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facing tower; and in these walls were a hundredbrazen gates, twenty-five on each side,corresponding to the number of streets whichintersected each other at right angles. The citywas adorned with splendid palaces and templesand the spoils of conquest.'" (D23; Jer. 51:8;Rev. 18:2.)"This use of the aorist— in the sense of the‘prophetic preterite'— expresses the certainty ofthe fall: see chapters 10:7; 11:18; 18:2; and seeon chapter 15:1. The language is taken from Isa.21:9, the verb denoting the violent fall andoverthrow of kingdoms— see Ezek. 30:6; andsee on chapter 17:10.With the fall of Babylon, the capital of theungodly world-kingdom, the Old Testamentconnects the redemption of the people of God.—Isa. 13:19; 47:1; Jer. 51:1-10."— Cook.Because [she made all nations drink of] ALLNATIONS HAVE FALLEN THROUGH thewine of the wrath of her fornication.— "Theruin of all the nations of earth is here attributeddirectly to the fact that ‘Babylon made all thepeoples drunk with the wine [spirit, influence] ofher fornication'— worldly affiliation."— C164,104; Jer. 51:7; Rev. 2:20; 17:2, 5; 18:3; 19:2.Revelation 14:9.And [the] ANOTHER, A third angel followedthem.— Volume III of the Scripture Studiesfollowed I and II.Saying with a loud voice.— Proclaimingclearly, in chapters 2, 4 and 6.If any man worship the beast.— The Papacy.And his image.— The Evangelical-Alliance-Spiritism combination.— Rev. 13:11, 13, 14, 15;14:11; 15:2; 16:2, 13; 19:20; 20:10; Matt. 24:24.And receive his mark in his forehead, or in hishand.— See Rev. 13:16, 17.Revelation 14:10.The same shall drink of the wine of the wrathof God.— The Message of Present Truth.