Even after God had divorced the Great Harlot Israel, He maintained a fractious relationship with her to fulfill His promises to Abraham and to continue the outworking of His purpose, including end-time prophecies. Israel has fully earned the title of the Great Harlot Babylon, as well as Sodom and Egypt, through her faithless relationship with God, a connection illustrated by prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Hosea, and echoed in Revelation 17 and 18. Unlike Gentile nations or churches, which never had a covenant relationship with God, Israel alone qualifies for this title due to her corruption of that sacred bond. In defiance of God, Israel has rebelled against her responsibilities, playing the harlot with the world and embracing its ways to such an extent that she has outdone the Gentiles in their manner of life, becoming appropriately named Babylon the Great. In Revelation 17 and 18, God describes the influence and character of end-time Israel, depicting her in close relationship with the Beast, with the Joseph tribes, America (Manasseh) and Britain (Ephraim), as her strongest components, and perhaps America as the most influential. Israel solemnly entered the Old Covenant with God, promising obedience, yet her evil heart of unbelief led to irrational, erratic, and unreliable spiritual and moral behavior, manifesting most frequently in gross idolatry. Despite her great advantages, Israel became just another kingdom of this world, maintaining a hypocritical stance as God's people while conducting her affairs in the Babylonian manner. Arrayed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls, and holding a golden cup full of abominations, Israel's wealth and power among nations are evident, controlling around 60% of the world's wealth at the height of her prosperity. Yet, she is also spiritually great in immorality, confusion, deviance from responsibility, and polluted influence, powerful enough to hold the Beast in check and make it do her bidding until God's time comes. In Revelation 17, the Great Harlot sits on many waters, on the Beast, and on seven mountains, symbolizing her authority and influence over peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues, teaching, guiding, or coercing them to do her bidding. Only Israel possesses this combination of strength to control such a ferocious entity as the Beast. Depicted as one people, led primarily by the Joseph tribes, Israel stands in contrast to the Beast's diverse, unrelated multitudes, highlighting her intimate association and strong influence, particularly through America and Britain, in political, trade, and military agreements with Europe. Though currently submitting to Israel, the Beast will turn against her, as Revelation 17:16-17 foretells, and the blood of the saints, already staining Israel's history, will again mark her despicable and hypocritical anti-God record in the near future.

Israel alone of all nations has rightly earned the title of the Great Whore, for she alone came to know God through His intimate revelation of Himself to her. In the biblical sense, a whore is a woman unfaithful to a covenant or to revealed standards, and Israel alone had God's way of life so closely disclosed to her. No other nation in the history of mankind entered into such a covenant with Him, vowing to obey all He commanded, thus making her uniquely unfaithful to that exclusive union. The biblical facts, combined with external evidence of history, point to end-time Israel as the embodiment of this unfaithfulness. As the focus of the Babylonian system, Israel is identified as Babylon, a nation that epitomizes the spirit of prideful rebellion and influences other nations to follow her anti-God ways. Revelation 17-18 describes this end-time Babylon, the Great Harlot, as a literal city and nation, an economic and political powerhouse exercising global influence, over which businessmen weep when it is destroyed. If we are indeed in the prophesied end time, the only nation fitting this description as both an economic giant and a great harlot, due to its broken relationship with God, is Israel, led by the Joseph tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. Modern, end-time Israel, like ancient Babylon, is deep into the occult and spiritism, and stands revealed as the Israelitish people through parallel conduct, attitudes, and actions. God describes her as a consuming and trading nation of enormous wealth and influence, one who has broken her covenant with Him through fornication, yet is at the peak of her glorious but idolatrous, immoral power.

Babylon, as a symbol of the world, embodies a deadly enemy born from the mind of satan the devil, designed to entrap and conform humanity to its image. At the time of the end, its dominant powers are represented by the Harlot Woman and the forming Beast. The Woman, identified as Israel, currently dominates the Beast, though she weakens as the Beast grows stronger. Babylon's influence permeates every aspect of life—religion, education, commerce, military, government, agriculture, entertainment, and industry—shaping mankind overtly and subtly. Without resistance, it molds any human being to its image, while most remain unaware, accepting it as the natural way of life. Due to God's mercy, we must fight this influence to protect our growth, well-being, and success as children of God. He has enabled us to see the contrast between the current world and what He plans to create through Jesus Christ at His return, urging us toward gratitude and preparation for that time. Israel, portrayed as the Great Harlot, epitomizes Babylon's characteristics with a three-fold web of sin: luxury, pride, and avoidance of suffering. This arrogant pride renders her incapable of self-analysis and unrepentant, as she declares herself a queen who will see no sorrow. Luxury and pride foster boastful self-sufficiency, becoming a high tower of false security. The avoidance of suffering leads to a dishonest pursuit of ease, compromising principles and pursuing luxurious pleasure through satiety. This mirrors the sins of Sodom, combining economic well-being with a drive for ever-deeper perversion, as what once satisfied no longer excites. Israel's sexual perversity, encompassing a wide range of immoral behaviors, reflects this harlotry, paralleling Babylon's broader spiritual and physical corruption. Spiritually, this environment fosters Laodiceanism, a form of spiritual harlotry marked by faithlessness. It distracts and breeds complacency, motivating one to ignore spiritual responsibilities or remain blind to reality. The Laodicean, wise in his own conceit, proclaims richness and need of nothing, embodying the pride that precedes a fall. Refusing to suffer, he compromises to avoid pain, a deadly choice to faith. Babylon, as a worldwide anti-God system, seduces through physical gratification and false spiritual enlightenment, creating the perfect setting for such spiritual distraction. God's command to come out of Babylon is a spiritual call to resist being conformed to its image, a challenge each must face individually within this pervasive enemy.

Israel is identified in Revelation 18 as the Great Whore because large percentages of people in the Israelitish nations who claim to be born-again Christians reject substantial portions of biblical teaching on doctrine and morality. This rejection produces conduct that conforms to the surrounding secular culture rather than to the objective standards of Scripture. The text develops the identification by first reviewing poll results that demonstrate widespread unbelief, such as denial of Satan's existence, acceptance of same-sex unions, and dismissal of the resurrection, then linking that pattern of selective belief directly to the description in Revelation 18:2 of Babylon the great as fallen and become the habitation of demons. The passage explains that the phrase "is become" indicates a degeneration from an earlier state of relative purity into one dominated by violent and lying spirits that inspire false doctrine. This figurative Babylon cannot refer to ancient literal Babylon, which was never pure in God's sight; instead it points to the woman to whom God was married, namely Israel, which has degenerated into the outstanding end-time exemplar of Babylon. The command in Revelation 18:4 to "come out of her" is therefore addressed to God's people still residing within this corrupted national and religious system. The broader message connects this national condition to the requirement for individual self-examination set forth in II Corinthians 13:5 and James 2. Because belief determines works, the widespread refusal to submit to the full counsel of Scripture among those claiming Christian identity confirms that Israel has become the Great Whore and warns that the same unbelief must not be allowed to take root among those called to live by the faith once delivered.