Discuss what path the center of world religions has taken and where it may end in the End-Times scenario according to Zechariah 5:5-11.522 - 6-4

I remember seeing a movie starring Burt Lancaster years ago titled "The Prince." He made a statement that has stuck with me through the decades, “Things must change so that they may remain the same.” This certainly could be said of Babylon. It seems that in the final days Babylon will come full circle.
 
Babylon is mentioned over 300 times in the Bible. It was the capital of the 1st World Dictator, Nimrod/ Rebel, meaning "a mighty hunter in defiance of the Lord." Babylon is expected to be the capital of the Last World Dictator. Proverbs 25:2, “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.” So while not a king I’ll still search out the matter.

Pride and defiance in the face of God certainly gets people in trouble again and again. However, it just seems to be what fallen man does. And of course God has the last word. Genesis 11:6-9, “And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

Fast forward to the time of Belshazzar and “The handwriting on the wall” Babylon fell, however, the destruction of Babylon as prophesied in Isaiah 13, 14 and Jeremiah 50, 51 has not occurred. The early and simple gospel of Jesus was lost in the maze of church liturgy. The church of Pergamos represents the marriage of the early church to the pagan world followed by the medieval Church of Thyatira with its primary location in Rome. Revelation 17-18 sure seems to refer to the Roman Catholic Church as Mystery Babylon. In the final days, the Roman Catholic Church will morph into a one world religion (harlot) and will be relocated to Babylon.

As for the ultimate fate of the harlot, Zechariah 5:5-11 speaks to a woman labeled as wickedness being transported in ephah by two women having wings of a stork, an unclean bird. The woman was “To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.” The ephah represents a measurement of volume and a talent of lead represents a weight. To me this is a little reminiscent of Belshazzar; Daniel 5:27, "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting being weighed and found wanting."