Vs14: (review) all items mankind considers valuable will be gone. This list starts with gold and ends with the souls of man. These things will disappear quickly. Vs15-16: the merchants will be afraid to go back into the city to get their possessions, lest they die too, so great is the destruction. Vs17-18-19: the city is destroyed quickly, not necessarily one earth hour. Remember the World Trade Center? It went down so fast, thousands died; lots of riches were lost in less than an hour. The destruction of this new Babylon will be worse than that. People will lament the loss of people and material wealth. The shippers will stop and watch the destruction and smoke from fires rising in the air from far off. Vs20: now we're seeing the perspective of the holy apostles and prophets from heaven, and they are all rejoicing for the vengeance from God. God has avenged them. Vs21-22: an angel threw a big stone in the sea, like a mill stone, saying the violence in Babylon will be no more. God will totally rebuild the city His way. Vs23-24: no more candles, no more brides and bridegrooms, etc. This is saying that things are going to change. For the merchants, the rich and the powerful were great, and by the sorceries were all the nations deceived. ‘Sorcery' is where we get our word ‘pharmacy' from this Greek word. It means ‘drugs'. Christianity is not a religion; it's a way of life. Salvation is by grace and faith, not acts. Listen to more on the mp3.
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