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Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies. And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

And another angel followed, saying Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,

because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

There's an image, right? And it's alluding to imagery that as we mentioned a little while

ago before we started recording we're going to get into a chapter 17 you see how st. John

like introduces these things and then remember he mentioned the beast before he talked about

the beasts

right by a couple chapters this is the same thing we're going to find out more about uh

Babylon what city that is why it's a she and uh all he's drinking of the water the wrath of her fornication but spoilers

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Babylon the Babylonian empire was the first major world empire the original Babylonian empire not the

Nebuchadnezzar right right, that we think of,

the Babylonians of the Old Testament.

That's the Neo-Babolonian Empire.

So the Babylonian Empire is mid-second millennium BC.

And that's really the first empire in terms of, I mean, there are always kings who would sort of make the kings of neighboring cities, they're vassals and that kind of thing.

But when we're talking about the Martu who set up the first Babylonian empire in the city of Babylon,

like Hamarabi being the most famous one, who are the biblical Amarites.

Hamurabi, for example, got his sandals imported from Crete.

Hamarabi and Babylon

was forging things out of bronze

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