Chapter nineteen picks up the chronology again with worship in heaven that approximates chapter Revelation 5:11-14, the enormous multitude in chapter 7, and the seventh trumpet. A new detail is that this celebration is called “the wedding celebration of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:7) and “the banquet at the wedding celebration of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9). […]
Chapter eighteen shifts the focus to the economic fall of the Babylon system. Revelation 18:3 reviews the sexual immorality of the kings of the earth and introduces “the merchants of the earth [who] have gotten rich” because of their dealings with her. Revelation 18:8 refers to Babylon’s destruction in “a single day.” This could be taken literally,
Chapters seventeen and eighteen record the fall of the Beast’s kingdom, Babylon. In Revelation 17:7, John’s vision of the woman on the beast is interpreted, so it is clearly meant to be symbolic. In this vision, the beast is the entire satanic kingdom, dating back to the original Babylon, foreseen in Daniel 7. The waters
