The term Babylon is not a name identified by Satan or the antichrist, it is a name indicated by the Lord. He marks this system of Satan’s kingdom as of Babel. It means confusion. It started at the tower of Babel when after the flood mankind tried to build something in opposition to God and make a name for themselves. God disrupted this tower and caused confusion thus the name Babel forever marks Satans efforts against God. In chapter 17 and 18 we see the ultimate glory of Satan‘s confusion. Satan is the author of confusion. We see the religious aspect of this in the first seven verses of chapter 17. The religions of the earth will join together with the antichrist and sell their soul like a harlot. The antichrist will use this religious system to coerce the nations of the earth to rise up against God. Their message will be “Look, God is not a God of love but of wrath. Believe in the antichrist, take the mark!” And this religious system will demand the nations fornicate with her and drink the sacrament which is her cup filled with the blood of the Saints. These nations will then root out those who follow Christ and turn them over to the antichrist. What an awful, abominable religion. Religions on the earth today are being groomed to deny Christ alone as our hope, accept all religions as one, join up with world leaders for the good of the planet, and a message to join them and stand against those who think otherwise. This is religious fornication. The church is just Christ. If you are in some thing that is other than Christ come out of it, and receive the inward Christ. "Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Jehovah confounded the language of all the earth, and from there Jehovah scattered them over the surface of all the earth." (Genesis 11:9)
