Sermon Outlines

By Frederick F. Schwindt, Evangelist

BABYLON THE GREAT

1. Why this subject?
   1. Nations have committed spiritual adultery with her - verses 3 and 15
   2. Nations are drunk with the wine of her teaching.
   3. Her spiritual daughters practice the same lewdness toward civil powers.
2. God's judgment is pending against her: Rev. 14:9-11, 16:19; 17:1

1. Origin and meaning of the word - Babylon:
   1. Dates back to the building of the tower of Babel - Gen. 11:7-11
   2. The gate to heaven
   3. Utter confusion - Gen. 11:3, 4, 5-9
2. Mystery of iniquity:
   1. 2 Thess. 2:7
   2. Rev. 17:5
3. Mother of Harlots:
   1. That indicates that this woman has daughters which follow her practices.
4. She holds a golden cup in her hand:
   1. That symbolizes her doctrines with which she has made drunk all nations.
   2. This was foretold in prophecy - 2 Tim. 4:1-6; 1 Tim. 4:1-6
5. This woman is carried by a scarlet colored beast:
   1. A beast, in Bible prophecy, stands for a civil power or government. Compare Dan. 7:1-15 with Rev. 13:1-17
   2. To be carried by a beast or a civil government simply means that the woman uses civil governments to subjugate the people to her doctrines and will.
   3. This happened during the dark ages when over 50,000,000 persons lost their lives for refusing to follow the teaching of Rome - Rev. 17:6; 18:24

1. There are many of God's people in her system: Rev. 18:4
   1. That is one great reason why God is withholding her final destruction. EXAMPLES -
      1. Long suffering of God in the days of Lot - Gen. 18:23-32; 19:22
      2. Jonah and the city of Nineveh - Jonah 4:11
      3. The city of Corinth in the days of Paul - Acts 18:10
   2. These must be brought out of her before she will be destroyed - Rev. 18:4; John 10:15, 16
2. Specific marks of this fallen system:
   1. Speaks blasphemy against the most High. Compare Dan. 7:25 with Rev. 13:6; 2 Thess. 2:1-7
   2. Destroys God's people - Dan. 7:25; Rev. 13:7, 16- 18
   3. Attempts to change times and law - Dan. 7:25; Ps. 94:20
3. The burden of the Advent Movement:
   1. To present the specific prophesies of the Bible which will expose this great fallen and counterfeit system - Isa. 58:1, 2; Rev. 18:1-4
   2. To call out of the fallen churches the people that hunger and thirst for the truth which will save their souls.
   3. That shows that the Advent Movement is prophetic in its existence and also in its worldwide mission - Rev. 14:7
4. End of Babylon the Great:
   1. She will be visited with one of the seven last plagues - Rev. 16:10-13
   2. She will be burned as with fire - Rev. 17:16; 18:6