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For the hour of His judgment is come.— TheMILLENNIAL DAWN, the dawn of the thousandyearJudgment Day of Christ, is at hand.— Rev.15:4; 11:18.And worship Him that made Heaven, andearth, and the sea.— God, our Heavenly Father,the Creator of all things.— Neh. 9:6; Psa. 33:6,124:8; Acts 14:15; 17:24.And the fountains of waters.— His HeavensentWord.Revelation 14:8.And there followed another [angel] ASECOND.— Volume II of Scripture Studies.Saying, [Babylon is fallen,] is fallen, [that]BABYLON, THE great [city].— Chapters 7and 9 of Volume II are particularly devoted tothis theme. "The name Babylon originallysignified God's gate-way; but afterward, inderision, it came to mean mixture or confusion.In the book of Revelation this name is appliedspecifically to the church nominal, which, frombeing the gate-way to glory, became a gate-wayto error and confusion, a miserable mixturecomposed chiefly of tares, hypocrites,— aconfused mass of worldly profession in whichthe Lord's jewels areFM222buried, and their true beauty and luster hidden."(C153.)"The name Babylon was applied, not only to thecapital city of the Babylonian empire, but also tothe empire itself. Babylon, the capital, was themost magnificent, and probably the largest, cityof the ancient world. It was built in the ‘form ofa square on both sides of the Euphrates river;and, for protection against invaders, it wassurrounded by a deep moat filled with water andinclosed within a vast system of double walls,from thirty-two to eighty-five feet thick, andfrom seventy-five to three hundred feet high. Onthe summit were low towers, said to have beentwo hundred and fifty in number, placed alongthe outer and inner edges of the wall, tower