Calvary Bible Church Bible Study
The Book of the Revelation
LESSON 16: JUDGMENT ON BABYLON. 17:1–18:24 (part 2, chapter 18)
This chapter carries on the subject of God’s judgment on Babylon. Since the church is the Bride of Christ and a city, the New Jerusalem (see 21:9–10), there is no valid reason to deny that the harlot Babylon is a city (cf. 18:10). It is proper to think of Babylon in chapter 17 as a vast religious (ecclesiastical) system (vrs. 2, 4, 6), and also in chapter 18 as a huge interlocking commercial system (vrs. 3, 11–17). The present chapter pictures the doom of so-called civilization in its social and commercial aspects. Civilization ever since the time of Cain has followed a path apart from God. Continue Reading Here