WHY IS THE WORLD SO DIVIDED?
“Babylon is fallen, is fallen,” or, “The world is fallen, is fallen!”
Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, ...
It was the king of Babylon and his nation that destroyed the land of Judah and took many of the Jews captive into Babylon. After an awful period of seventy years (which typified the great tribulation) Babylon was conquered by the Medes and the Persians. The fall of Babylon at that time pointed to the fall of Satan and of the world at the time of the end. It is for this reason that the Bible has a great deal to say about the fall of Babylon:
Jeremiah 51: 7-8 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed:
Isaiah 21:9 … Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Based on the context of Revelation 14, we see that Babylon’s fall is figurative language describing the fall of the world during the time of its final judgment.
Revelation 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;
We also read of Babylon’s fall in chapter 18:
Revelation 18:2 … Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Wherever we find the refrain, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen,” we can paraphrase this to mean, “The world is fallen, is fallen!” or, “Judgment Day is here! Judgment Day is here!”
In a remarkable verse, the Lord ties Babylon in with the fall of all unsaved people in the world:
Jeremiah 51:49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Therefore, Babylon’s fall is synonymous with the world’s fall. Obviously, once Babylon fell it meant she could no longer stand. Division brings about the fall of a house; division brings about the fall of a kingdom. Satan’s kingdom of this world has fallen. And the outward evidence of this fall can be seen in the division of the world all around us.
Living in the Day of Judgment!
Excerpt from WHY IS THE WORLD SO DIVIDED? tract
