Vision of Babylon

John did not receive the vision through human understanding or natural means, but while on the isle of Patmos, he received a "vision" (Revelation 9:17). Isaiah 29:11 calls it "the vision of all [all the Gospel Day]." John saw a representative of the entire Gospel Day, or the entire Christian dispensation. How did John get a vision of Babylon? Revelation 17:1 says, "Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore." Revelation 17:3 tells us, "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness." The Spirit had to get John into a position where the Spirit could carry him away (convey his mind, his thinking). 
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Even after John saw the woman whom Revelation 17:5 terms as "BABYLON," Revelation 17:6 says that he "wondered with great admiration." Revelation 17:7 reads: "And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her." It took a work of the Spirit, and it also takes a man with a message, under the anointing of the Spirit, to give people insight as to their true conditions yet today. 

Earl R. Borders

From the July 2025 issue of The Gospel Trumpeter