Revelation 17:1-6...Mike Fitzpatrick...5/22/22


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Revelation 17:1-6


  • Revelation 17-18 do not advance the chronological _________________________________


  • “Babylon”...260 x in the Bible, always a _________________________________________


  • Location? 



  • Origin…Genesis 10:8-12


✓ Nimrod=

*Mighty…good? or bad? 




*hunter=


  • Kingdom: Babel, Erech, Accad, Calneh

✓ stage 2: 



Q. Why did Nimrod leave Babylon? (Genesis 11:1-9) 


✓ the command? 



✓ Three wave rebellion: 




Q. Why do all of this? 




…God’s response (vv5-9)





  1. Like the “fall” and the “flood” how? _______________________________________________________


  1. Will be ______________________________during the ________________________________________


  1. What won’t be? 




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Revelation 17:1-6


  • Revelation 17-18 do not advance the chronological narrative


  • “Babylon”...260 x in the Bible, always a place


  • Location? Modern day Iraq



  • Origin…Genesis 10:8-12


✓ Nimrod= "let us rebel"

*Mighty…good? (Ruth 2:1) or bad? (Psalm 52:1-4) ("might that devours")




*hunter= hunting men (Jeremiah 16:16)


  • Kingdom: Babel, Erech, Accad, Calneh

✓ stage 2: 

                            Assyria (v11) (Micah 5:6)

                            Ninevah -became the capital of the Assyrian empire




Q. Why did Nimrod leave Babylon? (Genesis 11:1-9) 


✓ the command? 

        be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth

✓ Three wave rebellion: 

  1. Permanent bricks made
  2. Building a city or a tower
  3. Desire for a name

Q. Why do all of this? 

    it was an organized rebellion against Genesis 9:1




…God’s response (vv5-9)


  1. it is direct

  1. Like the “fall” and the “flood” how? enduring consequences


  1. Will be reversed during the the kingdom (Zephaniah 3:8-9)


  1. What won’t be? reversed


                Nations will remain distinct from one another
                Zechariah 14:9, 16-19
                Isaiah 2:2
                Micah 4:2
                Psalm 72:17
                Revelation 231:24-26

 

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