REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!!/Chapter Thirty Six - Babylon the Great Takes a Tumble

 John continues the account telling us: "After these things I saw another angel descending from heaven, with great authority; and the earth was lighted up from  his glory. And he cried out with a strog voice, saying: 'She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen.' " (Revelation 18:1, 2a)   It is the second time that John hears that angelic announcement (see Revelation 14:8) This time, however, its significance is emphasized by the magnificence  of the heavenly angel, for his glory lights up the whole earth!  Who can he be?  Centuries earlier the prophet Ezekiel. reporting on a heavenly visio, stated that the earth itself shone because of his (Jehovah's] glory."  (Ezekiel 43:2) The only angel to shine with glory comparable to Jehovah's would be the Lord Jesus, who is "the reflection of [God's] glory and the exact representation  of his very being." (Hebrews 1:3)  In 1914 'the Son of man arrived  in his glory,' and since that time, Jesus installed "on his glorious throne' in the heavens, has been exercising authority over the earth as Jehovah's associate King and Judge.  It is fitting, then, that he should announce the fall of Babylon the Great. - MATTHEW 25:31, 32.

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