BABYLON—GONE!

AM Bible Study Group; November 11, 2009 Revelation 18:21-24 Theme: This passage describes the finality with which the great ‘harlot’ city Babylon will be thrown down in judgment. This closing section of Revelation 18 finishes off the theme taken up in chapters 17-18—that of the judgment from God of the ‘harlot’ system of religion, philosophy, political power and...
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THE MOURNING FOR THE CITY

AM Bible Study Group; October 28, 2009 Revelation 18:9-20 me: This passage describes the mourning that will characterize the unbelieving world at the destruction of the great ‘harlot’ city Babylon.. Our passage continues the Bible’s astonishing look at the destruction of the future city Babylon—the center-point of the philosophical, materialistic, political and religious...
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"BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN"

AM Bible Study Group; October 28, 2009 Revelation 18:1-8 Theme: In this passage, we’re given the reason for the judgment of God falling upon the great harlot city Babylon. Chapter 18 is a continuation of the theme first introduced to us in Revelation 16:19, and more fully developed in the 17th chapter–the ‘remembering’ of the great city Babylon by God in judgment. In...
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MYSTERY: BABYLON THE GREAT

AM Bible Study Group; October 21, 2009 Revelation 17:1-18 Theme: In this chapter, John is given a vision of the great ‘harlot’ Babylon, which the Antichrist will exploit and the Lord destroy at His coming . Chapters 17-18 constitute another parenthesis in the flow of the book of Revelation. The judgment of "great Babylon" was mentioned in 16:19; and now, in these...
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THE SEVEN 'BOWL' JUDGMENTS

AM Bible Study Group; October 7, 2009 Revelation 16:1-21 Theme: With the outpouring of the seven ‘bowl’ judgments, the wrath of God upon this unbelieving age is complete (see 15:1) . Though there are some significant differences, the seven ‘bowl’ judgments bear a remarkable similarity to the seven ‘trumpets’ of chapters 8-11; and give support to the...
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A PRELUDE OF PRAISE

AM Bible Study Group; September 23, 2009 Revelation 15:1-8 Theme:  Before the outpouring of God’s just wrath upon the earth, a great prelude of praise to Him will occur in the heavens. . People often turn their noses up at the passages in the Scripture that describe God’s just outpouring of wrath. But here, in this morning’s passage, we find that the saints in the...
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