What John 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 Gret 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, Seraiah read a declaration against the city: "O Jehovah, you yourself have spoken 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 waste to time indefinite." Seraiah then tied a stone to the book and threw it in the rive Euphrates, saying: "This is how Babylon will sink down and never rise up because of the calamity that I am bringing in upon her." - JEREMIAH 51:59-64.
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