What is Babylon in Revelation made up of?
In Revelation, Babylon is comprised of the world's religions, the world's politics, and the world's economics. These three areas of activity make up the whole social fabric of the world, all intertwined, so the term pictures the entire global system.
Les teaches that whenever the word Babylon appears in Revelation, it should be understood in the whole global picture. He explains that Babylon in Revelation is comprised of the world's religions, the world's politics, and the world's economics. Those three areas of activity comprise the whole social fabric of the world, and they are intertwined. He illustrates this with the mayhem in the former Yugoslavia, where religion was the crux, but religion becomes entwined with politics, and then with economics, forming the world's system. Because the world is getting smaller and events move quickly, the Bible can call that whole system Babylon. He also notes that the other word for Babylon, or Babel, is confusion.