Whoever controls the traffic is the boss.

Think...Israel has violated more UN resolutions than any other country and got away with it.

Iraq violated some UN resolutions, too, and got bombed.

Of course, NYC was the major banking center of the world, but that kinda got messed up with the towers brought to the ground. Twin pillars, as it were. No mystery there, so I doubt if NYC was ever thought to be "Mystery Babylon".

Consider the two witnesses who are killed on the streets in Rev. 11:8 "And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt: where their Lord was also crucified." Jeruselem.

The woman who sits on the beast: Rev. 17:5 "And on her forehead a name was written. A mystery: Babylon the great, the MOTHER of the fornications and abominations of the earth."

This speaks of the Babylonian religion began in the days of Nimrod and is carried on by their successors. NYC has never been known to be the religious capital of the world. Jeruselem is not now known than being anything other than a burdensome stone to the nations.

Rev. 17:15 And the woman which you saw is the great city which has kingdom over the kings of the earth.

Who sits a Queen, who says in Rev. 18:7 "...I sit a Queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see."

From Vatican documents:

Papal Claim to Authority:

#1. "The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is NOT MERE MAN, but as it were God, and the vicar of God."

#18. "As to papal authority, the Pope is as it were God on earth, Sole sovereign of all the faithful of Christ, CHIEF KING OF KINGS, having a plentitude of UNBROKEN POWER, entrusted by the omnipotent God to govern the earthly and heavenly kingdoms."

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