Why is the Babylon in Revelation not the ancient city of Babylon?
The ancient city cannot be the Babylon of Revelation because the Old Testament says it will never be rebuilt and will remain only a habitation for wild animals and birds of prey. Revelation’s Babylon instead is the worldwide one-world system, so its fall involves all the cities of the world together.
Les teaches that the Babylon in Revelation is not the ancient city, since the Old Testament says it will never be rebuilt and will always be only a habitation of wild animals and birds of prey. Instead, the Babylon of Revelation is the whole worldwide system coming together today—the one-world concept in which Tokyo, Berlin, London, Rome, New York, and everything else are like one tightly knit group. When Babylon falls, it will not be just one city; all the cities of the world will in one hour fall into nothingness by the spoken word of God. He emphasizes that the Babylon here is all the world, and while people love to hear about the great new one world, it will suddenly evaporate.