REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND! - Babylon the Great

 The building of the original Babylon was more than personal enterprise.  Since that city was established in defiance of Jehovah's sovereignty, religion was involved. Indeed, ancient  Babylon became a fountain of religious idolatry. Its priests taught God-dishonoring doctrines such as survival of a human soul  after death and that the  hereafter is a place of eternal horror and torment resided over by demons.  They fostered the  worship of creatures and of a multitude of  gods and goddesses.  They fabricated myths  to explain the origin of the earth and man upon it and performed degrading rituals and sacrifices, supposedly to ensure fertility in childbearing and crop raising and victory in war. 

As the various language groups from Babylon spread out over the earth, they took Babylonish religion with the.  Thus, rites and beliefs similar to those  of ancient Babylon flourished  among the original inhabitants of Europe, Africa, and the Americas, the Far East, and the South Seas; and many of these beliefs persist down to this day.  Appropriately, then,   Revelation refers to the world empire of false religion  as a city named Babylon the Great. (Revelation , chapters 17,18( Wherever it has been sown, false religion has sprouted  oppressive priesthoods, superstition, ignorance, and immorality.  It has been a powerful tool in Satan's hand.  Babylon the Great has always fought fiercely against the true worship; of the sovereign Lord Jehovah.

As a most reprehensible part of the seed of the Serpent, the scribes and the Pharisees in first-century Judaism took the lead in persecuting and finally murdering the primary representative of the seed of the woman. Thus, the Serpent was able to  "bruise him [the seed] in the heel." (Genesis 3:15; John 8:39-44; Acts 3:12, 15) Why is this described as only a heel wound?  It is because this wounding touched him only briefly here on earth. It was not permanent because Jehovah resurrected Jesus on the third day and exalted him to spirit life. - ACTS 2:32, 33; 1 PETER 3:18.

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