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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 32
over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. (Habakkuk 1:5-11)
Jeremiah describes Babylons warriors as the “mighty men” of the earth (Jeremiah 50:36;
51:30, 56, 57). He further says that Babylon is “the hammer of the whole earth” (Jeremiah
50:23). This is a metaphor for the world's policeman. Isaiah says that Babylon rules the nations
of the earth and apparently has no fear because she plans on doing it forever; he writes:
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.... And thou saidst, I
shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart,
neither didst remember the latter end of it. Therefore hear now this... that dwellest
carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit
as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: (Is 47:5, 7, 8)
Lady is the feminine form of the Hebrew word which means master or lord. Therefore,
Babylon was the master of the kingdoms of the world. She feared no one, she thought she would
rule the kingdoms forever and she thought the wives of her mighty men would not be widowed
nor would her children loose their lives due to an invading army.
These verses are a perfect description of the US who is the greatest military power ever
on the face of the earth. America rules the nations of the world and is the world's policeman.
America cannot foresee that anyone could remove her from her position of Hegemon, the ruling
superpower. While America fears terrorism, she does not fear an invasion.
A Prophetic Picture of the Church
The state of Judah, God's people, both before and after they were taken captive by
Babylon are a type and a shadow of the present day Church in America. God's chosen people had
forsaken Him and so he needed to bring judgment in order to cause them to repent. The word of
God says that they had transgressed his law, they had forsaken His Sabbath, they were full of
iniquity, they are scum, they had adopted the practices of the pagans and polluted God's house.
So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written
in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon
for their transgression. (1 Chronicles 9:1)
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land
had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to
fulfil threescore and ten years. (2 Chronicles 36:21)
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity;
and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the
men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they
hearkened not. (Jeremiah 36:31)
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