755. 18:2 And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great." This symbolically means that the influx made known that by the Lord's Divine power, people who were caught up in the Roman Catholic religion and at the same time in a love of exercising dominion because of it, were all destroyed in the spiritual world and cast into numerous hells.

That this is the symbolic meaning of these words can be seen from the short work, The Last Judgment and Babylon Destroyed (London, 1758), where Babylon's destruction is described, nos. 53-64, from which it can be seen that the people of the Roman Catholic religion who were destroyed and cast into hell were those who, driven by the fire of their self-love, exercised dominion over the Lord's Divine sanctities having to do with heaven and the church, and who were nothing but idolaters. On the other hand, those of the same religion who lived in accordance with the Ten Commandments by refraining from evils as sins, and at the same time looked to the Lord, were saved, as may be seen in A Continuation Concerning the Last Judgment and the Spiritual World, no. 58, to which there is no need to add more.

Something similar is said of Babylon in Isaiah:

A lion cried... on the watchtower... and said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground." (Isaiah 21:8-9)

People of that religion of the same character are, since the Last Judgment, gathered together and from time to time sent to their comrades.

This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, through a Swedenborgian lens.

Title: The Moon Under Her Feet

Topic: Salvation

Summary: What does it mean that the woman clothed with the sun, in the Book of Revelation, has the moon under her feet?

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References:
Revelation 12:1
Psalms 89:34-37
Hebrews 11:1
Isaiah 60:17-20, 19-21
Psalms 72:5-7
Revelation 21:22-24
Genesis 3:15
Exodus 24:10
2 Samuel 22:10
1 Kings 5:3
Psalms 8; 47:2-3
Jeremiah 8:2
Malachi 4:2-3