Christendom Glorifies Herself

This was Babylon and in spirit this is Christendom. Christendom is the thing which glorifies herself and lives deliciously in the earth, trading in all that is desirable and costly in the world's esteem, in the very face of the sorrow and rejection of that which is God's. Christendom practically forgets Christ rejected on the earth.
The Medo-Persian power is another creature. He removes Babylon, but exalts himself (Dan. 6). This is the action of "the beast" and his ten kings. The woman, mystically Babylon, is removed by the ten kings, but then they give their power to the beast, who exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, as Darius the Mede did.
This is the closing crowning feature in the picture of the world's apostasy. But we have not reached it yet. Our conflict is with Babylon and not with the Mede. Our conflict is with that which lives deliciously and in honor during the age of Jerusalem's ruins, or of the rejection of Christ.
J.G. Bellett