In which we start a four-week journey through the endgame of Revelation's final chapters. We begin with Revelation 18 ("The Fall of Babylon"), which calls up Johnny Cash's words from our musical journey through Revelation last week: "You can run on for a long time, but sooner or later God'll cut you down." No doubt reading Revelation amidst late capitalist empire prompts ready observations about things that could stand a good cutting-down, and so we ask—for Revelation's first-century audience or ourselves—what sense of in-breaking hope does this judgement text has to offer? Artist-in-Residence Adam Barnard contributes songs by Bob Dylan, Peter & The Wolf, Leonard Cohen, and Alex Dupree.