{"id":4723,"date":"2014-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-fancy-things-you-loved-so-much-are-gone-they-cry-all-your-luxuries-and-splendor-are-gone-forever-never-to-be-yours-again-revelation-1814-nlt\/"},"modified":"2014-12-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T00:00:00","slug":"the-fancy-things-you-loved-so-much-are-gone-they-cry-all-your-luxuries-and-splendor-are-gone-forever-never-to-be-yours-again-revelation-1814-nlt","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-fancy-things-you-loved-so-much-are-gone-they-cry-all-your-luxuries-and-splendor-are-gone-forever-never-to-be-yours-again-revelation-1814-nlt","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;The fancy things you loved so much are gone,&#8217; they cry. &#8216;All your luxuries and splendor are gone forever, never to be yours again&#8217;\u201d (Revelation 18:14 NLT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God revealed the fall of Babylon to John. Since the actual city of Babylon had fallen to the Persians over 500 years before John&#8217;s Revelation, this must be taken as a symbolic reference to a future event. Some see Babylon as symbolizing Rome (historic view), others see the city of New York, but a more convincing view is that Babylon symbolizes the world economic system. In this view, a sign of the end times is that the world will have a unified world economy that makes nations and merchants wealthy, while others are enslaved by it. Ultimately, Babylon will fall. Those who depend on the world&#8217;s economy will be disappointed. Those who depend on God&#8217;s provision will be satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God revealed the fall of Babylon to John. Since the actual city of Babylon had fallen to the Persians over 500 years before John&#8217;s Revelation, this must be taken as a symbolic reference to a future event. Some see Babylon as symbolizing Rome (historic view), others see the city of New York, but a more convincing view is that Babylon symbolizes the world economic system. In this view, a sign of the end times is that the world will have a unified world economy that makes nations and merchants wealthy, while others are enslaved by it. Ultimately, Babylon will fall. Those who depend on the world&#8217;s economy will be disappointed. Those who depend on God&#8217;s provision will be satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1333],"scripture-chapter":[1351],"oyb_day":[1888],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4723","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-revelation","scripture-chapter-1351","oyb_day-december-27"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}