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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 493
Chapter 19
Who Can Destroy Babylon?
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall
make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall
depart, both man and beast.... I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves
in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a
mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.... Put yourselves in array against
Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for
she hath sinned against the LORD.... Behold, a people shall come from the north,
and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 50:3, 9, 14, 41
God judged ancient Babylon for her wickedness. As with any nation or empire, God
would have healed her if she would have repented but she didn't repent. Jeremiah writes: “We
would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his
own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.”
(Jeremiah 51:9) The same is true of the US. God will heal the United States of America if she
would just repent. God says in his word: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall
humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I
hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14) But
America will not repent. This is also clear from the word of God.
God knows the future and he knows America will not repent. Isaiah declares: “Remember
the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like
me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:” (Isaiah 46:9-10) The fact
that America will not repent is made clear in God's judgment pronounced against her. It can also
be seen in God's call for people to come out of Babylon. The Apostle John testifies: “I heard
another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her
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