Punished because the blood. Babylon is "stained with the blood" of prophets and God's people. This requires God's vengeance! Also, this is another reason to think of Babylon as past, present, and future, rather than just a city or power at the "end time." Heaven celebrates God's victory over the prostitute, Babylon!
Verse Revelation 18:24. _IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS_, c.] She was the persecutor and murderer of prophets and of righteous men. _AND OF ALL THAT WERE SLAIN UPON THE EARTH._] This refers...
AND IN HER - When she came to be destroyed, and her real character was seen. WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS - Of the public teachers of the true religion. On the word “prophets” see the notes on Rev...
CHAPTER 18 Revelation 18:1 . Babylon is now seen under another aspect. In the former chapter we have the religious center of Rome and her wicked idolatries, in the present chapter it includes also th...
THE REJOICING IN HEAVEN OVER THE FALL OF ROME. Revelation 18:20. judged your judgement: vindicated the cause of the Christian Church against Rome. REVELATION 18:21. TOOK UP A STONE: a symbolical act...
And a strong angel lifted a stone like a great mill-stone, and cast it into the sea. "Thus, he said, "with a rush Babylon the great city will be cast down, and will never again be found. The sound of...
THE DOOM OF ROME (Revelation 18:1-3)...
PROPHETS. App-189. SAINTS. See Revelation 18:20 (holy)....
_And in her_ St John passes from recording the angel's denunciation to the impression made on his own mind by the judgement he witnessed. _of all that were slain upon the earth_ Cf. Jeremiah 51:49, wh...
ΑἾΜΑ. Tisch[684] reads αἴματα with B2 and And. comm[685] [684] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited. [685] comm. Andreas’ Commentary: the text of the MSS...
THE REJOICING OVER HER IN HEAVEN...
_GREAT JOY AT THE SIGHT OF BABYLON'S RUIN -- REVELATION 18:20-24:_ The righteous were affected very differently by the fall of Rome. God's people were to celebrate the fact that He had executed vengea...
ΕΎΡΈΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΕΥΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΈΣΦΑΓΜΈΝΩΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΣΦΆΖΩ (G4969) закалывать, убивать....
A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE, &C.— Farther to confirm the sudden fall and irrecoverable destruction of Rome, an emblem is given, similar to that in Jeremiah 51:63. _A mighty angel casteth a milstone...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 60 Text Revelation 18:21-24 21 And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XVIII BABYLON IS FALLEN _Text (Revelation 18:1-24)_ 1 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was light...
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. Applied by Christ () to apostate Jerusalem, which proves that not merely literal Rome, and the...
__ Temple Section-Babylon's Destruction 16 "Gilded" seems to be a figure for all mere outward show, for it is with gold, and precious stones and pearls. 21 In the East the millstone is used to grin...
THE FALL OF BABYLON In the last c., the fall of Rome, and the manner of its fall, were prophetically announced. In this c., the greatness of the tragedy is shown by songs of thanksgiving and of lamen...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 18 THE FUNERAL OF BABYLON - REVELATION 18:1-24 V1 Then I saw another *angel come down from heaven. This *angel had great power. The...
AND IN HER WAS FOUND... — It is not by seductiveness only that her guilt is measured: her hands are defiled with blood: the blood of prophets, who had witnessed against her: of saints, whose holy live...
CHAPTER XIV. THE FALL OF BABYLON. Revelation 18:1. BABYLON has fallen. We have now the Divine proclamation of her fate, and the lamentation of the world over the doom to which she has been consigne...
Revelation 18:21-24 : a rhythmic song of doom, introduced by a symbolic action partly imitated from Jeremiah 51:63-64....
Again, as at Revelation 18:20, the change of style (here from an apostrophe to a description) and spirit (Revelation 17:6) marks an insertion by the final editor, unless the verse originally lay after...
FALLEN LIKE A STONE INTO THE SEA Revelation 18:14 This section delineates the utter desolation which will ensue when the judgments of God have finished their mission against professing but unfaithful...
The vision of the destruction of Babylon as directly resulting from the government of God is now given. It is announced, "Fallen is Babylon." Her condition is described as that of a habitation of demo...
As Harkrider says, "There will 'no more' be the amusement life, business life, or even the home life which existed in the arrogant, rebellious" city of John's revelation. The reason all this comes to...
And in her was found the (15) blood of prophets, (16) and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. (15) That is shed by bloody massacres, and calling for vengeance. (16) That is, proved...
REFLECTIONS BLESSED be the Lord! the destruction of the whore is come! One hour, when the time all along predicted arrives, is enough, and all her traffic in hunting souls, and ruining the world, is...
(21) And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. (2...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
Babylon Has Fallen Psalms 13:2...How long will my enemy be exalted over me? (NKJV) Psalms 35:17 Lord, how long will You look on?... (NKJV) Psalms 74:10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Wil...
Chapter 18 announces the judgment. The one difficulty here is Verse 4 (Revelation 18:4), coming where it is; but, as every difficulty in scripture, it leads into further light. The destruction of Baby...
AND IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND OF SAINTS,.... Such as before mentioned, in Revelation 18:20 this is another reason of her destruction, besides her luxury and idolatry, namely, her shed...
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. Ver. 24. _And in her was found_] Rome hath ever been the slaughter house of the saints, as Jerusa...
_The voice of harpers_ Players on stringed instruments; _and musicians_ Skilful singers in particular; _and pipers_ Who played on flutes, chiefly on mournful, whereas _trumpeters_ played on joyful occ...
ALL NATIONS DECEIVED-THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS-SAINTS, AND OF ALL THAT WERE SLAIN; deceitfulness and cruelty were among her grand characteristics; and for them and her other numerous sins she is visited w...
The persecution of Christians by rulers or people, civil or ecclesiastical, even if in compliance with human laws, is never overlooked or forgotten by Jehovah. It is an aggravated sin, which in due ti...
AND IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS AND OF SAINTS AND OF ALL THAT WERE SLAIN UPON THE EARTH. Here the seer pictures inevitable doom, total and terrible desolation: And there lifted up one might...
The punishment completed:...
GOD'S JUDGMENT OF GREAT BABYLON In Revelation 17:1 we have seen that the destruction of Great Babylon is by the hand of the Beast and his ten horns. Now, in Revelation 18:1, the judgment is seen to be...
_ 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.”_ A. Immorality is NOT a victimless crime. When a person commits fornication - a spouse, children,...
20-24 That which is matter of rejoicing to the servants of God on earth, is matter of rejoicing to the angels in heaven. The apostles, who are honoured and daily worshipped at Rome in an idolatrous m...
In the rubbish of Rome, when destroyed, will be found the blood of all those holy servants of God, whether ministers of the gospel, or professors of it, who ever since the year 606, when the pope came...
Revelation 18:24 And G2532 in G1722 her G846 found G2147 (G5681) blood G129 prophets G4396 and G2532 saints...
‘And in her was found the blood of prophets and of the people of God (saints) and of all who have been slain on the earth.' But she was also responsible for the martyrdom and murder of the countless m...
Revelation 18:22-24. The destruction spoken of is enlarged on in strains of touching eloquence, but it is unnecessary to dwell on the particulars. They include everything belonging either to the busin...
IN HER (εν αυτη). In Rome.WAS FOUND (ευρεθη). First aorist passive indicative of ευρισκω. See Revelation 16:6; Revelation 17:6 for the blood already shed by Rome. Rome "butchered to make a Roman h...
We have no difficulty in knowing to what city this great Babylon refers, for the Church of Rome, in the plenitude of its wisdom, has taken the title to itself in attempting to claim that Peter was the...
CONTENTS: Last form of apostate Christendom and the warning to God's people. The human and the angelic views of Babylon. CONCLUSION: As there is to be an ecclesiastical Babylon («confusion») heading u...
Revelation 18:1. _Another angel came down from heaven and the earth was lightened with his glory._ This was an angel of the highest order, _having great power._ It may be the Lord himself, the mission...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 18:24 God will judge Babylon and the beast for shedding the BLOOD of his PROPHETS and SAINTS (see...
Another voice from heaven bids the people of God to come out of her, for her sins have reached unto heaven. God's people must ever be a separate people, not conformed to the world, but transformed. Th...
FOR the reasons given at the foot of page 553, no suggestions for exegetical or homiletical treatment are given in connection with chap. 18...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 18:1 AND AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _after _[omitting "and"]… _coming down, _etc. The usual form of introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelat...
_24 AND IN HER WAS FOUND THE BLOOD OF PROPHETS, AND OF SAINTS, AND OF ALL THAT WERE SLAIN UPON THE EARTH._ No city or country on earth could possibly qualify to fulfill this verse. This verse is not...
CHAPTER 18 - BABYLON THE GREAT EXPLAINED The focus of the previous chapter was about the judgment of the harlot religious system that rode the Beast. The main focus of this chapter will be about the j...
Now after these things I saw another angel (Revelation 18:1) It may be one of the seven. It doesn't really declare or it could be outside of the seven. It is just another angel as far as we know. com...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; Acts 7:52; Daniel 7:21; Ezekiel 22:12; E
MYSTIC AND COMMERCIAL BABYLON Revelation 17:1 _and Revelation 18:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of Revelation discusses what we call mystic Babylon; and the eighteenth presents commer...
And in her was found the blood of the prophets and saints — The same angel speaks still, yet he does not say "in thee," but in her, now so sunk as not to hear these last words. And of all that had bee...