Next will come the judgment on Babylon, "the mother of whores and of earth's abominations"¹². As with the "Rapture" which has been misunderstood as a one-time event rather than a catching-up in stages, so also is Babylon incorrectly seen by most as a single entity when, in fact, she is a multiple personality: 

a) She is the ancient, original Babylon^m  which was located in the land of Shinar, in today’s Iraq. In the days of Nimrod’s kingdom¹³ she birthed forth all the many idolatrous religions with which the nations went "a-whoring" from the true and only Living G-d. This ancient city which was, and for ca. 2,500 years was not, is being resurrected in our days in the nation of Iraq by its evil dictator, Saddam Hussein, whose obsession is to restore the dominion of king Nebuchadnezzar, believing himself to be that king’s re-incarnation. Hence it would seem that the "beast", on which this ancient city which was and is not [yet] rides, is either Nimrod's or Nebuchadnezzar's ancient kingdom, which is about to ascend from the BOTTOMLESS PIT through the agency of Saddam Hussein, and go to destruction¹⁴. It may well be that it is because of this prophetic predestination that no assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein succeeds until he has completed his evil mission.

b) She is also the "great" city by whom the wheelers and dealers of the nations have grown rich, and with whom the leaders of the earth have corrupted and prostituted themselves. In her is found the world bank, the world trade center, the world's leading merchants' and bankers' street after which also a journal is named, the world stock market, the world diamond center, the headquarters of the United Nations, the headquarters of the wizards and witches (not in France), the world's largest harbor with an underground slave-market¹⁵, shipping abducted young females and males into the Orient, the Middle and Far East as slaves, for prostitution and Harems. In her are the modern "temples" of world government such as the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Center, and in her sit the "kings of the earth" to plot the demise of the state of Israel and the rise of a one-world government¹⁶. There is no city in all the earth as great as she is, and no modern “ziggurat” tower higher than hers. And in her - NOT in revived ancient Babylon - live almost 2 Million Jews, exhorted to come out of her lest they’ll take part in her sins and share in her plagues¹⁷.

And because this city, and other cities of the United States, can be set ablaze in one single hour¹⁸ by laser satellites mounted in Russian [or whichever country’s] missiles, former President Ronald Reagan sought to set up the "Star Wars" Defense System, which his successor, President George Bush, scrapped. Indeed, President Bush's actions were most strange! 

c) And there is yet another Babylon, another "whore". She still sits upon seven mountains and her kingdom will also be revived in these last days - the great Holy Roman Empire! She does not sit by great waters, nor are in her peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. But in her is the blood of the saints¹⁹ (especially of the Jewish people who are also called saints   because of their “consecrated unto G-d” status) and the blood of the witnesses to Yeshua. The saints in her, who belong to the Lamb, are likewise exhorted to come out of her, so that they do not take part in her sins nor share in her plagues.

d) But it is in the combination of that threefold Babylon - the revived “great”, post-deluvian city Babel (later Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon),  in the “kingdom” of Iraq; the modern “great” merchant and harbor city, New York, home to 2 Million Jews, in the US; and the “great” city of antiquity upon seven hills, Rome, for nearly 2,000 years the “headquarters” of Christendom, in Italy - that the blood of prophets and of saints will be found, and of all who have been slaughtered on earthⁿ.
 
 

Art (the picture of Babylon the Great) used with permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992, from her web site "Revelation Illustrated".