And when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder.”Ĭomment: There were no martyrs of Jesus until after His return to heaven. Revelation 17:6 “And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Revelation 18:21 “And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.”Ĭomment: Babylon can still be found today, so it has not been cast down forever. The city of Babylon will disappear like a sinking stone, never to be found again. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.”Ĭomment: The same illustration of the fall of Babylon is used in both Jeremiah and Revelation. Jeremiah 51:63-64 “And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates: and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her and they shall be weary. Jeremiah 51:62 “and say, O Jehovah, thou has spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever.”Ĭomment: Babylon is not desolate. Commerce still takes place, people still travel through, and people still live there. The nations of the world are still making deals with that area of the world. And I will execute Judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.”Ĭomment: People are still visiting the ancient ruins of Babylon. Jeremiah 51:43-44 “Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. The new bricks have his name inscribed on them. Saddam reused the original bricks of the ancient city and mixed them with new bricks in an attempt to restore the city to its original condition. Jeremiah 51:26 “And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations but thou shalt be desolate forever, saith Jehovah.”Ĭomment: Further evidence that Babylon has not been laid completely desolate is the fact that the late Saddam Hussein was in the process of restoring the city. Unlike Sodom and Gomorrah, which were completely destroyed and now no longer exist, Babylon remains a city in Iraq. As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.”Ĭomment: There is still a town of Babylon in Iraq. Jeremiah 50:39-40 “Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. It is not destroyed or desolate today, and people are still living there. It shall never be inhabited neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.”Ĭomment: The fall of Babylon has to be a future event because when it falls it will be completely destroyed and laid desolate, never to be inhabited again. Isaiah 13:19-20 “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. With the fall of Babylon, all the prophecies about it will have been completed. The fall of Babylon was still a future event when John wrote the book of Revelation and the prophecies recorded therein do not describe any historical events that have happened since then.
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