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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 494
sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” (Revelation 18:4)
God is calling people out of
Babylon because she will not repent; her judgment is set; it is a certainty. In chapter 21 I will
deal with what it means to come out of Babylon.
The question we are concerned with here is, who can destroy the most powerful nation
ever on the face of the earth? While we could look at what is happening in the world and
speculate, that is not what this book is about. What we are interested in is what God says. Once
we know what God says, then we can look in the world and find evidence to show what he says
is being fulfilled.
Isaiah the prophet prophesied about the destruction of Babylon. He said Babylon (the US)
“shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.” (Isaiah 13:19) This particular part of
Isaiah's prophecy makes it clear that Isaiah was speaking of modern day Babylon and not ancient
Babylon. You see, Sodom and Gomorrah were 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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but it was never
burned. Since Isaiah wasn't prophesying about ancient Babylon, it is obvious his prophecy is
meant for the end-time Babylon, the US. Isaiah writes:
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.... The noise
of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of
the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host
of the battle. They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
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 says that Babylons destruction comes from a far country. This equally applies to
most of America's enemies; so lets look at additional texts. Revelation 17 also describes the
destruction of the Babylon (America), which is called the whore who rides the NWO beast. This
NWO beast includes a one-world government and a one-world religion. The ten ten kings
described in Revelation 17 are the heads of the ten divisions that the world shall be divided into
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