who said, "I will be like the Most High". Again, in "the burden of the desert of the sea",

come the words, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen" (21: 9). In Isa. 47: 1-15 we have

another prophecy of Babylon's doom. Babylon is addressed as a woman that had been

called, "the lady of kingdoms", and which had usurped the Divine prerogative of saying,

"I AM, and none else beside Me".

Jeremiah speaks the word of the Lord against Babylon, and occupies chapters 50: and

51: with threatenings of wrath to come. The vengeance that falls upon Babylon is "the

vengeance of His temple". "Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand that

made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk her wine; therefore the nations are

mad". Babylon is addressed as a "destroying mountain" in 51: 25, and is threatened with

judgment. "I will make thee a burnt mountain". "As Babylon hath caused the slain of

Israel to fall, so also at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth". Many similar

passages of great importance come in these two chapters of Jeremiah which we cannot

stay to quote. Jeremiah concludes with a solemn charge to Seraiah, who was going to

Babylon to take the book wherein all these judgments were written, to read them there, to

bind a stone to it, and to cast it into the Euphrates, and say, "Thus shall Babylon sink, and

shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary".

Just as in Isaiah we have history intertwined with prophecy, a literal Sennacherib

foreshadowing the future Antichrist in his blasphemy and his doom, so Jeremiah's

prophecy concerning Babylon had reference partly to the overthrow of Babylon of the

Medes (Jer. 51: 11), and partly to the future overthrow of the Babylon yet to be revived

again in these last days. The book of the Revelation devotes considerable space to the

fall of Babylon. Six times Babylon is mentioned, and five times out of the six she is

spoken of as being "great". Let us notice what is said in this last prophecy of the Word.

"And there followed another angel saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,

because she made all nations drunk with the wine of her fornication" (Rev. 14: 8). This

utterance has on the one side the aionian gospel, with its call to "worship Him that made

heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters". On the other there is the

threat of awful judgment upon any one who worships the beast and his image, and who

receives his mark in his forehead, or in his hand.

The next reference is in chapter 16: 19, "And great Babylon came in remembrance

before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath". A most

mighty earthquakes shakes the earth at the pouring out of the seventh vial, the great city

is divided into three parts, the cities of the nations fall, every island flees away, and

mountains are not found.  The judgment of Babylon is in a setting of world-wide

judgment.  Then follows in  chapter 17:  a description of this great city, and its

judgment. It is likened to a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast having seven

heads and full of the names of blasphemy. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet

colour, and decked with gold, precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand

full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name

written, "Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the

earth". The woman was drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the