The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

BABYLON THE GREAT WHORE
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Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the
earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;
take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. We would have
healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every
one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and
is lifted up even to the skies. (Jer 51:7-9)
We are told once again about Babylon making all the world drunk with
her wine (seducing the world with her lifestyle). The sudden
destruction is also prophesied. There is no cure for Babylon and that
is why the elect are instructed to flee her, because her judgment is
sealed.
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of
the waves thereof. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a
wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of
man pass thereby. (Jer 51:42-43)
This is a parallel to the angels throwing of the millstone into the sea.
Again the utter destruction of all her cities is confirmed. She will never
be a place where humans can live.
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his
soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.” (Jer 51:45)
Once again the elect (God’s people) are told to flee Babylon, so that
they may escape “the fierce anger of the Lord.
Now, dear reader, you may ask who or what is this Babylon? The
answer is entirely up to you. If you believe that the prophecies of
Revelation may be a few hundred or even a few thousand years away,
then Babylon may be a future nation yet to appear on the world stage.
If, on the other hand, you believe that Antichrist could be around the
corner, then make your own opinion about who or what is Babylon the
Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.