The one is mystical Babylon, referring to an evil ideology, or false system of religious worship, and the other one a commercial city with all kinds of worldly fun and immoral practices in it. Both these chapters in Revelation are based upon the supposition that there will be a reconstructed Babylon as an end-time manifestation of the ancient Babylonian Empire, and also as a fitting centre of operations for the Babylonian world religion.
Babeli ya pili nayo itakuwa ni mji wa biashara, starehe za aina aina na usherati. Katika Ufunuo 17 na 18 jambo moja ambalo latiliwa mkazo ni kwamba kutakuwa na Babeli ambayo imejengwa upya na hii itakuwa ishara ya kwamba mwisho wa yote duniani umekaribia (end-time). Na pia Babeli hii ya pili ndiyo itakuwa makao makuu ya dini ya dunia itakayojitokeza.