Amen....house of merchandise.....and that great city being closely associated with Rome as well. Talmudic Judaism = mixture of Babylonian paganism and is therefore unclean....we are NOT to touch not the unclean thing. Roman Catholicism is the same....mixture of Roman paganism (a lot of it borrowed from Babylon) with things of God = unclean and therefore utterly PAGAN. They are bedfellows, both ruled by the spirit and god of the world, not the spirit of God. Notice how RC has many accouterments of Judaism too....priests, robes, altar, bells, liturgy, rituals, making much of their buildings (temples) etc. It's all a FORM of godliness, like Judaism.