What has this religious system been in relation to God's truth?
The great religious system, identified as mystery Babylon, the mother of harlots, has been the adversary of God's truth ever since ancient Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It opposes God's truth and will crescendo to a peak during the last seven years.
Les explains that this great religious system, called mystery Babylon, goes all the way back to ancient Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It has been the adversary of the truth of God ever since. During the last seven years, it will crescendo to a peak. In Acts 19, greed prompted the silversmiths to rise up against Paul's ministry and Christianity because making silver shrines to Diana was their source of wealth. Idolatry feeds on the baser instincts of humanity. This system is the mother of harlots.