60. I should like to give here a brief description, how they were destroyed and their dwellings were turned into a desert; a fuller description will be given in the explanation of Revelation. Only one who has seen it can know that the Babylon there mentioned has been destroyed; and I have been allowed to see how the Last Judgment took place and was completed on all, and especially on those from Babylon, so I shall describe it. The chief reason why I received this permission was to ensure that it was revealed to the world that all the predictions in Revelation were divinely inspired and that this was a prophetic book of the Word. For without this revelation to the world, and that of the internal sense contained in its details, as in those of the Prophets of the Old Testament, the book might have been rejected through failure to understand it. This would result in such incredulity that its contents would be judged not to deserve belief, and in fact no Last Judgment would take place, a belief approved by those from Babylon more than others. To prevent this happening it has pleased the Lord to make me an eye-witness. I am unable to present here everything I saw concerning the Last Judgment on those from Babylon or the destruction of Babylon, because this would fill a whole book. I shall therefore report here only some general observations, reserving the details for my explanation of Revelation. Since the Babylonian people had spread their settlements across many districts in the spiritual sphere and had formed its communities in every quarter there (as shown above, 58), I should like to describe in turn how the destruction took place in each quarter.