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An Outline of Revelation 18

By

E.J. Young

ARTICLE

QUESTION : Will you please outline the eighteenth chapter of Revelation?” —A. A.

CHAPTER 18. THE JUDGMENT UPON BABYLON THE GREAT.

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Vv. 1-3: Babylon's Judgment Announced In Advance. Another angel (i.e., not the one mentioned in chapter 17) announces with a great cry the downfall of the great world city, Babylon. With Babylon have aligned themselves the spirits opposed to God as also the men of the world, and they fall with Babylon.

Vv. 4-8: The Judgment Carried Out. The Lord (the other Voice) commands His people to come out of Babylon, lest they be contaminated with her sins and suffer in her punishment. Because of the enormity of her sins, Babylon is to perish.

Vv. 9-20: A threefold lamentation over Babylon. Vv. 9, 10: The kings of the earth lament Babylon's destruction. Vv. 11-16: The lamenting cry of earth's merchants. Vv. 17-19: The cry of woe of the shipmasters. The ones who have benefited through the presence of Babylon are the ones whose bitter cry ascends when Babylon perishes.

Vv. 21-24: Babylon's Fall Is Symbolized. As a great stone is cast by an angel into the sea and disappears, so will Babylon go. "The place thereof shall know it no more." All trace of Babylon is gone. Great was Babylon and, in her, God's witnesses were martyred.

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Notes

E.J. Young

Professor of Old Testament from 1936 until his death in 1968. He served as the moderator of the OPC general assembly in 1956 and was also a member of the American Oriental Society, the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.

An Outline of Revelation 18

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