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Read the entire text of Revelation, very closely. Even without a deep background in the Old Testament and Second Temple apocalyptic literature and its distinctive (and initially puzzling) use of language, any careful reader will see that the text identifies Babylon. Babylon is unfaithful Jerusalem, standing metonymically for the Sadducean Temple hierarchy and its Pharisee supporters - those who rode on the back of the beast, Roman power, to bring about the unjust, yet judicially-sanctioned, execution of Jesus.