Babylon Is Fallen, Is Fallen!

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 21:6 For thus has the Lord said to me: "Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees." 7 And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels, And he listened earnestly with great care. 8 Then he cried, "A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night. 9 And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!" Then he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground." 10 Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I have declared to you.

Babylon, that mighty city, is fallen, is fallen! (Twice for emphasis) A very real part of history. This city and all of its glory would come to an end. Their gods all smashed to the ground.  The Lord wants us to note this well because HE brings it up again in the Book of Revelation!

 

Re 14:8 says, “And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."

In the Book of Revelation  we have a message for the church for all time! It is a reminder of the victory, the final defeat of all that is anti-christian.

 

Babylon in the Book of Revelation represents all the enemies of the church for all time.

 

In the Old Testament, Babylon had carried the unchaste or unfaithful Israel off to captivity. When Babylon fell, it signaled the release of all the captives and their return to the promised land.  This is what is being proclaimed in a prophetic manner in the Book of Revelation.

 

On Judgment Day, Babylon will fall, will fall! Brought low, defeated., she will deceive no more. She will no longer array herself against the Lamb and His church. She is fallen fallen! She will no longer lead the unsuspecting to her poisoned trough of unfaithfulness that brings about judgement to all who drink from it.

When you look around our world today and find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the victories of the enemy, remember they are short-lived. In the end the antichristian forces of the world will be cast down and trampled by the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word