REVELATION 18 FALL OF BABYLON

Series ‘The future has already begun #15

IBC Eindhoven, 7 June 2020

REVELATION 17 + 18

•Revelation 17 ‘Can’t buy me love’

•The great prostitute = Babylon the Great

•Revelation 18 ‘Fall of Babylon’

•Babylon // Rome – World Trade Centres

LIBERATING JUDGEMENT (1)

•Verse 2: Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great

•Verses 10,16,19 >>> 3x Woe!

•Verse 20: Rejoice!

LIBERATING JUDGEMENT (2)

•Verse 10: in one hour your doom has come

•Verse17: in one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin

•Verse 19: in one hour she has been brought to ruin

LIBERATING JUDGEMENT (3)

•Verses 21-23 City of Babylon

•6x never to be found again

•Verse 24

• In her was found: the blood of prophets and of the saints and of all who have been killed on the earth

BABYLON: SUPER ECONOMY

•Verses 12-13: list of merchandise – 28x

•// Ezekiel 27 – but now typically Roman

•Verse 3 – wealth intoxicates > proud

• Isaiah 14:14 ‘I will ascend’

•Ezekiel 28:2 ‘I am a god’

EZEKIEL 16:49

‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were

arrogant,

overfed

and unconcerned,

they did not help the poor and needy’

COME OUT OF HER – VERSE 4

•// Genesis 19:15 and Jeremiah 51:45

•Matthew 6:24

•Luke 6:20-26

•Luke 18:25

1 TIMOTHY 6

•10: Love of money: root of all kinds of evil

•11: Flee from all this and pursue…

•12: Fight the good fight of faith

•15-16: Worship!

•18: Be generous and willing to share

1 TIMOTHY 6:21

Grace be with you