dig,
you know I have the utmost respect for your approach and demeanor involving discussion of scripture.
Somehow this particular topic feels like we are riding two different rails through the same station. We can see each other, but we did not start at the same point and imagine different destinations.
I connect the Great Whore, with Mystery Babylon, the mother of Harlots.
My view of the scriptures we call the NT is that they testify of principles involving INVISIBLE things; things that have their reality in that which is ABOVE the earthly realm; the spiritual realm.
As such, I have never been big on looking to Rome or to Jerusalem or even to the US as being Mystery Babylon, The Mother of Harlots. This seduction transcends any one earthly kingdom or power.
So, I have tried to explain that I was out to consider that a "universal seductress" may be manifested in the earth's economies; these engines are the means for humankind to acquire wealth as a means to power. When this idea is peppered with the plain witness that "the love of money is the ROOT OF ALL EVIL", it seems to get some traction in my pondering.
I tossed that idea out in my first post. I bumped into something that you feel is a principle being ignored (things can not be 92% applicable). I have 0% problem agreeing with you on this hermeneutical requirement.
As one setting out to further chart an unknown river, I think it would be impossible to outline the whole trip to recruit other explorers.
If you already possess a 100% applicable "great whore" (I feel so funny writing that line), please catch me up.
PS: Dig, I am going to need you to connect the dots with your cite:
Luk 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
If every prophet MUST PERISH inside of Jerusalem, please share the principle for me that is established in the law. I need your help in supply of some of your thinking here.
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