Main Difference Between Rome And Jerusalem In The Book Of Revelation?

Did Peter Write His Letter From Jerusalem Or Rome To The Scattered Believers, And Called That Place From Which He Wrote As Babylon?

Question: What is the difference between Jerusalem and Rome in the light of the Book of Revelation? 1 Peter was written while Peter was in Jerusalem at a time when Jerusalem was considered “Babylon” (1 Peter 5:13). Is not Jerusalem the Babylon that the apostles taught? What do you think regarding it?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

The apostles used coded language of the Bible to describe their present political authority who were over them, and at the same time make Believers aware of the present prophecy of God that is being fulfilled by the beast government of that time which is Rome.

Since Peter the apostle was martyred at Rome during the persecution of Nero between A.D. 64 and 67, it was supposed that the letter was written from Rome shortly before his death. This is supported by its reference to “Babylon” (1 Pt 5:13), a code name among the apostles and their followers for Rome in the early church.

John the revelatory apostle, called Rome as the political beast and religious harlot of his time as a "woman sitting on a scarlet beast...having seven heads...and ten horns" through signifying it (Rev 17:10, 18, 3; 1:1), and Jerusalem as the "(godless materialistic religious (Ezek 16:49-50)) Sodom and (political (Exo 5:2)) Egypt" of the end time world (Rev 17:7, 4-5, 11, 12, 14; 11:8).

The political Babylon with its headquarters will be Jerusalem, as the Book of Revelation calls Rome as "that Great City" (Rev 14:8; 17:18; 18:10), but calls Jerusalem as "the Great City" (Rev 16:19; 11:8) and Jerusalem was called by Jesus Himself as the beloved "city of the Great King" which is a subtle difference that need to be noted in order for us to understand it correctly (Matt 5:35).

Another subtle difference in the Book of Revelation that John the Revelatory apostle reveals is that, while the religious super power of the end time will be Rome in which the Roman Catholic church as the harlot entity operates, and is called 'MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF TH EARTH (Rev 17:5). Jerusalem which is the end time superpower and the political capital city of the end time world, it is called as "GREAT BABYLON" because it is the beast entity in which the Antichrist will set up a worldwide government from it (Rev 16:19).

The two cities of Rome and Jerusalem will be the only two cities which will compete with each other at the end time, because one is chosen by God for Himself before the foundation of the world, but the other has been chosen by Satan to be a counterfeit to the true religious system of God. Why Jerusalem by Antichrist? Because once the Church, the true woman and the Body of Christ is taken up in Rapture (Rev 12:14-17), the one and only thing next that Satan and his demons who will thrown out of heaven to the earth at that mid point time of Daniel 70th week can do is (Rev 12:7-9), occupy the beloved city of God and infuriate God because He has claimed it as His own (Matt 5:35; 2 Chr 6:6; Zec 3:2). God will claim back Jerusalem His beloved city, and the capital of the whole earth when He comes to the mount of Olives in Christ Jesus to rule and reign over this present earth for a thousand years time at His Second Coming (Zec 14:1-4, 5-6, 7-9), in which Satan will be put in prison and the Antichrist and his False Prophet will be the first to occupy the lake of fire even at the beginning of the Millennial reign (Rev 19:11-16, 19-21)! GLORY TO GOD!


Much Blessings....

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