Allah and the Real-World-Order

[This letter is long but it gives a framework for “seeing” much of what is happening prophetically in the world today. Several websites are given at the end for reference.]

A friend from Jordan has been closely watching the plans to replace the Iraqi government with a constitutional monarchy.

The reason for establishing the monarchy is that it is believed that only a Hash-e-mite prince would have the loyalty of enough Iraqis to maintain any degree of political stability in the region.

Press releases from the State Department, as well as Muslim sources, have been preparing the western media and the public for ‘endorsing’ the monarchy.

We are now being told that Jordanian King Abdullah is the west’s only true Muslim ally in the Middle East.

So the United States—the standard bearer of the republican worldview (the belief that all titles of nobility, of right, ought to be outlawed)—is willing in the twenty-first century to support the creation of a royal crown in Iraq.

[The only real debate over the crown is whether King Abdullah or one of his relatives, such as Prince Hassan or Prince bin Ali, will receive the throne. Prince Hassan is Abdullah’s brother and is the president of the Club of Rome. bin Ali is considered to be an intellectual and statesman. In turn, King Abdullah is a professional military officer and holds the throne of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.]

My friend is just a little short of being thrilled about the possibility that a Hashemite, and in particular, King Abdullah, may soon become the king of Iraq.

He is excited, not so much because of the inherent growth in Jordanian power which will be afforded by the coronation, but because King Abdullah is the heir of the imperial Hashemite throne.

This is significant for all Muslims, because the heir of the Hashemite throne has the greatest potential of anyone on Earth for reuniting the entire Arab world—not just Iraq. The reunification will be accomplished under the true Islamic crescent and star.

To my friend, the possible union of Iraq and Jordan could be the beginning of a process that will ultimately result in re-establishing the Khi-la-fah (Caliphate)—the Empire of Muhammad.

The Khi-la-fah is a great dream of all pious Muslims and the driving vision behind al-Qadah.

The pursuit of the one-world-government of the Khilafah is required (fard) of all Muslims. The goal is the complete dismantling of all nations and the gathering of all people under the banner of the Islamic throne.

This goal will be accomplished when there are no other governments left, and everyone on earth takes the Islamic oath that “there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.”

Without performing this blasphemy, and receiving the resulting seal of confession, you will not be able to buy or sell.

The dream of the Khi-la-fah is so powerful it inspires some Muslims to fly planes into tall buildings and others to blow themselves up in Pizza Parlors.

These “terror” events take place because the Muslim worldview requires all Muslims to live under Islam—and to work to achieve the Islamic state by any means possible.

This drive has the effect of commissioning every Muslim to personal and corporate Jihad (Islamic war not holy war). The Jihad is so central to being a Muslim that Muslim culture is Jihad culture.

As incredible as it sounds, this also means that no Muslim can commit a terrorist act. Each and every act of violence to further the Islamic cause is an act of Jihad, not terrorism. Muslims believe that there is great eternal reward for such evil acts.

This is why, when more than fifty Muslim nations met after 911 to define terrorism, they could not do so—even though they were under great pressure from the west to come up with a workable definition.

The west intended to use the definition that was to come out of the conference as a legal term. It would facilitate the west in its identifying and declaring particular Muslim groups as terrorist organizations. Once this was to be done, the west would then be able to perform “legal” acts of interdiction and war against these groups.

Despite this pressure, the conferees concluded that no Muslim could commit an act of terrorism. At the end of the conference, in their united “position statement”, they even announced that terrorism is something only non-Muslims can do!

By doing this, the conferees did more than thumb their noses at the west, they declared that the west is the land of terrorists.

Therefore, Muslims have a legal justification to protect themselves, and attack the terrorist non-Muslim’s of the world. They turned the conference upside down to its original intent.

You must realize that the Muslim statement was not made by “radical” Islam. It was made by our so-called moderate Muslim friends—governments that sent their chosen representatives to the conference. These are the governments we created after World War I, and that have not formally declared Jihad on us.

Even though they represent the nations that the west created, they are first of all Muslim, and their highest call is to the Khilafah. They want to live under Islam. But . . .

In the Muslim worldview, Islam does not even exist today. It is dead. Islam is dead because the Islamic Empire was dismembered by the western powers during World War I. Its throne was abolished in 1924.

Since Islam is dead, no truly devout Muslim can fulfill his religious call until Islam is reestablished.

So now you know the true reason why so many Muslims across the world hate us so much: We slew Islam.

Yossef Bodansky (director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare) has written that America’s support for Israel is not what drives bin Laden’s hatred for the west.

What drives bin Laden is that he grieves over the slaying of the Islamic Khilafah. His hatred is directed toward those who slew Islam.

He hates us because we are not Islam. He hates us because the Koran calls for bin Laden, and all Muslims, to hate us with all the zeal of a frenzied Jihad warrior.

This means that the Muslims would hate us as they do even if Israel did not exist. They would hate us as they do even if we had not defiled the Muslim “holy land” with our troops. They would still hate us as they do if we had stayed completely out of the Gulf War.

There is no means by which we can appease the Muslims short of wholesale surrender. Instead of resisting the re-establishment of the throne of Islam and its expansion over the whole world, we would have to support it.

Islam is the condition of living under the imperial throne of the Sharia Khilafah. Sharia is Muslim religious law, and the Khilafah is the ever-expanding empire of Muhammad that administers Sharia Law.

These terms may be hard for you now, but as an end-times Christian, you need to understand these basic terms and the general framework for the world system of Islam.

Most westerners do not understand Mideast history and assume that, because of so much twentieth century conflict, it is impossible to unite the Arab world. But the Arabs know better.

The truth is that the Arab world was united under the banner of the Imperial Khi-laf (Caliph) for nearly thirteen centuries.

The Khilaf is the Muslim equivalent of the Caesar, while the Khilafah is the Muslim equivalent of the Roman Empire. So the Caesar of Rome is equivalent to the Khilaf of the Khilafah (the Caliph of the Caliphate).

To live under the Khilafah is to live under Islam. If there is no Khilafah there is no Islam, even though there are more than a billion Muslims.

So, the era of Islam spanned from Muhammad in the seventh century until the western powers destroyed the Khilafah in the twentieth century. This means that less than eighty years ago the Islamic throne, established by Muhammad, was still in existence.

Before we slew the Khilafah, the Arabs did not fight each other on a national level. This is not because Muslims are peaceful people. It is because there were no Arab nations with which to fight.

There were no national governments under Islam because there were no Arab nations. There were no Arab nations because the Islamic throne does not subject the nations it conquers—it destroys them.

One of the high “callings” of Islam is to destroy all the nations of the world.

This is why there has never been a Palestinian state, and why Jerusalem was never a capital of anything in the Muslim world—even though the Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 637 A.D.

[This is when the seventh king of prophecy—Islam—seized Jerusalem from the sixth king—Rome. The seventh king latter slew the sixth king at Constantinople in the fifteenth century.]

The Arabs of Judea were never called Palestinians. Under the Khilafah, the Muslims had no conception of, much less desire for, a Palestinian identity that would provide the basis for a miniature Palestinian nation.

This is also why the Arabs living in Israel were first called Palestinians after the 1967 Six Day War. They were first called Palestinians by the western media. We were again imposing our worldview on their world. Again it has been to our own detriment.

Only this time, the Arabs saw a potential political and military coup. They realized that by playing along with the west they could use the western concepts for their non-western ends.

Arafat clearly proved in late September of 2000, that the Muslims have no intent of instituting a secular, western style, nation-state in the region—even though Arafat had led the west to believe so since the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

When the western powers vanquished the Khilafah, it decided that there were so many non-Muslims in the Eastern Mediterranean region that they should have representation. Otherwise, it was a given that the Muslims would return to subjecting them to a second-class life under Sharia related legal doctrines.

So the planners of the Mandate decided to carve out a state for the Jews and a state for the Christians. These two states proved to be hornet’s nests in the heart of Muslim land.

At first, the Mandate was going to enable the Jews to establish a nation much larger than what actually came into existence. Originally, the borders included all of present day Jordan.

The Christians of the region were allowed to establish a nation just to the north of the Jews. That nation is now called Lebanon.

This plan existed as it did because there was no concept of a unique Muslim group called Palestinian Arabs—neither by the west nor by the Muslims. The regional Muslims still saw themselves as belonging to Islam, not Palestine.

They had no aspirations for a nation-state. A Muslim nation-state is contrary to the existence of Islam. It is contrary to the very heart of the Muslim worldview.

Just as we do not understand this Islamic political structure, they did not understand the western political structure. The sovereign nation-state, on which the western world had been built, had no meaning to them.

The Koran precludes any Muslim lands ever being relinquished to non-Muslim powers. If any Muslim land falls to non-Muslims, it must be regained as soon as possible.

So, before Israel could be established, the Arabs put so much pressure on the west that much of the land that was originally promised to Israel was carved up between the Muslims.

The Eastern three-quarters of what was to have been Israel was turned into what is now Jordan. In the process, a throne was created by the west for a Hashemite crown—the original dynasty of the very Islamic Khilafah the west had just slain.

We slew the monster of Islam, but in the post-war process we turned around and foolishly provided the means for its rebirth. To our own judgment, we are continuing to facilitate its rebirth to this day.

We are going to remove a republican demigod in Iraq and replace him with an heir to the throne of Satan.

I am convinced that giving the Hashemite’s new power will ultimately facilitate the creation of the eighth king described in the riddle of Revelation 17. The eighth is the rebirth of the seventh, and he is the beast.

The Arabs of Jordan are Palestinians in the same way as the Arabs of Arafat’s West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The only thing separating them is the Jordan River, which is no more than a creek in our part of the world.

In fact, the West Bank (Judea) and the Gaza strip were a part of Jordan until the 1967 Six Day War.

If Arafat really believed in a nation-state he would have wanted the West Bank to remain under Jordanian rule.

In reality, the disputed West Bank is not sufficient in size for establishing a viable nation-state. Arafat, and all Muslim leaders know this. The area is barely sufficient for creating an honest sized county, not an independent nation. Any demographer will tell you that it is destined to grinding poverty.

These, and other factors ultimately reveal that Arafat’s goal is not the well being of the Muslims of Canaan. His goal is not really to establish an independent state for the newly identified Palestinian people.

These Arab people already have an independent Palestinian state. It was created by the British Mandate. It is Jordan, and they were under its banner for nearly twenty years.

Arafat’s true goal is dictated by the Koran. His goal is not the secular liberation of an ethnic minority. His goal is not a miniature nation-state. His goal is the goal of Islam. His goal is to destroy any non-Muslim power that gains a foothold in dar-al-Islam.

This is why a Muslim, who grew up and was educated in Egypt, changed his name to Arafat, and went to Judea to become one of the mu-ja-hi-deen of the Jihad.

So Arafat’s mandate for war against Israel is from Allah. It is a mandate against the existence of any non-Muslim power in what is, by dictate from the Koran, non-surrenderable Muslim land.

Furthermore, it is a mandate against any and all nation-states, not a mandate to establish a new Palestinian nation-state. He knows this. The so-called Palestinians know this. Islamists throughout the world know this.

Everyone knows this, except the myopic west and its media. We continue to support the most sinister cultural war in the world because of the west’s pseudo-intellectual support of the cause of freedom fighters in general.

The media will never open its eyes to see that the cause these so-called freedom fighters are fighting for is the most evil and oppressive means of human enslavement that Satan has ever devised.

Arafat will slay any nation he can that is not under the rule of the Muslim cause.

Events in Lebanon in the 1980’s show that Arafat’s goal is to regain all the dar-al-Islam land he can. Arafat and his PLO went north to Christian ruled Lebanon—and destroyed the nation.

Now the area is loosely ruled by Muslim Syria while various Islamic mujahideen armies roam freely over the land. Arafat’s goal was accomplished in Lebanon.

Arafat was able to destroy Christian Lebanon before he was able to destroy Jewish Israel, and the secular west did not even comprehend, or care to report, the true nature of what was going on.

The Muslims have slain several nations like this without the western media ever reporting it.

The western media thinks and reports in its own western terms, and in harmony with its own semi-agenda.

So it frames the religious Jihad in western secular revolutionary dogma. Time and again it has called the Jihad a war of liberation. Framing it in much the same aura as the American Revolution and giving it much of the same romantic mystique.

But these wars are not wars for independence, they are the ultimate satanic war for the enslavement of the world.

Wolves are sly. Thirty years ago, the Islam wolves learned to frame their purposes in terms of western secular revolutionary doctrine. This way the wolves could lure the libertine fools in the western media into serving their cause.

Time and again, the wolf has cried “oppression, oppression” and turned up its belly like a lamb. The wolf wants the world to believe that he is an oppressed victim.

The wolf is red and has learned to cloak its cause in terms that appeal to western pseudo-intellectuals.

Time and again the red wolf cries for a “just war of liberation” to win independence from one genocidal oppressor after another. But the wolf is the one who is genocidal. The wolf is the ultimate oppressor.

The wolf calls for the international community to support the creation of a miniature nation-state for its oppressed children.

The blind west fully lends its support to the red wolf in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Israel, Sri Lanka, and on and on. The west bombs Yugoslavia back to the stone-age for the red wolf. The red wolf’s deception works marvelously. It takes peace from the earth.

Its skill at deception grows and grows—taking bite after bite of nation after nation.

The western press jumps in on the side of the wolf time and again. The press can only think in a one dimensional, herd mentality. The western media is nothing more than meat in the teeth of the wolf.

Time and again the wolf cries, “I must liberate one more ethnic group”. But the wolf does not liberate, it is slaying nations one bite at a time, wearing them down.

No Islamic wolf, whether he is in the Middle East, or in the Balkans, or in India, or in the heart of Africa has any interest in a nation-state. And like any wolf, he will devour his patrons as soon as he can.

All this means that Arabs, and specifically Arafat’s PLO are not fighting for the ultimate creation of a new Palestinian state.

The truth is that the western concept of the nation-state is totally at odds with Muslim civilization and what Arafat is trying to do. The fundamental beliefs of Arab civilization are at continual war, in principle, with the very existence of the nation-state.

To Muslims, all the lands of the nation-states are by definition, dar-al-harb—the abode of war. What war is this? It is the continual war against the rest of the world that is required of all faithful Muslims.

This war must be fought until the rest of the world surrenders to dar-al-Islam. The war in the Middle East is the Jihad, and the war in the Balkans is the Jihad.

Do you want to understand Muslim culture? Then you must understand Jihad culture. Jihad culture is Arab warrior culture, and Islam is its murder cult.

Ultimately, the Jihad mandate is the satanic counterpart to the great commission.

Islam does not mean “peace”. It does not even mean “submission” as we are often told. Islam is actually an Arab desert-warrior term that means “surrender”.

The ultimate goal of the Khilafah is the surrender of the entire world to the throne of Islam.

Under this throne, there are no nations. This is one thing that makes imperial Islam unique in history—it is the determined destruction (not subjugation) of all conquered nations.

And once a portion of Muslim land is lost, it must be regained as soon as possible.

So the establishment of the state of Palestine is not the Muslim goal. The exclusive re-establishment of dar-al-Islam throughout the region is the true goal.

And the rest of the world, except for the United States, is universally on the side of the Muslim cause.

But in a critical way, the United States is accomplishing more for the Muslim cause than all the rest of the world. This is because the pressure from a “friend” to do wrong is inherently much greater than pressure from an enemy.

In function, President Bush has done magnitudes more to advance the cause of Islam than any other westerner has ever done. Just two days after the 911 bombing, he legitimized Islam before the entire world.

You may not realize it, but World War III did truly begin on September 11, 2001. In turn, the west lost World War III on September 13, 2001.

Soon the Lord is going to allow the rest of the world to experience what the Muslims want to do to Israel, and the great tribulation will be upon us. Blood is Thicker than Oil

There are two significant motives for making Abdullah, or one of his relatives, the king of Iraq.

On motive is rooted in the interest of the western powers and the other motive is rooted in the interests of all Muslims.

Ultimately, one interest will be satisfied, the other will be betrayed, because the two interests are in a primal conflict. Only one can be served.

Be sure to scroll down and read the Welcome section and the draft constitution of the Khilafah. Be careful while at this site, it is Taliban and al-Qadah.

>I will bet you would get an argument from any muslim regarding the God they profess to worship. Like I said it is perception, and nothing you or I say, is going to change the facts, or the truth, which will surely be revealed at the appropriate time.

There is NO moral equivalency between Islam and Judaism/Christianity, i.e. between Muslims and their victims. To think so is to think like a liberal. To act like you have to come to consensus with the lie of tolerance, multiculturalism and ecumenism is to embrace whole hog the Strong Delusion.

Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The Islamic agenda is for world control and they define "Peace" as world submission to Islam.

Yeshua (Jesus) said, Mt 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Let's look at the fruit of Islam:

Tolerating Intolerance: The Challenge of Fundamentalist Islam in Western Europe -- This an excellent link on the effect of Muslim immigration in Europe. MUST READ

Also note the similar effect in Denmark. SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DENMARK? - by Daniel Pipes. Excerpt:

August 27, 2002 -- A Muslim group in Denmark announced a few days ago that a $30,000 bounty would be paid for the murder of several prominent Danish Jews, a threat that garnered wide international notice. Less well known is that this is just one problem associated with Denmark's approximately 200,000 Muslim immigrants. The key issue is that many of them show little desire to fit into their adopted country.
For years, Danes lauded multiculturalism and insisted they had no problem with the Muslim customs - until one day they found that they did. Some major issues:

Living on the dole: Third-world immigrants - most of them Muslims from countries such as Turkey, Somalia, Pakistan, Lebanon and Iraq - constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending. [See also, The Great Somali Welfare Hunt ]

Engaging in crime: Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.

Self-imposed isolation: Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less mix with the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.

Importing unacceptable customs: Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem. Another is threats to kill Muslims who convert out of Islam. One Kurdish convert to Christianity, who went public to explain why she had changed religion, felt the need to hide her face and conceal her identity, fearing for her life.

Fomenting anti-Semitism: Muslim violence threatens Denmark's approximately 6,000 Jews, who increasingly depend on police protection. Jewish parents were told by one school principal that she could not guarantee their children's safety and were advised to attend another institution. Anti-Israel marches have turned into anti-Jewish riots. One organization, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, openly calls on Muslims to "kill all Jews . . . wherever you find them."

Seeking Islamic law: Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.

>* Importing unacceptable customs:

Here is an unacceptable imported custom --

On our Australian 60 minutes last night was a woman who was raped by three at a train station then carted off to a park then raped by 25 individuals,Lebanese Muslims,they all called each other on mobile phones to come join the fun,at one stage they even hosed her off with a fire hose before the last 2 raped her. They called her 'Australian pig' etc.
21 posted on 8/11/02 5:54 PM Pacific by Crazymonarch

Small Scams Probed for Terror Ties

Indonesia: Persecuted Christian Men, Women and Children & Forced Circumcision by Muslims

Indonesian Christians Forcibly Converted to Islam

Infant rape crisis jolts South Africa: 21,000 incidents in 2000: "Raping babies does not cure AIDS"

70 girls attacked by Arabic rape gangs in Australia

These things ought not to be! But we are approaching the Great Tribulation...to try the saints and fry the ain'ts!

Coming to a war theatre in your home town...

My interspersed statements are in italics as follows. All other text is the author's or excerpts from scripture. Here is the post which I'm critiquing.

The poster never identified the source or author of these 99 parameters, so I don't know with whom I'm taking issue.

I sorted the 99 statements by leading scripture verse number (usually) so as to group them by reference to facilitate easier validation and analysis. The sorting is in scripture order with the author's statements indented below the scripture verse followed by my comments if I had a substantial disagreement. Suffice it to say I found the author's viewpoint entirely unsubstantiated, save for the possibility that America does possess many traits of Babylon described in Rev 18. But then so would Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Russia...the EU, etc. Nearly any contemporary G10 country or trading block like the EU or OPEC will demonstrate a fair degree of correspondence, as would any end-time corrupt trading nation. There are no 'good' nations in the end, only the Church.

My central criticisms are that:

1) Isaiah's and Jeremiah's 6th century BC prophecies of Cyrus taking Babylon in the 5th century BC have consistently been construed as applying to end-times Babylon. There is no support for this approach, either scripturally or historically.
2) The author seems to have started from a premise of wanting '99 parameters' of contemporary America, and then finding which OT or Rev verses can be forced to fit, and then randomizing that list. Starting from a search of scripture for passages applicable to end-times Babylon and then comparing those passages to contemporary America would yield an entirely different result, not the least of which would be foregoing the 'top 99 reasons' list.
3) There are additional criteria to identify end-times Babylon, such as John seeing her in a desert and who would be the Whore if America is Babylon. These aspects were ignored.

The subject is serious, but the author's treatment is frivolous.

Here then is the Author's (or Poster's) "closing" statement, which I've moved here to remind the reader of what the Author purports to demonstrate with the 99 verses cited as being "but a few of the many parameters listed ... that America does now or is in the process of fulfilling each and every one..."

These are but a few of the many parameters listed to help us identify this last great nation that the Lord calls BABYLON THE GREAT. America does now, or is in the process of fulfilling each and every one of them. No other nation upon the face of the earth can fulfill these parameters. AMERICA IS BABYLON THE GREAT. There would likewise be a series of SIGNS that would would begin to emerge that would give BIRTH TO, and WATCH THE RISE OF, as well as THE FALL OF AMERICA-BABYLON.

BABYLON THE NATION

Isaiah 13:5 They come from a far country, From the end of heaven-- The LORD and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land.

79. Babylon's enemy will lie on the opposite side of the world, over the poles (Isa 13:5)
Isaiah 13 does have references to end-time Babylon. However, just as plausible here is that Babylon is Babylon (Iraq?) and America is attacking Babylon with missiles and high altitude jets; that America is not Babylon but rather is Babylon's enemy.

Isaiah 14:4-6 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended! 5 The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, 6 which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.

60. THE KING OF BABYLON is called LUCIFER, the ANTICHRIST (Isa 14:4-6).
61. The King of Babylon will rule from THE GREAT CITY BABYLON (Isa 14:4-6; Rev 17: 18).
65. This entity will rise up and use the military power of Babylon the nation to RULE THE WORLD (Isa 14:4-6; Hab 1 & 2, Rev 13, 17).
There is nothing in Isa 14:4-6 which construes Lucifer as the King of Babylon, and these ISA 14:4-6 passages were fulfilled in 5th century BC.

Isaiah 14:20 You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

15. Babylon destroys her own land, with pollution and waste (Isa 14:20, 18:2, 7).
This is a 5th century BC Babylon reference. This is not a reference to pollution in the sense we know it today.

Isaiah 18:2 1 Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, 2 Which sends ambassadors by sea, Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying, "Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide."

12. Babylon is nation "peeled", or timbered, a land of open fields (Isa 18:2).
13. Babylon is land quartered by mighty rivers (Isa 18:2).
14. Babylon is a land that is measured out, and populated throughout (Isa 18:2).
Obviously, Isaiah 18:2 is a prophecy against Ethiopia (or Cush), not Babylon, hence not end-times America.
Isaiah 47

75. Babylon is a VIRGIN NATION, untouched by major war (Isa 47:1).
2. Babylon would the QUEEN AMONG THE NATIONS (Isa 47:5,7; Rev 18:7).
5. Babylon is called a lady, and has the symbol of the Lady (Isa 47:7-9).
93. The people of Babylon would think they are God's elect and eternal (Isa 47:7-8, Rev 18:7).
97. The nation Babylon dwells carelessly before the Lord (Isa 47:8).
98. Babylon becomes proud, haughty, and does not consider her end (Isa 47:7-8).
99. Babylon deals in the occult, in sorceries and drugs (Isa 47:9, 12; Rev 18:23)
73. Babylon is a nation of higher education and learning (Isa 47:10, implied throughout).
85. The enemy of Babylon will come into Babylon unnoticed (Isa 47:11, Jer 50:24; 51:2, 14).
42. Babylon labored in the occult from her very inception (Isa 47:12).
48. The people of Babylon are deep into astrology and spiritism (Isa 47:12; Rev 18:2).
50. Babylon is a nation of religious confusion (Isa 47:12-13).
38. Babylon is a REPUBLIC or a DEMOCRACY, it is ruled by many counsels (Isa 47:13).
39. Babylon's governmental system breaks down (Isa 47:13).
40. Babylon is bogged down with deliberations and cannot govern properly (Isa 47:13).
41. Babylon's leaders use astrology, seers and mystics for guidance (Isa 47:13; Rev 18:2).
All of Isaiah 47 is in the context of Isaiah 45 (in which Cyrus is prophesied to take Babylon) through 47, to punish Babylon for cruelty against the Jews and arrogance against God. Again this is 5th century BC Babylon in view, not end-times Babylon, and hence not America.

Jeremiah 50:2-3 Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim--do not conceal it-- Say, "Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.' 3 For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast.

95. The people of Babylon would grow mad upon their idols (Jer 50:2, 38; Hab 2:18).
78. Babylon will have a major enemy to her north (Jer 50:3, 9, 41).
Again, this is the 5th century BC capture of Babylon by Cyrus (who attacked from the North), not end-times Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:6 My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray; They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their resting place.

91. Babylon would be a home to multitudes of Jews who leave (Jer 50:4-6, 8; 51:6, 45)
46. Babylon's Christian leaders lead their flock astray in prophecy and salvation (Jer 50:6; implied Rev 18:2).
92. The people of Babylon would not know their true identity (Jer 50:6, implied throughout).
Babylon had no Christian leaders. Under Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon had Chaldeans who sacked the Northern and Southern Kingdoms and took Jews into captivity. The captive Jews are the lost sheep lead astray by their Jewish leaders. The Jews knew their identity and they weren't 'people of Babylon', they were captives.

Jeremiah 50:7 All who found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said, "We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, The LORD, the hope of their fathers."

51. Babylon turns upon its own people and imprisons and slays them by millions (Jer 50:7,33; 51:35; 39; Dan 7:25; Rev 13:7; 17:6; 18:24).
52. Babylon sets of detention centers for Jews and Christians and rounds them up for extermination (Jer 50:7, 33; 51:35, 49; Rev 17:6; 18:24).
Babylon did not turn on its own people. Babylon captured and/or killed Jews. They were not 'exterminated', but killed in battle or flight (which God forewarned them not to attempt), and there were no Christians when Nebuchadnezzar took them captive. This is history and prophecy fulfilled in the 5th century BC.

Jeremiah 50:9 For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country, And they shall array themselves against her; From there she shall be captured. Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior; None shall return in vain.

84. The enemy of Babylon will also have a huge aviation military machine (Jer 50:9, 14, Rev 18:8, 18 implied throughout).
82. The enemy of Babylon will have nuclear missiles capable of reaching Babylon (Jer 50:9, 14,; Rev 18:8, 18).
80. The enemy of Babylon will be a FEDERAL OF NATIONS (Jer 50:9).
These are references to Cyrus who attacked Babylon from the north and took it in 539 BC. Cyrus captured Babylon with horses and chariots, not planes and nuclear missiles. Again, this is history and prophecy fulfilled in the 5th century BC.

Jeremiah 50:11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls,

45. Babylon turns upon its heritage and destroys it all in the end (Jer 50:11).
90. Babylon will have been a huge missionary nation for Jesus Christ (Jer 50:11; 51:7).
Babylon didn't have a heritage. The reference is to God's heritage, the Jews, and Babylonians were not missionaries for Christ, not in 6th century BC when Jeremiah prophesied.

Jeremiah 50:12 Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; She who bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness, A dry land and a desert.

1. Babylon would be the youngest and greatest of the end time nations (Jer 50:12).
44. Babylon was born as a CHRISTIAN NATION (Jer 50:12).
53. Babylon has a mother nation that remains in existence from her birth to death (Jer 50: 12).
56. The mother of Babylon will be a state of major decline as the end nears (Jer 50:12).
This verse is construed to give rise to the greatest Christian nation of end-times?

25. Babylon is a nation of farmers and harvests huge crops (Jer 50:16, 26, 27).

So is Canada.

Jeremiah 50:17 "Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones."

81. The enemy of Babylon will be largely Moslem in make-up (Jer 50:17; Rev 17:16; Psalms 83:5-12).
The enemy in view here is the enemy of Israel, not of Babylon.

4. Babylon would be the HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH (Jer 50:23; Rev 18:23).

This is 5th century BC, juxtaposing it with Rev 18 doesn't change that.

Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from the farthest border; Open her storehouses; Cast her up as heaps of ruins, And destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left.

20. Babylon is a nation filled with warehouses and granaries (Jer 50:26).
23. Babylon is noted for her cattle, sheep and other livestock (Jer 50:26, 27; Rev 18:13).
The verse does not imply "filled", and "warehouses, and graneries" is an unsupported elaboration.

87. Babylon will have all of her borders cut off, and there will be no way of escape (Jer 50:28; 51:32).

Jer 50:28 has no such inference, and it's 5th century BC Babylon as well.

76. Babylon has a vast military machine (Jer 50:36; 51:30; Hab 1 & 2, Rev 13:4).

This describes the 5th century BC Babylonian "military".

Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is against their horses, Against their chariots, And against all the mixed peoples who are in her midst; And they will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.

22. Babylon is noted for her horses (Jer 50:37).
36. Babylon is nation filled with a "mingled" people (Jer 50:37).
66. Babylon is a huge producer and exporter of automobiles (Jer 50:37; Rev 18:13).
Nebuchadnezzar's army was noted for fierce horseman and charioteers. Babylon is not distinguished by horses and is not a producer of automobiles. This is the Babylon that was conquered by Cyrus, horses and all.

Jeremiah 50:47 [There is no such verse enumerated Jer 50:47]

77. Babylon will be instrumental in the setting up of Israel in the Middle East, and is the home of God's people (Jer 50:47; 51:45).
Regardless, Israel in the Middle East is already setup, since 1948, and it was the UK that was instrumental.

Jeremiah 51:13

16. Babylon is a land rich in mineral wealth (Jer 51:13).
18. Babylon is the leading exporting nation in the world (Jer 51:13; Rev 18).
34. Babylon is a coastal nation and sits upon MANY WATERS (Jer 51:13).
Inconclusive.

Jeremiah 51:38

57. Babylon is considered to be a lion's whelp (Eze 38:13; Jer 51:38).
Inconclusive.

6. Babylon would be the praise of the WHOLE EARTH (Jer 51:41).

But in 5th century BC.

7. Babylon is center of world trade (Jer 51:44; Rev 17:18; 18:19).

But in 5th century BC.

Jeremiah 51:51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.Shame has covered our faces, For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

47. Babylon's Christian leaders are "strangers" in the Lord Houses of Worship (Jer 51:51).
Again this is Jeremiah in the 6th century BC speaking about the Jewish temple. This is not a reference to either leaders or end-times Christians.

Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven, And though she were to fortify the height of her strength, Yet from Me plunderers would come to her," says the LORD.

28. Babylon has a huge aviation program (Isa 14:13-14; Jer 51:53; Hab 1:6-10).
29. Babylon's skies are filled with the whisper of aircraft wings (Isa 18:1; Jer 51:53).
30. Babylon has a huge space industry, has "mounted up to the heavens" (Jer 51:53).
31. Babylon fortifies her skies with a huge military aviation program (Jer 51:53).
32. Babylon is portrayed as a leading in high tech weapons and abilities (Jer 51:53; Hab 1:6-10; implied throughout).
'mount up to heaven' is a reference to the tower of Babel (how Babylon got its name), not aerospace weapons. Reiterating essentially the same point 5 times based on the same verse is redundant and does not further identify, it is needlessly repetitious.

74. Babylon is a nation with a GREAT VOICE in world affairs (Jer 51:55)

Yes, but in 5th century BC.

Daniel 7:4 The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it.

54. The mother of Babylon has the symbol of the LION (Dan7:4; Eze 38:13; Jer 51:38; Psalms 17:12).
55. The mother of Babylon will rule over her daughter her entire life (Dan 7:4; Jer 50:12).
58. Babylon will have the symbol of the EAGLE and builds her nest in the stars (Dan 7:4 EAGLE WINGS; Isa 14:13-14; Jer 51:53).
This is Daniel's 1st Beast, with parallel visions in chapters 2 and 8, and is generally believed to refer to 6th century BC Babylon (different from the 4th beast which is an end-times kingdom) and not an end-times Babylon and hence could not identify America.

Daniel 7:7 After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast- terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.

63. This world entity will be a diverse entity, different than all other ruling bodies of the world (Dan 7:7, 23).
64. This entity will be a TREATY POWER ENTITY (Dan 7:7, 23 DIVERSE).
This is Daniel's 4th Beast, an end-times prophetic vision yet unfulfilled. Some believe this beast is 1st century AD Rome, but either way, it doesn't identify Babylon, and hence not America either.

Daniel 11:21 He will be succeeded by a contemptible person who has not been given the honor of royalty. He will invade the kingdom when its people feel secure, and he will seize it through intrigue.

86. Babylon will be filled with her enemies brought in under the guise of peace (Dan 11:21).
This is a reference to Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who seized power of Syria (175-163) of the Seleucid dynasty, not end-times Babylon.

Revelation 18

43. ~~Babylon~~America falls to the occult just before her end by nuclear fire (Rev 18:2)
59. ~~Babylon~~America turns totally antichrist and is the leading antichrist power at the end (Rev 18:2; Isa 14:4-6).
49. ~~Babylon~~America becomes the home of all antichrist religions in the world (Rev 18:2).
8. ~~Babylon~~America would grow to be the richest nation in the world (Rev 18:3, 7, 19, 23).
9. All nations that traded with ~~Babylon~~America would grow rich (Rev 18:3).
96. The people of ~~Babylon~~America would go into deep sins of all kinds (Rev 18:5).
94. The people of ~~Babylon~~America would enjoy the highest standard of living in the world (Rev 18:7).
71. ~~Babylon~~America is noted for her iron and steel production (Rev 18:12).
24. ~~Babylon~~America is noted for her fine flour and mill operations (Rev 18:13).
69. ~~Babylon~~America is a huge importer and exporter of spices (Rev 18:13).
35. ~~Babylon~~America trades with all who have ships in the sea year round (Rev 18:17-18).
33. ~~Babylon~~America is a nation filled with warm water seaports (Rev 18:17-19).<
26. ~~Babylon~~America is a huge exporter of MUSIC (Rev 18:22).
27. ~~Babylon~~America's musicians are known around the world (Rev 18:22)
68. ~~Babylon~~America is noted for her jewelry of gold and silver (Rev 18:22).
70. ~~Babylon~~America is a huge exporter of fine marble products (Rev 18:22).
10. The merchants of ~~Babylon~~America were the GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH (Rev 18:23).
72. ~~Babylon~~America has huge corporations that have bases around the world (Rev 18:23, implied throughout)
None of the references in Revelation 18 identifies Babylon as anything other than Babylon and it's characteristics. I won't repeat Rev 18 verse by verse here, but the phrasing of the characteristics in the list seems predisposed or biased to match America, rather than simply state what scripture says. While some of the characteristics are true of America, some are not. Most instructive is to replace Babylon with America in the author's list of Revelation cites and assess the interpretation. Again while much is true of America, it is also true of any G10 country or the EU, or OPEC, etc.

References to whole chapters and "Implied Throughout"

3. Babylon would be the most powerful nation in the world (Isa 47, Jer 50, 51, Rev 18).
11. Babylon is a huge nation, with lands, cities, and great wealth (implied throughout).
89. Babylon is land vast land with huge cities, towns and villages throughout (Implied throughout)
17. Babylon is a the leading agricultural nation of the world (Jer 50, 51; Rev 18).
19. Babylon is the leading importing nation of the entire world.(Jer 50, 51; Rev 18).
21. Babylon is the leading INDUSTRIAL NATION OF THE WORLD (Isa 13, 47, Jer 50, 51; Rev 18).
37. Babylon is a SINGULAR NATION founded upon OUT OF MANY, ONE (Isa 13, 47, Jer 50, 51, Hab 1).
62. A world government entity will rise up to rule the world from BABYLON THE CITY (Isa 14; Hab 2, Rev 13, 17, 18).
67. Babylon is a nation of CRAFTSMEN, experts in their trade (Jer 50, 51, Rev 18:22).
83. The enemy of Babylon will be noted for her cruelty (Isa 13, 14, Jer 50, 51, Rev 17, 18).
88. Babylon will be destroyed by nuclear fire (Implied throughout).
I won't bother to further critique these 'parameters', having already stated my essential criticisms above. The parameters are quite specific whereas the chapter reference or 'implied throughout' is too overly broad to lend itself to a verse by verse refutation. But I did want to faithfully reproduce them and account for them somewhere, so here they are.

In closing, I'd like to see the bar raised on the standard of research and writing that goes into this kind of material. The above lends credence to the accusation that Evangelicals, Pentecostal, 'rapturists', etc belong in the tin-foil hat crowd. This is a serious subject and lends itself to careful research, and the stakes are high. This is after all our Lord's Word we are bantering about, His lost sheep we are endeavoring to reach, His bride we are trying to edify, and His fruit we are trying to bear.

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