I do not automatically jump though to see Rome as automatically being Whore of Babylon!
Well you should.
When Jesus described this age as the mystery form of the kingdom in Mt 13 in the 7 parables beginning with the sowing of the seed, first in Jerusalem (we know that ground was too hard to take any root), secondly in Judaea, thirdly in Samaria, and finally to the gentiles, he teaches us that this woman is a very significant installment of the devil. Jesus talks about her in the FOURTH PARABLE. Here
Matthew 13:33
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
This age did not produce the woman or the leaven. Meal is ground up grain and here it represents the three homogenous families, Shem, Ham, & Japheth, of the earth during the time parameters of this parable. Catholicism is universal but it is leaven, false doctrine, not Christianity.
This same woman shows up in another list that intends to show another prophetic progression and time line and again she is number 4 in the list. Take a look.
Revelation 2:18-29
18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
28 And I will give him the morning star.
29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
This woman who is teaching in the church is a fornicator, a whore. She got in the church in the 4th millennium of the church and she rode in on the back of Constantine, a Roman king.
Some things are so plain that one can only figure you are missing them because you have one of the Bibles the whore has produced for you.
There are no coincidences in the scriptures of truth. Did it ever occur to you that nothing has ever occurred to God?