"The Catholic Church Nailed Babylon the Great":
Jerusalem (the Apostate City)
- She is a “great city” (Rev 17:18).
- She is "drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus" (Rev 17:6).
- She commits fornication with the kings of the earth (Rev 17:2).
- She is adorned in purple and scarlet and is extremely wealthy (Rev 17:4; 18:11-19).
- Her fall brings joy to the apostles, prophets, and saints (Rev 18:20).
- Jesus Himself calls Jerusalem "the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her" (Matthew 23:37).Revelation 11:8 says the two witnesses are killed in "the great city that is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified"—clearly referring to Jerusalem.
Thus, in John's day, Babylon the Great represents apostate Judaism, which allied with the Roman Empire to persecute the early Church and reject the Gospel.