>>>In it’s heyday, Babylon was a center of pagan worship as well as of government operating without consideration of God’s will. Therefore it represents the all those who fail to worship God in “spirit and truth”.<<<
That would include old Jerusalem, wouldn’t it?
Philip
Sure, because by that time Judaism was no longer the true religion (post Pentecost). Anyway, the form of Judaism still extant by that time was hopelessly corrupt anyway. That’s why the native branch of the olive tree would be chopped off and another grafted in.