The Fall of Babylon by Jos. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 8, 1874

The Fall of Babylon.

By Jos. Clarke

By a comparison of Rev. 18, with verse 8, of chapter 14, it will be seen that they both speak of the same event. But that of the fourteenth chapter referred to the movement just previous to the giving of the third message, while that of the eighteenth chapter gives us the condition of Babylon just before the descent of the plagues. The first was an announcement of Babylon's fall, while the last is a distinct delineation of the condition of Babylon just before her destruction and of the terrible fate which awaits her.

The call of the eighteenth chapter is often called the loud cry of the third angel's message of the fourteenth chapter as it joins in with it, and gives it force. A friend who is informed on this matter, writes thus: “The loud cry of the third angel's message has commenced. These are solemn, searching, important times. But a little while remains, for us to do the work the Lord designs we should do. We must let go of this world, and grasp eternal things.”

Reader, is it so? Have we reached the time mentioned in the eighteenth of Revelation? Are we so near the close of all earthly things? Is this a time to hoard up riches for future needs? Is this a time for the rich to close their hearts and hands against the calls for help from all parts of the field? Is this a time to become lukewarm and carnal? Nay. Let us consecrate all, and come to God with repentance and humility, and let us conquer all our besetments, and overcome. JOS. CLARKE.