JOHN BRADSHAW - It Is Written

60 BABYLON RISING
The great kingdoms that have appeared on the world
stage have without exception passed from prominence
after a period of time. Monuments in the Middle
Eastern sands silently testify that Egypt was once a
dominant political and military power.
Such was its power that few living 2,000 years ago
would ever have thought that the mighty Roman
Empire would ever come to an end. Covering around
2 million square miles and stretching across Europe
from the Scottish border to the edge of what are now
Pakistan and Afghanistan, it seemed as if the Roman
Empire could never know defeat.
In more modern times, what was once the Soviet
Union is now a collection of independent states, none
of which come close to matching the might of the
former USSR.
The book of Revelation says that “last-days Babylon”
will dominate planet Earth economically, socially
and spiritually—its power in the world entirely
unprecedented. Dissenters against her authority will
be punished ruthlessly, and a death sentence ultimately
pronounced against all who refuse to yield to her
governance (Revelation 13).
But according to the Bible, “Babylon the great”, the one
who “saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow,
and shall see no sorrow” (Revelation 18:7), will ultimately
be brought to naught, receiving “the cup of the wine of
the fierceness of [God’s] wrath” (Revelation 16:19).
Prophecy’s sentence is, “Babylon is fallen” (Revelation
14:8).