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07851
 [1] {Babylon}

   Babylon, "confusion," is repeatedly used by the prophets in a
   symbolic sense
 » See Note "Isa 13:1"

   Two "Babylons" are to be distinguished in the Revelation:
   ecclesiastical babylon, which is apostate Christendom, headed up
   under the Papacy; and political babylon, which is the Beast's
   confederated empire, the last form of Gentile world-dominion.
   Ecclesiastical Babylon is "the great whore"
 # Re 17:1
   and is destroyed by political Babylon
 # Re 17:15-18
   that the beast may be the alone object of worship.
 # 2Th 2:3,4 Re 13:15
   The power of political Babylon is destroyed by the return of the Lord
   in glory.
   (See "Armageddon,")
 # Re 16:14 19:17
   The notion of a literal Babylon to be rebuilt on the site of ancient
   Babylon is in conflict with
 # Isa 13:19-22
   But the language of Re 18 (e.g. vs 10, 16, 18)
 # Re 18:10,16,18
   seems beyond question to identify "Babylon," the "city" of luxury and
   traffic, with "Babylon" the ecclesiastical centre, viz.  Rome.  The
   very kings who hate ecclesiastical Babylon deplore the destruction of
   commercial Babylon.
07880
 [1] {wife}

   The "Lamb's wife" here is the "bride"
 # Re 21:9
   the Church, identified with the "heavenly Jerusalem"
 # Heb 12:22,23
   and to be distinguished from Israel, the adulterous and repudiated
   "wife" of Jehovah, yet to be restored
 # Isa 54:1-10 Ho 2:1-17
   who is identified with the earth
 # Ho 2:23
   A forgiven and restored \\wife\\ could not be called either a \\virgin\\
 # 2Co 11:2,3
   or a \\bride.\\
07881
 [2] {righteousness}

   The garment is Scripture is a symbol of righteousness.  In the bad
   ethical sense it symbolizes self-righteousness (e.g)
 # Isa 6:4,6 Php 3:6-8
   the best that a moral and religious man under law could do).
   In the good ethical sense the garment symbolizes "the righteousness
   of God.  . .upon all them that believe."
 » See Note "Ro 3:21"
07884
 [3] {saw heaven opened}

   The vision is of the departure from heaven of Christ and the saints and
   angels preparatory to the catastrophe in which Gentile world-power,
   headed up in the Beast, is smitten by the "stone cut out without hands,"
 # Da 2:34,35
07890
 [4] {Come}

   Armageddon (the ancient hill and valley of Megiddo, west of Jordan in
   the plain of Jezreel) is the appointed place for the beginning of the
   great battle in which the Lord, at His coming in glory, will deliver
   the Jewish remnant besieged by the Gentile world-powers under the
   Beast and False Prophet
 # Re 16:13-16 Zec 12:1-9
   Apparently the besieging hosts, whose approach to Jerusalem is
   described in
 # Isa 10:28-32
   alarmed by the signs which precede the Lord's coming
 # Mt 24:29,30
   have fallen back to Megiddo, after the events of
 # Zec 14:2
   where their destruction begins; a destruction consummated in
   Moab and the plains of Idumea
 # Isa 63:1-6
   This battle is the first event in "the day of Jehovah"
 # Isa 2:12
   and is the fulfilment of the smiting-stone prophecy of
 # Da 2:35
07892
 [1] {make war}

   The day of Jehovah (called, also, "that day," and "the great day") is
   that lengthened period of time beginning with the return of the Lord
   in glory, and ending with the purgation of the heavens and the earth
   by fire preparatory to the new heavens and the new earth
 # Isa 65:17-19 66:22 2Pe 3:13 Re 21:1
   The order of events appears to be:  (1) The return of the Lord in glory
 # Mt 24:29,30
   (2) the destruction of the Beast and his host, "the kings of the earth
   and their armies," and the false prophet, which is the "great and
   terrible" aspect of the day
 # Re 19:11-21
   (3) the judgment of the nations
 # Zec 14:1-9 Mt 25:31-46
   (4) the thousand years, i.e, the kingdom-age
 # Re 20:4-6
   (5) the Satanic revolt and its end
 # Re 20:7-10
   (6) the second resurrection and final judgment
 # Re 20:11-15
   and (7) the "day of God," earth purged by fire
 # 2Pe 3:10-13

   The day of the Lord is preceded by seven signs: (1) The sending of
   Elijah
 # Mal 4:5 Re 11:3-6
   (2) cosmical disturbances
 # Joe 2:1-12 Mt 24:29 Ac 2:19,20 Re 6:12-17
   (3) the insensibility of the professing church
 # 1Th 5:1-3
   (4) the apostasy of the professing church, then become "Laodicea"
 # 2Th 2:3
   (5) the rapture of the true church
 # 1Th 4:17
   (6) the manifestation of the "man of sin," the Beast
 # 2Th 2:1-8
   (7) the apocalyptic judgments
 # Re 11:18
07893
 [2] {Beast}

   The Beast, Summary:  This "Beast" is the "little horn" of
 # Da 7:24-26
   and "desolator" of
 # Da 9:27
   the "abomination of desolation" of
 # Mt 24:15
   the "man of sin" of
 # 2Th 2:4-8
   earth's last and most awful tyrant, Satan's fell instrument
   of wrath and hatred against God and the Jewish saints.  He is, perhaps,
   identical with the rider on the white horse of
 # Re 6:2
   who begins by the peaceful conquest of three of the ten kingdoms into
   which the former Roman empire will then be divided, but who soon
   establishes the ecclesiastical and governmental tyranny described in
   Dan 7., 9., 11.; Re 13.
   To him Satan gives the power which he offered to Christ.
 # Mt 4:8,9 Re 13:4
   See "The great tribulation,"
 # Ps 2:5
 » See Note "Re 7:14"
07896
 [1] {thousand years}

   The duration of the kingdom of heaven in its mediatorial form
 » See Note "1Co 15:24"
07899
 [1] {first resurrection}

   The "resurrection of the just" is mentioned in
 # Lu 14:13,14
   and the resurrection of "life" distinguished from the "resurrection unto
   damnation" in
 # Joh 5:20
   We here learn for the first time what interval of time separates these
   two resurrections.
 » See Note "1Co 15:52"