196 - What Is So Bad about Babylon
Napsal(a) Jonathan S. Rose
Title: What Is So Bad about Babylon
Topic: Salvation
Summary: Babylon is singled out in the Bible for particularly strong condemnation, even hundreds of years after the literal Babylon was defunct. Why? What does it mean? (For the missing last ten minutes, see part 2.)
Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.
References:
Genesis 11:1-end
Isaiah 13; 14
Jeremiah 50
Isaiah 13:1-19; 14:4, 12-13; 21:9
Jeremiah 50:1-6, 26-27, 29, 31, 36-37, 40, 44; 51:7, 25, 39, 45
Revelation 14:8; 16:19; 17:3-4, 14-18; 18:2, 7, 15
Daniel 3:1, 5
Matthew 4:8-10
Isaiah 12
1
In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
2
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."
3
Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4
In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
5
Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!
6
Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great in the midst of you!"