“Come down and sit in the dust,O virgin daughter of Babylon;Sit on the ground without a throne,O daughter of the Chaldeans!For you shall no more be calledTender and delicate.2 Take the millstones and grind meal.Remove your veil,Take off the skirt,Uncover the thigh,Pass through the rivers.3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered,Yes, your shame will be seen;I will take...
Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. Genesis 11:1-3 The second point...
Go forth from Babylon! “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.” Isaiah 48.20-22 “Hear this, O house of Jacob,Who are called by the name of Israel,And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah;Who swear by the name of the Lord,And make mention of the God of Israel,But not in truth or in righteousness;2 For they call themselves after the...
Here’s Babylon, here’s Jerusalem. What do we know about Babylon? Where is Babylon? Here’s a map which shows you where Jerusalem is. Babylon is in today’s Iraq. Sometimes the country is known as ‘Mesopotamia’, which means the country of the two rivers: the river Euphrates and the river Tigris which flow down into the Persian Gulf and which were the seat of an...
17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go. 18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19 Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And...
Kyuwon Park It’s very interesting to study Babylon because, if you go to Revelation, this Babylon will represent the coming kingdom of the Antichrist. So, there is a big similarity between ancient Babylon and the new Babylon to come. And both were dealt with in supernatural ways by the Lord: by its king’s conversion in Daniel chapter 4, and by the coming Antichrist being thrown into hell...
ESPAÑOL Français This may sound like a weird sci fi script, but very intelligent and powerful people are taking it seriously. It is an expression of human rebellion against God and is doomed to utter failure and defeat in God’s time, although it may have its hour of apparent victory for a brief while in the time of the antichrist. This reminds me of the Tower of Babel (note the Hebrew word Bavel...
24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;25 Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge...
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1.8-9 14 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives— The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their...
Let’s have a look at Revelation 13 and make one or two conclusions from it. If you have your Bibles, you can turn to Revelation 13. Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a...