What the Bible says about Beast and Babylon
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Psalm 53:2 This verse provides an overall solution to Israel's unbelieving, stubborn, and debilitating proclivity toward fickleness that draws one right into the maelstrom of Babylon to seek its brand of fulfillment. Do we truly believe God is working with us and judging our responses? Do we respond by truly seeking Him? John W. Ritenbaugh The Beast and Babylon (Part Seven): How Can Israel Be the Great Whore? Related Topics: Beast and Babylon | Israel as Great Whore | Israel's Fickleness

Daniel 2:38 Each of the other portions of this image represent powerful kingdoms that, in terms of time, would follow Babylon in dominating the Western world through the centuries: Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. They did not dominate the entire world—perhaps they could have—but there is no doubt they dominated the part of the world that the Bible is concerned with, the one that the Israelitish descendents of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived in. But because the head represents Babylon—and the head directs the entire body—the image in Daniel 2 also shows the continuation of the same general Babylonish system right to the end of the kingdom represented by the feet and the toes. In other words, that image shows that the pattern established under Nimrod continues right on down until today. John W. Ritenbaugh Where Is the Beast? (Part Two) Related Topics: Babylon | Babylonish System | Beast and Babylon | Daniel's Vision | Greek Empire | Medo-Persia | Medo-Persian Empire | Nimrod | Nimrod as Despot | Rome

Revelation 17:18 The mention of kings doing obeisance to her indicates her political influence is worldwide, and she can be perceived as the source of an attempt to produce world government. Do the kings of the earth today do obeisance to the Catholic Church? To the contrary, they seem to be doing all they can to negate any influence the Catholic Church might have. John W. Ritenbaugh The Beast and Babylon (Part Ten): Babylon the Great Is a Nation Related Topics: Babylon as a Literal Nation | Babylon the Great | Beast and Babylon | Roman Catholic Church

 

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