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2. Chapters 17-21 introduces us to two very different cities, both of whom are portrayed as a woman. The city of Rome was often portrayed as a woman (Roma).

3. Chapters 17-21 introduces us to two very different cities, both of whom are portrayed as a woman. The city of Rome was often portrayed as a woman (Roma).

4. What does the image of Babylon convey? Rome was the city that sat on seven hills (17.9) The kings of the earth conspire with her. The merchants were getting rich off of her. There are elements here of the city of Tyre in Ezekiel 26-28 and Babylon in Jeremiah 50-51. This city isn’t limited by time and space.

5. What does the image of Babylon convey? Rome was the city that sat on seven hills (17.9) The kings of the earth conspire with her. The merchants were getting rich off of her. There are elements here of the city of Tyre in Ezekiel 26-28 and Babylon in Jeremiah 50-51. This city isn’t limited by time and space.

6. What does the image of Babylon convey? Rome was the city that sat on seven hills (17.9) The kings of the earth conspire with her. The merchants were getting rich off of her. There are elements here of the city of Tyre in Ezekiel 26-28 and Babylon in Jeremiah 50-51. This city isn’t limited by time and space.

7. What does the image of Babylon convey? Rome was the city that sat on seven hills (17.9) The kings of the earth conspire with her. The merchants were getting rich off of her. There are elements here of the city of Tyre in Ezekiel 26-28 and Babylon in Jeremiah 50-51. This city isn’t limited by time and space.

8. What does the image of Babylon convey? Rome was the city that sat on seven hills (17.9) The kings of the earth conspire with her. The merchants were getting rich off of her. There are elements here of the city of Tyre in Ezekiel 26-28 and Babylon in Jeremiah 50-51. This city isn’t limited by time and space.

9. The prostitute is riding the beast. From a distance, she doesn’t look like a prostitute. She is drunk with blood. How do we understand the 7 kings? The beast finally consumes the prostitute. In Ch. 18, the prostitute’s death is announced and her funeral is observed.

10. The prostitute is riding the beast. From a distance, she doesn’t look like a prostitute. She is drunk with blood. How do we understand the 7 kings? The beast finally consumes the prostitute. In Ch. 18, the prostitute’s death is announced and her funeral is observed.

11. The prostitute is riding the beast. From a distance, she doesn’t look like a prostitute. She is drunk with blood. How do we understand the 7 kings? The beast finally consumes the prostitute. In Ch. 18, the prostitute’s death is announced and her funeral is observed.

12. The prostitute is riding the beast. From a distance, she doesn’t look like a prostitute. She is drunk with blood. How do we understand the 7 kings? The beast finally consumes the prostitute. In Ch. 18, the prostitute’s death is announced and her funeral is observed.

13. The prostitute is riding the beast. From a distance, she doesn’t look like a prostitute. She is drunk with blood. How do we understand the 7 kings? The beast finally consumes the prostitute. In Ch. 18, the prostitute’s death is announced and her funeral is observed.

14. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

15. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

16. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

17. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

18. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

19. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

20. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

21. Those who mourn the most are: 1) Kings 2) Merchants Notice that they have turned humans into goods. Finally, the noise grows quiet: 1) No life of amusement (18.22) 2) No business life (18.22) 3) No home life (18.23)

22. Inscription at the Halicarnassus in celebration of the Emperor Augustus: Land and sea have peace, the cities flourish under a good legal system, in harmony and with an abundance of food, there is an abundance of all good things, people are filled with happy hopes for the future and with delight at the present.

23. Aelius Aristides says of Rome: So many merchant ships arrive here, conveying every kind of goods from every people every hour and every day, so that the city is like a factory common to the whole earth…So everything comes together here, trade, seafaring, farming, the scouring of the mines, all crafts that exist or have existed, all that is produced and grown. Whatever one does not see here is not a thing which has existed or exists.

24. Babylon is allegorical of the idolatry that any nation commits when it elevates material abundance, military prowess, technological sophistication, imperial grandeur, racial pride, and any other glorification of the creature over the Creator. In these chapters we have an up-to- date portrait of what may occur when we idolize the gross national product, worship growth, and become so preoccupied with quantity that we ignore quality. Bruce Metzger

25. Chapters 19-20 form an interlude: 1) Fourfold Hallelujah 2) Marriage of the Lamb 3) Victorious Christ (White Horse) 4) Satan bound and the Great White Throne Judgment Chapter 21

26. Chapters 19-20 form an interlude: 1) Fourfold Hallelujah 2) Marriage of the Lamb 3) Victorious Christ (White Horse) 4) Satan bound and the Great White Throne Judgment Chapter 21

27. Chapters 19-20 form an interlude: 1) Fourfold Hallelujah 2) Marriage of the Lamb 3) Victorious Christ (White Horse) 4) Satan bound and the Great White Throne Judgment Chapter 21

28. Chapters 19-20 form an interlude: 1) Fourfold Hallelujah 2) Marriage of the Lamb 3) Victorious Christ (White Horse) 4) Satan bound and the Great White Throne Judgment Chapter 21

29. Chapters 19-20 form an interlude: 1) Fourfold Hallelujah 2) Marriage of the Lamb 3) Victorious Christ (White Horse) 4) Satan bound and the Great White Throne Judgment Chapter 21

30. The new Jerusalem is noted by fellowship with God, protection by God, and provision from God. Welcome to your new home: 1) No sea. 2) God is with his people 3) He will wipe the tears from their eyes 4) No more death/crying/pain

31. The new Jerusalem is noted by fellowship with God, protection by God, and provision from God. Welcome to your new home: 1) No sea. 2) God is with his people 3) He will wipe the tears from their eyes 4) No more death/crying/pain

32. The new Jerusalem is noted by fellowship with God, protection by God, and provision from God. Welcome to your new home: 1) No sea. 2) God is with his people 3) He will wipe the tears from their eyes 4) No more death/crying/pain

33. The new Jerusalem is noted by fellowship with God, protection by God, and provision from God. Welcome to your new home: 1) No sea. 2) God is with his people 3) He will wipe the tears from their eyes 4) No more death/crying/pain

34. The new Jerusalem is noted by fellowship with God, protection by God, and provision from God. Welcome to your new home: 1) No sea. 2) God is with his people 3) He will wipe the tears from their eyes 4) No more death/crying/pain

35. The new Jerusalem is noted by fellowship with God, protection by God, and provision from God. Welcome to your new home: 1) No sea. 2) God is with his people 3) He will wipe the tears from their eyes 4) No more death/crying/pain

36. Welcome to your new home (cont): 5) Large amounts of gold and glass 6) 12 gates, made of pearls, which are never closed 7) No temple 8) No sun or moon 9) No night

37. Welcome to your new home (cont): 5) Large amounts of gold and glass 6) 12 gates, made of pearls, which are never closed 7) No temple 8) No sun or moon 9) No night

38. Welcome to your new home (cont): 5) Large amounts of gold and glass 6) 12 gates, made of pearls, which are never closed 7) No temple 8) No sun or moon 9) No night

39. Welcome to your new home (cont): 5) Large amounts of gold and glass 6) 12 gates, made of pearls, which are never closed 7) No temple 8) No sun or moon 9) No night

40. Welcome to your new home (cont): 5) Large amounts of gold and glass 6) 12 gates, made of pearls, which are never closed 7) No temple 8) No sun or moon 9) No night

41. Welcome to your new home (cont): 10) River of the water of life/tree of life (Garden of Eden pt. 2). 11) They will see his face- his name will be on his forehead. (Reversal of Adam and Eve hiding in the Garden.) 12) Eternal

42. Welcome to your new home (cont): 10) River of the water of life/tree of life (Garden of Eden pt. 2). 11) They will see his face- his name will be on his forehead. (Reversal of Adam and Eve hiding in the Garden.) 12) Eternal

43. Welcome to your new home (cont): 10) River of the water of life/tree of life (Garden of Eden pt. 2). 11) They will see his face- his name will be on his forehead. (Reversal of Adam and Eve hiding in the Garden.) 12) Eternal

44. The city is in the shape of a cube. (Like the holy of holies in 1 Kings 6.20). How does this vision differ with typical notions of heaven? Compare Babylon and the New Jerusalem (both are relational images).

45. The city is in the shape of a cube. (Like the holy of holies in 1 Kings 6.20). How does this vision differ with typical notions of heaven? Compare Babylon and the New Jerusalem (both are relational images).

46. The city is in the shape of a cube. (Like the holy of holies in 1 Kings 6.20). How does this vision differ with typical notions of heaven? Compare Babylon and the New Jerusalem (both are relational images).

47. WHOREBRIDE Sits on many watersNo sea Wine of immorality (inebriates the nations). Water of life (healing the nations). Come out of herGo into her Extorts the world The glory and honor of the nations go into her Deceives the nationsThe nations walk by her light Rules over the kings of the earth Kings bring their glory. Filled with the presence of demons Filled with the presence of God Dies There is no death (we will be fully alive)