A Great City
A whore hated by the beast with ten horns. Constantinople can be found no more at all. It is a mystery and likely to remain so. It is the only city to satisfy all the characteristics of Babylon the Great: seven hills, many waters, merchants, and is fallen, is fallen. Constantinople is Babylon the Great.
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A Great City
A fit with Babylon the Great. Constantinople is fallen, is fallen, and can be found no more at all. This is a mystery and likely to remain so. It had seven mountains, many waters, and many merchants. Constantinople is the only city with all these characteristics. Why it is being ignored is definitely a mystery.
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A Mystery Babylon
A sack of Constantinople in 1204. Is fallen again in 1453 to Islam. “Babylon is fallen, is fallen”, a prophecy fulfilled in history. That includes a thousand year empire where they “reigned with Christ” and its capital Constantinople. Babylon the Great is still a mystery and likely to remain so. In the end it will be revealed.
A Misleading Attribute
A single characteristic that was no mystery. Peter knew all about Babylon. The real mystery was Constantinople that only had six hills until Theodosius II extended the walls to include the seventh one thus making it the New Rome. Babylon the Great is Constantinople.
A Mother Of Harlots
A “mystery” and likely to remain so. Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire that lasted a thousand years where they reigned with Christ. It can “be found no more at all”, had “merchants”, had “many waters”, and “is fallen, is fallen”. No other city has all these characteristics.
A great city that can “be found no more at all”. Constantinople is the “mystery” and likely to remain so. It has all the characteristics. No other city has them. “Many waters”. “Seven mountains”. “Is fallen, is fallen”. “Merchants of the earth”. It has all the numbers. 1000, 666, 10, and 7. Count them. You can count on them.
A Book That Is A Mystery
J. Massyngberde Ford may have been the first to suggest John the Baptist was the first writer of the Apocalypse. She is not the first to suggest multiple writers. Others suggested that it was first written in Hebrew. Most agree that there is little agreement regarding the Apocalypse. So we continue to speculate.
A Radical View That Is Consistent With History
A reasonable explanation. An unsettled mystery. Who, When, What, and Why? Especially the Why but the Who might explain all the others. John the Baptist preparing the way for the Way, the Truth, and the Light. The first coming. The Lamb of God. The time was near for this prophecy.
A Great City
A capital of an empire that lasted a thousand years. It has many waters, seven hills, and world trade. It is fallen, is fallen, and can be found no more at all. It is a mystery and likely to remain so. It is Constantinople. No other city fits like this great city. You can’t go back to Constantinople. It can be found no more at all.
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A Babylon The Great
A capital of a Christian empire that lasted a thousand years. Constantinople alone has all the characteristics: many waters 17:1, mystery 17:5, seven hills 17:9, trade 18:11, it has fallen, fallen 18:2, and it can be found no more at all 18:21. Does it have seven heads and ten horns? We shall see.
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