Chapters 17 and 18 are best read as a unit. In chapter 17, we learn of the fall of spiritual Babylon...a false religion that helps to aid the rise of the Antichrist and his kingdom in the last days. It is a global, formal, murderous apostate religion that has a history of martyrdom, political alliance with Rome, and appears to be headquartered in Rome...the city of seven hills.
However, at the midpoint of the Tribulation, Antichrist destroys that religion and institutes emperor worship. It will be impossible to buy, sell, or to participate in economic or political live after the rise of Antichrist worship. All power...political, economic, and religious will be vested in his kingdom.
Chapter 18 describes the downfall of political and economic Babylon that will occur at the end of the Great Tribulation when Jesus destroys that kingdom in a single hour of a single day. Antichrist destroys religion, then Jesus destroys Antichrist.
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