BABYLON PART 2

Revelation 16:19

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹⁹And the (great city) was (divided into three parts), and the (cities of the nations fell): and great Babylon came in (remembrance before God), (to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.)

Revelation 17:5

King James Version (KJV)

⁵And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 18:2

King James Version (KJV)

²And 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.

Revelation 18:10

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁰Standing 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.

Revelation 18:21

King James Version (KJV)

 ²¹And 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.

CITY OF BABYLON CHARACTERISTICS...

In Rev 17:5 Babylon is designated as MYSTERY...(MINE...WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?This undoubtedly in dicates that the name is to be under stood "figuratively. ...(MINE...LIKE ANCIENT BABYLON!)

(1) The characteristics ascribed to this Babylon apply to NEW YORK CITY rather than ROME or JERUSALEM or to any other city of this age:

(a) as ruling over the kings of the earth (Re 17:18);...(MINE...THE UNITED NATIONS BUILDING HEADQUARTERS IS IN NEW YORK CITY!

(b) as sitting on seven mountains (Re 17:9);...(MINE...NEW YORK CITY SITS ON SEVEN MOUNTAINS!

(c) as the center of the world’s merchandise (Re 18:3,11-13);...(MINE...WALL STREET...NEW YORK CITY!)

(d) as the corrupter of the nations (Re 17:2; 18:3; 19:2);...(UNITED NATIONS...NEW YORK CITY...ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY!) JOHN DALBERG..."I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or certainty of corruption by full authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it."[7

(e) as the persecutor of the saints (Re 17:6)...(MINE...PAST...PRESENT...YET FUTURE BELIEVERS?)


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