What if the “great Babylon” – the “great harlot” – mentioned in the Book of Revelation is not a specific location or institution, but encompasses the whole Earth and those who have sold out to the world system for a moment of triumph and glory?
Read God’s point of view on this topic – which sheds new light on the Catholic Church’s inquiry into extraterrestrial life – as revealed to Catholic mystic Maria Valtorta and recorded in her Notebooks (Vol. 1):
“I would be a very small and limited God the Creator if I had created only the Earth as an inhabited world! With a beat of my will I have brought forth worlds upon worlds from nothing and cast them as luminous fine dust into the immensity of the firmament.
“The Earth, about which you are so proud and fierce, is nothing but one of the bits of fine dust rotating in unboundedness, and not the biggest one. It is certainly the most corrupt one, though. Lives upon lives are teeming in the millions of worlds which are the joy of your gaze on peaceful nights, and the perfection of God will appear to you when, with the intellectual sight of your spirits rejoined to God, you are able to see the wonders of those worlds.”1
If Earth is the most corrupt of God’s inhabited planets, is it then also what Jesus referred to as “the lost sheep” worth leaving the other 99 for, or the “lost coin” that requires extraordinary measures to be found and redeemed?
What if we, who think we’re so sophisticated, are the black sheep of God’s universe, the black eye on the beautiful face of creation.
1 (Maria Valtorta, The Notebooks 1943, Volume 1; used by permission of the publisher Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl, Viale Piscicelli 89-91, 03036 Isola del Liri FR, Italy)