A great city that reigns over the kings of the earth! Back in verse 9 it says the seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman sits! Rome is a city that is built upon seven mountains! Sometimes Jerusalem is called the great city! When the Apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation the Roman Empire was at its zenith of power! Rome had conquered almost all the then known world! In 70 A.D. it conquered Jerusalem and burned the city down and the Temple with over one million Jewish casualties! It took one hundred thousand Jewish slaves back to Rome to construct the Roman Colosseum where hundreds of thousands of Christian’s were martyred! Their power seemed absolute! They built roads into conquered territories for their armies to march and conquer more territory! Jesus and all his disciples were martyred except John by the Romans! The persecution against Christian’s stopped when Emperor Constantine came along! Then the Christian faith was adopted by the Roman Empire! Jesus said conquer in my name! The same Roman roads that were used to conquer were now used by missionaries to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth! We really have two women represented here! We have Mary the mother of Jesus who produces the Savior of the world and the Babylonian harlot who produces seed to oppose Christ! The same has always held true! We have a seed in the earth that opposes Christ and a righteous seed that spreads his kingdom throughout the earth! Two Kingdoms! Heaven and Hell! Light and darkness! The last and final battle on earth will be between Christ and his followers and the Anti-Christ of the seed of the mother of harlots Babylon described in the Book of Revelation! The name Babylon means confusion! Did you ever notice the confusion in America today? Gender confusion! Race confusion! Political confusion! Border confusion! Immigration confusion! Lawless confusion! Authority confusion! Constitution confusion! Origin confusion! Environment confusion! Religious confusion! Education confusion! Purpose confusion! The whore that sits upon the beast will always confuse the nations that embrace her and will destroy those nations! To have the mind of Christ will bring clarity of thought and only the mind of God will save this nation or any other nation! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com