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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 41
LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.... Behold,
the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the
land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.... And I will
punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause
the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.... And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. (Isaiah 13:1,
4, 5, 9, 11, 19)
Isaiah's prophecy is of particular importance; he says that Babylon would be as when
“God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.” You see, Sodom and Gomorrah was burned by fire and
brimstone but Babylon was never burned at all. The city of Babylon was taken in tact. King
Darius had besieged the city but Babylon had impregnable walls, enough food for years and
fresh water from the Euphrates river which flowed through the city. Darius diverted the river and
launched a surprise attack. He marched his army under the walls and into the city through the
dried up river bed. The city was taken in a single night. King Cyrus, Darius' father, made
Babylon his capital. Almost 200 years later, Alexander the Great conquered Babylon. Alexander
died eight years later and his kingdom was divided among his four generals. Seleucus ruled over
the portion of the kingdom containing Babylon. He built a new capital city, Seleucia, on the
Tigris river. “The people of Babylon later moved to Seleucia. Through the years, the deserted
Babylon fell into ruins.”
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Since Isaiah wasn't prophesying about ancient Babylon, it is obvious his prophecy is
meant for the end-time Babylon. As we shall see many other prophecies equally apply to the
end-time Babylon. The following prophecy from Jeremiah is one:
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
striven
against the LORD. (Jeremiah 50:24) And will send unto Babylon fanners, that
shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be
against her round about.... The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying,
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a
shout against thee. (Je 51:2, 14)
Prior to Babylon's destruction, she would be filled with immigrants who would suddenly
fight against her. There are currently as many as 20 million illegal aliens in America.
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The
Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that in 2003 there were 78,000 illegal aliens
“from countries of ‘special concern’ due to the war on terrorism.
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Others have used the
governments own statistics to show that the figure is actually closer to 150,000 illegals from the
middle east.
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An estimated 115,000 illegals are from China and 55,000 from Korea.
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Legal
immigration between 1981 and 2002 amounted to over 18.5 million. Among these were over 1
million from former eastern bloc countries; 981,500 from the middle east; 551,800 from Korea;
and 931,100 from China.
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