Ronald Nolette
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Well it is a scaled down version of Ancient Babylon. but you article is only about the Ishtar gate. Babylon has been rebuilt as was the site of as massive new age celebration on Y2K.Of course, you are probably referencing something like the following site:
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Babylon is coming back to life, with its famed Ishtar Gate to be restored by this summer
A new World Monuments Fund project in conjunction with the US embassy in Baghdad aims to repair Iraqi cultural heritage as part of the Future of Babylon projectwww.theartnewspaper.com
If anything, it will become a replica of the city of Babylon, and probably function only as something like a living museum.
In that capacity, it will have no real place in the world, being altogether dysfunctional.
I suggest that we continue looking elsewhere for "the woman" who has fallen, and is carried by the Beast, and not the Beast riding the "fallen woman", as most want to believe.
Rev. 17
[7] And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
I see no reason to allegorize away Babylon the Great as being another city or country. time will show if it is meant to be literal or allegorical, but everything in the construction and Scripture says it will be Babylon, and the antichrist will make it his capital before he moves on Jerusalem at the mid point of the 70th week of Daniel.
As for the woman Mystery Babylon? What this religions final form will look like is unsure, but it will be an amalgam of the ancient Babylonian mystery religions which are practiced in varied forms in many religions and in some apostate christendom sects. But when women are used symbolically in Scripture, it is always a religious system. a harlot woman is a false religious system.