[grumpa]

//Every strong empire has elements of Babylon in it.//

My response: True enough. But that has nothing to do with biblical prophecy.

[Secret Agent Man]

It does in the sense its a warning to all nations thatget trong, that it can happen to them just as easily.

[Philsworld]

1 Peter 5:13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.

Peter was writing from ROME. Babylon is ROME (Catholic system, popery, etc...)

[the_daug]

Don't know why your post 1 was removed but any way

"12. Babylon is said to be resting on “seven mountains/hills” (Revelation 17:9). While Rome is considered a “city of seven hills,” so is Jerusalem. Jerusalem’s designation as the city of seven hills would have been more familiar to Jews of the first century. Here’s a map of the seven hills of Jerusalem:"

When was Jerusalem reigning over the kings of the Earth?