Vengeance

When Jerusalem’s temple fell in AD 70, the religious and economic order surrounding it came crashing down. Revelation 18 portrays that judgment through grieving merchants, silenced streets, and a city charged with the blood of prophets and saints. By connecting John’s vision with Old Testament imagery and Jesus’ warnings, this study explores Jerusalem’s identity as Babylon and why the merchants mourned when her market went silent.

Vengeance is mine, I will repay is often treated as permission to ask God to settle our personal scores. But those words carry a covenant history. From Israel’s disobedience to Jerusalem’s days of vengeance, Scripture traces a judgment with an appointed fulfillment. Why are we still hanging that completed wrath over people today?