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ABYLON is an important city in
the story of human history. When the
prophet Daniel lived there, it was, as the seat of Nebuchadnezzar's government,
literally the capital of the world. In God's revelations to Nebuchadnezzar,
Babylon was the place where that head of gold sat, the head of the image that
represented all of the kingdoms of this world (Daniel 2 & Revelation
11:15). But Babylon has historically stood against God and against His people.
Even in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, where Babylon seems to be a
title representing a broadly international philosophical, economic, political
and religious system, the towering edifice stands as the nemesis of the city of
God; the new Jerusalem. Only with the final and fitting fall of Babylon will we
realize the perfect unity that God intends.
Now, the construction of Babel
had halted during the days of Nimrod due to God's intervention, but the dream
lived on. The dream (of men coming together to build a name for ourselves
without including our Creator) has only become more precisely defined and more
sharply delineated as the centuries and millennia have passed. This chapter
speaks at length about the fall of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon into the hands of
the Medes and the Persians (Daniel 5:28). Yet, the great and final fall of
Babylon is still ahead of us.
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