NT Text: Revelation 18:21
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Direct Type, Forward-Looking) + Analogy
Significance: Jeremiah 51:63-64 records the prophetic sign-act: Seraiah was to tie a stone to the scroll of Babylon's doom and cast it into the Euphrates, saying, "So shall Babylon sink, to rise no more." Revelation 18:21 depicts a mighty angel picking up "a stone the size of a great millstone" and casting it into the sea with the declaration, "With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again." The typological escalation is evident: Jeremiah's small stone becomes a great millstone; the Euphrates becomes the sea; and the symbolic act becomes an angelic enactment of final judgment. The finality language — "never to be seen again" — echoes Jeremiah's "to rise no more." This is one of the most direct OT allusions in Revelation 18, with the prophetic sign-act finding its ultimate fulfillment.