Identity of the Harlot Babylon

     Babylon was the empire which defeated Judah, took Jerusalem, and captured the Jews, even blinding King Zedekiah and wiping out most of the Jewish people. Jewry almost became extinct! The way I see it, is that Babylon took for itself a lover. Jerusalem had become much like the "harlot Babylon" by fornicating against God with Babylon. Babylon is represented as the harlot in eschatology:

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (Rev 17:40-6).

     Theologians believe that the harlot refers to the heretical Church. It surely does but it also represents sinful Jerusalem. Isaiah the prophet provided the characteristics of the Church and Israel as he wrote chapter 47 of what is attributed to him. The character is as follows:

•  47:1 of Isaiah chapter 47 identifies, not Babylon, but the "daughter" of Babylon. I believe that refers to Jerusalem and by the way Judism and Christianity as they became and will become. Both are called "the daughter of the Chaldeans." They were the people who became Babylonians which were the Chaldean Dynasty.  The prophecy seems to be three-fold: (1) Babylon, (2) Israel as the daughter, and (3) Christianity as a sort of grandchild.
• 47:3 "Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man." Babylon was identified with harlotry. It was destroyed and spawned a daughter. Jerusalem is likely the new harlot because she is described in the next verse.
• 47:4 "As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel." Jesus did not redeem Babylon. "She" died. On the other hand, the Lord did redeem Jerusalem which still stands, and always will as "New Jerusalem" (Rev 21:21-22). Old Jerusalem, the daughter of harlot Babylon will be redeemed, cleansed and made fit for habitation. She once was a Jezebel, but will be regenerated as a Rahab-type. God will clean up the unholy harlot city of Jerusalem and make it holy again. Why does Jerusalem remain a harlot? It is the epicenter of Islam, a whore religion. Babylon made Jerusalem a harlot, and Islam made her a kept woman. Old Babylon is still the epicenter of Islam which is still having her way with Jerusalem. Throughout history from Babylonian times, to Greek, to Roman, to Muslim to present times, Jerusalem has been a harlot with the exception of the Persian period and the Maccabean Revolution.
• 47:6 Israel polluted her inheritance. That land was that promised to Abraham in the covenant which God made with him. There was a stipulation - that the Hebrews remain faithful. They did not; Jerusalem was polluted.
•  47:7 "I shall be a lady for ever." God will take the harlot Babylon - Jerusalem - change her apparel and her ways, and make her New Jerusalem - the "lady" not for fornication but for God. New Jerusalem will indeed be a lady forever after her rehabilitation in the end.
•  47:9 "These two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood." Those things, according to the Revelation of John will come about before Old Jerusalem is recreated to the New. As Jerusalem goes, so does the Church. False Christianity will be destroyed - the liberal Church. Babylon has much ado with the end of time Church. I believe that Islam maintains Jerusalem as the harlot, and as the navel of Islam, daughter Babylon - Jerusalem - is the navel of false Christianity as well as the world.
• 47:11 "Mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly." Islam is the mischief. In less than a century, it became a world power and widespread religion. Islam is desolation to Christianity, and nearly wiped it out in until the fourteenth century.
•  47:15 "None shall save thee." Jerusalem will not be saved by (47:13), "astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators." All the negotiations in the world will not save Jerusalem. Who wins the spiritual war? Islam and its world-wide caliphate wins when the world depends on peace. Islam will rule the world and Christendom. Only when Jesus steps in and defeats Isa will the world be saved!

     Christianity will tolerate Islam so long that they will succumb. It is dependent on the twelve tribes of Israel to defeat Islam by refusing to take the mark of the beast, who I believe is Isa - the Arab "Jesus." It seems that Isaiah saw that a long time ago. I believe that.