Revelation 18:20

And a mighty angel,.... Not Christ, nor one of the ministering spirits, but some man or set of men, perhaps the same with him in Rev 18:1

took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the…

Rejoice over her - Over her ruin. There is a strong contrast between this language and what precedes. Kings, merchants, and seamen, who had been countenanced and sustained by her in the indulgence of…

Rejoice over her, thou heaven - This is grand and sublime; the fall of this bad city was cause of grief to bad men. But as this city was a persecutor of the godly, and an enemy to the works of God,…

Here we have,

I. A doleful lamentation made by Babylon's friends for her fall; and here observe,

1. Who are the mourners, namely, those who had been bewitched by her fornication, those who had been…

The Rejoicing over them in Heaven, Rev 18:20-24

20. Rejoice over her Rev 12:12. There may be a reminiscence of Jer 51:48. We cannot tell if the words are those of the angel of Rev 18:18, of the voice…