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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 18:3

‘For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen, and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wanton luxurious living.’ Her love of idolatry, sexual deviancy and the occult have brought on her the wrath of God and their participation in this, with its consequences, is depicted as wine drunk by the nations. The rulers of the earth sought to please her and gain her favours and the merchants of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 18:4-5

‘And I heard another voice from Heaven saying, “Come forth, my people, out of her so that you have no fellowship with her sins and so that you do not receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached even unto Heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities”.’ The voice from Heaven can only be that of the Lamb for He speaks of them as ‘My people’, and then calls on God to render judgment (compare ‘my people’ in Jeremiah 51:45, see also Romans 9:25-26; 2 Corinthians 6:16). ‘Come forth --- out of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 18:1-12

Revelation 18:1 . another angel: we have no means of identifying this angel of doom. Revelation 18:2 . habitation . . . bird: cf. Isaiah 13:21 f; Isaiah 34:14, where the rained cities of Babylon and Edom become the haunts of unclean spirits. Revelation 18:3 . kings of the earth: Revelation 17:2 *. Revelation 18:4 . come forth: “ the cry ‘ come forth’ rings through Hebrew history ( e.g. Genesis 12:1; Genesis 19:12, Numbers 16:26, Isaiah 52:11). . . . In this context the sauve qui peut is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:1

It is a matter of no great moment, whether by this angel we understand Christ, or a created angel; the description agreeth to Christ, and may agree to a created angel. Having great power; to whom God had given power and authority to declare the ruin of Babylon. And the earth was lightened with his glory; and he had communicated to him a great glory, suited to his splendour and greatness whose messenger he was. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:2

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: whoever was meant by the angel whom John saw, Revelation 18:1, his business was to give warning to the whole world, (therefore he crieth with a strong voice, ) that Rome, the great city, the mother of spiritual harlots, should fall. This angel was a prophet, and the messenger of him who calls the things that are not as if they were; and therefore he speaks in a Divine, prophetic style: the prophets... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:3

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication; that is, her fornications which have brought this wrath upon her. And the kings of the earth have committed, &c.; she hath not only herself committed idolatry, but allured others to it, teaching them to break the commandments of God, and hath influenced princes to establish, and propagate, and to uphold, and maintain it; and all sorts of men have been bewitched by her, growing rich by her abundance, and being drenched... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:4

And heard another voice from heaven, saying: a command from God. Come out of her, my people: they are the words of God by his prophet, Jeremiah 50:8; Jeremiah 51:6, calling to his people, that the years of their captivity being now expired, and they having a liberty to go back to Jerusalem, they would not linger longer in Babylon, nor partake of her sins; for God was about to destroy that place; and if they were found in it, they would be in danger of being destroyed with it, especially if they... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 18:5

For her sins have reached unto heaven; that is, the cry of her sins; according to what is said of Sodom, (one of the types of antichrist), Genesis 18:20,Genesis 18:21. And God hath remembered her iniquities; the time is come when God will punish her for her idolatry and persecution, and all the abominable things done and committed by her. read more

Joseph Exell