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[1] {burden]
A "burden," Heb. massa= a heavy, weighty thing, is a message, or oracle
concerning Babylon, Assyria, Jerusalem, etc. It is "heavy" because the
wrath of God is in it, and grievous for the prophet to declare.
[2] {Babylon}
The \\city\\, Babylon is not in view here, as the immediate context
shows. It is important to note the significance of the name when used
symbolically. "Babylon" is the Greek form: invariably in the O.T. Hebrew
the word is simply Babel, the meaning of which is \\confusion\\, and in
this sense the word is used symbolically. (1) In the prophets, when the
actual city is not meant, the reference is to the "confusion" into which
the whole social order of the world has fallen under Gentile
world-domination. (See "Times of the Gentiles,"
# Lu 21:24 Re 16:14
# Isa 13:4
gives the divine view of the welter of warring Gentile powers. The
\\divine\\ order is given in Isa. 11. Israel in her own land, the centre
of the divine government of the world and channel of the divine blessing;
and the Gentiles blessed in association with Israel. Anything else is,
politically, mere "babel."
(2) In
# Re 14:8-1 16:19
the Gentile world-system is in view in connection with Armageddon
# Re 16:14 19:21
while in Re 17. the reference is to apostate Christianity, destroyed by
the nations
# Re 17:16
headed up under the Beast
# Da 7:8 Re 19:20
and false prophet. In Isaiah the political Babylon is in view,
literally as to the then existing city, and symbolically as to the
times of the Gentiles. In the Revelation both the symbolical-political
and symbolical-religious Babylon are in view, for there both are
alike under the tyranny of the Beast. Religious Babylon is destroyed
by political Babylon
# Re 17:16
political Babylon by the appearing of the Lord
# Re 19:19-21
That Babylon the \\city\\ is not to be rebuilt is clear from
# Isa 13:19-22 Jer 51:24-26,62-64
By political Babylon is meant the Gentile world-system. (See "World,"
# Joh 7:7 Re 13:8
It may be added that, in Scripture symbolism, Egypt stands for the
world as such; Babylon for the world of corrupt power and corrupted
religion; Nineveh for the pride, the haughty glory of the world.
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[1] {And Babylon}
Verses 12-16 look forward to the apocalyptic judgments (Re 6.-13.).
Verses 17-22 have a near and far view. They predict the destruction of
the literal Babylon then existing; with the further statement that, once
destroyed, Babylon should never be rebuilt (cf)
# Jer 51:61-64
All of this has been literally fulfilled. But the place of this
prediction in a great prophetic strain looks forward to the destruction
of both politico-Babylon and ecclesio-Babylon in the time of the
Beast shows that the destruction of the actual Babylon typifies the
greater destruction yet to come upon the mystical Babylons. Cf.
» See Note "Isa 13:1"
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[1] {son of the morning}
Verses 12-14 evidently refer to Satan, who, as prince of this
world-system (see "World,"
# Joh 7:7
» See Note "Re 13:8"
is the real unseen ruler of the successive world-powers. Tyre,
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, etc. (see
# Eze 28:12-14
Lucifer, "day-star," can be none other that Satan. This tremendous
passage marks the beginning of sin in the universe. When Lucifer said,
"I will," sin began. See
» See Note "Re 20:10"
See other instances of addressing Satan through another,
# Ge 3:15 Mt 16:22,23