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Unless we are the Babylon in Rev 18:

We are a polyglot nation, reminiscent of ancient Babel/Babylon.

22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

Every industry is being exported at an alarming rate. Textiles, IT, Semiconductors, Steel, Chemical, etc. Freaking Gilroy - the Garlic Capital of the World - is importing Chinese garlic!

At this rate it won't be long before we hear the silence of the millstones.

Having driving off most industry, California is now planning on putting air polution controls on agriculture. Great. Farm without plowing, chemicals, or burning.

That'll work...

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Babylon may actually be Iraq. The old city has been rebuilt, and the nations seem about ready to converge upon it to help Iraq be rebuilt as a country. Could be it could become a center of commerce (or at least a free-flowing center of oil for all the world). I'm inclined to believe something has happened with America that makes her not such a major figure. Of course, that could be a rapture (with the number of Christians around, such an event would certainly cripple the economy and our ability to respond). Or maybe America is Babylon of Revelation 18. Don't know. She doesn't have to be though.