Babylon, the “Great Harlot,” rides the Beast from the Sea with its seven heads and ten horns – Revelation 17:7-13.
“Babylon” sits on the same malignant creature seen earlier “ascending from the sea.” It was an amalgamation of the four “beasts from the sea” from Daniel. Now, we discover the “lineage” of the “beast” and preview its destruction, all described with language from Daniel’s vision of the “fourth beast” and its “little horn.”
Continue readingBabylon is revealed as a bejeweled harlot dripping with the shed blood of martyred saints – Revelation 17:1-6.
In chapter 17, Revelation presents the impressive figure of “Babylon.” She is labeled “harlot” and identified as the “great city,” and she is responsible for the deaths of the martyrs. “Babylon” is also closely associated with the deceptions and economic power of the “Beast.” In her, the book’s first audience would see the city of Rome.
Continue readingThe 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.”
Continue readingThe sixth “bowl of wrath” causes the final battle between the “Lamb” and the forces of the “Dragon” – Revelation 16:12-16.
The first four “bowls” targeted the economic foundations of the beastly empire, and the fifth attacked its political power. When the sixth “bowl” is emptied, demonic forces gather the “kings of the earth” to the final battle of the “Great Day of God the Almighty” at “Armageddon,” the last desperate effort by Satan to unseat the “Lamb.”
Continue readingThe first four “bowls” destroyed the economic structure of Babylon. The next “bowl” targets its political sphere – Revelation 16:10-11.
The first “four bowls of wrath” attacked the economic infrastructure of the empire used to dominate the “inhabitants of the earth” and to wage war on the “saints,” leaving the global commerce on which the “beast” depended destroyed. Now, the “fifth bowl” targets its political power and prestige.
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