SEVEN FINAL VISIONS (2-2) | SECOND VOICE FROM HEAVEN (REVELATION 18:4-8)
1. Revelation
a) John wrote Revelation while a prisoner on the Island of Patmos, approximately 85-95 A.D. Its purpose is to give encouragement and hope for all Christians to continue watching for the return and triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ. It also is to warn of the Final Judgment that nonbelievers will endure on that Last Day.
b) John wrote that Revelation is special because,“Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near” (Revelation 1:3).
c) A brief view of the Book of Revelation. It gives you some basic understanding of the book of Revelation.
2. Voice From Heaven
Revelation 18:4-8
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; 5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. 7 To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’ 8 For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.
3. Second Voice From Heaven
Revelation 18:4-8
a) Come out of her
i) John hears a second voice from heaven with another song that begins, "Come out of her my people!" (Revelation 18:4). God doesn't want his people to participate in the piled up sins of this atrocious woman, this wicked kingdom, nor in the plagues and doom his vengeance will bring upon her (Revelation 18:4-8).
b) She glorified herself
i) Whilst the voice from heaven goes on to condemn this atrocious woman’s immorality and corruption, the thing that angers God most is her arrogance. The song has her boasting, "I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and I will never see mourning" (Revelation 18:7). There the voice from heaven echoes a line in Isaiah’s oracle against Babylon (Isaiah 47:7). So this woman ironically called “Babylon the Great”, this iniquitous empire, will be brought low, "for the Lord God who judges her is strong" (Revelation 18:8).
Revelation 18:4-8
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; 5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. 7 To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’ 8 For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.
3. Second Voice From Heaven
Revelation 18:4-8
a) Come out of her
i) John hears a second voice from heaven with another song that begins, "Come out of her my people!" (Revelation 18:4). God doesn't want his people to participate in the piled up sins of this atrocious woman, this wicked kingdom, nor in the plagues and doom his vengeance will bring upon her (Revelation 18:4-8).
b) She glorified herself
i) Whilst the voice from heaven goes on to condemn this atrocious woman’s immorality and corruption, the thing that angers God most is her arrogance. The song has her boasting, "I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and I will never see mourning" (Revelation 18:7). There the voice from heaven echoes a line in Isaiah’s oracle against Babylon (Isaiah 47:7). So this woman ironically called “Babylon the Great”, this iniquitous empire, will be brought low, "for the Lord God who judges her is strong" (Revelation 18:8).
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