Will Vaus

Listen for God’s word to you from Revelation 19… After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,      for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute      who corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”   And again they shouted: “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.” The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried: “Amen, Hallelujah!” Then a voice came from the throne, saying: “Praise our God,      all you his servants, you who fear him,      both great and small!” Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah!      For our Lord God Almighty reigns.   Let us rejoice and be glad      and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb

  After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendor.   He called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!      It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit,      a haunt of every foul bird,      a haunt of every foul and hateful beast. For all the nations have drunk      of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,      and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power   of her luxury.” Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people,      so that you do not take part in her sins, and so that you do not share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven,      and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her as she herself has rendered,      and repay her double for her deeds;      mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed. As she glorified

  One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. The name written on her forehead was a mystery: Babylon the great the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth. I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. Then the angel said to me: “Wh