The Statue of Liberty -- The Largest Idol Ever Made By Human Hands

The Idols of America
The Statue of Liberty and Statue of Freedom
Plus Other Icons that are actually "American Babylonianism"

by R.A. Coombes

In doing the research into the statue, I discovered that no statue has ever been made that was as big as the Statue of Liberty. The previous record holder was the Colossus of Rhodes.

We can recognize the match-up between the Woman of Revelation 17:4, 5 and America when we realize that the Statue of Liberty is actually the goddess Ishtar of Babylon...the mystery goddess of Babylon who was the goddess of personal freedom and liberty.

Ishtar was called the goddess of love and sexual freedom, the Queen of Heaven and the Queen of Babylon. Most importantly, Ishtar was called the Mother of Immigrants, AND she was called THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES...Then of course, if we throw in the facts that we know about the Babylonian symbolism of the Statue and relate it back to Revelation 17:4, 9...we then have the link between the Statue of Liberty and Revelation 17 and 18.

Understanding the phrase "Mother of Harlots"

Let's examine what the term "mother" means. The term refers to the act of giving birth or of bearing to fruition of something in its most generic form. In this case, the reference is obvious in that the woman is bearing forth or starting something.

In regards to apocalyptic symbolism the connotation is that of a "starting point." The term "Harlot" of course means prostitute. The term Koine-Greek is "porneoh" and refers to sexual relations in exchange for money.

Now, those who wish to claim that Revelation 17:1-9 is all-symbolic of a false church fails to understand the basic terms here. They make the mistake of separating Chapter 17 from Chapter 18. Then they fail to understand that the terms are clearly referencing the goddess Ishtar and her doctrine of holy prostitution. Salvation by sexual prostitution is the key doctrine of the mystery religion of Ishtar.

Indeed Ishtar's religion was always called a "mystery." In Revelation the key aspect of the mentioned prostitution is money and power. This is the whole ongoing theme of Chapter 18, especially verses 3, and then 9-19 and 22-23. Then again in Revelation 19:2. So, Revelation 17 has nothing to do with spiritual harlotry as one thinks of the metaphors for Israel.

In Revelation 17 and 18 this Mystery Babylon plays spiritual harlotry primarily in the aspect of money and power. Of all the reasons in scripture given for her divine destruction all the reasons reference back to the abuse of power and money and her rejection of God's sovereignty. See chapter 9 of my book: "America, The Babylon."