Revelation 18:6-8 (QUESTION)

[dfarmer2001]

6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.


I understand that the woman is referred to as Babylon. However, I do not understand verses 6-8 because it tells about how she has glorified herself and all these other things. It talks about how God will judge her but why and how will God judge a place? Maybe by judging it refers to the people inside that particular place; the people that have something to do with Babylon that choose not to end their doings within it?

All answers will help! Thanks!

 

[KJV1611]

6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.


I understand that the woman is referred to as Babylon. However, I do not understand verses 6-8 because it tells about how she has glorified herself and all these other things. It talks about how God will judge her but why and how will God judge a place? Maybe by judging it refers to the people inside that particular place; the people that have something to do with Babylon that choose not to end their doings within it?

All answers will help! Thanks!

Mystery Babylon isn't a place, it's the world system including religion, politics, arts, education etc. It is "the way that seemeth right but the end thereof is destruction.

 

[dfarmer2001]

Mystery Babylon isn't a place, it's the world system including religion, politics, arts, education etc. It is "the way that seemeth right but the end thereof is destruction.

So Babylon was never a place but rather the world's system?

 

[SteelToedKodiak]

6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.


I understand that the woman is referred to as Babylon. However, I do not understand verses 6-8 because it tells about how she has glorified herself and all these other things. It talks about how God will judge her but why and how will God judge a place? Maybe by judging it refers to the people inside that particular place; the people that have something to do with Babylon that choose not to end their doings within it?

All answers will help! Thanks!

If you see her as a world system, then she has certainly glorified herself especially more and more recently. As she does glorify herself she increases the filling of the cup of God's wrath which is hers to drink.

 

[SteelToedKodiak]

So Babylon was never a place but rather the world's system?

it began as a place with a king (Nimrod) that initiated a system of rebellion against the Most High.

 

[KJV1611]

So Babylon was never a place but rather the world's system?

Yeah they seem right but they're not. Doctor's destroy health, Lawyer's destroy justice, religion destroys spirituality, mainstream media destroys information.

 

[DP]

6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.


I understand that the woman is referred to as Babylon. However, I do not understand verses 6-8 because it tells about how she has glorified herself and all these other things. It talks about how God will judge her but why and how will God judge a place? Maybe by judging it refers to the people inside that particular place; the people that have something to do with Babylon that choose not to end their doings within it?

All answers will help! Thanks!

It's speaking of the harlot woman which is a city per Rev.17. It represents the devil's working over man on earth and it will be a literal city as a power base for Satan's workers during the tribulation. It will be Jerusalem, as Rev.11:8 reveals that's where God's two witnesses show up to prophesy against her.

The gender of a woman is used to describe the harlot city because that a type symbolism God first used in the OT for places that rebelled in worshiping idols of wood, metal, and stone. He also used it as a label for His people Israel when they rebelled against Him and went the way of Baal worship, so the Rev.18 condemnation applies to the rebellious too.

 

[birdie]

6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.


I understand that the woman is referred to as Babylon. However, I do not understand verses 6-8 because it tells about how she has glorified herself and all these other things. It talks about how God will judge her but why and how will God judge a place? Maybe by judging it refers to the people inside that particular place; the people that have something to do with Babylon that choose not to end their doings within it?

All answers will help! Thanks!

Babylon is a picture of the congregations of the church age that fall away from the true gospel. The congregations are the great city, which has been spiritual Jerusalem. Notice that she says she is a queen, in other words married to the king Jesus. Rev. 18:4 tells the remnant of true believers to come out of her so that they don't take part in her sins. The same chapter says that the voice of the bridegroom (Jesus) is not going to be heard by the people in a saving way any longer in that arena (Rev 18:23). She glorified herself and not God, as if her own works could save her. Those who are saved must be saved by Christ's work. Unless he builds the house...

Another picture of the fall of the congregations of the church age is the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham, a picture of a true believer, begins to petition God that if there are just a few saved (righteous) people left in the congregations, will God save the whole place. God replies that he will as long as there are a few true believers left there, he will spare the whole place for their sakes. But, in the end he gets the true believers out of there (Lot and family) and tells them not to look back. At that point he rains fire and such upon those in the city, which is simply spiritual language meaning the ones who don't come out are in the unsaved condition.

Another picture of the fall of the congregations of the church age is the fall of the walls of Jericho. Jericho was the city of the righteous (palms) and the name Jericho means 'moon' (a picture of the law, the Bible). For a long time God sends the true believers there to witness (pictured by Joshua and his own going around the city). Finally, the walls fall. Meaning salvation falls in that place. The true believers are then the only possessors of salvation, of the spiritual city Jerusalem.

God is interested in the city, but as it grows far from him, the cry against it grows:"And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know."

 

[Ahwatukee]

Mystery Babylon isn't a place, it's the world system including religion, politics, arts, education etc. It is "the way that seemeth right but the end thereof is destruction.

Morning KJV1611,

Actually, the woman who rides the beast, Mystery, Babylon the great, is a city which sits on seven hills/mountains, which is her headquarters. You are are correct in that she represents a religious system that has world-wide influence.

* The woman you saw is that great city that rules over the kings of the earth:

At the time that John was receiving this information from the angel, Rome was that great city that ruled over the kings of the then known earth.

* The seven heads are seven hills upon which the woman sits

Rome was literally built on and is famous for her seven hills. These biblical references of Rome are meant to point us to her as a counterfeit church. The adultery that the kings of the earth commit with her, as well as the inhabitants being intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries, is figurative for proclaiming to be a true follower of Christ while at the same time being unfaithful to him. Regarding Rome and her counterfeit church, just a cursory look at her doctrines and practices and we can see that most everything in her has the flavor of the practices that stemmed from Babylon, such as queen of heaven worship and mother and son worship, etc.. Scripture also states that she was dressed in purple and scarlet:

This clues that God has given us are all meant to point us to who the woman is. For over a thousand years Roman Catholicism and her pope ruled over kings and their armies and that because they deemed her to be the true church with the pope being the authority over all people. Anyone that wasn't on board with that, was a heretic and an anathema. That is still the RCC's thinking today, but she does not currently have the power to enforce her authority. However, when that antichrist comes, then she will have the power that she needs to enforce that everyone be subject to the position of the pope and the RCC. She is the one who has been and will be drunk with the blood of the saints. I truly believe that one of the future popes will be the one who will play the part of the false prophet, who will be working closely with the beast/antichrist.

 

[Adstar]

6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.


I understand that the woman is referred to as Babylon. However, I do not understand verses 6-8 because it tells about how she has glorified herself and all these other things. It talks about how God will judge her but why and how will God judge a place? Maybe by judging it refers to the people inside that particular place; the people that have something to do with Babylon that choose not to end their doings within it?

All answers will help! Thanks!

This end times Babylon is not a city it is a false religion that sits on many waters.. Meaning it is a world wide.. Think Masons a religious organization that has members world wide who have great wealth and control over many nations on earth.. Babylon might not be masonry but it would be a similar global religious type organization.. It might be islam or it might be catholicism, Many people have put forward theories as to who is the Harlot of Babylon who rides the beast...