Revelation Lesson-37: The Fall of Babylon - Part I

Today we are in Lesson-37 in the series “Come Lord Jesus!” from the book of Revelation.
 
This lesson is titled “The Fall of Babylon – Part I” and our focus passage is Revelation 18:1-8.
 
Please find your way in your Bible to that passage.

In our previous episode, we concluded our study of Revelation 17, “The Doom of Babylon”.
 
In Rev. 17, John sees a vision of the doom planned for Babylon. Babylon represents the opposition system to God driven, engineered by Satan, and led by the Beast, the Antichrist.
 
From the tower of Babel to the Babylonian empire to the Roman empire (under which John is living), Babylon opposes God and persecutes His people.

In today’s lesson we begin our study of Revelation 18.
 
With this chapter we are concluding what you can call a mini-series on the ultimate demise of Babylon, the evil world system that opposes God and oppresses His people.
 
Revelation 17 declared the judgment of Babylon and in Rev. 18 we will see that judgment carried out.
 
We will get also more details about the devastating nature of this judgment.

In today’s lesson we will focus on the first division, “The Judgment of Babylon” (v1-8).
 
Then next time we will conclude our study of this chapter and we will focus on the “The Lament Over Babylon” (v9-19) and “The End of Babylon” (v20-24).
 
Let’s get started.