babylon

Babylon is unveiled as a bejeweled and seductive harlot dripping with the shed blood of martyred saints. In Chapter 17, the Book of Revelation presents an impressive female figure, “Babylon.” She is called the “Whore” and the “Great City,” and she is...

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Babylon is both a historical kingdom and a symbol of the recurring rise of the World Empire. In the first chapter of Daniel, Babylon is called the “Land of Shinar,” a link to the Tower of Babel in Genesis and the founding of the imperial city in Mesopotamia....

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In a dream, Daniel saw “four beasts ascending” from a chaotic sea. Each corresponded to one of the four parts of the “great image” that Nebuchadnezzar saw previously in his dream of a great image with a head of gold, a torso of silver, brass thighs, and...

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Upon his arrival in Babylon, Daniel was confronted with a predicament. If he consumed the food and drink of the king, it would impinge on his ritual impurity. While he might have wished to avoid eating “unclean” meats, more likely, his concern was that...

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The story of Ancient Babylon’s demise is reflected in the Sixth Trumpet and the Sixth Bowl of Wrath in the Book of Revelation. In Daniel, on the eve of the city’s conquest by the “Medes and Persians,” the crown prince, Belshazzar, gave a feast “for a...

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