Revelation 14

FIRST OVERTHROW OF ANTICHRIST’S CAPITAL, BABYLON, Revelation 14:1 to Revelation 16:21.

1. The chapter of war menace by Jerusalem against Babylon, Revelation 14:1-20.

A careful survey of this and the two following chapters reveals that our locality throughout is at Jerusalem; and that here gradually unfold the hostilities from thence by which Babylon is overthrown. This triad of chapters is thereby a TRILOGY of Babylonic destruction. Thus mount Zion, Revelation 14:1; the throne and… elders, Revelation 14:3; the temple, Revelation 14:15; the temple, Revelation 15:6; Revelation 15:8; Revelation 16:1, all indicate that we are in Jerusalem. Of the war from Jerusalem by which Babylon is overthrown in this triad of chapters, chapter 14 contains Jerusalem’s war manifestoes and menaces; chapter 15 her preparation; and 16 her execution, of the war, ending in the demolition of the guilty capital. The choral song on mount Zion, Revelation 14:1-5; the three angels menacing Babylon and her followers, 6-13; the aerial omens of harvest and blood, 14-20, are all warlike manifestoes issued in gradually-increasing definiteness from the holy capital against the Satanic metropolis. More fearful still, chapter 15 prepares the battery of plagues for the devoted city issuing from the Jerusalem temple. Chap. xvi goes through the terrible seven discharges of the plagues, each with increasing sureness of aim, 1-12; responded to from the Babylonic powers sending forth their emissaries to rally their Satanic hosts, and to gather them to the battle, 13-15. Then at the seventh vial comes an earthquake crash, and Babylon goes to pieces, 17-21.