1. How powerful a kingdom was ancient Babylon?

The king spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”

2. Where did Old Testament Babylon originate?

Its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth.

3. What warning did God issue concerning ancient Babylon?

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

4. What effect did ancient Babylon have on other nations?

Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged.

5. What effect did Babylon’s apostasy ultimately have upon itself?

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her!

6. What took place on the night of the fall of Babylon?

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

7. What was the result of this blasphemy?

That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom.

8. Will ancient Babylon ever rise again?

It will  never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

9. How is Babylon described in the book of Revelation?

And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.

On her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

10. What relationship is there between Babylon and other churches?

On her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

11. How has modern Babylon affected the world?

All the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.

12. What did ancient Babylon believe about death?

He brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

13. What does the Bible teach about death?

The living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing, And they have no more reward, For the memory of them is forgotten.

The dead do not praise the Lord, Nor any who go down into silence.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

14. What other aspect of Babylonian worship has entered the church?

He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

15. What is God’s will concerning worship for His people?

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.

Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

16. What was God’s message to His faithful people living in ancient Babylon?

 Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; He shall recompense her.

17. What is God’s message to His faithful people who are in modern, spiritual Babylon?

I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

18. How does God describe the church in the last days?

I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.