Thus shall Babylon sink

Theory of Two Babylons

In Mesopotamia, the theory says, the survivors founded a new city and named it Babylon after their lost capital. The theory links its tower to the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. It reads the tower as an attempt to regain the power of Atlantis, and YHWH’s response as stopping that attempt.

4. YHWH and the Fall of the Second Babylon

The theory treats Babel as a second judgment after the flood. The first Babylon sank into the sea. The second was “brought down” by the confusion of languages, the scattering of its people and, much later, the fall of Mesopotamian Babylon.

The Flood and Yahweh’s Intervention

The First Destruction: The Flood

Genesis announces the flood as a judgment on all flesh:

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

Genesis 6:17, KJV

The fountains and the windows

The waters come from below and above, and the rain lasts forty days:

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:11–12, KJV

All flesh died

Everything on dry land dies, and only Noah and those with him survive:

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:21–23, KJV

The theory links this judgment to the sinking of Atlantis.

The Second Destruction: Babel and Babylon

The Tower of Babel

The builders want a tower that reaches heaven. The LORD confounds their language and scatters them:

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Genesis 11:4–8, KJV

The destroying mountain

Jeremiah calls Babylon a destroying mountain that will be left desolate forever:

Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:25–26, KJV

Revelation announces the fall of Babylon the great:

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Revelation 18:2, KJV

The theory reads these verses as YHWH stopping the rise of Babylonian power, first at Babel and later in the judgments on Babylon.

Descriptions of Babylon That Might Fit Plato’s Atlantis

Atlantis in Plato: In the Critias, Plato describes Atlantis as a powerful sea empire. Its capital was ringed by circles of water and land, and it was rich in metals, buildings and ships. Over time its people lost their divine nature and grew greedy for power. The Critias breaks off as Zeus gathers the gods to punish them.

Biblical Babylon: The Bible also describes Babylon as glorious, strong and proud, and as overthrown by God.

Isaiah calls Babylon the glory of kingdoms and compares its end to Sodom and Gomorrah:

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 13:19, KJV

Jeremiah pictures Babylon mounting up to heaven:

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:53, KJV

That mighty city

In Revelation the onlookers stand far off and call Babylon a mighty city, judged in one hour:

"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."

Revelation 18:10, KJV

Revelation 18

Revelation 18 describes the fall of Babylon in six parts:

1. Announcement of Babylon’s Fall (Revelation 18:1-3)

An angel comes down from heaven and lights the earth with his glory. He announces that Babylon is fallen and has become a home for devils and foul spirits. The nations have drunk her wine, the kings have committed fornication with her, and the merchants have grown rich from her.

2. A Call to Separate from Babylon (Revelation 18:4-5)

A voice from heaven tells God’s people to come out of her, so they do not share her sins or her plagues. Her sins have reached heaven.

3. Babylon’s Judgement and Destruction (Revelation 18:6-8)

She is to be repaid double for her deeds. She says she sits as a queen and will see no sorrow. Her plagues come in one day: death, mourning and famine. She is burned with fire.

4. Lamentations over Babylon’s Fall (Revelation 18:9-19)

The kings weep when they see the smoke of her burning. The merchants mourn because no one buys their goods any more. The list runs from gold, silver, pearls, linen and silk to ivory, spices, horses, chariots, slaves and “souls of men”. Shipmasters and sailors cry out, “What city is like unto this great city!”

5. Rejoicing in Heaven (Revelation 18:20)

Heaven, the apostles and the prophets are told to rejoice, because God has avenged them on her.

6. The Final Destruction of Babylon (Revelation 18:21-24)

An angel throws a great millstone into the sea:

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Revelation 18:21, KJV

Music, craftsmen, the sound of the millstone, lamplight and the voices of bride and bridegroom all end in her. Her merchants were the great men of the earth, and her sorceries deceived all nations.

Comparison Between the Downfall of Babylon in Revelation 18 and the Downfall of Atlantis

1. Hubris and Moral Corruption

• Babylon: All nations “have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication” (Revelation 18:3), and she says “I sit a queen” (Revelation 18:7).
• Atlantis: In the Critias, the Atlanteans grow corrupt and greedy for power.

2. Divine Judgment and Destruction

• Babylon: She is burned with fire, and her plagues come in one day (Revelation 18:8).
• Atlantis: Zeus resolves to punish the Atlanteans (Critias), and the island sinks in a single day and night (Timaeus).

3. Lamentation and Loss

• Babylon: Kings, merchants and seafarers mourn her (Revelation 18:9-19).
• Atlantis: Plato does not describe mourning for Atlantis.

4. Destruction in the Sea

• Babylon: An angel throws a great millstone into the sea (Revelation 18:21).
• Atlantis: The island sinks into the sea.

The Monolith Reading

The page also proposes reading Revelation 18 with Atlantis in mind:

• “Great city”: The page puts the name Atlantis in place of Babylon in verses 10 and 21.
• “Monolith”: The page reads the “great millstone” (Greek mylon megan) of verse 21 as a great monolith, pointing to lost structures or technology.
• “Technology or industry”: The page reads “no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be” in verse 22 as the end of technology and industry.

These are the page’s own readings. They are not translations of the Greek.