THE FALL OF BABYLON

Babylon was a very religious oriented city. Fifty-three temples have been discovered. The pgod of the imperial city was Marduk. The god is called Merodach in the Bible. Many suggests that the god was inhabited by the spirit of Nimrod who God let him to be a mighty warrior, collector of all the powers of the earth.

Revelation 18 : ... Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become the dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird; for all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness. 

... Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

... As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning.

Since in her heart she says, "A queen I sit, I am no widow, mourning I shall never see," so shall her plagues come in a single day. pestilence and mourning and famine, and she shall be burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

... And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and were wanton with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning; they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! alas! thou great city, thou mighty city, Babylon! In one hour has your judgment come."

And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any more, cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood, all articles of ivory, all articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.

The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your dainties and your splendor are lost to you, never to be found again!

... Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, bedecked with gold, with jewels, and with pearls! In one hour all this wealth has been laid waste. And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning,  ... in one hour she has been laid waste.  ...

... Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea saying, "So shall Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and shall be found no more ...   ... Rev. 18: 1-23.