The second most mentioned city (after Jerusalem) is Babylon: 290 times.
It began as the first great city.
It was founded after the flood (Genesis 10,11).
It was the city of the first powerful leader, Nimrod.
It was a great city, and the center of a religious system based on worshipping the host of heaven.
This satanic system was based on astrology - the stars representing gods and goddesses that supposedly had influence on the lives of men.
The tower of Babel was built and dedicated to the host of heaven.
It was the center of their worship.
Revelation reveals the true nature of this system represented as a woman called "Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.
" It represents a city and a system built for man's glory and man's lowest nature.
The mixing of the languages was the only way to force men to replenish the earth according to God's decree.
Most of the Biblical references were about the Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar (605 - 539 B.
C.
).
He invaded Judah three times, first in 605 when Daniel and his friends were taken captive.
The second time in 597, then third in 586 when his army came and destroyed the city and the temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.
But his empire was also prophesied to fall (in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Habakkuk).
The destruction is to happen in the end times, preceding the return of Jesus to the earth.
When the Medes conquered Babylon in 539, the city wasn't destroyed.
It continued in some form until around 1,000 A.
D.
Zechariah prophesied the rebuilding of the city in the end times (Zechariah 5:5-11).
Wickedness will return to the place of its origin, Babylon, where the Anti-Christ will rule from (Revelation 17-18).
It is to be destroyed utterly and for all time in the end.