Davy
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I did include Jerusalem in the list of the few cities called great in the bible.
Yes there are a number of cities claimed to have 7 hills, but the major one (at John's time) was Rome.
I think the details in Revelation more match Rome than Jerusalem.
That only shows bias according men's doctrine, and not Bible Scripture. The Revelation 11:8 verse by itself, which points directly... to Jerusalem where Lord Jesus was crucified, should cause you to have Biblical bias with the Babylon harlot being Jerusalem. Not only that, but including the events to occur there in Jerusalem at the end of this world just prior to Christ's return there on the 7th trumpet ought to also put your bias toward the written Bible Scripture regarding Jerusalem, and not doctrines of men.
In Matthew 24 and Mark 13 Jesus showed a pseudo-Messiah is to appear in Jerusalem for the end, working great signs and wonders, which links directly to the "another beast" in Rev.13:11-14 that does those works to deceive, and even outlines the idol abomination Jesus warned about for Jerusalem at the end, which points also to the Book of Daniel about the "abomination of desolation" event to occur in Jerusalem for the end of this world.
Then there's 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 that warns us about a false one coming to sit in the temple in Jerusalem at the end, and proclaim himself as God, and over all that is called God or that is worshipped. That is the same one John warned about in Rev.13 involving the 2nd beast, which is the same beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit IN JERUSALEM to kill God's two witnesses per Rev.11.
Then in Rev.17, our Lord Jesus shows the Babylon harlot is indeed a certain city, but one involving that same 'beast' of Rev.13, which the symbolic woman harlot will sit over, which is defined by the ten horns and seven heads first presented also in Rev.13.
That... is what one gets IF... they actually keep to God's written Word (and there's more that goes with that). But to point to Rome, one MUST leave God's written Word to try and link it to the Babylon harlot.