Revelation 18:1-3 – After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. 2 With a mighty voice he shouted:
“‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal. 3 For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”
“After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.” The angel that comes down from heaven is said to have “great authority” and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. This angel was surely one of the most powerful angels.
“With a mighty voice he shouted: “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’” Babylon who had great power and influence over the world to entice the world to emulate her is fallen. It is not a slow ebbing away, but a mighty crash that the world will see and mourn.
“She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.” As we have seen Babylon has been described, she is a city loved by those who do not love God and to those who do love God, she is a horror. Nowadays people don’t want to believe in the supernatural, they don’t want to believe that in our day and age demons are a trouble. They want to ascribe their evil in ways that don’t frighten, or that make sense to them. Even in the church. The Word of God is clear that demons have always plagued mankind and they will continue to so.
“For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”’ This Babylon is a three headed monster, it is political, financial and religious. The Antichrist uses these points to infiltrate all the earth. It is easy for those who care to honestly look at the contemporary world, that the antichrist spirit is alive and thriving in our world. We have people and nations whose politics care nothing for the will of God, or for the good of all, but only want the politics to suit their own beliefs. Their selfish beliefs are placed before God. Financially those who have and could give that none should suffer refuse to do so. This is a me-first world. On the religious front every year more and more churches accept the abominable to appease their sinful desires and to appease the evil in the world. In the final days, this will all be magnified.
In the next verses we will see that all believers are called to be separated from the abominations of the world. God has always called us to be separate from the world. Not physically separate, but spiritually separate. We do not live in separated colonies because then we could not share the Gospel with them. We are not to pull back our affections but to love them as God loves them. But we are not to love and approve of their evil deeds. Let’s keep our eyes on Jesus and follow Him. Then we shall find ourselves forever with God in Heaven. Praise God.
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.