The purity of this city, the Bride of the Lamb, the brilliancy, the transparency, put the tawdry gaudiness of Babylon to shame. #Revelation21 #NewJerusalem #AlphaandOmega
Revelation 18: Four Views
Because the passage is so long, please click on Revelation 18:9-24 if you would like to refresh your memory before reading how scholars have interpreted the description of Babylon’s demise. John had witnessed the shocking portrayal of Babylon and the kings who joined with this great city in promulgating blasphemies, abominations, and idolatry (which was … Continue reading Revelation 18: Four Views
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Revelation 17: Futurist and Spiritual Views of the Harlot
Then one of the seven angels pouring out the seven ceremonial bowls came out and was talking with me, saying, “Here, I will reveal to you the judgment of the great idolator/prostitute sitting upon the many waters.” In association with the rulers of the earth have practiced idolatry/indulged in unlawful sexual acts, and the ones … Continue reading Revelation 17: Futurist and Spiritual Views of the Harlot
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Revelation 17-18: Babylon the Great
Summary of the Cycles of Seven Three cycles of sevens have transpired. Scholars, as they review the whole arc of this series, see different metanarratives. Babylon old city, Hillah, Iraq - February 2022 | By Safa.daneshvar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Historicist Scholars with this perspective see the history of the church in John’s … Continue reading Revelation 17-18: Babylon the Great
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Revelation 14: Fallen, Fallen is Babylon
Technically I should have translated “it” as “she,” but I did not. Because even more technically, in English, a city is not a female. It is a very large cluster of buildings organized as an entity. Babylon is not a woman. #Babylon #FallenFallen #Rev14
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Isaiah 45: A Hope, and a Future
It can feel empowering to feel like you and I are entitled to better treatment, but we can never know the whole story, it is simply too vast. #Isaiah45 #PotterandtheClay #HopeandaFuture
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Isaiah 39: Flattery Got Them Everywhere
Assyria used weapons and threats, but that failed. The Babylonian’s subtle use of flattery and gifts worked because Hezekiah failed to take their matter to the Lord.
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Isaiah 13: Shades of Babylon
At first glance, this oracle seems to encompass a final day of judgment and wrath that sweeps up the entire globe in an event still future to us today. Yet, tucked into this far-reaching oracle are also mentions of Babylon, an empire long since crumbled into dust, with only the remnants of its grandeur ensconced in museums here and there. What do we make of this strange juxtaposition?
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Isaiah 13: From Nimrod to Babylon
the next eleven chapters, starting here in chapter thirteen, are going to be about God’s judgement on other nations.
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Isaiah 3: A Judgment That Purifies
It was a judgment that purified. When the people would return from exile seventy years later, idolatry would never again be the problem it had been.
