We saw last week in chapter 17 a spiritual Babylon. A system depicted as a great harlot that is going to able to lure the entire world in. It will be a melting pot of all the world’s religions, most likely including; an apostate christianity, buddhism, hinduism, mormonism etc. and now John is going to turn our focus on yet another Babylon, a Babylon of a different sort.

Some may think it’s just a continuation of chapter 17 when in fact it is a political and economic Babylon. This is the emphasis of this chapter.

There will be, in the end times, in the day of the Lord, in the great tribulation period, a global economic system.