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This "Babylon the Great" is supported by people in many nations

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Revelation 17:1
One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls came to speak to me,
and said, 'Come here and I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute
who is enthroned beside abundant waters,

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Revelation 17:3
He took me in spirit to a desert, and there I saw a woman riding a scarlet beast
which had seven heads and ten horns and had blasphemous titles written all over it.

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Revelation 17:5
on her forehead was written a name, a cryptic name: 'Babylon the Great,
the mother of all the prostitutes and all the filthy practices on the earth.'

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Revelation 1:1
A revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him so that he could tell his servants
what is now to take place very soon; he sent his angel to make it known to his servant John,

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Revelation 17:15
The angel continued, 'The waters you saw, beside which the prostitute was sitting,
are all the peoples, the populations, the nations and the languages.

False Religion is Identified by:

Babylon the Great is a symbol, not a literal woman
Like a rider of a horse controls an animal,
she controls or influences nations and people
She "sits on many waters," which represent
"Peoples and crowds and nations and tongues