Indeed - and I’m leaving that possibility open as well.
Geographically & logistically speaking there’s nothing where the historical Babylon is located to make it a global commercial epic center.
I’ve read that it could be “Rome”, that it could be “allegorical”, or that it could be the “USA”.
Maybe?
Although we have been on the slide towards irrelevancy for the past 40 years or so. TBD IMHO.
Joel Richardson is pretty strong on the topic of USA not being Babylon. Having said that, I’m not all in on his location of the final showdown...Michael Heiser, RIP, makes more sense to me regarding the battle is over Jerusalem. Glad none of this makes a difference in the end and we can all have a friendly believer debate over it. 😊
When I first came to Christ while on deployment, the book of Daniel and Revelations stood out the most. And when reading the Bible for the first time I took the reference to Babylon to be America as the description did seem to represent this nation. And now, witnessing what has transpired the last few years, our nation does seem to fit the description. Our nation is waxing worse by the day as if our hard-hearted leaders are asking for the wrath of GOD’s judgement.