Just a few questions for those who think the Roman Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon.
The great whore is that great city spiritual Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified: Jerusalem.
The 7 heads are the mountains around Jerusalem. The only city on earth God prophesies about is Jerusalem. Rome is no more important to God than any other city on earth. It's just another city of people with God's people among them.
The heathen have never been whores and harlots and adulteresses with the Lord, but only His own people that turn from Him to other gods.
The whore was Jerusalem in the OT turning from the God of Israel, and now is the great whore in the NT turning from Jesus Christ.
Just before His return, both Jew and Christian religions will be world-wide in unfaithful abomination to God.
Who is the Scarlet Beast?
The one the great whore sits upon, when not sitting upon many waters of people. The founding pastor of future world-wide Christian heretics, taken from among all Christians whether Catholic, Protestant, and Independent.
Antichrist heretic cults of Christian history, present, and future before the Lord's return. The first was the legalizing Judaizers.
Today's would be grace-dripping OSAS.
The ones fulfilling God's will to destroy the great whore and give their authority and power to the beast. That is when the last great antichrist Jewish-Christian cult leader will destroy his own followers, by gathering them together out of the nations to make war with the Lamb and His resurrected saints in the air.
Sort of like Hitler with Germany, but on a much larger scale, and even more reprobate scale.