Rev 18:9-14 – In One Hour Thy Judgment is Come, Part 1

[Study Aired May 9, 2025]

Rev 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Rev 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Rev 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
Rev 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
Rev 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Rev 18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

Introduction

These verses of today’s study symbolically list all the things and doctrines of the churches of this world which appeal to our rebellious carnal minds during that part of our life when we subscribe to, believe in, and live by this great harlot’s many lies and false doctrines. “The fruits that your soul desires are departed from you and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you, and you will find them no more at all” is a statement which signifies and reveals the change that takes place in our lives when we are dragged to the point of having to acknowledge that everything we once believed is a lie. That is a monumental loss in the life of our old man. Everything we once valued has now been burned up and destroyed by the brightness of the Truth which the Lord has given our new eyes to see and  understand, and the new perception of our new ears. We suddenly see that everything we have ever believed was a lie, and now everything we are coming to see so very clearly is new and very different from what our Babylonian eyes thought they had seen and what our Babylonian ears thought they had heard. In a relatively short time, we come to see that the Lord has taken away from the churches of this world “the whole stay of [spiritual] bread and the whole stay of [spiritual] water”, and now we see everything in an exciting and refreshing new light, the light of The Truth:

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

If the Lord has not yet given us to believe that verse of scripture, then that is because we have not yet been given the repentance which the holy spirit requires of the seven churches which are signified by these “seven women”:

Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread [signifying our own Babylonian doctrines], and wear our own apparel [signifying our own way of life]: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

The “one man” dominated by these “seven women” is our old man, the beast on which the “great harlot” is seated. The “seven women” of Isaiah 4:1 signify the seven apostate churches of Asia who signify this great spiritually unfaithful harlot.

“All things are new” when we come to know the true Christ and we are given to obey His doctrines.

2Co 5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

“The kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her” typify those false doctrines which are most immediately affected by the destruction which the Truth of Christ’s doctrines inflict upon the blasphemous doctrines of this great spiritual harlot. The false doctrine of an immortal soul, with the false doctrine of an eternal hell where that ‘immortal soul’ will be forever tormented with no hope of ever being delivered, are but a couple of examples of these ‘kings of the earth’ who bear rule over this ‘beast’ which all men are:

Ecc 3:18  I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

These “kings of the earth” signify the spiritual principles and false doctrines which bear rule over our thoughts. These are the ‘kings of the earth’ within us who are losing everything their soul has always desired. All the approbation by society for all our good works is taken away because we insist on being obedient to Christ. All the celebrations of the flesh are now gone, and we are now regarded by our families and friends who are still in the churches we once attended as being apostates who are worse than a pagan. Our families and friends and associates who still attend the churches of Babylon and still believe all the lies this great harlot teaches are signified by these “kings of the earth” who celebrate the things of the earth, just as we ourselves did only yesterday. Our families and friends, now signify our own old man who has the most to lose because we were once invested in the doctrines and customs of this harlot system. These “Kings of the earth” are all the false doctrines which are signified by these ‘seven heads’ of our beast which are called “seven mountains which are seven kings” in chapter 17:

Rev 17:7 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, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Rev 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Rev 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

“The mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her” and “the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits and there are seven kings” all tell us that this woman and this beast with seven heads which “are seven kings” are inseparable. The beasts we are is always associated with this harlot. Truly “the dream is one” and all of these symbols are also one apostate beast which signifies our own apostasy and the hold which society and the churches of Babylon have on us at this part of our “experience of evil” which is this life we all must live in this world. It is all by the Lord’s “own will” and by His own design:

Gen 41:25  And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Gen 41:26  The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Pro 16:5  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

This life is “the day of evil”, and we are each “shapen in iniqutity, and conceived in sin” for the express purpose of enduring our own “day of evil” and repenting of our evil ways:

Psa 51:5  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

All these verses are just a part of “the brightness of His coming” (2Th 2:8), which destroys our “man of sin… the wicked… made… for the day of evil”, which ‘wicked for the day of evil’ signifies this beast with seven horns being ridden by and dominated by this great harlot. ‘The dream is one, and the Lord is showing us what He is about to do in our lives.

The loss of “the fruits your soul desires” is the great loss felt by these seven kings which are within this beast, when this great harlot is finally unveiled to us for what she really is. The loss of “the fruits your soul desires” is signified by a “great earthquake”. “The fruits your soul desires” signify all the lies and false doctrines which are an integral part of this harlot system. Through the experience of coming to “know the Truth” she is being destroyed within us, along with all she has to offer this beast which we are by nature. This spiritual beast which is dominated by a spiritual harlot mourns the loss of everything we have ever worked for, and at the same time our new man rejoices at what our old man is losing. No natural human being enjoys being “hated of all men”:

Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

The trials we are told to expect are signified by ‘fire’ which signifies the pain of our suffering as we come to discover that everything we have ever believed is a lie:

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

This ‘hatred by all men’ includes our own families which makes the heat of our “fiery trials” even more ‘fiery’:

Mat 10:34  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36  And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
Mat 10:37  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

The past four years here in the U.S. I have been expecting this website to be taken down. The laws being passed had already made the proclaiming of the Truth a federal crime, and I fully expected that it was just a matter of time before I would be prosecuted and imprisoned for simply telling the Truth that a man is not a woman and a woman is not a man.  That is the extent to which this nation has forsaken the Truth of Christ Who IS the Truth:

Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus did not ‘say unto him, I know the truth.’ What Christ said was, “I AM the Truth”, and He even went on to say, “No man comes to the Father, but by Me.” Wow! What a claim! Yet Christ’s entire life proved that He really was “the Son of God” and the Savior of this world who fulfilled every Old Testament prophecy concerning a coming Messiah who would ‘bear the sins of Israel’:

Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men [until this very day]; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

What does all of this experience of Christ have to do with us. It has everything to do with us because:

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

This verse therefore applies to us:

Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men [until this very day]; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

With Christ we, too, will be ‘despised and rejected of men’. With Christ we will ‘not be esteemed… of men… because as He is so are we in this world.” That includes the statement that “the world through Him [through us as Him] might be saved”.

Christ taught:

Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Yet this great harlot, the great Babylonian ministers of this great harlot system, the Pope, Billy Graham, Robert Schuler, John Hagee, and many other so-called ‘Christian ministers’ deny that “No man comes to the Father but by Me [Christ].” That is right, every one of those ministers will tell you that if you are true to the tenets of your faith, be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or any other religion, you will go to heaven and be with the Father when you die.

That is just a single example of just how far from God the Christian Church is. “The whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water” has indeed been taken away from His own people by the Lord Himself. There is not one doctrine of Babylon which has not been tainted with her false doctrines and her lies and her heresies:

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

It is all a work of God in our lives, but we still must be brought to our wits’ end and brought and dragged to repent of the wickedness which the Lord has worked in our lives. That repentant spirit comes only through His punishment for the sins of our “day of evil” which the Lord Himself has ordained for each of us:

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Pro 16:5  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. What we sow is what we will reap. Our repentance does not mean that the Lord is not a just God who will repay us double for our sins:

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

It is the punishment for our sins with which all the seals, trumpets, and vials of this revelation of Jesus “Christ within you the hope of glory” is concerned.

Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest [revealed] to his saints:
Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

This seventh vial and the fall of Babylon within us does not happen at “the beginning of sorrows” when we suffer multiple “earthquakes in different places” within our lives.

Mat 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Mat 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? [G65, ‘aion’, age]
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end [The “it is done” Rev 16:17, the 7^th vial, the fall of Babylon within us] is not yet.
Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom [spiritual warfare which never seems to end]: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [This is not the “great earthquake” of the 7^th vial which produces the fall of Babylon]
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Our beast is restored to power within us in a really miraculous way which leads us to worship him, and in doing so to worship the dragon, who empowers our wild beast:

Rev 13:13  And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

Christ puts it this way: “Many will come in Christ’s name and deceive many; You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There shall be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in different places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Neither Matthew 24:1-8 nor Revelation 13:3-4 refers to the seven last plagues of our study today.

Contrast those words at the beginning of Matthew 24 with this statement in Rev 16.

Rev 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
Rev 16:18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Rev 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Rev 16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Rev 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

This is the last of the “seven last plagues.” This is not “the beginning of sorrows, [or the] healing of a deadly wound.”

Rev 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

We will pause our study at this point and rejoice in knowing that the Lord is in the process of dragging us out of the clutches of that great harlot system. If that is the case, and our presence here proves that it is, then we can indeed rejoice in knowing that these seven last plagues have already begun to be poured out upon us because no man can begin to enter into the house of God until the seven vials of the seven angels has begun to be poured out:

Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to [begin to] enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were [being] fulfilled.

In this study we have concentrated on who ‘the kings of the earth’ signify, and what their fornication with this harlot signified. In our next study we will concentrate our attention upon the merchants of the earth” who are made rich by the merchandise they sell to us and what that ‘merchandise’ signifies. It will become apparent that “the dream is  one” and the ‘kings of the earth” are an integral part of “the merchants of the earth”, but in coming to understand that all these symbols signify the nature of the one beast and the one harlot, we will come to see that they both signify who we are and what  appeals to  us in this part of our experience of evil” which the Lord has ordained this life to be in order to humble the wild beast He has first made us to be:

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.