The document argues that Mecca is the biblical Mystery Babylon based on several points:
1) Several prophets including Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel refer to Babylon being located in the desert regions associated with Edom, which is modern day Saudi Arabia.
2) Revelation describes Mystery Babylon as a great city by the sea that engages in great wealth and trade, fitting Mecca as a trade center on the Red Sea.
3) The religious practices of Mystery Babylon are described as "sexual immorality" and embracing false gods, which the document asserts applies to the religion centered in Mecca.
4) Bible prophecies foretell Babylon's eventual destruction by fire, linking to the potential future
3. “Fallen, Fallen is Babylon”
• Isaiah 21:1-17 The oracle concerning the wilderness of the
sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from
the wilderness, from a terrible land. The oracle concerning
Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what
time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?” The
oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will
lodge, O caravans of Dedanites. To the thirsty bring water;
meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of
Tema. For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a
year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory
of Kedar will come to an end. And the remainder of the
archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be
few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”
5. Key Cities and Area
• Seir = Petra Area, Jordan
• Bozrah = Busaira, Jordan, used to be the
capital of Edom
• Dedan = Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
• Tema/Teman = Tayma, Saudi Arabia
• Hazor = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, used to be
called “Hajr”, many caves in its vicinity
• Kedar tribe = Khaybar village, Saudi Arabia
6. Isaiah 13
• Isaiah 13:1-22 The oracle concerning Babylon
which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw…And
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor
and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like
Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew
them. It will never be inhabited or lived in for
all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent
there;
7. Ezekiel
• Ezekiel 25:13 therefore thus says the Lord
God, I will stretch out my hand against Edom
and cut off from it man and beast. And I will
make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan
they shall fall by the sword.
8. Jeremiah 49
• Jeremiah 49:7-21 Concerning Edom. Thus says the
Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has
counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom
vanished? Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O
inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of
Esau upon him, the time when I punish him…Therefore
hear the plan that the Lord has made against Edom
and the purposes that he has formed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock
shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be
appalled at their fate. At the sound of their fall the
earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be
heard at the Red Sea.
9. Jeremiah 49 (2)
• Jeremiah 49:28-33 Concerning Kedar and the
kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon struck down. Thus says the Lord: “Rise
up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the
east! Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their
curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be led
away from them, and men shall cry to them: ‘Terror on
every side!’ Flee, wander far away, dwell in the
depths, O inhabitants of Hazor! declares the Lord. For
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has made a plan
against you and formed a purpose against you…Hazor
shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste;
no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her.”
10. John in Revelation
• Revelation
14:8
Another
angel,
a
second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is
Babylon the great, she who made all nations
drink the wine of the passion of her sexual
immorality.”
11. The Great Prostitute and the Beast:
• Revelation 17:1-18 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven
bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the
great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of
the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose
sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he
carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting
on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven
heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and
adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup
full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on
her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother
of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” And I saw the woman, drunk
with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus…
• And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the
kings of the earth.”
13. The Beast will destroy Mystery
Babylon
• Revelation 17:16-17 And the ten horns that
you saw, they and the beast will hate the
prostitute. They will make her desolate and
naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up
with fire, for God has put it into their hearts
to carry out his purpose by being of one mind
and handing over their royal power to the
beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
14. The Fall of Babylon
• Revelation 18:2 And he called out with a mighty
voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She
has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt
for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean
bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable
beast. For all nations have drunk the wine of the
passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings
of the earth have committed immorality with
her, and the merchants of the earth have grown
rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
15. Sea trade
• Revelation 18:17 And all shipmasters and
seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is
on the sea, stood far off and cried out as they
saw the smoke of her burning, “What city was
like the great city?” And they threw dust on
their heads as they wept and mourned, crying
out, “Alas, alas, for the great city where all
who had ships at sea grew rich by her
wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid
waste.
16. The Red Sea is the busiest ship
crossing in the world:
18. Mystery Babylon and her country will
burn forever:
• Revelation 19:3 Once more they cried out, “Hallelujah!
The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”
• Isaiah 34:8-10 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a
year of recompense for the cause of Zion. And the
streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her
soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch.
Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall
go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie
waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
20. Conclusion
• Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and John all agree,
Mystery Babylon is:
– a city,
– located in the Saudi Arabia desert,
– by the Red Sea,
– the center of the false religion (describe spiritually
as sexual immorality).
Only Mecca meets all this requirements
