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World Rule who is to seek universal worship for himself, saying "I will be like the Most
High" (Isa. 14: 4-23 and Rev. 13:). Jeremiah prophecies concerning Babylon, and he
too is careful to locate Babylon geographically:--
"The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the
CHALDEANS" (Jer. 50: 1).
One incident that marks the overthrow of Babylon is the return of both Israel and
Judah:--
"In those days and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they
and the children of Judah together . . . . . let us join ourselves unto the Lord in a perpetual
covenant" (Jer. 50: 4, 5).
This fixes the time of fulfillment as being yet future. The nation concerning whom
Jeremiah prophecies is called "the hindermost (or the last) of the nations" (Jer. 50: 12),
which is the position of Babylon at the time of the Lord's return. The reader is urged to
read Jer. 50: and 51: for himself and note the many points of contact with Revelation. To
stimulate the reader to make the comparison we transcribe the following list of parallels
from Dr. E. W. Bullinger's "The Apocalypse". A similar list may be found in the
prophetic studies of B. W. Newton:--
Jer. 51: 13.
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Rev. 17: 1.
Jer. 51: 7.
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Rev. 17: 4.
Jer. 51: 7.
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Rev. 17: 2.
Isa. 47: 5, 7.
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Rev. 17: 18 and 18: 7, 8.
Jer. 51: 25.
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Rev. 18: 8.
Jer. 51: 6, 45; 50: 8.
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Rev. 18: 4.
Jer. 51: 9.
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Rev. 18: 5.
Jer. 51: 15; 51: 24-49.
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Rev. 18: 6.
Jer. 50: 29.
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Rev. 18: 6.
Jer. 51: 8 (Isa. 21: 9).
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Rev. 18: 2.
Jer. 51: 63, 64.
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Rev. 18: 21.
Isa. 13: 21.
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Rev. 18: 2.
Isa. 24: 8, 10.
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Rev. 18: 23.
When John saw the vision of the woman sitting upon the beast he said:--
"And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus; and I wondered when I saw her with a great wonder" (Rev. 17: 6).
The question that arises sooner or later in this connection is "Will Babylon be
rebuilt?" Zechariah, the prophet of Israel's restoration, foretells the revival of Babylon.
In Zech. 5: I-11 we have a woman, and wickedness taken back in an Ephah "to build it
an house in the LAND OF SHINAR". This prophecy necessitates the revival of Babylon.
Babylon has never been destroyed as Scripture says it will be--"suddenly" (Jer. 51: 8).
When the stone cut out without hands struck the Colossus on the feet, the whole image,
the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces together, and
the stone became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.