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· Jeremiah 2:1-37 The word of the LORD came to me, saying, (2) “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. (3) Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the LORD.” (4) Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel. (5) Thus says the LORD: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless? (6) They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’ (7) And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. (8) The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit. (9) “Therefore I still contend with you, declares the LORD, and with your children's children I will contend. (10) For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing. (11) Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. (12) Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD, (13) for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. (14) “Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey? (15) The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant. (16) Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head. (17) Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way? (18) And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? (19) Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts. (20) “For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore. (21) Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine? (22) Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord GOD. (23) How can you say, ‘I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restless young camel running here and there, (24) a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her. (25) Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, for I have loved foreigners, and after them I will go.’ (26) “As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, (27) who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, ‘Arise and save us!’ (28) But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah. (29) “Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the LORD. (30) In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion. (31) And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to you’? (32) Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. (33) “How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways. (34) Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things (35) you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’ (36) How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria. (37) From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

Can we just move beyond Mystery Babylon is Jerusalem and focus our attention on the implications of this? There is much to be said but nothing can be learned if God's people can't even acknowledge scripture in this regard. Please body.. Look at the evidence. Maybe this truth is not meant for the Gentiles? I pray that the true seekers will have their eyes opened to see His word. I'll keep posting scriptures... There are so many..

Lam 1:1-2 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave. (2) She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Eze 23:1-49 The word of the LORD came to me: (2) "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. (3) They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled. (4) Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. (5) "Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors (6) clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. (7) She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. (8) She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. (9) Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. (10) These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her. (11) "Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. (12) She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. (13) And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. (14) But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, (15) wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. (16) When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. (17) And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust. (18) When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. (19) Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt (20) and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. (21) Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts." (22) Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: (23) the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. (24) And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. (25) And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire. (26) They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. (27) Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore. (28) "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust, (29) and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring (30) have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. (31) You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand. (32) Thus says the Lord GOD: "You shall drink your sister's cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much; (33) you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria; (34) you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. (35) Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring." (36) The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. (37) For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. (38) Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. (39) For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house. (40) They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. (41) You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil. (42) The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads. (43) "Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her! (44) For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women! (45) But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands." (46) For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder. (47) And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses. (48) Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done. (49) And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."

Eze 16:1-63 Again the word of the LORD came to me: (2) "Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations, (3) and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. (4) And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. (5) No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born. (6) "And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' (7) I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare. (8) "When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine. (9) Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. (10) I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. (11) And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. (12) And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. (13) Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. (14) And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD. (15) "But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. (16) You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. (17) You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. (18) And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. (19) Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD. (20) And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter (21) that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? (22) And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood. (23) "And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord GOD), (24) you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. (25) At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. (26) You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. (27) Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. (28) You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. (29) You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. (30) "How sick is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, (31) building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. (32) Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! (33) Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. (34) So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different. (35) "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD: (36) Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, (37) therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. (38) And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. (39) And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare. (40) They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. (41) And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more. (42) So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. (43) Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations? (44) "Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.' (45) You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. (46) And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. (47) Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. (48) As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. (49) Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. (50) They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. (51) Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. (52) Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous. (53) "I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, (54) that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. (55) As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state. (56) Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, (57) before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you. (58) You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD. (59) "For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, (60) yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. (61) Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you. (62) I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, (63) that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD."

Jer 30:11-16 For I am with you,' says the LORD, 'to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.' (12) "For thus says the LORD: 'Your affliction is incurable, Your wound is severe. (13) There is no one to plead your cause, That you may be bound up; You have no healing medicines. (14) All your lovers have forgotten you; They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the chastisement of a cruel one, For the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased. (15) Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you. (16) 'Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; Those who plunder you shall become plunder, And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.

Jer 5:7-9 "How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. (8) They were like well-fed lusty stallions; Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. (9) Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD. "And shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Jer 4:30-31 And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life. (31) For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, "Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers."

Jer 3:1-25 "They say, 'If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man's, May he return to her again?' Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me," says the LORD. (2) "Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness. (3) Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot's forehead; You refuse to be ashamed. (4) Will you not from this time cry to Me, 'My Father, You are the guide of my youth? (5) Will He remain angry forever? Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, As you were able." (6) The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. (7) And I said, after she had done all these things, 'Return to Me.' But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. (8) Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. (9) So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. (10) And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD. (11) Then the LORD said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. (12) Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: 'Return, backsliding Israel,' says the LORD; 'I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful,' says the LORD; 'I will not remain angry forever. (13) Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD your God, And have scattered your charms To alien deities under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,' says the LORD. (14) "Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. (15) And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. (16) "Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days," says the LORD, "that they will say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore. (17) "At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts. (18) "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers. (19) "But I said: 'How can I put you among the children And give you a pleasant land, A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?' "And I said: 'You shall call Me, "My Father," And not turn away from Me.' (20) Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, So have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel," says the LORD. (21) A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten the LORD their God. (22) "Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings." "Indeed we do come to You, For You are the LORD our God. (23) Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, And from the multitude of mountains; Truly, in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel. (24) For shame has devoured The labor of our fathers from our youth—Their flocks and their herds, Their sons and their daughters. (25) We lie down in our shame, And our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, We and our fathers, From our youth even to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

Hos 5:3-5 I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry; Israel is defiled. (4) "They do not direct their deeds Toward turning to their God, For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, And they do not know the LORD. (5) The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them.

Hos 4:1-19 Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land. (2) By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed. (3) Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away. (4) "Now let no man contend, or rebuke another; For your people are like those who contend with the priest. (5) Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother. (6) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (7) "The more they increased, The more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame. (8) They eat up the sin of My people; They set their heart on their iniquity. (9) And it shall be: like people, like priest. So I will punish them for their ways, And reward them for their deeds. (10) For they shall eat, but not have enough; They shall commit harlotry, but not increase; Because they have ceased obeying the LORD. (11) "Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart. (12) My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God. (13) They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops, And burn incense on the hills, Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, Because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters commit harlotry, And your brides commit adultery. (14) "I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled. (15) "Though you, Israel, play the harlot, Let not Judah offend. Do not come up to Gilgal, Nor go up to Beth Aven, Nor swear an oath, saying, 'As the LORD lives'— (16) "For Israel is stubborn Like a stubborn calf; Now the LORD will let them forage Like a lamb in open country. (17) "Ephraim is joined to idols, Let him alone. (18) Their drink is rebellion, They commit harlotry continually. Her rulers dearly love dishonor. (19) The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Hos 3:1-3 Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans." (2) So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley. (3) And I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you."

Hos 2:2-13 "Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts; (3) Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst. (4) "I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry. (5) For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.' (6) "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths. (7) She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.' (8) For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold—Which they prepared for Baal. (9) "Therefore I will return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cover her nakedness. (10) Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand. (11) I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths—All her appointed feasts. (12) "And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them. (13) I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says the LORD.

Hos 1:2-11 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD." (3) So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. (4) And the LORD said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. (5) And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel." (6) She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. (7) But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen." (8) When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. (9) And the LORD said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God." (10) Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God." (11) And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

For the people on here who claim otherwise, why don't they allow scripture to reveal who is Mystery Babylon? Why the bias and no scriptural response? Especially from the ones who demand scripture for proof. It's everywhere is scripture! Look.. Isa 57:1-21 The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; (2) he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness. (3) But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman. (4) Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit, (5) you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? (6) Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a grain offering. Shall I relent for these things? (7) On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice. (8) Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness. (9) You journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol. (10) You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, "It is hopeless"; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint. (11) Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me? (12) I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you. (13) When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them all off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain. (14) And it shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way." (15) For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite. (16) For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made. (17) Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart. (18) I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners, (19) creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near," says the LORD, "and I will heal him. (20) But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt. (21) There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

Exo 34:14-16 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), (15) lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, (16) and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. Psa 106:39-40 Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds. (40) Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;

The Lord prophesied it to Moses way back at the beginning of their covenant. He knew they would not keep the law covenant but would pursue their own righteousness (Rom 10:3) which leads to their death (2Co_3:7). Deu 31:16 And the LORD said to Moses: "Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. A matter of fact, God had prophesied their final punishment as harlots under the antichrist all the way back in Deut as well. Deuteronomy 28:49-58 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, (50) a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. (51) It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. (52) “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. (53) And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. (54) The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, (55) so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. (56) The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, (57) her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns. (58) “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God, Sound familiar? Ezekiel 38:15-17 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. (16) You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. (17) “Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

By the way Warrior12, I think if you want to get your head around the concept of why Jerusalem is called a whore you absolutely need to read Ezekiel chapter 16 and chapter 23 to start with. God lays it all out in those two chapters. Hope this helps. May God open the eyes of Christ's church to see our own fornication with her.

Hi Warrior12, Thanks for the question. I am not a history student per se either but I am a biblical student and start with the prophecies concerning the Jewish nation that reveal they will become very powerful and God will destroy their power in the last days using the anti-christ as a tool. God even describes him as an axe who then boasts against the Lord and then the Lord will destroy him (Isa 10:12-16). Let's examine passages that I have collected that refer to the Jewish power in the last days which can also be strongly evidenced in the world today. Israel will be very powerful and then God will break or shatter that power... Lev 26:19 and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. Dan 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished. Eze 24:21 'Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword. Jer 5:27-28 As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. (28) They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend. Eze_7:24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled. Lam 5:16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! Ezek 7:11 Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. Lam 1:1-2 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave. (2) She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies. Lam 1:6 From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer. Lam 2:2-3 The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers. (3) He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around. Hosea 1:5 At that time I’ll shatter the military strength of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.” Deu 32:36 For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free. Rev 17:18 And the woman you saw is the great city that has an empire over the kings of the earth."

I think the scriptures have in mind a future and even current timeframe. We should always start with scripture first and then we can see the world correctly. You will have to investigate this biblical truth for yourself. He will show you as He has me. You just have to be seriously interested in the truth no matter how negative it might be. There is also the question of whether or not the truth of this has been hidden from you. Whether there is a conspiracy in the world of a secret society, I don't know what do you think? ..http://ink361.com/app/users/ig-311402580/illuminatihunted/photos My research has concluded that Freemasonry/Illuminati have origins in Judaism and that the Jews rule the world through finance, media, commerce and their secret society. Like I said, do your own research and see if these things are true. Here is a quote from one of their higher-ups who was given a building in DC as tribute. “Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back to the Kabbalah!”…“All Masonic associations owe Kabbalah their secrets and their symbols” ~ Albert Pike in Morals and Dogma Kabbalah of the Zohar and the Babylonian Talmud are the main source of inspiration for most Jews today I have learned. I once lived in a very far away country where the western culture was not really known. Now, they have popularized and accepted all the Hollywood corruption taught in movies and musical influences of their satanic gospel of self-divinity, sexuality, sorcery, luxuries of materialism and love of money. It's really sad. Their occult teachings have spread like wild fire. Wake up brothers and sisters. "Come out of her my people". Keep in mind that I am NOT anti-Semitic. I love the Jews as they are of Abrahams' seed. Rom 11:28 ..I pray for them continually.

The proof that Jerusalem is Mystery Babylon is scripture. Jerusalem the whore and Babylon the whore are both arrayed in luxury. Rev 17:4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. Rev 18:16 "Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls! Eze 16:10-19 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. (11) And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. (12) And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. (13) Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. (14) And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD. (15) "But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. (16) You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. (17) You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. (18) And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. (19) Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD. Isa 3:16-26 The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, (17) therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts. (18) In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; (19) the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; (20) the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; (21) the signet rings and nose rings; (22) the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; (23) the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils. (24) Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. (25) Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle. (26) And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground. Jer 4:30 And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

(Read Ezekiel chapter 16 & 23)

Yes, Jerusalem..Not America or the Statue of Liberty... Not Italy.. Not Saudi Arabia.. Not Russia.. Not Germany.. Not Syria.. not Turkey..... It's because people follow men's interpretations and eschatological systems rather than just reading their Bibles. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mic 2:6 "Do not preach"—thus they preach— "one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."

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