The Last Judgement # 53
53. IX. BABYLON AND ITS DESTRUCTION.
All the predictions made in the book of Revelation have to-day been fulfilled (see above 40-44). The last chapter demonstrated that the Last Judgment has already taken place, and showed how it took place on the Mohammedans and the heathen. The next subject is how it took place on the Roman Catholics, who are what is meant by Babylon as mentioned in many passages of Revelation, and in particular its destruction in chapter 18. This is described thus:
The angel cried out in a loud voice, Fallen, fallen is Babylon and become the dwelling of demons, and the prison of every impure 1 spirit, and the prison of every unclean and hateful bird. Revelation 18:2.
But before the story of how the destruction happened some preliminary remarks are needed:
(i) What is meant by Babylon and what it is like.
(ii) What the people from Babylon are like in the other life.
(iii) Where their dwellings have been up to now.
(iv) Why their presence there was tolerated up to the day of the Last Judgment.
(v) How they were destroyed and their dwellings turned into a desert.
(vi) Those of them who had an affection for truth arising from good were preserved.
(vii) The future state of those who come from earth from that source.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. [In AR the translation follows the Greek more exactly in using the word for 'unclean' of both the spirit and the bird.]
Genesis 11:1-9
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The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
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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.
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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."
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Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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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.
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Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
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So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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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.
