Look to the Old Testament for the answer to that! That’s where the keys to understanding the symbolic language of Revelation is to be found! I’ll get you started:
How the faithful city has become a harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once lodged in her, But now murderers. Isaiah 1:21
The faithful city was Jerusalem. The harlot of Revelation 17 is its corrupt, apostate priesthood, which opposed Christ and had Him crucified.
The clothes she is described as wearing are the clothes of an ancient Jewish priest. Read Exodus 28 to see how the priest’s clothes were to be made.
Revelation was completely fulfilled in 70 AD, with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.
>> “Revelation was completely fulfilled in 70 AD, with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.” <<
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The chief tenets of Satan’s cult of the blind!
The Revelation was written at least 22 years after the destruction of Jerusalem. And Yochanan was not a history teacher, he was a major prophet.
Ah! We have a Preterist among us! And I suppose you believe that Israel was replaced by the church as well correct?
Revelation was written around 96AD and in the first verse of the first chapter we read this.
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
So it’s your contention that John was given a vision of things that must yet “come to pass” and that what he was shown was a “prophecy” were things that had already happened? Seriously?
Both internal and external evidence show Revelation to have been written near the end of the first century around 96AD. Preterists have been proven wrong over and over again.
HMMMmmm...
That seems unlikely:
“Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.