Who Is The Great Whore Referred To In Revelation?

The physical city of Jerusalem can't be Mystery Babylon in my opinion... Doesn't fit scripture...

Revelation is about events "at hand" when it was written, not 2000 years later. Jerusalem was God's bride, adorned in his blessings befitting his bride. And the temple was adorned in gold and other precious things. The church, represented by the new Jerusalem, has been God's bride for the last 2000 years.

The riches and trade related to the great whore are spiritual in nature, not literal. E.g. marine marchants shows there to be a sea, contrast that to the new heavens and the new earth where there is no more sea.
 
Point #1 .. If that is the case, and it was 100% fulfilled back around 71 AD then scripture was broken.... Where are all the resurrected bodies of the Saints? Where were the Demon Locusts? Josephus would have mentioned stuff like this.... The smoke of the Judgement of the Great Harlot is not still rising "Forever and Ever".... Would you claim New Jerusalem was ROME and that Christ ruling the millennium was really the Pope?

Point #2 Look at the list in Revelation 18....
The merchants are weeping over the loss of Commerce in real things....
"merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
"and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men."

What's a "Spiritual Cow" anyway?

In the "New Jerusalem" - why would Merchants have anything to do with bodies of men for sale?

AND... If it's fulfilled in 71 AD - then why is SLAVERY - the sale of Humans - still ongoing even today?
 
Point #1 .. If that is the case, and it was 100% fulfilled back around 71 AD then scripture was broken.... Where are all the resurrected bodies of the Saints?

If old Jerusalem was God's bride, whom he divorced for whoring, and the church is God's new bride then there should be resurrected saints running around? I don't see a connection.

Point #2 Look at the list in ....
The merchants are weeping over the loss of Commerce in real things....

Merchants with their ships trading goods on the sea? Except we're told the sea symbolizes "peoples and multitudes and nations and languages." If the water isn't literal, then the merchant seamen aren't literal. If the merchant seamen aren't literal the goods aren't literal. The long list of goods is curious, but even if they were literal, the long list of goods would still be curious.

There is no slavery today, at least as a significant part of international trade. And, why would real merchants weep at the loss of a city? When 9/11 happened, was it the merchants who were weeping? Merchants can just go and trade between others. A loss of a city is a loss of customers, but it's equally a loss of competitors.
 
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