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☪ Mystery Babylon – Mecca/Saudi Arabia as the Great Harlot
Revelation Chapter 17 | Part 2—The Great Harlot: Revelation Chapter 18
Of course, it is one thing to identify Mecca/Saudi Arabia as Mystery Babylon through the line of reasoning that we just followed, but what happens when we actually compare the reality of the Saudi Kingdom to the numerous descriptions about the Harlot that we have already explored?
Does Mecca/Saudi Arabia—the Saudi Royal family and the birthplace and center of Islam—match not most but all of the biblical requirements necessary to qualify as Mystery Babylon? As we are about to see, indeed it does. In fact, the fit is so precise that it’s rather staggering.
Let’s take a walk through the reality that exists politically, financially, and morally in the Kingdom and compare what we have already discovered about the Harlot. Below is the list that we developed as we explored the various biblical passages describing the Harlot of John’s Apocalypse.
Comparing the Biblical Descriptions of Mystery Babylon with Today’s Mecca/Saudi Arabia
Let’s begin by first reviewing this list of requirements before we proceed:
- The Harlot is intimately related and connected to the last-days Islamic Empire.
- She represents the greatest and most influential anti-Yahweh religion that has ever existed.
- She exists geographically in a desert region.
- She is likely of royal stock.
- She is fabulously wealthy.
- She persecutes and murders God’s people: Christians and Jews. On two occasions, she is highlighted as being a persecutor of the saints.
- Specifically, it is said that in her is found the blood of prophets and saints.
- She seductively offers mankind something that appears to be very alluring and beautiful, yet in God’s eyes it is an utter abomination.
- She will be hated and ultimately destroyed by the same Islamic coalition of nations that she is so closely connected to.
- She is a politically and geographically definable entity that exerts a great measure of influence over and corrupts many kings, leaders, nations, nationalities, and people groups through her religion, money and products.
- The kings of the earth share in her luxury.
- She is an importer and an exporter. The merchants of the earth have grown rich from all of the goods that she purchases. She imports vast amounts of goods. Likewise, she also provides the merchants of the world with her “delicacies” whereby they grow rich. Those who do business with the Harlot are “the world’s great men.”
- Many of the specific items that are highlighted that she imports are things that all require great wealth and speak of great opulence.
- Beyond this, we see that she also imports various forms of produce, livestock and she even literally imports human beings.
- She has a large body of foreign nationals living in her midst who are warned by God to leave Babylon and return to their own respective countries.
Now let’s walk through each description individually and see if these also match what is known about Mecca/Saudi Arabia and its ruling family. The first two descriptions help to identify the Harlot by identifying her close relationship with the greater Islamic world and the nature of her anti-Yahweh and anti-Christ religion.
The Harlot will be intimately related and connected to the last days Islamic Empire. She represents the greatest and most influential anti-Yahweh religion that has ever existed.
Saudi Arabia is Islam
Saudi Arabia is the very womb from which Islam was birthed. Every significant event in the early development of Islam under Muhammad took place on the Arabian Peninsula. It was in Arabia that Muhammad was born, where he grew up, where he carried out his “prophetic” career, and where he died. Saudi Arabia is the home of both Mecca and Medina—unquestionably, the two most sacred cities to Muslims worldwide. Not a single non-Muslim is allowed in these cities. It is unarguable that Saudi Arabia—or most specifically, Mecca—is the spiritual capitol of Islam.
Mecca is perhaps more worthy of the title of “spiritual capitol” than any other city in the world. Whenever someone wishes to describe the archetypal epicenter of anything, they call it the “Mecca” of whatever it might happen to be. This is due to the fact that five times daily, multiplied millions of Muslims from every nation in the world “turn their face” in prayer toward Mecca. Islamic supply stores and Internet sites carry dozens of various electronic compasses in order to help Muslims always know the direction toward Mecca—no matter where they might find themselves.
And of course, every Muslim is expected at least once in their life to make a spiritual pilgrimage there in order to circle and approach the Ka’ba—the “Cube”—on which features a prominently embedded black rock, believed by the ancient Arabian pagans to have fallen from the sky—a meteor—and a remnant of ancient Babylonian astral worship.
It is there that millions of Muslims from all over the world bow and kiss this black rock—imitating their prophet. Saudi Arabia, to this day, does not allow any church or synagogue to exist on the entire Saudi peninsula.
The only recognized religion in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is Islam. In short, Saudi Arabia is Islam. The two are so intertwined that, in fact, they cannot be separated.
Saudi Arabia is Radical Wahhabi Islam
Beyond all this, Saudi Arabia is also the ideological and financial source of the Wahhabi movement—or the Salafis, as they prefer to call themselves. In the 19th Century, when Ibn Saud, the patriarch of the Al Saud tribe was fighting for the consolidation of his tribal power, he forged an alliance with the patriarch of modern radical Sunni Islam, Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab.
Since those days, the House of Saud and the House of Wahhab have been inseparable. As one astute observer has commented, “[Together it is] Saud and Wahhabi, Wahhabi and Saud, that still rules Saudi Arabia.”
Wahhabism/Salafism today is essentially a Sunni Muslim reformation movement with the goal of returning to the practices of the earliest Muslims. Wahhabis/Salafis strive to purge Islam of any later introductions or innovations (bid’ah) that they claim compromise the purest expression of the Islam that Muhammad and his companions preached and practiced.
The tendency of Wahhabism is thus toward the most extreme expressions of Islam and is the primary ideological source of so many radical Sunni Muslims worldwide. We should not be surprised, then, to find out that Osama bin Laden and the majority of the ground soldiers of al Qaeda consist of those who identify with Wahhabi thought.
But beyond being the ideological source of radical Wahhabi Islam, Saudi Arabia is also undoubtedly the primary source of funding for Wahhabism worldwide. The point here is that beyond recognizing, as we said above, that Saudi Arabia itself is Islam, we may also quite rightly say that Saudi Arabia is radical Islam.
Islam is the Greatest Anti-Yahweh/Anti-Christ Religion That Has Ever Existed
We will not belabor all that has already been discussed regarding the anti-Yahweh and anti-Christ nature of Islamic theology. Nor will we redress the harsh anti-Semitic nature of Islam in this section. Suffice it to say that in light of these prominent features of Islam, as well as the incredible number of Muslims on the earth, Islam is indeed the premiere anti-Yahweh/anti-Christ religion that the world has ever known.
As the rulers over the land of Islam—”the Custodians of the Two Holy Mosques”—through her network of tentacles interwoven into numerous nations throughout the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia is of course in a very close relationship with the greater Islamic World.
On these two very important requirements—the necessity to be intimately related and connected to the emerging Islamic Empire and to be the representative of the greatest and most influential anti-Yahweh religion that has ever existed—Saudi Arabia fulfills these requirements perfectly.
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