Digging Deeper: Babylon (November 2018)

Babylon: one of antiquity’s most famous cities, proud of their god Marduk, and ruled in the 2nd millennium BC by the famed lawgiver Hammurabi. Later, Babylon is a world wonder with its hanging gardens, its Ishtar Gate and dominating ruler Nebuchadnezzar. But Babylon is something else too: it’s the inheritor of the Babel legacy, a place where God’s gifts and talents to His children become their weapons against Him. . . ; until the very name becomes synonymous with enmity against God, hostility against His people and the locus of cosmic confrontation between all the forces of good and the human and supernatural armies of spiritual rebellion. What must God do about Babylon now?