Pastor Tim Hamilton begins by saying that we look at tonight’s study through a geo-economic perspective with the spiritual reality behind it. In the first half of the tribulation, a false world religion has risen up and some key things begin to happen including the rising up of the antichrist who breaks a covenant with the nation of Israel. At the end of the tribulation, the economic Babylon is ruined, never to be rebuilt. Pastor Tim talks about materialism and hedonism and the reasons for the fall as we continue through this passage. See Rev. 18, 2 Tim 3:1 and 4:8, Isa 52:11, Eph 5:11.