God has Judged Babylon; Say Hallelujah
Revelation 18 speaks about the eternal destruction of Babylon. Verse 21: “a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, Thus will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence and shall be found no more at all.”
Revelation 19:1-3 is a response to this throwing down. “After these things I heard as it were a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, ¹Hallelujah! The salvation and the glory and the power are of our God. For true and righteous are His judgments; for He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and He avenged the blood of His slaves at her hand.And a second time they said, Hallelujah! And her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
[In Revelation 18 the] sinful deeds of Babylon are announced and the consequences of her judgment are set forth. All who are of the same mind with God must say, Hallelujah, for God has judged Babylon. Though the actual judgment is in the future, the spiritual judgment must take place today. The actual judgment will be performed by God in the future, but the spiritual judgment must be made by us today.*
We too should join this praising. God’s judgments are “true and righteous.” Therefore we respond by praising Him. If there is anything about Babylon we like or any aspect of God’s judgment that bothers us, we must ask Him to shine on us and expose how our opinion is different from His.
¹ Hallelujah means “praise Jah” or “praise Jah joyously;” Jah is a short form of Jehovah.
* From chapter 5 of The Glorious Church by Watchman Nee, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, available at www.ministrybooks.org/books.cfm and www.livingstream.com/en/the-church/8012401-glorious-church-the.html.
Posted by Don on April 22, 2022
