"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 by saying, "I AM, and none

else beside Me" (verse 8).

Jeremiah speaks the word of the Lord against Babylon, and occupies chapters 50: & 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" (Jer. 51: 7). Babylon is addressed as a `destroying mountain' in 51: 25, and is

threatened with judgment. "I will make thee a burnt mountain" (51: 25). "As Babylon

hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth"

(51: 49).  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" (51: 64).

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" together with six other references to her as `the great city' or

`great whore'. 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 drink the wine of the wrath 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" (verse 7). 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 earthquake 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, a mystery or secret, "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations

of the earth" (17: 5). The woman was drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the