ligious powers
described in Revelation 13 as two beasts were also termed Babylon. We
shall now give a more particular description of this antitype of
the Old Testament Babylon. The Euphratean city--Babylon--the
proud metropolis of the Chaldean monarchy, combined in itself the
corruptions and wickedness of the world and then filled up the measure
of its sins by destroying the temple in Jerusalem and leading into
captivity the chosen people of God. When John wrote, however, this
ancient city was no more. It had long since been destroyed, and it
has never been rebuilt to this day. Even the Arab refuses to pitch his
tent among its lonely, serpent-infested ruins. The city to which
the apostle alludes in these prophecies must therefore refer, not to
ancient Babylon, but to some other analogous power which was yet to
arise and of which the old Babylon was a type.

OUTLINE OF PARALLEL PROPHECIES SHOWING FOUR ECCLESIASTICAL EPOCHS

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The Apostolic | The Medieval Period | Era of Modern | The Last
Period | | Sects | Reformation
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DRAGON | LEOPARD-BEAST | TWO-HORNED | FALL OF
Rev. 12:3, 4, | Rev. 13:1-10 | BEAST | BABYLON
7-17 | | Rev. 13:11-18 | Rev. 14:1-9
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PURE WOMAN | WOMAN SECLUDED IN | | 144,000 ON MOUNT
Rev. 12 | THE WILDERNESS | | ZION
| Rev. 12:6 | | Rev. 14:1-6
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TEMPLE AND | HOLY CITY TRODDEN | TWO WITNESSES | WITNESSES
TRUE WORSHIP | DOWN | SLAIN | RESURRECTED
Rev. 11:1 | Rev. 11:2 | Rev. 11:7-10 | Rev. 11:11-14
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| GREAT BABYLON | HARLOT | GOD'S PEOPLE
| Rev. 17:1-6 | DAUGHTERS | CALLED OUT
| | Rev. 17:5 | Rev. 18:1-4
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FOURTH | REIGN OF THE | | CHRIST'S KINGDOM
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