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Revelation 14:8

REVELATION—NOTE ON Revelation 14:8 Another angel announces that Babylon is fallen (echoing Isaiah 21:9). Babylon was the greatest power of its day. Babylon conquered Judah. In John’s day, Rome was the nation with “dominion over the kings of the earth” (Revelation 17:18) that oppressed Christ’s people (Revelation 17:6). Yet Revelation’s “Babylon” transcends Rome, since its fall comes at the end of history (Revelation 15:1; Revelation 16:17). the passion of her sexual immorality. Babylon the prostitute represents the temptations of material wealth and pleasure. These things tempt the people into serving something other than the Lord.

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