177 The Revelation of Jesus Christ will set himself up as God, and who will endeavor to have divine honors paid him. Consequently, this angel is sent from the presence of God to present to the world the "everlasting gospel"-that there is one God, the God who made heaven and earth and all that therein is., and that none but He shall be worshipped. The amazing thing is that though that Gospel is to be preached by an angel. we do not have any intimation in this chapter, or in any of the other chapters that follow, that the nations will turn from this, the most terrible form of idolatry that the world has ever known, and will prostrate themselves before the great God who created all things. Every man has a god of some sort that he worships; if not the "God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," that man is bowing down to some other god, and has yielded allegiance elsewhere. That is true of this age as well as of the future period about which we are studying. My friend, what is your god? Is it money, stocks, bonds, pleasure, or what? A certain and sudden judgment will one day fall upon all those who are idolaters and who follow after strange gods. . THE FALL OF BABYLON · 14:8 The lourth picture is that of the fall of Babylon: "And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon Is fallen, Is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication" (Rev. H:8). That is a general statement, and it is all that is said just here about the fall of Babylon. The reason for this brevity is that, in chapters seventeen and eighteen the Spirit of God gives to us the details of the fall of that system represented by the woman who has over her head the name written, "MYS TERY BABYLON THE GREAT. THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" (17:5). That Babylon, as we shall see, represents all the false and corrupt forms of so-called Christianity that are to be spewed out of the mouth of the Lord when the true church has been
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