{"id":1032,"date":"2018-05-30T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2018-05-30T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:51:16","slug":"devotion-revelation-189-20-the-horror-of-woes-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Revelation 18:9-20 The Horror of Woes Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revelation 18:9-20\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0\u201cWhen the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her\u00a0and shared her luxury\u00a0see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her.<\/i><\/span>\u00a010\u00a0Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off\u00a0and cry: \u201c\u2018Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon!\u00a0 In one hour\u00a0your doom has come!\u2019\u00a0 11\u00a0\u201cThe merchants\u00a0of the earth will weep and mourn\u00a0over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore\u2014<\/span>\u00a012\u00a0cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;<\/span>\u00a013\u00a0cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves. 14\u00a0\u201cThey will say, \u2018The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered.\u2019<\/span>\u00a015\u00a0The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her\u00a0will stand far off,\u00a0terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn<\/span>\u00a016\u00a0and cry out: \u201c\u2018Woe! Woe to you, great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! 17\u00a0In one hour\u00a0such great wealth has been brought to ruin!\u2019 \u201cEvery sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea,\u00a0will stand far off.18\u00a0When they see the smoke of her burning,\u00a0they will exclaim, \u2018Was there ever a city like this great city?\u2019<\/span>\u00a019\u00a0They will throw dust on their heads,\u00a0and with weeping and mourning\u00a0cry out: \u201c\u2018Woe! Woe to you, great city, where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth!\u00a0 In one hour she has been brought to ruin!\u2019 20\u00a0\u201cRejoice over her, you heavens! Rejoice, you people of God! Rejoice, apostles and prophets! For God has judged her with the judgment she imposed on you.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her\u00a0and shared her luxury\u00a0see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her.<\/i><\/span>\u00a010\u00a0Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off\u00a0and cry: \u201c\u2018Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon!\u00a0 In one hour\u00a0your doom has come!\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0This Babylon, the \u201cgreat city\u201d has experienced her sudden doom.\u00a0 This verse is describing something that has already happened.\u00a0 Babylon has been destroyed. \u00a0\u00a0She who was powerful and rich now lay in smoldering ruins.\u00a0 The Kings of the earth, who were seduced by her, are in utter despair, not merely weeping, but wailing at her loss.\u00a0 For with the loss of this \u201cgreat city\u201d goes the economy of the world.\u00a0 She will not be around to buy the goods from the world.\u00a0 She is gone and the economies of the world are sent into a tailspin.\u00a0 They mourn but not for her, but for their selves.\u00a0 Babylon has violently and suddenly been destroyed.\u00a0 What event but a nuclear attack could bring about such sudden, complete and utter devastation?\u00a0 What event but a nuclear attack would keep the other countries at bay from approaching her.\u00a0 Her destruction comes in \u201cone hour\u201d and no comes to help, but merely watch the smoke of her destruction from a distance.\u00a0 These kings, watching from afar, afraid of nuclear pollution should have feared what she peddled that was worse, moral pollution.\u00a0 They should have never gotten into in bed with her and thereby tied their future to her.\u00a0 This Babylon exported the love of money and the me-first attitude.\u00a0 Now she is burning in judgment because of her sins.\u00a0 Yes, the kings and the world should not have been seduced.\u00a0 Now they should learn (though they should have learned sooner) that all who align with her will also be destroyed.\u00a0 Woe, woe indeed!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c\u201cThe merchants\u00a0of the earth will weep and mourn\u00a0over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore\u2014<\/i><\/span>\u201c\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>The kings of the world worry, they know that the commerce of their nations is now in a freefall.\u00a0 The merchants are also watching this happening.\u00a0 They are also all out wailing and mourning over the destruction of Babylon. Yet they do not mourn for Babylon\u2019s sake but for their own.\u00a0 The smoke of Babylon represents the fate of their own businesses.\u00a0 The great importer is gone and there is none who can buy and consume as she did.\u00a0 The merchants mourn for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201ccargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;<\/i><\/span>\u00a013\u00a0cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0What Babylon was buying from the world was not necessities, but luxuries.\u00a0 They were buying expensive materials for fine clothing decoration.\u00a0 They were buying the finest materials for their houses and the furnishings.\u00a0 They bought the finest perfumes and cosmetics.\u00a0 Food that was purchased was not needed for sustenance, but rather for fine dining.\u00a0 Expensive transportation flooded through their ports.\u00a0 Then, and worst and most damning of all, they were involved in the buying and selling of human bodies and destroying human souls (KJV- \u201cbodies and souls of men\u201d).\u00a0 Babylon was heavily involved in human trafficking.\u00a0 People were used as objects to bring ease, comfort, and or momentary pleasure to the rich.\u00a0 Even the poor would join in to pleasure themselves with enslaved women.\u00a0 Shamefully, even children were purchased.\u00a0 Children had their spirits walked upon for a few minute pleasure!\u00a0 Oh God, how patient you are!\u00a0 The stop-at-nothing lust for self-indulgence consumed the lives of the helpless.\u00a0\u00a0 And God seethed.<\/span><\/p>\n

This nation of Babylon did not receive power and wealth in and of itself, just as no man or corporation is built without God. For God\u2019s purposes He had blessed Babylon but Babylon did not use her riches to spread the blessings of God throughout the world, but rather became puffed up with pride. \u00a0She thought herself invincible, even untouchable (Revelation 18:7<\/b>).\u00a0 She used others, she consumed while she did not share.\u00a0 She turned inward and thought not to bless others but deny others that her pleasure might not be lessened.\u00a0 Her pleasure was greater to her than the lives of anyone who did not belong to her.\u00a0 Oh Family, may we always remember that our treasure, our blessings, are greatest reward is to love and please God and to care for each other.\u00a0 The smile of God is more precious than all the riches of the world!\u00a0 Praise our God who loves us so!<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revelation 18:9-20\u00a0–\u00a0\u201cWhen the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her\u00a0and shared her luxury\u00a0see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her.\u00a010\u00a0Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off\u00a0and cry: \u201c\u2018Woe! Woe to you, great city, you mighty city of Babylon!\u00a0 In one hour\u00a0your doom has come!\u2019\u00a0 11\u00a0\u201cThe merchants\u00a0of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[94,17,711],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}