And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn...for no man buyeth....

[PeteWaldo]

Rev 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

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Rev 17:4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.  5 And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.

Just pondering... what is the merchandise of a harlot? False doctrine?

Rev 17:9 “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

Rome?

[Farhat Siddiqui]

The merchandise is not that of the whore of Babylon, but of the merchants.

The rich and corrupt whore is a customer of the delicacies and fine things brought to her by the merchants of this world. For example George W Bush Barrack Hussain Obama and Jimmy Carter and Queen Elizabeth, why do they all go to Saudi Arabia and pay homage to that morally corrupt people of the world. Cause they are the biggest sellers of Oil and equally biggest buyers of all the goods that the top merchants of the West.

Walid Shoebat and Joel Richardson in their book "God's war on terror" call Mecca Saudi Arabia the Whore of Babylon who corrupts the kings of the earth by blackmailing them into buying her Wine that is Crude Oil. As well as spreading her genocidal Islamic war theology of total annihilation and exporting it to each nook and cranny of this world.

[PeteWaldo]

In broad terms, the beast of Revelation 13, seems to be more involved with the physical and historical condition of mankind over the course of history from Egypt to today, while the scarlet beast, great whole and Babylon the Great seem to be more about the spiritual condition of mankind throughout that same period and the things that allure mankind to the things of the flesh of this world and a away from the kingdom of God.

No shortage of folks want to pencil in the Roman Church as the Great Whore because of the descriptive colors, bejeweling (adorning the Pope and Vatican) and cup (of transubstantiation which so many Christians were murdered for rejecting). However the subject would seem a bit broader than that to me, including false worship and false doctrine throughout the history of mankind.

Since of Babylon the Great we see an extensive list of the attractions of the things of the flesh which chapter concludes with:

Rev 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

I just looked up "sorceries" again.

Strong's: pharmakeia
1.    the use or the administering of drugs
2.    poisoning
3.    sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
4.    metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry

Every other TV commercial advertises drugs, often that are prescribed for treating symptoms, caused by other prescribed drugs.
Any shortage of idolizing musicians, sports heroes, or TV and movie personalities?
What about lusting after and idolizing big homes and fancy vehicles and such? The "sorcery" of deceiving the world into a fake medium of exchange that is on the verge of collapse?