Mystery Babylon – Insights into Bible Prophecy

The second trumpet harmed much of the commerce on which human society, the “inhabitants of the earth,” relied – Revelation 8:8-9.

The second trumpet blast upset the sea, and thereby disrupted a third of all seaborne commerce. In Revelation, the “sea” is vital to the commerce on which “Babylon” depends, and it is the place from which the “beast” will ascend. This explains why, at the end of the book, no “sea” is found in “New Jerusalem.” In the symbolic world, it is linked to the “Dragon” and the “beast.”

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Mystery Babylon, Seven Bowls

SEVENTH BOWL

June 23, 2021December 15, 2021 David R Maas

The seventh “bowl” produced the final overthrow of Babylon, the Great City, and completed the “wrath of God” – Revelation 16:17-21.

The seventh “bowl of wrath” anticipates the fuller description of the destruction of end-time “Babylon” in chapters 17 and 18 of Revelation. The Old Testament story behind it is the plague of hail inflicted on Egypt at the word of Moses. Emptying the bowl “on the air” prepared for the “great hail” that concluded this last “plague.”

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Final Hour, Lake of Fire, Mystery Babylon

FALL OF BABYLON ANNOUNCED

November 6, 2020December 6, 2021 David R Maas

Angels announce the judicial sentence of God on “Babylon” and the “inhabitants of the earth,” but “rest” awaits the faithful followers of Jesus.

Next, “another angel” announced the “fall of Babylon.” He was followed by “a third angel” who pronounced the judicial sentence on the men who gave allegiance to the “beast from the sea.” The passage uses Old Testament language from pronouncements against Sodom and “Gog and Magog.” In contrast to the impenitent, the “saints” look forward to “rest.”

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Kings of the Earth, Mystery Babylon

BABYLON DESTROYED

October 13, 2019December 28, 2021 David R Maas

The complete destruction of Babylon, especially her economic power is God’s response to her persecution of the “saints” – Revelation 18:9-24.

Next, Revelation presents the detailed description of the destruction of the “Great City,” and the justification for this action. In part, her demise is caused by the hatred of the “ten kings” that are allied with the “Beast” and driven by God to desolate and “burn her utterly with fire” for her dominance of world commerce and her “sorcery.”

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