Thursday Bible Life Today Revelation 18 8-15-2024

Revelation chapter 18 tells of the destruction of Commercial or Political Babylon. The response from the kings of the earth will be wearing and wailing and sorrow, but the response from heaven will be joy and rejoicing.
Religious Babylon in chapter 17 was destroyed by the 10 kings of the earth who give their allegiance to the Beast, the antichrist.
But Commercial or Political Babylon in chapter 18 will be destroyed by the Lord Jesus Christ when He returns to set up His Kingdom.
The items listed in verses 9 through 19 are not symbolic but are literal things that were bought and sold by the kings and participants of the Beast kingdom for prophet and pleasure, but will be ultimately lost when Babylon is destroyed by Christ's return.