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Erich Lessing
Revelation details the destruction of Babylon and the secular world, represented by the beast and the harlot. At the time Revelation was written, these two figures were also understood to represent Rome. For Koresh (his assumed name is Hebrew for “Cyrus,” the ancient Persian king who defeated Babylon), they symbolized the corrupt religious and political system of the modern Western world. Members of the compound referred to FBI agents and other outsiders as “Babylonians.”