{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Devil's Details: The Evolution of the Devil through Art and Literature","title":"Babylon Is Fallen... And It Can't Get Up! • Revelation, Chapter 18","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1787,"description":"Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen — and it can't get up! Revelation 18 is a taunt song disguised as a funeral lament, and we are here for every delicious, brutal word of it. The highlight of the reading? John's exhaustive merchandise list — gold, silver, pearls, silk, cinnamon, frankincense, fine flour — culminating in \"slaves and souls of men,\" a placement that is very much not an accident.We break down how John is copy-pasting from Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, using the same prophetic language that described the falls of ancient Babylon and Tyre to tell his community: Rome is next, and it's going to collapse from the inside. We bring in scholar James Tabor's Pompeii connection — the shipmasters watching from the harbor map almost exactly onto the eyewitness accounts of Vesuvius — and zero in on the three mourning groups (kings, merchants, shipmasters) who aren't grieving a city so much as an income stream. The phrase \"in one hour\" appears three times, and it doesn't mean sixty minutes — it means suddenly, completely, and without warning.We also work through what \"come out of her, my people\" actually means as a moral and spiritual call to refuse complicity in empire — and sit with why a first-century lament over Rome feels so uncomfortably current.The Devil's Details show page/archiveBanana for Scale Facebook GroupConnect with Kynan on Instagram or LetterboxdConnect with Lester on Facebook, Instagram, or X","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/pPdwXoP-wPXXjp-UiTUk-Y_EVBITpPlV47jnxehR9Bc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYzk5/MTdjNWVlNTRmNDBj/MDJiYTcxZTU5YWVl/NDJkNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}