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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 42
thee”). Candles are used at night and are symbolic of lights. This city, which is a symbol of the
nation of Babylon, shall be utterly consumed by fire, there shall be no survivors and this city
shall never be inhabited again.
Babylon is obviously a great powerful nation. What type of judgment could destroy a
great powerful nation is just one hour? The advent of the nuclear bomb made this close to being
possible but it wasn’t until the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was perfected that this
became a reality. The only way that a great modern day nation could be destroyed by fire in one
hour is by a strategic attack with dozens or hundred of nuclear missiles. A nuclear bomb is the
only thing man made that could destroy a great modern city in one hour to such an extent that it
would never be inhabitable again. Even the awesome destructive power that is at the hands of the
U.S. military, the most powerful military ever on the face of the earth, is not capable of
destroying a country in one hour without the aid of nuclear weapons.
I say that a nuclear bomb is the only thing “man made” capable of destroying a nation in
one hour for a specific reason. When God judges a nation, he uses other nations to carry out his
judgment. This is seen repeatedly in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. God uses
natural disasters as warning judgments but when he seeks to destroy a nation he most often uses
another nation to carry out his judgment. The examples of Sodom and Gomorrah and the great
flood are examples of what God's will do in the final judgment of the earth.
Don’t Receive Of Babylon’s Plagues
Concerning the judgment that God has pronounced on Babylon in Revelation 18, God
declares: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her plagues” (Revelation 18:4). God is confirming that this is a judgment against those
who have rejected him and have fallen into grievous sin. This is not a judgment against God’s
faithful followers. God calls his faithful to come out of Babylon. At this time I don’t see God
calling people to physically leave Babylon but to reject the sinful nature of Babylon and not to
participate in her sins. Nevertheless, a person should have a personal relationship with God and
Jesus Christ so that if a call does come to physically leave Babylon, they will be able to discern
the voice of God.
To complete their separation from Babylon, God’s faithful are to reject the worldly sinful
pleasures of Babylon. They are to reject Babylon’s pride; her love of wealth; her covetousness;
her sexual impurity; her dishonesty; her deceitfulness and her false religions. By remaining
faithful, those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior and have received his
holy law into their heart shall have the righteousness of Jesus Christ through his grace. It is the
righteousness of Christ that shall preserve them from God’s judgment on Babylon.
Are There Profits In The Land
As we shall cover in depth later, God first revealed his judgment against Babylon to his
prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and others; he then revealed it to the Apostle John. Then for
1700 years there is no recorded mention of God’s judgment of the nation he calls Babylon. Then
in the midst of the revolutionary war God gave a dream to George Washington. In 1929 he gave
a vision to evangelist A.C. Valdez. In the 1950’s he gave a vision to a man with a great healing
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