EAR (22 Dec 2023) "BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS
FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY"
Hi John and Doves
BABYLON
IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY – Rev. 14,
17, and 18
Then
I [John] saw
another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having
the
everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the
earth—to every nation,
tribe, tongue, and people—saying with a loud
voice, ‘Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His
judgment has come:
and worship
Him who
made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.’
And
another angel followed saying ‘Babylon
is fallen, is fallen, that
great city, because she has made all nations
drink of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication.’ (Rev. 14:7–8)
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Then
one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and
talked with me saying
to me, ‘Come, I will
show you the
judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed
fornication, and the
inhabitants of the earth
were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.’ So he carried me away in the
Spirit into the wilderness.
And I saw a woman
sitting on a
scarlet beast… (Rev. 17:1–3a)
I sawthe woman
drunk with the
blood
of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
(Rev. 17:6a) The beast that was, and is not, is
himself also
the eighth, and is of the seven, and is
going to perdition.
(Rev. 17:11)
Then he said to me, ‘The
waters which
you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples,
multitudes, nations, and tongues.And the ten
horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the
harlot, make her
desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
For God
has put it into their hearts to
fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to
give their kingdom to the
beast, until the words of God are
fulfilled. And
the woman whom you saw is that
great city which
reigns over the kings of the earth. (Rev. 17:15–18)
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After
these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven,
having great
authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And
he cried mightily
with a loud voice, saying, ‘Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen,
and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for
every unclean and hated
bird! For all the nationshave
drunk of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication, the
kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth
have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.’ (Rev.
18:1–3)
‘For
her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered
her iniquities. Render to
her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works, in
the cup which she has
mixed, mix double
for her… for she
says in her heart, I sit as
queen, and am no widow and
will not see sorrow. Therefore her plagues will come in
one day—death
and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with
fire, for strong
is the Lord God who judges her. For
in one hour she is made
desolate. Rejoice over her, O
heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on
her.’ And in
her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of
all who were slain on
the earth.’ (Rev. 18:5–8, 19b–20, 24)
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The imagery presented
above, detailing the immoral history
of the harlot woman, stretches across three whole chapters in
the book of
Revelation! Accordingly, her record can in no way be confined
to only one city,
only one pagan religion, only one nationality, or only one
country in the
world. Thus, the quasi-religious harlot called ‘Mystery’
Babylon has apparently
accompanied and empowered each of the beast’s ‘head’
iterations as
successive man-made earthly kingdoms that acted in opposition
to Yahweh God—who made
heaven and earth, the sea and
springs of water. During the multi-millennium-long
tenure of the Dragon-empowered
Beast, Babylon has repeatedly morphed herself into powerful
positions via her idolatrous
images and ideology, until her iniquities reached to heaven!
She brags that she sits enthroned asQueen (of
Heaven), that she is not
a widow, and
will never mourn. (Rev. 18:7) She canboast about that, because she has never committed herself
to any lone god
or husband; instead, she has flagrantly consorted with all the
gods, sundry kings,
cruel emperors, religious priests, vestal virgins, and
prostitutes from pagan
religions that sprang from every tribe and nation. They have
all—throughout the
ages—bowed down to her via the myriad idolatrous images and
abominations she
has fashioned and utilized, in concert with the Dragon’s
seemingly symbiotic—but
deceitfully duplicitous—earthly agent, the
beast.
The merchandise she
purchases, with which to glorify
herself, has made traders and merchants rich. She flaunts her
‘quasi-religious’
spirit in the fine embroidered linen and silk robes she wears.
She swaggers in
the ‘purple’ of Roman royalty. She flounces in the ‘scarlet’
of the Vatican. She
boasts in the golden roofs of Buddhist temples. She glories in
the precious
stones and pearls inlaid into the 330 million idols of
Hinduism, and in the
expensive gold and silver threads woven into the regal black
gown that dresses
the Kaaba in Mecca.
She adores the
exquisite jewels set into the crowns and rings of kings and
princes. She delights
in her influence over those who traffic the bodies and souls
of enslaved men
and women, and, over those who exchange drugs for death, in
their thousands!
She deceives the
inhabitants of the earth through the
detestable images she generates that are hateful, execrable,
and odious to God,
and she hides her participation in the abominations that
result. She has reigned
over the man-made empires from Babel to Islam, and she has
veiled her wicked
counsel in the fabricated speeches prepared by demons and
delivered by
supposedly wise men of every colour and creed; but, who do
not worship the
God who created the heavens and the earth!
Babylon is indeed a
queen, and she knows it; she is a
vile religious spiritual demon and during the last thirteen
centuries she has
disguised her identity and hidden it deep within the Kaaba
(house of god) in
the latter-day city in the wilderness called Babylon the Great, where the inhabitants of the
earth go unwittingly
each year, to worship her during the Hajj. [1]
God
has judged
her; her doom is decided, but she will not ultimately be
destroyed by God.
‘Behold,
I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all
the earth,’ says the
Lord.
‘And I will stretch out My hand
against you, Roll
you down from the rocks, and make you
a burnt mountain. They shall not take from you a stone
for a corner nor a
stone for a foundation, but you shall be desolate forever,’
says the LORD.
(Jere. 51:25–26)
Instead,
God has
put it into the minds of men from the Middle East to
fulfil His purpose,
and for them to be of one mind and act in harmony until
(through
Babylon’s destruction), the prophetic words of God are
fulfilled. This
modern-day greatly expanding city in the Hejaz wilderness in
Arabia, which is
elsewhere called the daughter of Babylon, lives quite
remote from
Babylon’s original site in Chaldea (Iraq), which was not
destroyed when Cyrus,
King of Media-Persia, (Iran) conquered it in 539 BC.
In
God’s record of
judgement, the fall of Babylon has been delayed until the end
time, when her
destruction will once again be instigated by Iran (i.e., Elam, Medes) and
accomplices, Ararat,
Minni, and Ashkenaz, cf. Jere. 51:24–29.
(See also Isaiah
chapters 21 and 47; Jeremiah 50:21–32; 35–42; 45–46; and the
rest of Jeremiah
51: especially verses 30–33 and 37–58 for the prophetic words
of God that are
yet to be fulfilled.) However, even now, in the first quarter
of the 21st
Century, there are significant signs occurring abroad, which
indicate that this
might soon be time for the word of God to be fulfilled, before
Jesus returns quickly
(cf. Rev. 2:5, 16: 3:11; 22:7, 12, 20) as He promised!
‘Alas,
alas, that great city
that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and
adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls! For in one
hour such great riches came to nothing.’ (Rev.
18:16–17)
Thus,
John’s prior
verbal exchange with one of the seven angels (who held the
seven bowls of God’s
wrath, Rev. 17:1, 12–13), reveal that ten
warring ‘non-state’ terrorist ‘kings’ who have
received no kingdom as
yet, will receive authority for one hour as kings with the
beast; they are
of one mind[meaning they weren’t
previously], and they will
give their power
and authority to the Islamist beast—during its ‘eighth head’ Shia iteration. (Rev. 17:11)
And
the ten horns which you
saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her
desolate and naked,
eat her flesh and burn her with fire. (Rev. 17:16)
Accordingly,
the
ten ‘kings’—who have no kingdoms as yet—align with Iran’s
proxy network called Axis
of Resistance, composed of Shia
militants:Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Hezbollah
in
Lebanon, Iran’s IRGC and Quds Force, Syria
Regime, Shia
militias in Syria and Iraq, and Houthisin Yemen, etc., plus Sunni:Hamas in Gaza, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Qatar
and Bahrain, Taliban
in Afghanistan, P.F.L.P and other Sunni
terrorist groups embedded in
the ten legitimate nations in the Middle East.[2]They
receive ‘authority’ to act on behalf of Tehran’s
Islamic Republic, (i.e., the eighth-head
on the beast) to rise up for one bizarre and destructive
hour, to attack
and burn the great city! See
the articles
below —
Therefore,
it is expected
that the diverse ‘non-state’
terrorist groups—operating out of the Middle East—will soon
become distraught
over the covert relationships being pursued with western
nations by ‘the
keepers’ of the phenomenally wealthy, pseudo-religious city,
(whose nom de
plume is ‘MYSTERY’
BABYLON THE GREAT),
who is also THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH.The
woman… isthat great city, which reigns over the kings of
the earth. (Rev.
17:5, 18)
N.B.
While sheltering
in the seven mountains of the Hejaz wilderness
(Rev. 17:3), the
great city has been hidden and protected by the Kings of Saudi
Arabia, i.e.,
the custodians of the two holy Mosques, in Mecca and Medina! SeeHejaz
| Mountains,
Map, & Province | Britannica —enlarge the photo of
Mecca!
I
suspect it is the
iconography exhibited in Mecca via the Kiswah that the
Kaaba
is dressed with annually,
andthe
ritual of pilgrims kissing the black stone meteorite during
Muslims annual Hajj,
which irks the
radical, Sunni
Salafi terrorist groups like ISIS,
who destroyed icons, statues and images in Palmyra and Nimrud
in Syria, and
Iraq in 2014.[3]
In addition, the irremediable conflict over which branch of
Islam should have inherited
Muhammad’s mantle of leadership after his death, vexes the‘non-state’Shia terrorist
groups without
kingdoms. These two ideological issues make Saudi Arabia a
legitimate and
deliberate target for an attack by the Shia
‘Axis of Resistance’ that is directed by Iran!
Apparently,
the SunniSalafi terrorists, and Shia‘non-state’ Islamist
terrorist groups
act cooperatively in hatred against the great city called
Babylon (AFTER
God
has put it into their hearts to fulfil His purpose…
Rev. 17:17), with authority
from the Shia
eighth ‘head’ on the beast,
whose enduring hatred and resentment coincides with their own.
So, they proceed
to make her desolate
and naked,
consume her flesh, and
burn her with fire;
presumably in the hope that with the fall of Sunni Islam, they inherit a greater Shia kingdom to rule over. Their action is in
accord with the will
of God! (Rev. 17:16–17)
[1]Kiswah
- WikipediaThe
finished kiswa measures 658 square meters, and costs
22 million SAR to
produce (6 million US$)
Arabian
religion
- Pre-Islamic Deities | Britannica“Al-llāt or Allāt
(the Goddess) was known to
all pantheons.She
is a Daughter or a consort,
depending on the region, of al-Lāh or Allah (the God) Lord
of the Kaaba in
Mecca.”