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“Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.” (Revelation 18:8 KJV).
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I. The World That Built Its Own Throne:
‘Friends, empires rise faster now. They no longer need legions and banners; they are born in code, credit, and control. What Scripture calls the “Beast” is not just a man—it is a mechanism: a networked empire of commerce, politics, and deception that spans every border and every screen.
It pretends to be order, but it is oppression wrapped in convenience. Revelation describes it as a system where no one can “buy or sell” without the mark. Today, humanity is almost there—digital identity, digital currency, digital worship. Every click is a confession, every transaction a tether.
But God is not mocked. What man builds on pride, God topples by power. When the time comes, the entire system will collapse “in one hour”—a phrase repeated twice in (Revelation 18), emphasizing swiftness and shock.
II. The First Seal: Human Dominion Gone Mad:
From Eden onward, man was given stewardship, not sovereignty. Yet every empire tries to reverse that assignment. Babylon built towers, Rome built laws, modernity builds algorithms. Each new tower climbs higher—until Heaven steps in.
(Genesis 11:6) > records humanity’s declaration: “Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.” It was never about architecture; it was about authority. The Beast System is Babel reborn self-deified humanity seeking control without conscience.
‘Friends, every seal in Revelation represents a divine response to human rebellion. The final seals break not from cruelty but correction—God ending what man refuses to stop.
III. The Machinery of the Beast/The modern Beast wears many faces:
- Economic: a global marketplace where dependence replaces dignity.
- Political: promises of peace traded for personal freedom.
- Technological: artificial intelligence as a false omniscience.
- Spiritual: tolerance that tolerates everything except truth.
Together these form the counterfeit Trinity—Control, Convenience, and Compliance. They mimic Father, Son, and Spirit but enslave instead of save. (Revelation 13), warns that the Beast “was given power to make war with the saints, and to overcome them.” The war is not fought with swords but systems—financial, cultural, ideological. Yet even systems have expiration dates.
IV. The Cup of Babylon:
The harlot of (Revelation 17), holds a golden cup “full of abominations.” The cup is civilization’s intoxication: wealth without worship, progress without purity. Every nation that drinks grows drunk on self-reliance.
But the cup has a cost. When prosperity forgets providence, judgment is the hangover. (Revelation 18:7), records Babylon’s boast: “I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.” That arrogance summons divine retribution.
The same spirit drives modern power: “We have built systems too big to fail.” Yet God has shattered every “too big to fail” empire in history. He toppled Egypt’s gods, scattered Babel’s tongues, and dismantle the Beast’s grid.
V. Why One Hour?
‘friends, God measures time differently. The phrase “in one hour” in (Revelation 18:10,17,19), symbolizes suddenness—judgment that bypasses gradual decline. Empires crumble slowly; Babylon will fall instantly.
Why so fast? Because it was built on lies. Lies require constant maintenance; truth needs none. When God withdraws permission, illusion implodes. The Beast’s infrastructure—economic, digital, ideological > depends on human belief. Once that belief collapses, the machine has no power.
Like Jericho, the walls of the Beast will not erode—they will detonate at the trumpet of truth. (Hebrews 11:30).
VI. The Cry of the Merchants:
When Babylon falls, Revelation says “the merchants of the earth shall weep.” They are not sorrowful for souls but for sales. “No man buyeth their merchandise any more.” The end-time economy is spiritual as much as financial.
We live in a culture where everything is for sale—attention, affection, even identity. The Antichrist’s brilliance will be to commodify the soul. But God’s vengeance will strike precisely there. The day the markets fall will be the day mercy begins.
(Isaiah 24:2–3), foresaw this collapse: “As with the buyer, so with the seller… the earth is utterly broken down.” Every pyramid of greed eventually crushes those beneath it.
VII. The Shattering:
Before destruction comes distinction. Revelation 7 shows angels sealing God’s servants on their foreheads. This is not technology; it is ownership. The mark of the Beast enslaves; the seal of God liberates.
In a world obsessed with identity verification, Heaven will issue its own authentication—holiness. The true saints need no passcode; their faith is their signature. While the Beast stamps flesh, the Spirit inscribes hearts.
Ezekiel saw the same in vision: a man marking the foreheads of those who “sigh and cry for the abominations.” (Ezekiel 9:4) These are not spectators but intercessors. In the coming hour, safety will be spiritual, not systemic.
IX. Heaven’s Economic Reversal:
When God shatters Babylon, He does not leave a void. Revelation 21 introduces the New Jerusalem—a city with no need of sun or system. Its economy is grace; its currency, glory. Nations bring their honor into it, not their idols.
The destruction of the Beast System is not nihilism—it is replacement. The counterfeit must collapse before the Kingdom can manifest fully. What seems like catastrophe is actually cleansing.
In one hour, God will accomplish what humanity could not in millennia: the end of corruption without the end of creation.
X. The Call to Endurance:
For believers, this prophecy is not an invitation to fear but to faithful separation. (Revelation 18:4) says, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” To come out means to live within systems without worshiping them—to use tools without trusting them.
Faithfulness looks like integrity in business, honesty in communication, generosity in scarcity, and holiness in hidden places. Every act of righteousness is a crack in the Beast’s foundation.
‘Friends, God does not need armies; He needs authenticity. When the faithful refuse corruption, the structure weakens from within.
XI. The Moment of Collapse:
Prophecy gives a picture, not a timestamp. The “hour” will arrive when the world’s unity becomes unanimity against truth—when deception feels complete. Then, suddenly, the illusion will break like glass.
Revelation’s language of “fire” need not mean literal flame—it means consuming exposure. The hidden will become known; the proud will melt before purity.
And the saints will sing. “Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” (Revelation 19:6) One empire dies; another dawns.
Author’s Note:
‘Friends, I chose the inspired image of “one hour” because it reminds us that judgment, when it comes, is swift, not sadistic. God does not delight in destruction. He ends deception for the sake of deliverance. The fall of Babylon is not God’s rage; it is His mercy removing the counterfeit from creation’s stage.
For the believer, these prophecies are both warning and reassurance. They warn against compromise—living as though this world’s order will endure. And they reassure us that the darkness will not rule forever. The same God who measures galaxies can unmake corruption in a heartbeat.
Practically, this means learning to live unmarked: content without consumption, secure without surveillance, faithful without fear. Build relationships that cannot be digitized. Speak truth even when systems are silent. Pray not for escape but endurance.
“Brothers and Sisters,” when the final seal breaks, panic will fill the world, but peace will fill the redeemed. For them, the hour of Babylon’s fall will be the dawn of freedom. The Beast System is temporary. The Kingdom is eternal. And in that single, sovereign hour, Heaven will prove it.
Author and Servant;
Norman G. Roy III
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