Apocalypse Explained # 1030
1030. Verses 1, 2. And there came one of the seven angels having the seven vials, and talked with me saying unto me, Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; with whom the kings of the earth have committed whoredom, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom.
"And there came one of the seven angels having the seven vials, and talked with me," signifies the state of the church with the Papists, made manifest; "saying unto me, Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore," signifies their religious persuasion, in which all the good and truth of the church is adulterated and profaned; "that sitteth upon many waters," signifies ruling over all things of the Word, and thence over the holy things of the church.
"With whom the kings of the earth have committed whoredom," signifies that they have falsified all the truths of the church; "and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom," signifies that from falsifications those who belong to the church are made insane.
Genesis 11:1-9
1
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2
It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
3
They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4
They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
5
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
6
Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
7
Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
9
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
