The Bible tells you who the ten horns (kings) are and who the whore is. The Prophets in the Old Testament equate the divided nations of Israel and Judah with harlots. Many passages speak of the "Virgin Daughter of Zion." So the Whore is a nation or a people spread out over many tongues and lands. She is also a religion. The Whore of Babylon is Islam, as Islam has killed countless Christians and Jews. The beast that was dead and revived is the Ottoman Empire which died in 1922 and is about to be revived in the alliance between Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. If you read Daniel, you will see the Alexandrian empire description of wars between the kings of north (Persia, Turkey) and south (Egypt, Arabia). It skips to end times with the beast that was wounded and healed. Revelation has a different description naming aspects of the Babylonian, Greek, and Persian empires in its description of the 7 head 10 horned beast. That means the modern beast empire nations will involve Greece (possibly), Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and possibly a few other Islamic nations. Interesting to note that Alexander's empire stretched to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The 10 horns are 10 kings "who give their power to the Antichrist for a short time." The Daniel little horn is Antichrist, the leader sultan of this empire. Daniel tells of a conflict that history has not yet recorded of another conflict between the king of the north (Beast empire) and king of south (possibly arabia and Egypt. The king of the south will fall and the beast will come into possession of the treasures of Egypt and Sheba and Dedan will fall (Saudi). The USA is not Babylon. Babylon is Babylon and it will apparently rise again, which since the US just left, now Iraq can rise.