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MODERN DAY, SPIRITUAL & ANCIENT BABYLON
The U.S. is MODERN DAY BABYLONby David Wilkerson
David Wilkerson writing in his book, Set The Trumpet to Thy Mouth, declares::" I believe modern Babylon is present-day America, including its corrupt society and its whorish church system. No other nation fits the description of Revelation 18 ...America is going to be destroyed by fire! Sudden destruction is coming and few will escape. Unexpectedly, in one hour, a hydrogen holocaust will engulf America - and this nation will be no more. GOD is going to judge America for its violence, its crimes, its backslidings, its murdering of millions of babies, its flaunting of homosexuality, ...corruption, its drunkenness and drug abuse, its form of GODliness without power, its lukewarmness toward Christ...Judgment is at the door! Our days are numbered! The church is asleep, the congregations are at ease, and the shepherds slumber. How they will scoff and laugh at this message. Theologians will reject it...Pillow prophets of peace and prosperity will publicly denounce it...I am blowing the Lord's trumpet with all my might...Perhaps only the overcomers will accept and hear the sound of this trumpet blast, but I proceed with these warnings because GOD called me to be a watchman."
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2009 ... AN URGENT MESSAGE
"I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world. ... AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE - EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US. ...For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires—such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.
There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting—including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (v. 3).God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations. ...The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, “God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh, turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart” (Jeremiah 18:11-12).
In Psalm 11:6, King David warns, “Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup.” Why? David answered, “Because the Lord is righteous” (v. 7). This is a righteous judgment—just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah’s generation.
WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD’S PEOPLE?
First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. If possible lay in store a thirty-day supply of non-perishable food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.
As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is outlined in Psalm 11. We “flee like a bird to a mountain.” Or, as David says, “He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven—his eyes beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men” (v. 4). “In the Lord I take refuge” (v. 1). ... I will say to my soul: No need to run...no need to hide. This is God’s righteous work. I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take—trusting that he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds. ... Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose. God bless and keep you, In Christ,"
DAVID WILKERSON
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There are those who believe Mystery Babylon the Great is a future Rome, the home of the Anti-Christ. It is described as the greatest city on Earth, and when the apostle John wrote Revelation 2,000 years ago, Rome was the greatest city on Earth.. That is not true today. Rome is not the greatest city, and there is no reason to believe that the Anti-Christ would want to make his home there. The Anti-Christ, who is a world leader possessed by Satan, would most likely control the world from his native homeland, where he originally begins as a king or president.The Biblical definition of `idolatry': I John 5:21, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols--false gods," Literally means, from anything and everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of SUBSTITUTE for Him that would take FIRST place in your life.What is it that the USA has exported to all the nations of the world? We have exported our popular culture, with its values of supremacy of self, and of satisfying oneself completely, instantly. We have exported to the entire world our god of self. ... America was founded under God and blessed by God, but it has clearly turned to other gods as we saw on July 12, 2007 when a Hindu prayer was said in the U.S. Senate (up until that time the daily prayer had always been said to God), and at the beginning of January, 2007 when Congress swore in a new representative holding the Koran (before that date every Congressman had been sworn in holding a Bible).
Revelation says that Mystery Babylon the Great is destroyed for sexual immorality. Considering that pornography, prostitution, pre-marital sex, swinging, and homosexuality are all condemned by the Bible, the people of New York City (and the rest of America) should be getting nervous right about now. ... Look at how many reports make national news about children and pedophiles, then realize that America's porn saturated computers feed the growth of these pedophiles. Jesus said: ... Matthew 18:6 - But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Sexual immorality has corrupted adults across the mass population, and increasingly its corrupting many children. Not only that, so many adults prey on children today we can't even keep count. Teachers and students. Sex predators and Myspace. Child pornographers and pedophiles. WorldNetDaily reports that a Homosexual "Sex" Festival took place in San Francisco, going so far as to mock the Last Supper of Christ; the San Francisco Chronicle even described the festival as their version of "Disneyland". For those of you who have any doubts that America is Modern Day Babylon, and New York City is the Center of Babylon read up on just how wicked San Francisco has become. The homosexuals (many who come from across America) who descend on this city are going crazy with their wickedness. San Francisco is a literal paradise for demons. The U.S. has become thoroughly inhabited by such disgusting, vile sins, the very nature of which are filled with demons and their activity? These sins have become so pervasive that God is finally moved to physical judgment.
MODERN DAY BABYLON HAS BECOME INHABITED BY SATAN AND HIS DEMONS
(Revelation 18:2) "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, `Babylon the great is fallen, and is become the (resort) of (demons), and the (dwelling place) of every foul spirit, ..... '"
(Revelation 18:3) "For all nations have drunk of the wine and the wrath of her (passionate unchastity), and the (leaders) of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the (businessmen) of the earth (have become) rich through the abundance (excessive luxury) of her delicacies." Businessmen of other nations have become excessively, wantonly, filthy rich in their trade with the U.S.,a consumer country without equal, repeatedly buying, using, discarding, and buying again. U.S. citizens also buy merchandise which they do not need.: automobiles, T.V. sets, VCR's, homes, furs, expensive clothing, toys, and yachts.America has polluted the world with her idolatry. The world smokes American cigarettes, buys American weapons, has imported America's abortion policies called family planning. The world watches American movies, buys American pornography, listens to American music, and idolizes the American culture of materialism and hedonism. America truly has polluted the earth with her filth.
The New Age editor of "USA Today" describes this trend: Global communications, universal trends, and common aspirations are making us more alike than we are different. We gradually are becoming one world. More and more people are: Eating the same foods. Reading the same books. Watching the same movies. Listening to the same music. Sharing the same dreams and drives. "Much of the common ground comes from the GLOBAL SPREAD of U.S. pop culture -- which has become EVERYBODY'S culture. ...It's a WORLDWIDE network of shared experience." "US culture is WORLDWIDE"
Back around 1977, I attended a series of Bible Prophecy meetings put on by Hilton Sutton. Brother Hilton is still teaching on Bible Prophecy, at age 84, as I have seen him on TV recently. I bought every tape he had made at that time, which really triggered my interest in Bible Prophecy. In one of his sermons, I remember quite vividly that he proclaimed that as the nuclear bombs were DESCENDING, the saints would be ASCENDING in the Rapture, at the exact same time.
Revelation says that Mystery Babylon the Great is destroyed for sexual immorality. Considering that pornography, prostitution, pre-marital sex, swinging, and homosexuality are all condemned by the Bible, the people of New York City (and the rest of America) should be getting nervous right about now. ... Look at how many reports make national news about children and pedophiles, then realize that America's porn saturated computers feed the growth of these pedophiles. Jesus said: ... Matthew 18:6 - But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Sexual immorality has corrupted adults across the mass population, and increasingly its corrupting many children. Not only that, so many adults prey on children today we can't even keep count. Teachers and students. Sex predators and Myspace. Child pornographers and pedophiles.
AMERICA IS THE CENTRAL NATION In The World.
NEW YORK CITY IS THE WORLD'S FINANCIAL HUB, something that even the world's largest bankers and financiers readily acknowledge in their writings. CNN's MONBEYLINE announces it on every program!! Indeed, THE AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN, THE AMERICAN CORPORATE LEADERS, ARE THE GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH. With their INTERLOCKING DIRECTORSHIPS, with their connections to GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY LEADERS, these men wield tremendous power, and they are referred to as the "RICH MEN OF THE EARTH". The word "Great" means LORDS. THUS THEY ARE THE "LORDS OF THE EARTH".Thus is Babylon portrayed as the QUEEN OF THE NATIONS, THE LADY OF THE KINGDOMS, THE GLORY OF THE WORLD'S NATIONS, THE PRAISE OF THE WHOLE EARTH. It is fitting therefore, that America has, in the harbor of the GREAT CITY BABYLON, NEW YORK, A LADY THAT STANDS AS A SENTINEL TO HER DOORS.
This lady, quite fittingly, LIFTS HER ARM UP HIGH IN THE SKY, WITH A GOLDEN TORCH (CUP) IN HER HANDS. She beacons to the world, and the world has indeed GONE MAD OVER BABYLON, AND HAS INDEED DRUNK OF THE WINE OF HER FORNICATION. And yet, we have not begun to touch the parameters of God for this mighty end time nation Babylon the Great. IS GOING TO BE BURNED WITH NUCLEAR FIRE AND DESTROYED FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER, AND HER MOTHER, ENGLAND, SHALL WATCH IT HAPPEN!! There will be nothing left of AMERICAN BABYLON when the ARAB-MUSLIM COALITION COMES AGAINST HER,.
(Revelation 18:3) "For all nations have drunk of the wine and the wrath of her (passionate unchastity), and the (leaders) of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the (businessmen) of the earth (have become) rich through the abundance (excessive luxury) of her delicacies." This is another powerful, overflowing statement. AMERICA IS THE CENTRAL nation in the world at this time. Businessmen of other nations have become excessively, wantonly, filthy rich in their trade with Modern Day Babylon. which possesses an abundance of cash and is willing to spend it, to enrich the leaders and the businessmen of the world,.a consumer country without equal, repeatedly buying, using, discarding, and buying again.
Consider GLOBAL LEADERSHIP. Babylon is clearly the world leader in two areas symbolically mentioned. (1) Wine--values, ideas, culture. (2) `Delicacies' are commercial. The world has reached this point--with America. ... The New Age editor of "USA Today" describes this trend.:Global communications, universal trends, and common aspirations are making us more alike than we are different. We gradually are becoming one world. More and more people are::Eating the same foods.
Reading the same books.
Watching the same movies.
Listening to the same music.
Enjoying the same sports.
Sharing the same dreams and drives.
We share technology...
We share high-speed transportation..."
"The GLOBAL SPREAD of U.S. pop culture"
The Biblical definition of `idolatry': I John 5:21, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols--false gods," Literally means, from anything and everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of SUBSTITUTE for Him that would take FIRST place in your life.What is it that the USA has exported to all the nations of the world? We have exported our popular culture, with its values of supremacy of self, and of satisfying oneself completely, instantly. We have exported to the entire world our god of self.
GOD CALLS HIS CHRISTIANS OUT OF BABYLON BEFORE HE EXECUTES JUDGMENT.
(Revelation 18:4)--"I heard another voice from heaven saying, `Come out of her, MY people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.'"This message is clearly a warning to Jesus' people to stop their participation in the wickedness of this society, so they may escape the Godly wrath about to fall. Christians may have to quit their jobs, lower their lifestyle, or change their life goals. Many Christians today are winking at sin in their lives. They may be committing sin just by the nature of their jobs. For example, no Christian can work in an `Adult Only' bookstore. If the very nature of your job requires you to participate in sin, you must NOW COME OUT of that job, or face the certainty of incurring God's eternal judgment.
Also strongly implied in this passage is that conditions of life will appear to be very normal, until God's judgment suddenly falls in a single day. (Luke 17:28-30).
Herein lies God's PRINCIPLE of judgment: God will issue repeated warnings to repent before destruction. These warnings will be given to and through His Prophets. But, He has set a specific DAY for destruction. That day will dawn as any other--the sun will come up; the skies will look normal; people will be going to work or to school; traffic jams will be occurring; businesses and factories will be operating; trains, planes, and busses will be running; Wall Street will be busy. This day upon which God's judgment will fall will look and feel like any normal day. There will be no special, visible warning. And, destruction will be total.
BABYLON'S SINS HAVE PILED UP FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN. THE TIME HAS ARRIVED TO CALL THEM UP FOR REMEMBRANCE.
(18:5)--"For her crimes and transgressions--are piled up as high as heaven and God has remembered her wickedness and her crimes--and calls them up for settlement..."This is a statement of staggering proportions. How high is it from earth to heaven? When these sins are stacked, they literally reach from earth to heaven, according to God's accounting.
God DOUBLES The Punishment Which This Nation Is To Receive.
(18:6)--"Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double."
America's destruction will be by both massive nuclear blasts and earthquakes. Dr. Einstein clearly proved that a small nuclear blast on the right place on an earthquake fault would produce earthquakes of such magnitude as to displace entire continents. The North American continent is covered with many such faults, from sea to shining sea. Thus, America would be doubly-destroyed, just as God foretold. Our destruction will be by both massive nuclear blasts and earthquakes.Further, I understood God's reasoning in doubling America's punishment. America has led the way in originating and thoroughly disseminating spiritual lies and the love of the world, to our children and the children of the world. These children then grow to adulthood to pass these un-Christian values to their children. How many children's eternal souls have been lost through: Humanistic, Godless public school teaching.
Alcoholism
Drugs, T.V.
VCR's and video movies.
Ouija board games; Dungeons/Dragons
Rock music, with all its horrific themes.
Country music, with its themes glorifying alcohol and those `cheating' songs.
America's leadership in these sins has been instrumental in leading untold millions, perhaps billions, of precious souls into eternal Hell. Is it any wonder that God singles her out for "double" punishment?BABYLON BOASTS PROUDLY IN HER HEART OF HER RICHES, BELIEVING SHE WILL CONTINUE FOREVER IN HER PROSPERITY.
(18:7)--"How much she has glorified herself, and lived (luxuriously), so much torment and sorrow give her; for she says in her heart, `I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.'"
Many of my friends believe that this good life will never end. Certainly, the very rich believe it with all their heart. Americans still lead the world in the wealth of her businessmen. The number of billionaires per country.:USA 40+
Japan 24
West Germany 13
United Kingdom 7
Hong Kong 6
Canada 6
Saudi Arabia 5
American businessmen still hold the predominate wealth in the world. What is the attitude on the part of Americans toward this wealth? They believe they need nothing else and that this good time will never end.This passage also implies that, at the time of God's destruction, this nation will be at her HEIGHT of power and monetary influence. Is America at her economic zenith now, or are we in serious decline? America is now at her zenith of economic power, even though we are currently struggling with recession and loss of jobs.
GOD'S JUDGMENTS FALL IN ONE DAY UTTERLY DESTROYING BABYLON.
(18:8)--"Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for (mighty) is the Lord God who judges her." ... At this point, carefully consider the statement of God in Jeremiah 50:25, "The LORD hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts." This passage could read, "The Lord has opened His armory, and has brought forth [the nations who unknowingly] are the weapons of His indignation and wrath..." Amazing!! God has used men and nations to accomplish His will in most instances when He delivers His wrath.
Historically, no nation has ever been utterly destroyed in one day. The single-day destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who were destroyed by a small primitive nuclear weapon, was actually a destruction which occurred within a SINGLE HOUR. As we look ahead to verse 10, God further narrows Babylon's destruction to a single hour. The nature of nuclear destruction is complete, utter devastation, within seconds and minutes. This destruction occurs from blast, radiation, and (fire)--hotter than the sun's surface. This is the first, and only, time in world history that an ENTIRE nation could literally be destroyed in a single hour--with massive nuclear weapons.
EARTH'S LEADERS BEMOAN BABYLON'S DESTRUCTION.
(18:9)--"And the rulers and leaders of the earth, who joined her in her immorality [idolatry] and luxuriated with her, will weep and beat their breasts and lament over her when they see the smoke of her conflagration." ...America provided great leadership and she was the economic engine of the world. World leaders are weeping because this loss threatens their own luxurious wealth. Does America really buy from all other nations of the world to such a degree ?..The Third World now relies upon the United States to buy 65% of its manufactured exports, compared with only 45% in 1979." The USA imports more than both Japan and West Germany combined.
Country ... Exports - Imports
USA 322 Billion - 460 Billion
Japan 265 Billion - 187 Billion
W. Germany 323 Billion - 236 Billion
Remember, the key to this prophecy is on imports from other nations. This Economic Babylon undoubtedly has a very large Import imbalance, as she imports so much merchandise from the rest of the world. ... Finally, look at the word `conflagration'--the inevitable white plumes formed by a nuclear explosion.
EARTH'S BUSINESSMEN BEMOAN BABYLON'S FATE. AND IMMENSITY AND OF BABYLON'S ECONOMY(18:10-17a) -- "They (the rulers of the earth in verse 9) will stand a long way off, in terror of her torment, and they will cry, `Woe and alas! The great city! The mighty city, Babylon! In one single hour, how your doom (judgment) has overtaken you. And earth's businessmen weep and grieve over her, because no one buys their (cargo) any more."God then describes the extent of the economy of this nation, and it is huge. We do not have the time to read this text in detail, but we encourage you to read it, in verses 29. "The ripe fruits and delicacies for which your soul longed have gone from you, and ALL your luxuries and dainties, ... are lost to you, never again to be recovered or experienced." `Because, in one hour, all the vast wealth has been wiped out.'"
In verses 10 and 15, God says that the rulers and the businessmen are standing a "long way off" in their intense lamenting over the loss of this great nation. Look at a world globe. The North American continent is UNIQUELY SURROUNDED on all sides by immense bodies of water. The great majority of our commercial trade is done with two major parts of the world--Asia to the West, across the Pacific Ocean; and Europe, to the East, across the Atlantic.
II. Verse 11: this great nation was unique. She alone bought such a huge amount of the cargo from the other nations of the world. No nation could replace her.Only America is EXTREMELY DEPENDENT upon consumer purchasing for the health of her economy. Two-thirds of our total economic activity is generated by consumer spending. Other statistics which show clearly that America is unique in the world's economy. Compare the wealth of nations in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP).Assign the US an index score of 100.
..Listed below are the scores of the other nations."17 India-- PPP 17 Red China-- PPP 19 S. Korea--PPP 31
Taiwan-- PPP 36 Singapore-- PPP 46 USSR-- PPP 47
Italy-- PPP 54 Hong Kong--PPP 58 Britain-- PPP 66
E. Germany-- PPP 70 Japan-- PPP 77 France-- PPP 79
W. Germany--PPP 84
America's loss to the world's economy would be devastating. The world would lose THE MOST PRODUCTIVE agricultural exporting continent in the WORLD.Turning back to Revelation 6:4: the second rider out of heaven was on a flaming red horse; this rider carried a huge sword, bringing great war upon the earth, so that men slaughtered one another. If we understood that this great slaughter was the utter destruction of Canada and the USA in Chapter 18, then we could easily see how Revelation 6:5-6 and 6:8 could be fulfilled literally and quickly. Revelation 6:5-6 describe famine and subsistence living for the world's people. This scenario would certainly happen quickly, once the world's most productive agricultural continent, and the world's most important economic engine, was removed. Instantly following the nuclear annihilation of North America, the stock markets and economies of Europe and Asia would collapse, plunging the global economy into the deepest economic depression ever. The literal fulfillment to Revelation 6:8 would quickly follow--famine, plague, disease.
The economy of this great nation is described in 18:12-13, and 16, as a vast, multifaceted economy. The key emphasis is on the volume of merchandise which this economy IMPORTS. Iron is specifically mentioned also bought and sold luxurious products: perfumes, incense, ointments, Fine flour and wheat, Cattle, sheep, and horses.
This economy also imports and exports `chariots' or `conveyances'. Our modern vehicles of `conveyances'--cars, trucks, planes, buses, tractors. Imports of this type of product into and out of the American economy is enormous.
Modern Babylon's Economic Collapse
On September 21st, 2008, the headline of the New York Post consisted of only two shocking words: "Almost Armageddon." The market as listed in the Dow-Jones report was only 500 trades away from reaching a 22 percent decline and an ultimate total collapse. The Federal Government, which is actually bankrupt itself, quickly infused $105 billion of liquidity into the market. Repercussions were immediately felt throughout the banking industry, and banks began to hoard cash in anticipation of a run of massive withdrawals. Something big was happening and it was far from over. Three of the nation's largest investment banks had already folded. By October 9th, seven trillion dollars in shareholder value had been wiped out! The nation's largest banks continued to fail in rapid succession. The FDIC seized the giant Washington Mutual Bank, which was subsequently bought by J.P. Morgan Chase at a bargain basement price. The massive Wachovia Bank also failed and began a frantic search for a buyer.
For years, the banks had written loans to customers who had no ability to repay the money. The bankers and their associates made vast fortunes in commissions, and the housing market became inflated. The banks showed massive receivables as assets, which soon became uncollectible bad debts. The bankers saw this problem coming and took it as far as they could and for everything it was worth. Executives paid themselves millions of dollars in bonuses while they destroyed the economy of the United States
Monday, September 29th, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 777 points in one day. News media everywhere carried the story of how Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen got down on his knees in front of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, and begged her to do something. President Bush had his pen all clicked and ready to sign the document as soon as the House passed it. How would they accomplish their scheme? The proponents of the bill went to all of the opponents and asked them what they would like to add on to the original three page document. Soon every kind of pork barrel spending request was added on, and the original bill became what is known in politics as a "Christmas tree bill", because everyone can hang their own personal spending ornament on it. The three-page document swelled to 451 pages.
The passage of the bailout bill as well as several more bailout bills accomplished very little and actually rewarded the corporate criminals that caused the problem in the first place. The insurance giant AIG was gasping for breath and facing certain collapse on September 15th, 2008. Immediately after the bailout bill passed, the executives of AIG gathered at St. Regis Resort on Monarch Beach for an extravagant celebration. The actual invoice for this wild event, nearly a half million dollars, including $139,375.50 for rooms, $147,301.71 for banquets, $23,380.00 for spa service (massages, manicures, and other amenities), and various other charges.
SHIP CAPTAINS, NAVIGATORS, AND CREWS BEMOAN MODERN BABYLON'S FATE
(18:17b-19)--"...And all ship captains and pilots, navigators, and all who live by seafaring...stood a long way off, and exclaimed as they watched the smoke of her burning, `What city could be compared to the great city!' And, they threw dust on their heads, as they wept and grieved, exclaiming, `Woe and alas, for the great city, where all who had ships on the sea grew rich through her extravagance from her great wealth! In one single hour, she has been destroyed, and has become a desert.'"
Babylon was unique in that she imported/exported most of her trade via the sea. As we have already stated, only America is so uniquely situated geographically that she has to carry her imports so completely via the ocean.
In 18:9, 15, and 19: the leaders, businessmen, and ship-owners able to see the smoke of this nation's burning. Not even huge pillars of white nuclear smoke, rising over America, could be seen with the naked eye 2,000-4,000 miles away. This viewing of the smoke from such great distances can only occur today, with TV transmissions from orbiting satellites. The very end of verse 19: This destruction has made this nation `a desert'. One of the effects of nuclear explosions, especially at the point of impact, is the formation of glass and sand.
BABYLON WILL BE DESTROYED BY GREAT VIOLENCE AS THOUGH A MIGHTY MILLSTONE WERE CAST INTO THE SEA.
(18:21)--"And a MIGHTY angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, `Thus, with such violence, shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be heard no more at all.'"This destruction of AMERICAwill evidently be of UNPARALLELED VIOLENCE, producing a destruction, the likes of which have NEVER been seen BEFORE in world history.
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION WILL BE GONE FOREVER.
(18:22-23a)--"And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee..."
AMERICA'S GREAT BUSINESS LEADERS WILL BE DESTROYED FOR THE WAY IN WHICH THEY MISLED OTHERS.
(18:23b)--"...for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived."The United States of America has led the world into this Satanic New World Order, both in terms of national political and economic leadership, but mostly in the leadership of values. People all over the world have yearned to be like America, as they have seen our wealth, success, and power. Such a position draws people to emulate, to allow themselves to be deceived. Such is the case today.
One-World Government - (Revelation 13:11)
There is a continued move to global government by the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. The United Nations is positioning for greater control. There continues to be an ecumenical outreach between the major world religions. They are calling for tolerance of one another's views and beliefs. Will this effort produce a one-world religion, an eclectic religion that is known for tolerance and liberal policy?
The worst of the AIDS epidemic may be yet to come, say U.N. economists. As the HIV epidemic deepens in Africa, it is leaving an economically devastated continent in its wake. More than one-quarter of working-age adults are infected with HIV in some communities in sub-Saharan Africa, a statistic that brings profound economic repercussions for families and communities. It is estimated 2 million people a year are dying now in the sub-Saharan region of Africa.
The United States said that AIDS epidemic is threatening to become a national security concern for the country, due to its rapid growth around the world. ... . Persecuted for Their Christian Faith (Matthew 24:9)
Christians are being persecuted in Pakistan, the Middle East, India, Sudan, China and other counties for proclaiming the Gospel. The majority of world persecution today is against Christians not people of other faiths.
The Gospel Will be Preached in All Kingdoms (Matthew 14:14, Revelation 14:6)
The Gospel is close to having been preached to the entire world through evangelical organizations.
In the Book of Revelation 14:6 -7 it says, "Then I saw an angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal Gospel to proclaim to those living on earth - to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come."
SPIRITUAL BABYLON
Spiritual Babylon - The Papal Seat in Rome
( The priests of Nimrod's pagan Babylonian religion were forced to flee to Pergamum when Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 B.C.... In 133 B.C. The Last Babylonian King to rule in Pergamum merged with the Roman Empire along with Nimrod's Seat of authority and Nimrod's tile "Pontifex Maximus"... In 63 B.C. Julius Caesar vested the Roman Emperors with the title "Pontifex Maximus"..... In 376 A.D. Gratian presented the throne of Nimrod (Satan's Seat" to the Bishop or Pope of Rome )
King Belshazzar made a great feast for his lords, his wives, and his concubines They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Immediately the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the hand as it wrote. Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together....Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, AND PARSIN. This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians....That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
For centuries, Pergamum remained the site of Nimrod's seat or throne. With the appearance of Christianity, Babylonian paganism threatened the early Christian church of Pergamum as related in Revelation 3:12,13 a... "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.' I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is [ Nimrod's ]; you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
They continued their reign there until 133 B.C. when Attalus III, the last Babylonian King to rule in Pergamum, willed his dominions to the Roman Caesar, and the kingdom of Pergamum merged with the Roman Empire along with Nimrod's throne and the title "Pontifex Maximus."130 In 63 B.C.
, Julius Caesar, who had been elected Pontifex Maximus, became emperor of Rome and vested the office of Roman emperor with the priestly powers and functions of the Babylonian Pontiff. Henceforth, the title Pontifex Maximus was used by the Roman Caesars as illustrated on a Roman coin depicting the image of Augustus Caesar (27 B.C.-14 A.D.) with his title "Pont. Max.," which is an abbreviation of Pontifex Maximus. Thus, the Roman emperors, like the preceding Babylonian emperors, now served as priests of Babylonian paganism, and bore the title Pontifex Maximus.
At the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. the Universal or Roman Catholic Church was formed. Emperor Constantine then required the Roman armies to carry a shield with a cross.
[9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Ancient Babylon is a literal city. There is also a Spiritual Babylon (Revelation 17:5) a cult started by Nimrod and his queen, Semiramis. The Babylon Kings, who were descended from Nimrod, served as both king and priest of the Babylonian Mystery religion. As priests, they bore the title "Pontifex Maximus" or "Supreme Pontiff," meaning "supreme pathfinder" or "bridge maker," representing "the path or connection between this life and the next. They ruled upon the throne (seat) of Nimrod. ............
THE FATE OF SPIRITUAL BABYLON - SEE BELOW
Ezekiel 26 - 28
Revelation 17 - 18
I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard
The voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee
The princes of the sea .
Inhabited of seafaring men .
Thy mariners, and thy pilots
All that handle the oar, the mariners and all the pilots of the seaEvery shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea
All that had ships in the sea
Thy merchants were the great men of the earthThey shall take up a lamentation for thee .
Cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly
They shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee
The merchants among the people shall hiss at theeThe merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her .
The kings of the earth ... shall bewail her, and lament for herHow art thou destroyed
In one hour is she made desolate
The renowned city
That great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth
I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee
Thou shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the watersA great millstone ... cast ... into the sea. ... Thus ... shall that great city Babylon be thrown down .
Thou shall be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again
Found no more at all
A merchant of the people
The merchants among the peopleThe merchants ... were made rich by her
Thy merchants were the great men of the earth .Thy merchandise
The merchandise.
Cast up dust upon their heads ... wallow themselves in the ashes
Thy cast dust on their heads
What city is like Tyrus?
What city is like unto this great city!
Thou didst enrich the kings
Kings shall be sore afraidThe kings of the earth
The merchants which were made rich by herThine heart is lifted up because of thy riches .
She hath glorified herself and lived deliciously
So great richesI will bring strangers upon thee. the terrible of the nations.
He gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon
In righteousness he doth judge and make warTherefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee. it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth
Burn her with fire
She shall be utterly burned with fire
The smoke of her burning .
ANCIENT BABYLON
Nimrod Fonded Ancient Babylon, located in southern Iraq on the plains of Shinar (Genesis 10:10) where people migrated after the Flood and he built the Tower of Babel. Babylonia was divided into Accad to the north, and Sumer ("Shinar" of the Old Testament) to the south. Along with Ur and the city of Babylon itself, other major cities were Uruk, or Erech , Larsa, or Ellasar, Sepharvaim, Eridu, and Calneh.The Babylonian Empire (see artist's concept above) existed from 606 to 539 B.C. and fully conquered the southern kingdom of Judah in 586 B.C. It was then that the Babylonians under the rule of King Nebuchadnezzar completely devastated the city of Jerusalem, looted and burned the original Temple of God, built by Solomon and carried the people of Judah, including the prophets Daniel and Ezekiel, off into captivity.
This was the Empire that broke the power of Assyria, and, in its westward sweep, destroyed Judah, and conquered Egypt. This empire lasted 73 years (612-539 B.C.). The 70 year prophecy runs from the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. until 517 B.C. at the worship rededication in the Restoration Temple. Cyrus, king of Persia, conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., in 538 B.C. he authorized the return of the Jews to their own land. First return was in 536 B.C.The Empire's capital was in Babylon. In Isaiah's time Assyria was the dominant power of the world. Babylon was a dependency of Assyria. Babylon rose to world power status and then fell in 539 B.C. Isaiah sang of the Fall of Babylon 100 years before its rise in 612 B.C. (Isa 13:1, 13:19, 14:22). Babylon's splendor as the Queen city of the pre-Christian world, "the glory of kingdoms" and "the city of gold" (Isa. 13:19, 14:4) was clearly envisioned. Babylon's fall is also pictured in detail, naming the unknown Medes as destroyers of Babylon. (Isa. 13:17-19). Babylon was to supersede Assyria (Isa 14:25), Media shall supersede Babylon (Isa 13:17); and Babylon shall pass away forever (Isa 12:19-22, 14:22-23, Dan 5:31).
The Persian Army took Babylon without a battle during the days of Nabonidas and his first son Belshazar.
Rulers of the Babylonian Empire
Date
(B.C.)King
Events
Biblical Event
625-605
Nabopolassar
Viceroy of Babylon, threw off the yoke of Assyria and established the independence of Babylon in 625 B.C.
Destroyed Nineveh with Cyaxeres the Mede in 612 B.C. (Nahum, Isa 13-14).
605-562
Nebuchadnezzar
Greatest of all Babylonian Kings, reigned about 45 years, he extended the power of Babylon over the then known world. Carried Jews into captivity, including Daniel and Ezekiel.
II Kings 24-25, Daniel. Daniel became one of chief advisers.: probably eased the lot of Jewish captives.
562-560
Evil-Merodach (Amer-Marduk)
II Kings 25:27-30; Jer. 52:31-34.
560-556
Neriglissar
Jer. 39:3, 13.
556
Labashi-Marduk
556-539
Nabonidus
Babylon fell and supremacy passed on to the Persians. Probably in retirement outside of Babylon.
541-539
Belshazzar
Son of Nabonidus and co-regent with his father. He was in control of army and the government, and surrendered to Cyrus.
Handwriting on the wall, during a feast. Daniel had been in Babylon for 70 years (Dan 5). Daniel was "third" in command.
Babylon, oppressor of God's Old Testament people, gave its name to the Apostate Church.
Revelation 17
Iraq, under Sadam Hussein, if successful would have gained control of half the known oil reserves of the world. The nations of the earth would not tolerate Iraq to have such a stranglehold on the international economy. They banded under American leadership to oust the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. In an effort to rally the Islamic nations to his cause, Hussein aimed his feared scud missiles mostly toward Israel, a non-participant in the war. Once again, Satan's hatred of Israel was shown and Israeli citizens had to run to shelters and don gas masks, not knowing what poisons might be hurled at them, as the scuds rained on their cities. A few years later Saddam was running for shelter and hiding.
Nebuchadnezzar'The capital of Babylonia fell to the Persian King, Cyrus the Great on October 29 539 B.C. After 70 years of supremacy, the Babylonian empire, the "head of gold" in Daniel's statue, came to an end. ... The main entrance to Babylon was the Ishtar gate which can be visited today in Ancient Babylon. Underneath King Nebuchadnezzar's name Saddam Hussein has had his name inscribed
Saddam falls
Saddam called himself The Successor of Nebuchadnezzar. The Bible records in Daniel 4:4 "I, Nebuchadnezzar, was living in my palace in comfort and prosperity. Daniel 4:29-30 Twelve months later, he was taking a walk on the flat roof of the royal palace in Babylon. As he looked out across the city, he said, `Just look at this great city of Babylon! I, by my own mighty power, have built this beautiful city as my royal residence and as an expression of my royal splendor.'Daniel 4:31 "While he was still speaking these words, a voice called down from heaven, `O King Nebuchadnezzar, this message is for you! You are no longer ruler of this kingdom.‚ Daniel 4:33 "That very same hour the prophecy was fulfilled, and Nebuchadnezzar was driven from human society. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven. He lived this way until his hair was as long as eagles' feathers and his nails were like birds' claws ... And so it has come to pass: Saddam Hussein followed in the footsteps of Nebuchadnezzar just as he himself predicted.
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THE END TIME NATION OF BABYLON
1. Babylon would be an END TIME GREAT NATION (Rev 17,18; Isa 13:6).
2. Babylon would have a huge seaport city within its borders (Rev 18:17).
3. The Great City Babylon is the home of a world government attempt (Rev 17:18).
4. The Great City Babylon would be the economic center of the world (Rev 18:3).
6. Babylon would be the center for the move to a global economic order (Rev 13:16).
1. Babylon would be the youngest and greatest of the end time nations (Jer 50:12).
2. Babylon would the QUEEN AMONG THE NATIONS (Isa 47:5,7; Rev 18:7).
3. Babylon would be the most powerful nation in the world (Isa 47, Jer 50, 51, Rev 18).
4. Babylon would be the HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH (Jer 50:23; Rev 18:23).
5. Babylon has the symbol of the Lady (Isa 47:7-9).
6. Babylon would be the praise of the WHOLE EARTH (Jer 51:41).
7. Babylon is center of world trade (Jer 51:44; Rev 17:18; 18:19).
8. Babylon would grow to be the richest nation in the world (Rev 18:3, 7, 19, 23).
9. All nations that traded with Babylon would grow rich (Rev 18:3).
10. The merchants of Babylon were the GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH (Rev 18:23).
12. Babylon is nation "peeled", or timbered, a land of open fields (Isa 18:2).
13. Babylon is land quartered by mighty rivers (Isa 18:2).
14. Babylon is a land that is measured out, and populated throughout (Isa 18:2).
15. Babylon destroys her own land, with pollution and waste (Isa 14:20, 18:2, 7).
16. Babylon is a land rich in mineral wealth (Jer 51:13).
17. Babylon is a the leading agricultural nation of the world (Jer 50, 51; Rev 18).
18. Babylon is the leading exporting nation in the world (Jer 51:13; Rev 18).
19. Babylon is the leading importing nation of the entire world.(Jer 50, 51; Rev 18).
20. Babylon is a nation filled with warehouses and granaries (Jer 50:26).
21. Babylon is the leading INDUSTRIAL NATION OF THE WORLD (Isa 13, 47, Jer 50, 51; Rev 18).
22. Babylon is noted for her horses (Jer 50:37).
23. Babylon is noted for her cattle, sheep and other livestock (Jer 50:26, 27; Rev 18:13).
24. Babylon is noted for her fine flour and mill operations (Rev 18:13).
25. Babylon is a nation of farms and harvests huge crops (Jer 50:16, 26, 27).
26. Babylon is a huge exporter of MUSIC (Rev 18:22).
27. Babylon's musicians are known around the world (Rev 18:22)
30. Babylon has a huge space industry, and has "mounted up to the heavens" (Jer 51:53).
32. Babylon is portrayed as leading in high tech weapons and abilities (Jer 51:53; Hab 1:6-10
33. Babylon is a nation filled with warm water seaports (Rev 18:17-19).
34. Babylon is a coastal nation and sits upon MANY WATERS (Jer 51:13).
35. Babylon trades with all who have ships in the sea year round (Rev 18:17-18).
36. Babylon is nation filled with a "mingled" people (Jer 50:37).
37. Babylon is a SINGULAR NATION founded upon OUT OF MANY, ONE (Isa 13, 47, Jer 50, 51, Hab 1).
38. Babylon is a REPUBLIC or a DEMOCRACY, it is ruled by many counsels (Isa 47:13).
39. Babylon's governmental system will break down (Isa 47:13).
40. Babylon is bogged down with deliberations and cannot govern properly (Isa 47:13).
41. Babylon's leaders use astrology, seers and mystics for guidance (Isa 47:13; Rev 18:2).
42. Babylon labored in the occult from her very inception (Isa 47:12).
43. Babylon falls to the occult just before her end by nuclear fire (Rev 18:2)
44. Babylon was born as a CHRISTIAN NATION (Jer 50:12).
45. Babylon turns upon its heritage and destroys it all in the end (Jer 50:11).
49. Babylon becomes the home of all antichrist religions in the world (Rev 18:2).
53. Babylon has a mother nation that remains in existence from her birth to death (Jer 50: 12).
54. The mother of Babylon ( England) has the symbol of the LION (Dan7:4; Eze 38:13; Jer 51:38; Psalms 17:12).
56. The mother of Babylon will be in a state of major decline as the end nears (Jer 50:12).
57. Babylon is considered to be a lion's whelp (Eze 38:13; Jer 51:38).
58. Babylon will have the symbol of the EAGLE; Isa 14:13-14; Jer 51:53).
59. Babylon turns totally for antichrist and is the leading antichrist power at the end (Rev 18:2; Isa 14:4-6).
60. THE RULER OF BABYLON is the ANTICHRIST (Isa 14:4-6).
62. A world government entity will rise up to rule the world from BABYLON THE CITY (New York) (Isa 14; Hab 2, Rev 13, 17, 18).
63. This world entity will be a diverse entity, different than all other ruling bodies of the world (Dan 7:7, 23).
64. This entity will be a TREATY POWER ENTITY (Dan 7:7, 23 ).
66. Babylon is a huge producer and exporter of automobiles (Jer 50:37; Rev 18:13).
67. Babylon is a nation of CRAFTSMEN, experts in their trade (Jer 50, 51, Rev 18:22).
68. Babylon is noted for her jewelry of gold and silver (Rev 18:22).
69. Babylon is a huge importer and exporter of spices (Rev 18:13).
71. Babylon is noted for her iron and steel production (Rev 18:12).
72. Babylon has huge corporations that have bases around the world (Rev 18:23, )
73. Babylon is a nation of higher education and learning (Isa 47:10, ).
74. Babylon is a nation with a GREAT VOICE in world affairs (Jer 51:55)
76. Babylon has a vast military machine (Jer 50:36; 51:30; Hab 1 & 2, Rev 13:4).
81. The enemy of Babylon will be largely Muslim in make-up (Jer 50:17; Rev 17:16; Psalms 83:5-12).
82. The enemy of Babylon will have nuclear missiles capable of reaching Babylon (Jer 50:9, 14,; Rev 18:8, 18).
83. The enemy of Babylon will be noted for her cruelty (Isa 13, 14, Jer 50, 51, Rev 17, 18).
85. The enemy of Babylon will come into Babylon unnoticed (Isa 47:11, Jer 50:24; 51:2, 14).
86. Babylon will be filled with her enemies brought in under the guise of peace (Dan 11:21).
87. Babylon will have all of her borders cut off, and there will be no way of escape (Jer 50:28; 51:32).
90. Babylon will have been a huge missionary nation for Jesus Christ (Jer 50:11; 51:7).
91. Babylon would be a home to multitudes of Jews who leave (Jer 50:4-6, 8; 51:6, 45)
92. The people of Babylon would not know their true identity (Jer 50:6, ).
93. The people of Babylon would think they are God's elect and eternal (Isa 47:7-8, Rev 18:7).
94. The people of Babylon would enjoy the highest standard of living in the world (Rev 18:7).
95. The people of Babylon would grow mad upon their idols (Jer 50:2, 38; Hab 2:18).
96. The people of Babylon would go into deep sins of all kinds (Rev 18:5).
97. The nation Babylon dwells carelessly before the Lord (Isa 47:8).
98. Babylon becomes proud, haughty, and does not consider her end (Isa 47:7-8).
99. Babylon deals in the occult, in sorceries and drugs (Isa 47:9, 12; Rev 18:23)
