Inhabitants of the Earth (2)
Thank you for your feedback on the inhabitants of the earth. Here is my
(1) I agree that 18:20 refers back to 6:10. This is an argument to claim
that Babylon and the inhabitants of the earth are the same group (which I
think) but not that the inhabitants of the earth and the nations are the
(2) I would not say that the nations are substituting the inhabitants of the
earth after 17:8 but that the group of the inhabitants of the earth is now
described by the image of Babylon.
(3) I agree that Revelation may at times use different names for the same
group just as it may use different images for the same reality.
Alain M. de Lassus