<p>17:5 <i>And upon her forehead a name written of a mystery: Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations</i>- The allusion is to how prostitutes had such names on their foreheads; but this name is that given her by God. The &quot;abominations&quot; of the earth / land were spawned by her. She will set the abomination which will bring about the desolation of the temple mount right there on the temple mount in Jerusalem (Dan. 12:11; Mt. 24:15), and this surely refers to something like a mosque complex or other visual symbol of jihadist Islam. The plural &quot;abominations&quot; may be an intensive plural referring to the one great abomination- that which brings her to desolation. In this context we must read 21:27 which says that there shall be no more abomination allowed in Jerusalem, the holy city of God. For the Islamist abomination there is to be utterly destroyed. The limited AD70 fulfilment was in the icons of Roman gods being placed there by the legionaries. Again, the location for her abomination is Jerusalem. She is clearly set up on the pattern of Jezebel, a woman from what is now Lebanon, who persecuted the Elijah ministry of her day, just as this latter day individual will do according to chapter 11. Radical Islam claims to be against all kind of prostitution and immorality, but the point is that in reality that abusive system is itself a prostitute.</p><p>See on 1 Cor. 9:27 for a Jewish / Roman interpretation of &ldquo;Babylon&rdquo;. The images and applications unite together is that Babylon is enthroned in Jerusalem at the last day, and the fall of Jerusalem is thereby that of Babylon; see on 16:19. There are other similarities with the apostate Jewish system:</p><div align=center><table border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 width=100%>    <tbody>        <tr>            <td>            <div align=center>            <table border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0>                <tbody>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>                        Double unto her double</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Jer. 16:18; Is. 40:2</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Sound of the millstone no longer heard&hellip;</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Jer. 25:10</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>In her was found the blood of the prophets</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Jer. 2:34; Lk. 11:50 the blood of all the     prophets was required of Jerusalem in AD70</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Great whore 17:1</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Ez. 16,23; Jer. 2,3; Hos. 1-4</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Arrayed in purple and scarlet</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Ez. 28:5,6,8- a priest, cp. Jer. 4:30</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Precious stones</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>The High Priest&rsquo;s breastplate</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Golden cup full of abominations</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Ez. 23:25, 32-34 cp. Mt. 23:28</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Upon her forehead a name written</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>A parody of &lsquo;Yahweh&rsquo; written on the High     Priestly mitre</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Mother of harlots</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Ez. 16:44-52</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Drunk with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>The first century martyrs</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Burnt with fire</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>The punishment for harlotry cp. Ez. 16:37-41</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>The habitation of demons</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Mt. 12:43-45</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Come out of her my people</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Implies they were already within her, as God&rsquo;s     people. Ref. To Lk. 21:20,21 and the need for the Christians to leave     Judaism.</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Her plagues&hellip;death, mourning and famine</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Jer. 18:21</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>18:12,13 the things traded in</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>All used in the temple worship cp. 2 Chron.     2:4,7,8.</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Rejoice over her thou heaven&hellip;for God hath     avenged you</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Dt. 32:43 LXX re. Israel</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>A great millstone cast into the sea</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>As happened to Judaism / the temple mount as a     result of faith in Christ (Mt. 21:21; 18:6)</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Harpers harping</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>In the temple</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>A candle</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>The menorah</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>In her was found the blood of the prophets</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>A prophet didn&rsquo;t perish outside Jerusalem (Lk.     13:33).</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Babylon is &ldquo;the great city&rdquo;</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Which in Rev. 11:8 is where Jesus was     crucified, i.e. Jerusalem.</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                    <tr>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>Babylon divided into three parts for judgement</p>                        </td>                        <td width=369 valign=top>                        <p>As Jerusalem was (Ez. 5:1-4; Zech. 14:1-4).</p>                        </td>                    </tr>                </tbody>            </table>            </div>            </td>        </tr>    </tbody></table></div>