The Word of God must been taken as a whole. So the prophecies in the New Testament can’t be correctly understood apart from the Old Testament. So this key to help us unlock those strange images in prophecy is “Knowing the Old is our key to the New.”

I have already mentioned the example of the great, red dragon we find in the book of Revelation. To understand the meaning of this dragon, we have to go back to the book of Genesis, where this dragon was just a little serpent. 

Another example of how the Old Testament helps us interpret the New Testament prophecies comes from our understanding of who the "Babylon" is that we find referred to in Revelation. According to the prophecies in Revelation, Babylon will return to the world stage only to be destroyed in one hour with fire. 

Again, to understand whom this Babylon of Revelation represents, it helps us to go back and read about where ancient Babylon had its beginning at the Tower of Babel in the book of Genesis chapter 11.Here we read that the nations were created when God confused the languages of the builders of the Tower of Babel, and scattered them across the earth. So the Babylon we find in the book of Revelations may have something to do with these nations coming back together – in other words, the United Nations. I will show you how later in my book.