The Identity of Mystery Babylon referred to by the apostle John in Revelation chapters 17 & 18 continues to be a controversial topic in Christian prophecy circles. Identifying this woman-city is important to us Christians living in the end times; especially as the day of Jesus’s second coming draws near. (For more on the timing of Jesus’s return scroll back to the five previous posts “Discerning the Time” last February and March.). Of course, I have my own opinion of just who MB is. You can access the full article by clicking on the permanent link below entitled “Mystery Babylon”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While restudying these chapters, I came to a realization about part of verse 23 of chapter 18. “….for your merchants were the <\/em>great men of the earth<\/em><\/span>….” “Merchants” here means wholesale tradesmen, or businessmen. “Great men” means exceedingly prominent and influential. These are the world’s most prominent and influential businessmen. And,they facilitate her (MB) world trade and economic dominance, obtaining their enormous wealth through her. (Rev. 18:15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n When considering the above and assuming we are in the latter days, a simple observation can be made. Merely go on the internet and print out a list of the 50 most prominent, influential, and wealthy men in the world, and presto, you have a list of who MB controls. Combined with the world’s political leaders in bed with these businessmen (Rev.18:9) and you have the complete scope of her realm. We simply need to identify the drummer(s) they keep time with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopefully, her identity will become obvious, and we’ll be completely free from her when she is destroyed and replaced by the antichrist and his minions. Keep these things in mind as we follow Jesus’s command to watch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Maranatha, Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Identity of Mystery Babylon referred to by the apostle John in Revelation chapters 17 & 18 continues to be a controversial topic in Christian prophecy circles. Identifying this woman-city is important to us Christians living in the end times; especially as the day of Jesus’s second coming draws near. (For more on the timing … Continue reading “An Important Clue Concerning the Identity of Mystery Babylon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}