“Rev 17
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
The mountains are not literal mountains they are kingdoms.”
This verse is explaining the symbolism of prior verses. It makes no sense to explain a symbol with another symbol that is left unexplained. So the mountains must be mountains, and not kingdoms. In the same way, when we are told the whore is a city, that is explaining the previous symbol used, so the city can’t be just another symbol.
Revelation is filled with symbols, but thankfully, God explained quite plainly what many of those symbols represent. Just because you don’t like the explanation doesn’t mean that it God didn’t make it perfectly clear. “The whore is a city” means just that, “the whore is a city”. If God had meant to say “the whore is a city, but the city is something else”, He would have just said that.
“15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
So it can not be a literal city.”
Any city that is a capitol of an empire would clearly fit that description, as the nature of an empire is to rule over diverse peoples and nations, from a central location.
Any city that is a capitol of an empire would clearly fit that description, as the nature of an empire is to rule over diverse peoples and nations, from a central location.