ing the later
events will doubtless be to overwhelm and destroy the myriad _aerial_
engines of war used by the senselessly deluded attacking hosts arrayed
against Jerusalem and against Christ and His Saints.

"_And there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon
the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great_." Rev. xvi. 18.
Jerusalem will be split into three parts, as a result of this
earthquake. But the effect upon the nations is _utter_ ruin,--"_the
cities of the nations fell_." London, New York, Paris, Berlin,
Chicago, every other city, collapses like a rent balloon, and the
opened earth swallows up palaces and cots, men and women, and what the
overwhelming and the falling shall not slay, shall perish in the awful
conflagrations produced.

"_And Babylon the great was remembered in the presence of God to give
her the cup of wine of the fierceness of His anger_." Babylon, the
great, the colossal city of mighty splendor, re-built, as we saw
earlier in this book, will have become exclusively a _commercial_ city.
All the vice and sin and voluptuousness of all the vilest cities of the
whole world, through all the ages, gathered up into one whole foulness,
would be as virtue compared with the foulness and vice and
voluptuousness of the Great Babylon.

"_Fallen, Fallen, Babylon the Great_." May we gather from the
twice-repeated word "Fallen," that the collapse comprises the two
things "_Babylon, mystery!_"--the foul religious system, the false
worship,--and also Babylon _the city_?

God does not settle His accounts every Saturday night as petty
tradesmen do. Babylon had been garnering judgment for herself, from
the beginning. And the cry of doom goes out against her, from Heaven.

"_Render to her even as she rewarded, and double the double according
to her works; in the cup which she mixed, mix for her double; insomuch
as she glorified herself and was wanton, TO THAT PROPORTION give to her
torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I sit a queen and
am not a widow, and shall see no mourning, therefore, IN ONE DAY, shall
come her plagues, death, and mourning and famine, and with fire shall
she be burnt, because strong is the Lord who hath judged her_."

And never more after this shall the foul city arise.

Awful convulsions of the earth will take place all over the world. The
whole configuration of the earth shall be changed. Mountains and
islands, well known before, will disappe