Series: Revelation
Jesus is better than this world
Eric Geiger
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute who is seated on many waters.
(Revelation 17:1)
Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
(Revelation 21:9)
…Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues.
(Revelation 18:4)
Come out from among her, my people! Save your lives, each of you, from the LORD’s burning anger.
(Jeremiah 51:45)
1. Allegiance of Babylon vs. allegiance of the Bride
…I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names…On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE DETESTABLE THINGS OF THE EARTH.
(Revelation 17:3, 5)
Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has prepared herself. She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure...
(Revelation 19:7-8)
2. Affections of Babylon vs. affections of the Bride
As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways, give her that much torment and grief. For she says in her heart, “I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never see grief.”
(Revelation 18:7)
…Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty, reigns! Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory…
(Revelation 19:6-7)
3. Actions of Babylon vs. actions of the Bride
Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus…
(Revelation 17:6)
For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.
(Revelation 18:3)
…For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints.
(Revelation 19:8)
…the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; and the voice of a groom and bride will never be heard in you again…
(Revelation 18:23)