REVELATIONI ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Seven - Hurling a Great Millstone

 What John sees next sees confirms that Jehovah's judgment of Babylon the Great is final:  "And a strong angel lifted up a stone like a great millstone and hurled it into the sea saying: 'Thus with a swift pitch will Babylon the great city be hurled down, and she will never be found again.' " (Revelation 18:21)  In Jeremiah's time, a similar act with powerful prophetic meaning was performed.  Jeremiah was inspired to write in a book "all the calamity that would come upon Babylon."  He gave the book  to Seraiah and told him to travel to Babylon.  There following Jeremiah's instructions, Seriaiah read a declaration against the city: "O Jehovah,  you yourself have spokke against this place, in order to cut it off so that there may come to be in it no inhabitant, either man or even domestic animal, but that she may become mere desolate wastes to time indefinite."  Seraiah then tied a stone to the book and threw it into the river Euphrates, saying: "This is how Babylon  will sink down and never rise up because of the calamity that I am bringing in  upon  her." - JEREMIAH51:59-64.

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