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In light of the coming destruction of the world for its wickedness, we must live in it as influences for God's Kingdom; while staying separate from it and its evils. Summary: Revelation 18 and 19 contrasts two cities and two allegorical women: the corrupt city of Babylon, depicted as a seductive harlot, and the holy city, the bride prepared for her husband. Babylon is framed as the world’s idolatrous system—an economic, cultural, and moral network that prospers by exploiting others and exalts itself against God. This perspective traces Babylon’s roots back to Babel in ancient Biblical times, It seems the world continually builds new Babylons in cities, institutions, and cultural kingdoms that promise security but rest on shifting sands. Divine judgment on Babylon follows inevitably because her sins reach to heaven; yet the response in heaven centers on praise, vindication for the martyrs, and a summons for God’s people to come out of her. This calling stands as the sermon