Does it not seem that the judgment upon Mystery,
Babylon involves severely painful torment?
Revelation 18:7 How much
she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for
she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow,
and shall see no sorrow.
That painful torment is so bad, that isn't this
what others fear, her torment?
Revelation 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.
15 The merchants of
these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand
afar off for the fear of her torment,
weeping and wailing,
It doesn't say for the fear of her judgment, but
for the fear of her torment.
It says that she will be burned with fire:
Revelation
17:16 And the
ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall
hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked,
and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with
fire.
Revelation 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come
in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire:
for strong is the Lord God who judgeth
her.
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,
Isn't being burned alive is one of the most
painful to experience?
It would appear that her judgment is not over
within a few seconds.
Apparently isn't there a duration of intense
torment, because that torment is terrifying others that are
not there?
Are people far off, and merchants far out to
sea, keenly aware of that painful torment of hers?
Are they able to somehow hear the screaming in
agony of those being tormented in her?
Or are they also able to see the suffering of
the people live somehow?
Or does something unique happen, like what
happened to Dathan and Abiram?
Numbers 16:30 But if the
LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and
swallow them up, with all that appertain
unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye
shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
31 And it came
to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these
words, that the ground clave asunder that was
under them:
32 And the
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
houses, and all the men that appertained
unto Korah, and all their goods.
33 They, and
all that appertained to them, went down
alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and
they perished from among the congregation.
34 And all
Israel that were round about them fled
at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth
swallow us up also.
So, in the case of Mystery Babylon, does she go
down alive into hell?
Do the merchants, standing afar off, somehow get
to hear, and or see, the torment of people on fire being
swallowed up alive into hell, where the torment continues
and intensifies?
Either way, will all of the LORD's people, that
may still be there, be taken out of her before the fire,
like Lot was from Sodom?
Reading about that ought to make me think about
the fires of hell, and my friends, relatives &
co-workers that are still going there, because they are not
saved yet.
So, when I neglect to give them the gospel, is
it because I somehow really don't believe in hell, or worse
yet, do I secretly hope for them to go there?
Is it like having the ability to rescue someone
from a burning building, but instead deciding to ignore
them, or worse yet, to watch?