand above it and he would survive. This was the beginning of mankind thinking they could create their own salvation by outsmarting God.
We read of the construction of the tower in Genesis 11:3-4:
3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
The phrase “let us make a name” in verse 4 means to become independent of God.
As seen in the side notes of The Companion Bible, they were so determined to get this supposed building of salvation up that they baked the stones in a kiln rather than the usual process of sun drying the bricks which would take too long.
Another important aspect of this building is also defined in the side notes of The Companion Bible pertaining to verse 4. Instead of “whose top may reach unto heaven”, it should have been translated “and its top with the heavens”. In other words, the ceiling of the tower was painted with the depiction of the Zodiac.
It's this building in Babylon, and its subsequent perversion of the Zodiac, where false gods were born. The word babel means “confusion” or “confounded” and that’s exactly what happened here. God confused their speech in order to stop the building, but the Babylonians had already confused the concept of God.
In Isaiah 47:13, God warns Babylon, “Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.”
Nimrod’s wife, Queen Semiramis, also had a lot to do with Mystery Babylon. Her story of being deified as the “Queen of Heaven” is a perfect example of how Mystery Babylon evolved.
Astarte, or Ishtar as the Akkadians called her, morphed from one deity into another as successive western empires simply renamed and rebranded her. She was Venus, Isis, Aphrodite, Cybele, Europa, Athena, Artemis and Diana. The Roman Catholic church would finally morph Diana and all her previous iterations into the worship of the Virgin Mary who they began to call “the queen of heaven” as far back as the 12th century.
The false religions that started in Babylon would evolve and be rebranded by one empire after another with aspects added to make it unique to each empire just as Queen Semiramis had evolved.
By the time of the Exodus, even the Israelites who had literally just witnessed the presence and miracles of God, became infected by Mystery Babylon.
It reached the point where they were engaging in all the false religions from calf worship to Molech/Moloch worship which sacrificed children by fire. The extremes men had gone to creating new religions, even sacrificing their own children, shocked God enough to state that even He never saw that one coming as stated in Jeremiah 32:34-35:
34. But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
35. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Mystery Babylon reached an absurd level under the Greeks and Romans. The Romans had some 67 different gods while the Greeks even had a altar dedicated to an “unknown god” as we read in Acts 17:22-23:
22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
This is how Mystery Babylon started but how will it pertain to the end of days?
Ecumenism, which started in the early 20th century, seeks to unify all Christian faiths by boiling them down to the lowest common denominator. In other words, whoring out God’s truth in order to consolidate the religion.
At the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in 2019, a statement was issued that God permits religious diversity and that coercion to a particular doctrine or religion is “unacceptable”.
Eventually the Antichrist, along with the false prophet, will bring all religions under one tent in order to exert his control over the world.
We see this mind set of unifying the worlds religions by none other than Mother Theresa in her book Servants of Love, “we went every day to pray in some temple or church. The Archbishop gave us permission to do so. We prayed with the Jews, the Armenians, the Anglicans, the Jains, the Sikhs, the Buddhists, and the Hindus. It was extraordinary. All hearts united in prayer to the one true God.”
The final push to unite the worlds religions will be done by the Antichrist in the last 3 ½ years of the end known as The Tribulation period as seen in Revelation 13:4-8:
4. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5. And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
This is where his false prophet, fitted with Christian symbology, assists the Antichrist in Revelation 13:11-15:
11. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
I’ve always been intrigued by this last verse, giving life to an image and having it speak. Just as Daniel was told that when these things would occur, the people alive at that time would understand them. I think this verse is becoming quite clear now. It sounds like an AI deep fake. Imagine the repercussions of that at a world leader level or in a time of global crisis.
An advisor to the World Economic Forum, Yuval Noah Harari, recently stated that he foresees the Bible being rewritten by AI. He said this Deep Fake Bible and religion could be so good that inattentive Christians would be unable to detect the lies in it. This is one of Satan’s modes of operation. Subtly changing scripture.
Recently a Protestant church in Germany generated a ChatGPT sermon. How long before AI causes the image to speak in the name of God?
Stay vigilant in the Word of God by reading your Bible so that Mystery Babylon is no mystery to you. It’s going to get real hard to tell the truth in the coming years, which is exactly what Satan counting on.
Always enjoy reading your thoughts. Thank you for doing this in such a way that it is inviting to read instead of feeling like you are being hit over the head with the Bible. Some could use that imo, but it is their hearts and not their heads that need help. I think a lot about these times we are living in and it was what I feel was a revelation to me, through this have been revealed to you about AI perhaps playing a role in the end times and speaking for the beast. Chilling to think about. Thanks for posting these and taking the time to write these things.