`My people, go ye out of the midst

`Come out of her, My people'.

of her'.

`As she hath done, do unto her'.

`Reward her even as she rewarded

`And it shall be, when thou hast

`And a mighty angel took up a stone

made an end of reading this book,

like a great millstone, and cast

that thou shalt bind a stone to

it into the sea, saying, Thus with

it, and cast it into the midst

violence shall that great city

of Euphrates; and thou shalt say,

Babylon be thrown down, and shall

Thus shall Babylon sink, and

be found no more at all'.

shall not rise from the evil that

I will bring upon her'.

We believe these parallels are too evident to need further remark.

question that demands an answer is:

May not the fall of Babylon have taken place already?

We will answer this question by noting:

Marks of time.

`Then shall his yoke depart from off them' (Israel)

(Isa. 14:25).

`Her time (i.e. Babylon's time) is near to come ... For the Lord will

have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their

own land ... and they shall rule over their oppressors' (Isa. 13:22;

`In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of

Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and

weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God ... join ourselves

to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten' (Jer.

`In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of

Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none' (Jer. 50:20).

The fall of Babylon synchronizes with the restoration of Israel and

Judah.  It must therefore be future.  Further, the Scriptures already

considered declare that this blow shall fall in the Day of the Lord.

`Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a

destruction from the Almighty ... and Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,

the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew

Sodom and Gomorrah' (Isa. 13:6-19).