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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