Revelation 14:8

The Fall of Babylon, i.e. Rome (see on Revelation 17:5; Revelation 18), is spoken of as if it had already taken place. RV 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, which hath made,' etc.: cp. Isaiah 21:9; Daniel 4:30. The wrath of her fornication] i.e. the wrath of God incurred by her unfaithfulness to God in which they had shared: cp. Revelation 17:2; Jeremiah 51:7.

9-13. God's wrath is denounced on any who fall away from the Lamb to the beast (Revelation 14:9). Their woe is described in language drawn from Isaiah 34:8., and from the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Revelation 14:10.). The wrath of God is more terrible than that of the beast, hence the endurance of the 'saints' is justified (Revelation 14:12). Therefore, also, it is well with those who have died in persecution in the faith of Christ; for while death brings no rest to those who worship the beast (cp. Revelation 14:11), the death of the saints brings rest from their labours and sorrows (Revelation 14:13).