Revelation 18:1-3
THE FALL AND DESTRUCTION OF ANTI-CHRIST'S KINGDOM. The angel's announcement:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FALL AND DESTRUCTION OF ANTI-CHRIST'S KINGDOM. The angel's announcement:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN HAVING GREAT POWER; AND THE EARTH WAS LIGHTENED WITH HIS GLORY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A STRONG VOICE, SAYING, BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND IS BECOME THE HABITATION OF DEVILS, AND THE HOLD OF EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, AND A CAGE OF EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATEFUL BIRD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL NATIONS HAVE DRUNK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION, AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED FORNICATION WITH HER, AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH ARE WAXED RICH THROUGH THE ABUNDANCE OF HER DELICACIES. This entire paragraph reminds one of chap. 14:6-7, where an angel was pictur... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING, COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YE RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES.... [ Continue Reading ]
The warning voice from heaven:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HER SINS HAVE REACHED UNTO HEAVEN, AND GOD HATH REMEMBERED HER INIQUITIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
REWARD HER EVEN AS SHE REWARDED YOU, AND DOUBLE UNTO HER DOUBLE ACCORDING TO HER WORKS; IN THE CUP WHICH SHE HATH FILLED, FILL TO HER DOUBLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW MUCH SHE HATH GLORIFIED HERSELF AND LIVED DELICIOUSLY, SO MUCH TORMENT AND SORROW GIVE HER; FOR SHE SAITH IN HER HEART, I SIT A QUEEN, AND AM NO WIDOW, AND SHALL SEE NO SORROW.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE SHALL HER PLAGUES COME IN ONE DAY, DEATH AND MOURNING AND FAMINE; AND SHE SHALL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE; FOR STRONG IS THE LORD GOD, WHO JUDGETH HER. This passage is strongly reminiscent of the so-called psalms of vengeance, where the wrath of God is poured out upon His enemies in fear... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, WHO HAVE COMMITTED FORNICATION AND LIVED DELICIOUSLY WITH HER, SHALL BEWAIL HER AND LAMENT FOR HER WHEN THEY SHALL SEE THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING,... [ Continue Reading ]
The description of the desolation:... [ Continue Reading ]
STANDING AFAR OFF FOR THE FEAR OF HER TORMENT, SAYING, ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON, THAT MIGHTY CITY! FOR IN ONE HOUR IS THY JUDGMENT COME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH SHALL WEEP AND MOURN OVER HER; FOR NO MAN BUYETH THEIR MERCHANDISE ANY MORE;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MERCHANDISE OF GOLD, AND SILVER, AND PRECIOUS STONES, AND OF PEARLS, AND FINE LINEN, AND PURPLE, AND SILK, AND SCARLET, AND ALL THYINE WOOD, AND ALL MANNER VESSELS OF IVORY, AND ALL MANNER VESSELS OF MOST PRECIOUS WOOD, AND OF BRASS, AND IRON, AND MARBLE,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CINNAMON, AND ODORS, AND OINTMENTS, AND FRANKINCENSE, AND WINE, AND OIL, AND FINE FLOUR, AND WHEAT, AND BEASTS, AND SHEEP, AND HORSES, AND CHARIOTS, AND SLAVES, AND SOULS OF MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FRUITS THAT THY SOUL LUSTED AFTER ARE DEPARTED FROM THEE, AND ALL THINGS WHICH WERE DAINTY AND GOODLY ARE DEPARTED FROM THEE, AND THOU SHALT FIND THEM NO MORE AT ALL. So the judgment of the Lord, which was spoken of in chap. 17:16-17, has already gone forth, as is here pictured with intense... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MERCHANTS OF THESE THINGS WHICH WERE MADE RICH BY HER SHALL STAND AFAR OFF FOR THE FEAR OF HER TORMENT, WEEPING AND WAILING,... [ Continue Reading ]
These features are so prominent that they are treated in another paragraph:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAYING, ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, THAT WAS CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN AND PURPLE AND SCARLET, AND DECKED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS!... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IN ONE HOUR SO GREAT RICHES IS COME TO NAUGHT. AND EVERY SHIPMASTER AND ALL THE COMPANY IN SHIPS AND SAILORS, AND AS MANY AS TRADE BY SEA, STOOD AFAR OFF,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CRIED WHEN THEY SAW THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING, SAYING, WHAT CITY IS LIKE UNTO THIS GREAT CITY?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAST DUST ON THEIR HEADS AND CRIED, WEEPING AND WAILING, SAYING, ALAS, ALAS, THAT GREAT CITY, WHEREIN WERE MADE RICH ALL THAT HAD SHIPS IN THE SEA BY REASON OF HER COSTLINESS! FOR IN ONE HOUR IS SHE MADE DESOLATE.... [ Continue Reading ]
REJOICE OVER HER, THOU HEAVEN AND YE HOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS; FOR GOD HATH AVENGED YOU ON HER. Just as the kings and rulers before them, so here the merchants bewail the fall of the anti-Christian kingdom, which has always offered them such a lucrative trade: The traders in these things, that hav... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE, AND CAST IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, THUS WITH VIOLENCE SHALL THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON BE THROWN DOWN AND SHALL BE FOUND NO MORE AT ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
The punishment completed:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE VOICE OF HARPERS AND MUSICIANS AND OF PIPERS AND TRUMPETERS SHALL BE HEARD NO MORE AT ALL IN THEE; AND NO CRAFTSMAN, OF WHATSOEVER CRAFT HE BE, SHALL BE FOUND ANY MORE IN THEE; AND THE SOUND OF A MILLSTONE SHALL BE HEARD NO MORE AT ALL IN THEE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LIGHT OF A CANDLE SHALL SHINE NO MORE AT ALL IN THEE; AND THE VOICE OF THE BRIDEGROOM AND OF THE BRIDE SHALL BE HEARD NO MORE AT ALL IN THE E; FOR THY MERCHANTS WERE THE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH; FOR BY THY SORCERIES WERE ALL NATIONS DECEIVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND OF SAINTS AND OF ALL THAT WERE SLAIN UPON THE EARTH. Here the seer pictures inevitable doom, total and terrible desolation: And there lifted up one mighty angel a stone like a millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, Thus with force shall be thrown... [ Continue Reading ]