What makes the city of Rome so bad that it is judged separately with attention drawn to its demise in Revelation in scripture even before it will happen? Clearly Jesus who said 'shake the dust off as you leave' of cities and towns who persecuted and rejected those He sent out to preach, to Jesus the record of the city of Rome is that it has killed Peter and Paul in the time of Nero and many Christians then and since then. Yet it is renown for the luxury fashion clothes it sells and the allure it has to the wealthy world rulers when they visit even to this day - no sackcloth and ashes to repent of its crimes and sordid past. The religion is not the factor here. And this is surely the same with the revived empires that once preceded it and will arise to support it again - not their religion but their persecution of believers in Jesus and the anger of God they arouse and the use God will have for them as tools of His wrath on the earth's destroyers and the sorcerer scientists and medical wizrds and witches and their followers and idolaters and all who lie and all who live according to instinctive human nature rather than His Spirit of truth.
