| “And great Babylon come in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath” (Revelation 16:19). |
| “And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all” (Revelation 18:21). |
| Here again, at the end of the Bible, we find the name of Babylon mentioned again. It is obviously not the same as the tower of Babel we read about in Genesis, nor is it the city of Babylon in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. This time it is the great religious and political system of things that will develop in the world after the Lord comes and takes us home to heaven. At that time, the pride of man will reach a tremendous height, and they will even think, at one point, that they can fight against God. |
| We will not go into a lot of detail about all that is going to happen, but we will only point out that the same pride that started away back in the time of Nimrod and continued into the time of Nebuchadnezzar, will still be present even after we are safely at home with the Lord. The name of Babylon is the name used to describe that pride, and it will an awful thing to see. Yet we read that when the Lord brings down judgment on that whole system, it “shall be found no more at all.” God hates pride, for as we have noted before, the pride of man takes the glory that belongs only to God, and gives it to man. God is going to bring down all of man’s pride, so that His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, can be exalted above all else. |
| Many people on this earth at that time will be very sad when this happens, for a lot of business and commerce will be lost when that whole system is gone. The lives of many people will be disrupted. But God must do this, so that His kingdom can be established. All the evil must be taken away so that the Lord Jesus can reign over the earth as the rightful King. |
