Is Jerusalem Mystery Babylon?

[Bluefinger]

Ezekiel 16 & 23 tell of Jerusalem's unfaithfulness to God.

16:15-19 explains:

Jerusalem’s Harlotry

15) “But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.

16) You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.

17) You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.

18) You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.

19) Also My food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.

Ezek. 16:35 – 39

35) ‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord!

36) Thus says the Lord God: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

37) surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

38) And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.

39) I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

Reading this entire chapter is enlightening.

Reading Ezekiel 23 continues to describe Jerusalem's infidelity and God's punishment of her.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2023&version=NKJV

Compare these two chapters from Ezekiel to Revelation and we begin to get the picture that God is speaking to Jerusalem.

Rev. 17:1 & 2

1-And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many *waters:

2- With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Rev. 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters* which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. [not actual water]

Rev. 17:4,5

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.

The cup in v4 represents her fornication’s against God, she is not a virgin bride fit for the King of Kings.

Today sexual promiscuity is rampant, so when we read Virgin in the Bible we see it as in the flesh, but in Revelation (the 144,000) is making reference to those who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

Remember God saying;

Romans 11:4

But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

The 144,000 represent this same fact, as well as the fact that they are part of the Bridegroom's 'firstfruits'.

The New Jerusalem, yet to come, is not being spoken of in regards to my question, so I am speaking of current day Jerusalem and her wanderings from God.

Can you provide other verses that may indicate current day Jerusalem may be a possibility here?

I can't. Revelation 17 shows the woman riding on a beast. Up to chapter 17, there has been no indication that Jerusalem is associated with any beast.

Furthermore, Babylon isn't mentioned until after the beast is described, indicating that the woman is in regards to Gentile kingdoms, rather than a Jewish one.