seekeroftruth
Well-Known Member
Revelation 18:21 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:
“With such violence
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be found again.
22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
will never be heard in you again.
No worker of any trade
will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
will never be heard in you again.
23 The light of a lamp
will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
Your merchants were the world’s important people.
By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,
of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.”
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be found again.
22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
will never be heard in you again.
No worker of any trade
will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
will never be heard in you again.
23 The light of a lamp
will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
Your merchants were the world’s important people.
By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,
of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.”
Is John describing a nuclear weapon or a meteor? It's a boulder... is it the size of millstone or the size of an outcrop boulder? When I was a kid, living in Gales Ferry, Conn., we use to play on the boulders behind our house. Our house sat on a solid slab of granite. No one knew how deep that slab was... but daddy had to use dynamite to get it out of the way so he could build on to the house. The boulder in the back yard was the size of a two car garage.... that big and that high.
If an angel were to throw a boulder the size of the one I played on as a child... I can assume it would do some significant damage.... like being hit with a bomb. If the angel threw a boulder the size of the one our house sat on.... that would probably do as much damage as a nuclear bomb.
Is verse 21 saying there will be a bomb the size of an ancient millstone? That's big enough and heavy enough to be called "big boy" right?
I bet the merchants will be dickering about price when the bomb is dropped.... instead of praying for peace....
How big an dangerous is "a big boulder"?
