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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
The Second Message. — This message,
following the first, is announced (verse 8) in
these few words: “And there followed another
angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that
great city, because she made all nations drink
of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
The chronology of this message is determined,
to a great extent, by that of the first message.
This cannot precede that; but that, as has been
shown, is confined to the last days; yet this
must be given before the end, for no move of
this kind is possible after that event. It is
therefore a part of that religious movement
which takes place in the last days with
especial reference to the coming of Christ.
The inquiries therefore naturally follow: What
is meant by the term Babylon? what is its fall?
and how is it fulfilled? As to the etymology of
