Message Notes

SSS 4 28 September 2025
Text: Revelation 18

4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

6 Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.

7 In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’

8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

Revelation 18:4-8

1. The Command of God

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

Revelation 18:4

a) Addressed to God’s people

b) To dissociate with Babylon

c) Lest they partake of the plagues

2. The sins of Babylon judged

5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

6 Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.

Revelation 18:5-6

a) Her sins have reached heaven

b) God has remembered her iniquities

c) She will be recompensed for all her evil deeds

d) She will pay for her sinful ways

THE SIN OF ARROGANCE

7 In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’

8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

Revelation 18:4-8

1. She glorified herself

2. She lived luxuriously

3. She says to herself

‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’

THE PUNISHMENT FROM THE LORD

1. Reciprocal punishment

a) She will suffer torment

b) She will experience sorrow

2. Divine plagues

a) Death

b) Mourning

c) Famine

d) Burned with fire

3. God as the Judge

a) He is the Lord

b) He is mighty in strength