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Absolutely Not! But deceiving people into believing that God's Holy City, although flawed as she may be, is the Great Whore of Babylon is most definitely blasphemy!

There is a big difference between a woman who has sex with other men, and a woman who purposefully deceives and tricks other women into having sex with other men. Jerusalem in Ezekiel 16 was taken in and raised by God, but eventually gave into temptation and fornicated with other men (false gods, etc.). She did not do this on her own, but was tricked by that great whore, the whore of Babylon!

Just as Jerusalem is the Holy City of God, Babylon is the unholy city of Satan! As with everything else, the devil, in his fruitless attempt to become God, mimics God in every way. Spiritually Satan, that great serpent, has taken to himself a woman (Babylon), just as God took Jerusalem in Ezekiel 16:8 and thou becamest mine!

But Jerusalem grew up and when she became of age, and thy renown went forth among the heathen, the heathen nations came in unto her. That great whore of Babylon wanted only to pollute God's Holy City and so in her ignorance and youth, Jerusalem gave into the temptation and sinned.

Obviously God was mad at Jerusalem for her fornication and punished her because of it, but He still loved her and remembered His covenant with her. He forgave her! Jerusalem is still and will always be the City of God, and Babylon is still and always will be that great whore who rides the unholy beast and fornicates with the kings of the Earth!