What is Babylon in the book of Revelation?
In Revelation, Babylon represents the worldwide system—a one-world concept—not the ancient city, which Scripture says will never be rebuilt. It encompasses all the world's cities and nations knit together, and when Babylon falls, all the cities of the world will collapse in one hour by the spoken word of God.
Les explains that the Babylon in Revelation is not the ancient city because the Old Testament says it will never be rebuilt; it will remain a habitation only of wild animals and birds of prey. Instead, the Babylon of Revelation is the whole worldwide system coming together today—a one-world concept where Tokyo, Berlin, London, Rome, New York, and everything are like one tightly knit group. He pictures that when Babylon falls, it won't 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 Babylon here is all the world, a system that is getting smaller and smaller but will suddenly evaporate.