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Introduction:

Parallels in the Bible.

o Joseph and Jesus.
o Elijah and John the Baptist.
o Deliverance from Egypt and Deliverance from Sin.
o Abraham was a type of God, Isaac was a type of Christ.
Today we want to study one such parallels in the Bible that deals with the Babylon. One was

literal and another symbolic.

Body:

Similarities between Ancient Babylon and Symbolic Babylon.

Ancient, literal Babylon Symbolic Babylon

1. Babylon dwelt among many waters 1. Symbolic Babylon was seated upon many

(Jeremiah 51: 12, 13) waters. (Revelation 17: 1)

2. Babylon made nations drink of her 2. The inhabitants of the earth was drunk with

wine. ( Jeremiah 51: 7) her wine. (Revelation 17: 2)

3. Symbolic Babylon also will fall. (Revelation
3. Babylon has fallen. (Jeremiah 51: 8)
14: 8)
4. I shall be mistress forever I shall 4. A queen I sit, I am no widow. (Revelation

not sit as a widow. (Isaiah 47: 7, 8) 18: 7).

5. Call to go out of Babylon. (Jeremiah 5. A call to come out of Babylon. (Revelation 18

51: 45) 4)
6. Heaven, holy apostles and prophets shall
6. Heaven and earth shall rejoice at the
rejoice at the fall of Symbolic Babylon.
fall of Babylon. (Jeremiah 51: 48)
(Revelation 18: 20)
7. Symbolic Babylon will be thrown down into
7. Babylon shall sink and rise no more.
the sea and found no more at all. (Revelation 18:
(Jeremiah 51: 64)
21)

The Ancient Babylon and the symbolic Babylon are very similar. Even their fall is similar which

we will look today.

Facts about the Greatest City of Antiquity.
o Two sets of walls the outer walls and the inner walls. Both were double walls. The two

inner walls were twelve and twenty two feet wide respectively. The two walls making

up the outer defenses were twenty-four and twenty-six feet wide. Thus, in order for

enemies to get into the inner city where the palace and the main temple were located,
 they would have had to go through or over close to eighty-five feet of walls and each wall

was well defended! We know that horses could actually gallop on top of the outer walls.
o The city proper covered an area of 12 miles and thus was the second largest city in

antiquity. The entrances to the city were guarded by lion sphinxes.

o The city had 53 major temples and 955 smaller sanctuaries or shrines. It had 384 altars

throughout the city streets. The greatest temple was the Great Zigguarat, which was

built in honor of the patron sun-god Marduk. This temple was 300 feet wide at its base

and 300 feet high.

o Babylon was a very rich city Jeremiah 51: 13.
o Crucial to the protection of Babylon was the Euphrates River which ran through the

center of the city from north to south.

What does symbolic Babylon represent?
o Jeremiah 6: 2 Daughters of Zion represented as comely and delicate woman. Zion is

Gods people (Isaiah 51: 16). In other words, Women represents Gods people, his

Church.
o 2 Corinthians 11: 2 Gods people are even represented as chaste virgin.
o Revelation 17: 5 In contrast, this Babylon is represented as mother of harlots. Only

Roman Catholic Church fits this role.

If the Church is the chaste woman faithful to her husband, then Babylon is the

opposite: that system of worship that is unfaithful to God, has a mystery religion,

and teaches and practices abominations. The harlot daughters must then

represent those churches that follow her false teachings and subject themselves

to her rule or, even worse, officially accept Romes leadership as authoritative.
It must be always clear that the one, holy, catholic and apostolic universal

church is not the sister, but the mother of all the churches.i
o Revelation 17: 1 Babylon is the whore that sits upon many waters. Waters represent

people (Revelation 17: 15). Thus this power is universal. Even the word catholic

actually means universal.

o There are many more proofs that can be found in the handouts. Now, lets look at the

sins of the ancient Babylon.

Sins of ancient Babylon.
o Babylon indulged in Idolatry and False worship Daniel 3; 5: 1 4, 23, 24.
Belshazzar used the holy vessels of God for the common purpose and profaned

the name of God.

o Babylon involved deeply in occultic practices Daniel 5: 7, Isaiah 47:9, 12, 13.
o Babylons greatest sins were persecution of Gods people Daniel 1: 1 4,
Sins of Symbolic Babylon the sins of the symbolic Babylon is similar to the sins of ancient

Babylon.
 o Sin #1 Idolatry & false system of worship
The fact that God created the heavens and the earth distinguishes the true God

from all false gods. We worship him because he is the creator. God made the

Sabbath with his own hands so to speak. He created it as holy time to remind

man that he was the creator. The Sabbath stands at the heart of all worship.
In contrast, does Sunday teach us to distinguish between the true creator God

and all false gods? No. Did God make Sunday as a day of worship or was Sunday

made for worship by the hands of man? No. When we worship on a day made for

worship by the hands of man, what sins are we committing? Idolatry and false

worship.
Idolatry and false worship are closely entwined. An idol is anything that man

makes for worship which God has not made for worship. We already saw that the

institution of Sunday worship was made by man, the Roman Catholic Church

takes the responsibility to itself.

Sunday worship is idolatry!
o Sin #2 Occultic practices
Revelation 18: 23 Nation by deceived by Babylon by sorceries.
Revelation 13: 13 16 Deceives by false and spurious miracles.
Revelation 16: 13, 14 The false trinity performs miracles to deceive.
This exactly fits the Roman Catholic Church as today it has brought many evil

and occultic practices into the church. E.g. The celebration of mass ii
o Sin #3 Persecution of Gods people
Revelation 17: 6 Drunken with the blood of the saints.
Revelation 13: 7, 15 Made war with the saints of the most high.
This precisely fits the Roman Catholic Church.
Fall of literal Babylon
o Daniel 5: 5, 25 Probation closed.
o Daniel 5: 26 28 God is finally going to intervene and deliver his faithful people. He is

going to recompense for the evil deeds of the false trinity.

Fall of symbolical Babylon.
o Revelation 16: 17 21 When the Angel said it is done, theres a great destruction.

Parallels Between Cyrus and Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ is called the Sun of Righteousness.
1. The name Cyrus means Sun.
Malachi 4:2.
2. At his birth, attempt by reigning king to destroy
At His birth, attempt by reigning king to destroy Him.
him.
Named by God 700 years before His birth.
3. Named by God 150 years before his birth.
Isaiah 9:6.
4. Raised up in righteousness. Isaiah 45:13. The Christ Jesus, is made unto usrighteousness. 1
 righteous man.
Isaiah 41:2.
5. He shall call upon my name.
Isaiah 41:25.
6. I will direct his waysIsaiah 45:13. Whose right
hand I have held.
Isaiah 45:1.
7. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus.
Isaiah 45:1.
8. That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd.
Isaiah 44:28.
9. The man that executeth my counsel. Isaiah 46:11
[margin: the man of my counsel].
10. Cyrus was officially titled, the king of kings.
11. God gave the nations before him; as the dust to
his sword; as the driven stubble to his bow; to subdue
nations before him.
Isaiah 41:2, 45:1.
12. Cyrus came from the east of Babylon, Persia. The
righteous man from the east. Isaiah 41:2. Calling a
ravenous bird from the east.
Isaiah 46:11.
13. He overthrew literal Babylon: That saith to the
deep, be dry, and I will dry up the rivers. Isaiah 44:27.
A drought is upon her waters and they shall be dried
up, I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry,
and Babylon shall become heaps.
Jeremiah 50:38, 51:36-37.
14. That saith of Cyrus...Jerusalem, thou shalt be
built, and to the temple, thy foundation shall be laid.
Isaiah 44:28. He shall build my city and shall let go
my captives, not for price, nor for reward.
Isaiah 45:13.
Revelation 18: 21 - Jesus will come and destroy this power to set up his kingdom.
Corinthians 1:30. This was a righteous man.
Luke 23:47.
Jesus continually called on Gods name in prayer. Our
Father which art in heaven.
Matthew 6:9.
I seekthe will of the Father who hath sent me. John 5:30.
I will hold thine [Christs] hand.
Isaiah 42:6.
We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, the
Christ [margin: the anointed].
John 1:41.
I am the good shepherd. John 10:11. The great shepherd.
Hebrews 13:20. The chief shepherd.
1 Peter 5:4.
The counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Zechariah 6:13.
Jesus will be titled King of kings and Lord of lords.
Revelation 19:16.
Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should
smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron.
Revelation 19:15.
The dayspring [margin: sunrising] from on high hath visited
us. Luke 1:78. The glory of the God of Israel came from the
way of the east. Ezekiel 43:2. As lightning comes out of the
east, and shines even to the west; so shall the coming of the
Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:27.
Christ overthrows spiritual Babylon The sixth angel poured
out his vial upon the great river Euphrates and the water
thereof dried up. Revelation 16:12. And great Babylon came
in remembrance before God, to give to her the cup of the
wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Revelation 16:19.
A city whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 11:10. He
shall build the temple of God. Zechariah 6:13. The captives
of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the
terrible shall be delivered.
Isaiah 49:25.
Conclusion:

The battle is not long. The signs are fulfilling. The only safe refuge for is Jesus. If we hide under

the shadow of the almighty, we will be secure. Just a little time and our Lord will come. He will

come to take us back home. He can only take us if we are ready.

Appeal Hand rising - Are you willing to surrender your hearts now to Jesus to be safe from

the destruction that is going to come upon this world?

i Dominus Iesus (August 6, 2000)

ii www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1334.cfm