Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the whole earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
In chapter 18, Babylon is fallen, with a vivid and extended description of God’s judgment of its lust and greed. Babylon is the great whore; it is a symbol of the world. The World is corrupt and under the control of the Evil One. The world’s ways, philosophies, and temptations have corrupted all earth-dwellers. Earth’s people are deceived into “walking by sight,” into thinking ”that’s all there is,” and ”you only go around once.” So God is ignored and His love is spurned. This inattention to God leads to all kinds of sin, evil, filth, corruption, and finally, eternal death, or, ultimate separation from God and Life and all that is Good.
Therefore, the sentence of death has been placed on the world; it’s destruction is certain; it’s judgment is assured. This truth is a promise for the believer: every instrument, like the World, that can only bring hopelessness and despair and that daily steals, kills, and destroys life, well being, and everything good will be gone. The promise is that there is an alternative, another life, a better world, an alternate universe, if you will: it is God. Jesus has judged the world, it is finished, and it will be gone forever. He replaces it with His Eternal Kingdom, the all good and only good world.
The world is a whore, the polar opposite of the faithful and beautiful Bride, adorned for her Eternal Husband. God or Mammon: loving one despises the other 1 John 2:15: ”If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” We have the promise of Love, Life, and Good. All else is judged. Promise!