That sounds like you are... basing that all upon the Protestant Reformers ideas of the 15th-16th centuries, which failed.
The Daniel 2 "legs of iron" represented the old 'pagan'... Roman empire. The "ten horns" ("ten kings") or of Rev.17 that reign "one hour" with the "beast" instead applies to the very end of this world just prior to Christ's future return.
(And don't call me a Futurist just because I use the word 'future' for prophetic events that have still not yet come to pass, for that's a stupid accusation Preterists and Historicists like to do. Nor do I hold to a Pre-trib Rapture theory which is allied with man's seminary category of Futurism.
I believe in a Post-tribulational coming of Christ to gather His Church, because that is what is written in Matthew 24:29-31 and Mark 13:24-29, told us directly by Lord Jesus Himself.)
The Daniel 2:33 beast statue part of the "feet part of iron and part of clay" is what represents the final "beast" of Revelation for the literal 'end' of this world just prior to Christ's future return. That means the last generation on earth that will literally 'see'... Christ's future return.
Daniel 2:34-35 and Daniel 2:43-45 reiterate this point about the final beast kingdom in the last generation on earth that will see Christ's 2nd coming. And... it also reiterates that "stone" which will smite the final beast upon its feet of ten toes of part iron mixed with part clay, being about Lord Jesus' future 2nd coming to destroy... that final beast kingdom and instead setup His everlasting Kingdom on earth.
So by those Daniel 2 Scriptures I mentioned, proves that Rome is NOT the Revelation Babylon Harlot, nor is it Protestant Christianity. Simply because the system of the 'papacy' in past history WAS NOT THE LAST GENERATION THAT IS TO SEE CHRIST'S FUTURE RETURN. It's just... common sense by actually reading and studying God's Word as written, and not allowing men's traditions to creep in.
The Reformer's ideas are based on men's traditions, failed applications of Bible prophecy. They thought Rome and the pope represented the final Antichrist of The Bible, so they thought Jesus would come in their generation. Well, Jesus did NOT return in their generation of the 15th-16th centuries, nor was the pope the Antichrist, and the pope today still is not the Antichrist.
(My ancestors of the 16th century came to the Americas by fleeing religious persecution by the Catholic Church. They were French Huguenots, the first French Protestants. But I still am not biased against the Catholic Church because of their false traditions. Many from both the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church will be deceived by the coming false-Messiah at the end of this world.)
Christ's Book of Revelation is pointing directly to Jerusalem for the end as the Babylon Harlot. The last verse of Revelation 17 says the Babylon Harlot is a "great city", and Revelation 11:8 where God's future "two witnesses" will be killed points directly to Jerusalem for the end of this world as that "great city". So identifying the Revelation Babylon Harlot is actually easy IF... one sticks to the simplicity of Bible Scripture.
I value Marin Luther’s scholarship over your futurist’s dogma anytime. Those who pursue knowledge recognize the futurist dogma is either from Darby or the Jesuits.
It hardly dawns on you that the ten horn is Revelation 17 are absent their crowns, which were present in Chapter 13,
Revelation 13:
1 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads,
with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. ESV
The implication is that the authority of the horns develops from the power of the beast that rises from the sea, which is the same beast in revelation 17 that “was” and “is not” during the time the sixth king “is,”
Revelation 17
9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;
10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen,
one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.
Christ, through John, relates five of the kings are fallen. In other words, it can be said of any one of them that it “was” and “is not,” just like the scarlet beast, which reveals the beast that rises from the abyss is one of the fallen five. Wisdom reveals the five fallen kings are Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and the papacy from
John’s future perspective. John was taken to the future to witness the judgment of the harlot, which means the “sixth” king that “is,” is not the Roman Empire. Even futurists acknowledge the judgment of Babylon is in our day, not John’s. Yet, the scarlet beast is the only one that “is to come” according to John,
Revelation 17
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because
it was and is not and is to come.
Several truths are garnered from wisdom; the scarlet beast represents the wounded beast from the sea, during the reign of the sixth king, the beast that rises from the earth. The seventh king is the image, that only reigns a short while. And in the beast’s wounded stage the ten horns can’t do the biding of the beast again until it rises from the abyss,
hence the absence of the crowns on the ten horns in Chapter 17.
The point being is the ten horns lost their power in the narration and regain it when Christ returns, which matches the Historicists account of history. For 1260 years the European kings did the biding of the papacy but that ended with the rise of Protestantism. The papacy received it deadly wound with the rise of Protestantism but is still vying to regain that power. It has more of a chance in regaining that power than does any futurist’s dogma coming true.
As for Babylon, the liberal Protestants held intercourse with the kings of the earth to break the power of the papacy and the Church’s influence in the public square, which allowed the merchants of the earth to gain their riches,
Revelation 18
3 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."
