December 18, Revelation 18
Good! You kept reading. Babylon falls! I read one book about Revelation (a book by Eugene Peterson who also wrote The Message—a paraphrase of the Bible) that sub-divided the book of Revelation into a series of statements all beginning with the phrase, “The Final Word about…) Well, in keeping with Peterson’s analysis, here is the final word about the enemies of God—they are crushed! You have probably heard the cliché: I’ve read the final chapter and we win! Well, that’s what we get as we begin to read the final chapters of Revelation.