It's no metaphor, They in Babylon, were those who did not return from exile. I get my information from the Holy WORD of G-d ! Peter was never in Rome ! LOL !
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
it was the largest population of Jews outside of Jerusalem.
Yah'shua sent him to Babylon.
Tell me another story. And that’s why St. Peter’s tomb is in Rome.
I get my information from the Holy WORD of G-d !
>>You can read it, but you sure don’t know it.
From an Evangelical source:
What is really going on in the world? The simple answer: The dragon (with many aliases), having sensed his imminent demise, is now on an all-out war against God and God’s people, having incarnated himself in a terrifying and destructive beast (for John’s first readers, a transparent symbol for the Roman imperial regime and military structure), which in turn is propping up the arrogant, lavish, idolatrous, and oppressive city Babylon (a transparent reference to Rome),1 which has seduced all nations into its orbit of greed, whose consumptive lifestyle is the engine of the global economy, and whose wealth is based on inequitable trade relationships (chaps. 12-13, 17-18).
http://www.directionjournal.org/article/?1288