The Book of the Revelation, Chp. 18 Introduction
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Introduction
There are three Babylons mentioned in the Book of the Revelation. The contents or descriptions
given in chapters 17 & 18 each represent thoroughly detailed, graphic—yet separate and
distinct—Devine depictions of two of those Babylons. These depictions are in fact profiles.
They are summary statements or sketches of two very prominent, very well known and widely
recognized end-times entities. As such, for the astute student of scripture, these sketches are as
much chilling and troubling as they are revealing. In light of both the historical record and our
times, the insights they give demonstrate a foresight that is disturbingly accurate. All three
Babylons are with us now, even “as we speak”!
That said, we begin this study of the Book of the Revelation, the 18th chapter with a defining of
two key terms:
Apocalypse: that dreadful period of end-times global unrest and calamity proposed and
promised by God incorporating judgment, albeit, not so much for judgment’s sake. Rather, the
intent is to foment a kind of situational “sugar-tree” by means of which to shake out a bountiful
harvest of end-times souls. These are souls that cannot otherwise be won by His end-times
lethargic, spiritually dead and therefore useless churches. It is chiefly an undefined amount of
time between WWIII and the final seven years leading up to the Battle of Armageddon.
Armageddon: biblical code-name, as it were, meaning the Valley of Megiddo. It is the site of
the last battle between men. The final shown-down, between a lost humanity led by Satan and,
the Son of God, King of kings and Lord of lords, will also be fought here. The last and mother-
of-all battles will culminate the final seven years of human history as we know it.
Before either of these monumental events or the invasion of Israel from the north by Magog and
his company of armies (including all the Muslims and the EU), another cataclysmic event must
also take place, clearing the field and opening the door to the Apocalypse: Namely, the total
demolition, brutal annihilation of Babylon the Great. There is none that can equal her profile
in the past. The presence of an exact match now, in these end-times, means there need be no
other in the future. Her merciless devastation, coupled with the concurrent rise of the Jews, will
mark the gateway to the Apocalypse.
The Book of the Revelation, Chp. 18 Introduction
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