Revelation 18 – The Fall of the Final World System
A mighty angel blazes across the sky with a message that shakes the earth:
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!”
This is more than a city—it is the final form of the world system: seductive, materialistic, spiritually corrupt. It intoxicates nations, manipulates kings, and feeds merchants with luxury built on oppression, immorality, and even human lives.
God commands:
“Come out of her, My people, lest you take part in her sins…” (Revelation 18:4)
Judgment is no longer delayed. Babylon’s arrogance—“I sit as a queen; I will never mourn”—is shattered in a single hour (v.10).
Her destruction is sudden, total, and irreversible. Kings who committed adultery with her weep. Merchants mourn. The world’s economy collapses. Ships stand far off, stunned as smoke rises from her ruins.
But heaven rejoices. The system that slaughtered the saints is gone.
A mighty angel casts a millstone into the sea and cries,
“So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence and will be found no more” (v.21).
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Modern-Day Echo
Today, Babylon is not a single city—it’s a spiritual empire cloaked in politics, entertainment, economics, and false religion. It invites compromise, sells indulgence, and redefines evil as good. The same seductive spirit is alive in modern media, corporate greed, globalist agendas, and religious syncretism. But its days are numbered.
God will not allow the blood of His saints to cry out unanswered.
What the world calls progress, heaven may call prostitution.
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Anchor the Warning:
“The world is a sinking ship, and God has sent a lifeboat. Don’t spend your life polishing brass on the Titanic.”
— Vance Havner
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Are you invested in Babylon? Or are you preparing for the Kingdom that cannot be shaken?
Jesus is coming. Babylon will fall.
Come out of her.
“For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
— Revelation 18:10
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