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
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