03/24/2013

• SABBATH SERMON TWO BABYLONS PREACHED 3/23/13

  TWO BABYLONS

   

  Scripture is from The Sacred Scripture (which is based on the American Version 1901)

  Introduction:

  Is there only 1 City of Babylon in the History of Mankind, or are there to be 2 Cities by this same name? In order to answer this question, we have to go to the pages of the Bible to find out directly from Yahvah what the answer is.

  Bible Scholars have in general only seen 1 City of Babylon in the prophecies of the Bible, and have completely missed the point that there are in fact 2 Cities called Babylon mentioned in prophecy. These 2 Cities called Babylon (both situated on the same site in Modern Day Iraq) are separated from each other by a time-span of more than 2,000 years (One is past–the other is still future).

  These Bible Scholars and their followers seem to be unaware of the fact that Revelation 18 refers to a literal End-Time City of Babylon that is destroyed just before Messiah Returns. Revelation 18 is therefore not only referring to the Babylonian System that is destroyed at Messiah’s Return, but is also referring to the destruction of this End-Time City of Babylon.

  These Bible Scholars (for example the WCG in it’s 1958 Booklet “Proof of the Bible”, and the SDA in their Book “Prophecy Speaks”), arrived at the incorrect conclusion that Ancient Babylon:

  (1) Would be destroyed in one day, and would;

  (2) Never rise again, and that;

  (3) No building material from Ancient Babylon would ever be used to build another City, or used in another City/village, and would;

  (4) Never be rebuilt or inhabited again. The author(s) of the Booklet “Proof of the Bible” go on to state on page 38; "Babylon, like Tyre, defies the skeptic to rebuild its site. Yahvah declares, through the pages of the Scripture, that it CANNOT be done!". This booklet of the WCG goes on to challenge the world to try and rebuild Ancient Babylon, because if they could, then this would prove that there is no Yahvah and that the Scripture is false, because Yahvah prophesies it cannot be done! (Remember that Messiah said in John 10:35 ... Scripture cannot be broken).

  Dilemma: Ancient Babylon was partially rebuilt by Saddam Hussein, thus defying Yahvah, who supposedly said it cannot be done. The truth of the matter is that Yahvah said no such thing – these scholars have misinterpreted the prophecies concerning Babylon, and in so doing have compromised Yahvah’s Word.

  Map of Ancient Mesopotamia A Great False Religious System as set up by Satan, which masquerades as truly following Messiah, but which kills the followers of Messiah (Depicted in Revelation 17 as the great harlot called “Mystery, Babylon the Great”).

  Also depicted as the City of Rome (The Vatican) of this Babylonian Mystery Religion, from where “she” rules. (Revelation 17:18. And the woman which you saw is that great City, which reigns over the kings of the earth. Revelation 17:9 mentions “......seven mountains, on which the woman sits”).

   

   

  Also referred to in certain prophecies as a City called Babylon, capital of the ancient Chaldean Empire. Ancient Babylon was built in Modern-Day Iraq next to the Euphrates River, and lies some 55 miles from present-day Baghdad. This was the Babylon that the prophet Daniel lived in.

  Also referred to in certain prophecies as a yet future City called Babylon;

  1. Termed by me – for ease of reference - the “End-Time Babylon”;

  2. Which is to be built approximately 6-7 years before the Return of the Messiah, Yahvahosha;

  3. Built on the same spot as Ancient Babylon, and;

  4. Which is destroyed during the period called “The Day of YAHVAH”.

  Yahvah in His Word the Scripture focuses extensively on Babylon, and what she has represented throughout the 6 000 years of Satan’s rule, so the understanding of this subject is of paramount importance to Yahvah’s people.

  Revelation 1:1 “This is the revelation of Yahvahosha Messiah, which Yahvah gave him to show his servants even the things which must shortly come to pass…….” 14:8 And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

  (Refers to Numbers 1 & 4 )

  Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of Yahvah, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

  (Most probably refers collectively to all 3 cities and the false religious system of these Cities through-out the history of Satan’s rule on earth, and then specifically to the End-Time Babylon in Iraq.)

  Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

  (No 1 : The False Counterfeit Religion)

  Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and has become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.

  (No 4  = Refers specifically to the End-Time Babylon in Iraq.)

  Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off from the fear of her torment, saying, Woe,woe, that great city Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment came.

   

  (No 4 ; termed by me the “End-Time Babylon”)

  Revelation 18:21 And a strong angel took a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

  (No 4 ; termed by me the “End-Time Babylon”)

  The following scriptures are incorrectly cited as proof that Ancient Babylon is destroyed in one day, and will never be inhabited again or rebuilt.

  Isaiah 13:19-22 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall  be as when the Eternal overthrew Sodom and Gormorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. But wild beast of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there; and wild goats shall dance there. And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

  Jeremiah 51:8,24-26 Babylon has suddenly fallen and is destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea in all their evil and they have done in Zion in your sight, say Yahvah. Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says Yahvah, who destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, not a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate forever, says Yahvah.

  However, applying these scriptures from

  Isaiah 13:19-22 & Jeremiah 51:8 & 24-26 to Ancient Babylon, creates three major dilemmas: Babylon gradually declined over many, many years, and was not destroyed suddenly, like Sodom and Gomorrah, thus NOT fulfilling Isaiah 13 & Jeremiah 51 Saddam Hussein was far advanced in rebuilding Babylon, thus NOT fulfilling the Isaiah 13 prophecy.

  Following from incorrect use of Isaiah 13, thus linking it to the downfall of Ancient Babylon, never to be rebuilt, we have been forced to see the downfall of Babylon in Revelation 18 as the downfall of the Babylonian Mystery Religion/Economic System, AND NOT ALSO as the downfall of a real, literal City.

   (Of course today it is easy to Google/search the Internet in order to ascertain what has happened

  at the site of Ancient Babylon)

  Ancient Tablet of the World It shows Babylon as the Centre of the World. The reality is that Ancient Babylon declined gradually over hundreds of years, and was never devastated overnight like Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 13:19 & Jeremiah 51:8).

  Babylon still existed in the Apostle Peter's day. As late as A.D. 917, it was a small village (1 Peter 5:13  She that is in Babylon, elect together with you, salutes you; and so does Mark my son).

  Ancient Babylon existed – though gradually declining – for centuries after the Medes and the Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire. Dr Joe Chambers, after visiting the rebuilding of Babylon by Saddam, wrote a book titled: "A Palace for the Antichrist", and Dr Charles Dyer has written a book "The Rise of Babylon", about its rebuilding. In 1990, Dianne Sawyers and Sam Donnaldson took the USA to this incredible City of Babylon via their TV program, Prime Time Live, to view its rebuilding, and showed the awesome temples Saddam had already erected there.

  The town of Hillah, just a twenty-minute walk from Ancient Babylon, is built almost entirely from Ancient Babylon's ruins, and Baghdad also used material from the Ancient City. It therefore follows that the Scripture in Jeremiah 51:26 must be referring to the End- Time Babylon whose building materials would not be used to build other cities, and cannot be referring to Ancient Babylon.

  St Peter’s Square

  (Refer to point 2 in the Introduction)

  From Revelation 17 we see the seat of "Babylon" as being Rome, with the Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, of Revelation 17, being The Catholic "Holy Mother" Assembly of Rome, seated in Vatican City.

  Revelation 17 refers us to....."...seven mountains on which the woman sits", and the last verse of Revelation 17 refers us to a City, which is obviously Rome (which is built on 7 mountains).

  So Revelation 17's City of Babylon is definitely Rome.....no doubt about that!

  (Prophecies about Babylon are found in Isaiah 13 to 14 and Jeremiah 50 to 51) There is definite duality of prophecy in these verses, that is, they refer to  2 overthrows of Babylon:

  1. The 1st occurred in the seventieth year of Judah’s captivity (by the Medes and the Persians). This was Ancient Babylon, whose decline was gradual.

  2. The 2nd will occur during the cataclysmic "Day of YAHVAH". This will be the End-Time Babylon. An ancient rabbinical rule of interpretation says that when the Scripture mentions an event twice, it means the event will happen twice. The prophet Isaiah and John both use these double verbs to describe Babylon's downfall.

  "Fallen, fallen is Babylon....." Isaiah 21:9

  "Fallen, fallen is Babylon....." Revelation 14:8

  "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great....." Revelation 18:2

  From these double verbs, coupled with our other proofs, it seems conclusive that there are to be 2 Babylons (Ancient Babylon & End-Time Babylon), and both would/will fall, but their destructions would be different.

  It is this End-Time Babylon that will be eternally destroyed, never to arise again, not the Ancient Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar and his successors.

  (The Image of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream comes to mind, with the two legs of the image symbolizing the Roman Empire through the ages. Compare this scenario to the two legs of the old Holy Roman Empire; with the Eastern Roman Empire with its Capital at Constantinople (Modern Day Istanbul), and the Western Roman Empire with its Capital in Rome)

  The Beast Power of Europe (King of the North of Daniel 11:40-45), having won the War against the King of the South (Islamist states led by Iran:

  The Babylonian Mystery Religion (Catholic Assembly of the False Prophet) will assist the Beast in rebuilding Ancient Babylon, and transform it into the End-Time Babylon in the East. After all, her religion is termed by Yahvah as having it’s origins in Babylon (In this regard I would like to refer you to the Book “The Two Babylons”, by Bishop Alexander Hislop).

  From this End-Time Babylon armies [the Beast Power’s armies; but remember that the Woman rides the Beast (Revelation 17:1-2)], can keep control over and rule Islam/the Arabs and the territories they have conquered, and of course the oil fields of Iran/Iraq.

  They seek world rule, so they will need a Headquarters City in this region of the world, seeing as they have no intention of ever withdrawing their armies. The Beast individual’s European Headquarters will still be in Berlin, and the False Prophet’s Headquarters will of course still be Vatican City in Rome (the “other” Babylon).

  Now, right at The End, the 10 toes symbolize the last resurrection of this Holy Roman Empire,

  1. Ruled by its Woman, the Universal (Catholic) Assembly who rides the Beast (the “Kings” of Europe), the Harlot with her Headquarters in her capital City of Rome (which in Scriptural terms is labeled as being Babylon Rev 17:18), symbolizing the Western Roman Empire, and

  2. The other leg of the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled from the End-Time Babylon in Iraq.

  So now during this 7 Year Period (Daniel 9:27), we see ONE “Holy” Roman Empire, now Scripturally identifiable as BABYLON, the Satan- inspired System of: False, Counterfeit Religion, and; False, Counterfeit Government (Assembly & State), with its two Capital Cities (Points 1 & 2 )

  Reading the verses next, it is very clear that there is a Babylon standing and operating as a Mighty City at the End, just before Messiah’s Return, and that it is this End-Time City of Babylon that is destroyed in one day just prior to Messiah’s Return, never to rise again.

  Isaiah 13:1-16,19-22 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz has seen. Set up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles, I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting one. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! The noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahvah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle. They come from a far country, from the utmost part of heaven, even Yahvah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. Wail for the day Yahvah is at hand; as destruction from the almighty shall it come. Therefore shall all hands be feeable, and every heart of man shalt melt: and they shall be dismayed; pang and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail; they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame. Behold, the day of Yahvah comes, cruel, with a wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. 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. I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Yahvah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall flee every man to his own land. Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword. Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled and their wives ravished. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, in beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when the Eternal overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there: neither shall shepherds make their flocks to be down there.  But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

  Comment: It should by now be crystal clear that Isaiah 13:1-22 is referring to a City that will exist at the time of the End. This is a City that exists in the time when Messiah returns, and at His Return He destroys this End-Time Babylon.

  Further proof is provided by Yahvah in Isaiah 14:1-9.

  At Messiah’s Return He destroys the combined Armies of the Beast and the Kings of the East during The Battle of the Great Day of Yahvah Almighty (Rev 16:14) He then sets His hand to gather the remnant House of Israel (Americans, British, South-Africans, Australians, New-Zealanders, etc, etc) and the House of Judah (the Jews) from around the world, and brings them back to Jerusalem and the Promised Land.

  Isaiah 14:1-4 For Yahvah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahvah for servants and for handmaids; and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass in the day that Yahvah shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hand service in which you were made to serve, that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! The golden city ceased!

  Comment: These verses are ALL Millennium verses. Messiah has just returned and destroyed the End-Time City of Babylon.

  Isaiah 14:1: The returning Jews from the conquered Babylon are here contrasted with Israel (not only Judah).

  Isaiah 14:2 Now Israel has rule over those who oppressed them. This is millennial, when the whole House of Israel returns, not only Judah. The returning Jews of Nehemiah’s day who rebuild Jerusalem, did not have Babylonian slaves... those returning Jews did not fulfil these verses (these “slaves” or servants situation will only apply during the first 50 years of the Millennium.)

  Isaiah 14:3 The Jews who returned to Judah in the time of Nehemiah, Zerubabbel, Haggai and Ezra, did not have peace with no fear – no, the time depicted here is at the beginning of the Millennium Rule of Messiah.

  Isaiah 14:4 is therefore referring to the End-Time Babylon that Messiah destroyed at His 2nd Coming. Yahvah relates here about how the "golden City has ceased". This did not happen in the time of the Jewish return to rebuild Jerusalem.......Babylon continued to exist for centuries after. This MUST refer to the End-Time Babylon as having been destroyed.

  Recap: After Messiah returns, He gathers the remaining (remnant) Israelites from around the world where the Beast Power had scattered them as slaves during the Great Tribulation period of 3.5 years. Isaiah 14:1-3  is referring to these people who are brought back to Jerusalem and Israel just after Messiah’s return.

  (This is exquisitely described by YAHVAH in Ezekiel 37:15 –28 in the analogy of the 2 sticks, representing the House of Israel and the House of Judah being re-united)

  We will now give  some more proof verses in this regard:

  Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

  Isaiah 43:5 Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;

  Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria (Germany), and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt: and they shall worship Yahvah in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

  Isaiah 56:8 The Sovereign Yahvah which gathers the outcasts of Israel says, Yet will I gather others to him, besides his own that are gathered.

  Isaiah 10:22 For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflow with righteousness.

  Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of Yahvah shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

  Now let us continue in Isaiah 14:

  Isaiah 14:4-5,7 that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! The golden city ceased! Yahvah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers; The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

  (Comment: the millennium starts soon after the fall of End-Time Babylon.)

  Isaiah 14:9 Hell (Hebrew: Sheol= the grave) from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming.

  (Comment: This is a direct reference to Messiah, and His 2nd Coming, which in this time setting has just happened) it stirs up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth;

  (Comment: this is a direct reference to the 144 000 – “the Chief Ones” - being resurrected at Messiah’s Return) it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  (Comment: The World Rulers, including the real King of Babylon, namely Satan, have been overthrown by Messiah, the King of Kings & Sovereign of sovereigns .By this event (the Return of Messiah and the 1st resurrection) the human rulers of the earth are all dethroned, and the Kingdoms of the Earth have become the Kingdoms of the Resurrected Chosen. Satan, the King of Babylon.

  Satan through the ages and Yahvah & King of all 3 Cities of Babylon & their Babylonian Mystery Religion & Political Systems, comprising Assembly and State.

   

  Isaiah 14:12-14 How have you fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How have you been cut down to the ground, that laid low the nations! And you said in your heart I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my thrown above the stars of Yah; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the utmost parts of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

  Comment: verses 12 to 14 identify Satan as the mastermind behind both Babylons and their False Religion System and Government, and in this context, must again be dual, referring to Satan’s:

  1st fall to Earth (Revelation. 12: 4) and;

  2nd fall to Earth, which 3½ Years later will culminate in the destruction of End-Time Babylon and the Return of Messiah (Revelation 12:5

  The Beast Individual, Ruler of the End-Time Babylon

  Isaiah 14: 15 to 20: refers back to the human individual, the End-Time Ruler of Babylon - the Beast. He is prophesied not to be buried, but is thrown alive into the Lake of Fire. (Together with the False Prophet: Revelation 19:20)

  Isaiah 14:15-20  Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit. They that see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; that did not let loose his prisoners to their home? All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house. But you are cast forth away from your sepulcher like an abominable branch, and clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot. You shall not be jointed with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.

  Isaiah 14: 24 – 27 Yahvah of host has sworn , saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For Yahvah of hosts has purposed and who shall annul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

  Why would Assyria's destruction suddenly follow after prophecies about Babylon? Assyria was not a factor any more in Babylon of old (Ancient Babylon, in becoming a world-ruling Empire, had conquered Assyria even before Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem).

  But these prophesies are NOT about Ancient Babylon, they are about the End-Time Babylon. The End-Time Beast Individual is German, and thus these verses are referring to the End-Time Assyrians (who rule over End-Time Babylon).

  The Beast Power of the European Union, led by the German Nation (scriptural Assyria) is ruling Jerusalem and the State of Israel when the Messiah returns. That is why we find this prophecy here against Assyria.

  In Jeremiah 51: 5 - 9, we find that YAHVAH is sending a warning to the Israelites (Houses of Judah & Israel) who are residing in Babylon (most probably as slaves and servants to the Assyrians/the Beast Power), to flee out of Babylon. This Message will be delivered to these peoples by the 2 Archangel Witnesses Michael & Gabriel who will be prophesying from Jerusalem during this End Time.

  Jeremiah 51:5-6 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his Eternal, of Yahvah of host; though their land is full of guilt against the Righteous One of Israel. Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahvah’s vengeance; he will render to her a recompense. ( Micah 4:10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shall you go forth out of the city, and shall dwell in the field, and shall come even to Babylon: there shall you be rescued; there will Yahvah redeem you from the hand of your enemies.)

  (This time setting is clearly the Day of YAHVAH)(Read Revelation 19:2;15; Jeremiah 25:12 – 38, the 70 Year Prophecy)

  Jeremiah 51:7-9 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahvah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations are made. Babylon has suddenly fallen and is destroyed: wail for her; talk balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsaken her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.

  Refer Revelation 17/the Babylonian Mystery Religious System. Revelation 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth.

  End-Time Babylon

  Destroyed by the “Kings” of the East & North

  Daniel 11:44 But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him (The Beast). Then he will go out with great fury to destroy, and to devote many to destruction. Daniel 11:45 And he shall plant his palace tents between the seas in the glorious holy mountain (at Jerusalem). Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

  From Prophecy we can trace the following chronological events during the last 3½ years before Messiah’s Return:

  1. Satan and Michael the Archangel and their armies have a “Star Wars” Battle approximately 3½ years before Messiah Returns. Satan is defeated and is thrown down to the Earth. He immediately starts theGreat Tribulation – which is Satan’s wrath on Humanity and Yahvah’s people the Laodiceans.

  Revelation 12:7-9,12  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels; and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in haven. And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. Therefore rejoice, Oh heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down to you, having great wreath, knowing that he has but a short time.

  2. The Beast Power under Satan’s influence sets up the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple in Jerusalem.

  Mt 24:15-16, 21 When therefore you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand), then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains: For then shall be great tribulation, such as has never been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

  Lk 21:20 And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the restored covenant in my blood, even that which is poured out for you.

  3. The Beast Power then launches a surprise attack on the Nations of Israel – for example America and Britain - destroying ⅓ of their cities in a nuclear-type attack. The survivors of the Houses of Israel and Judah are taken captive/enslaved by the Beast Power. Jerusalem is partially destroyed by this war, as the Jews fight back after the Temple is desecrated. Some of these survivors end up being placed in the End-Time Babylon as slaves/servants.

  4. The Philadelphian Saints are in Jerusalem when the Abomination is set up. They subsequently flee from Jerusalem to the Place of Safety in Jordan (Revelation 12:14).

  5. Approximately 2 Years later the Beast Power attacks Russia and the Nations of the East (termed the 1st Woe or 5th Trumpet in Revelation 9:1-11); Initially for 6 months the Beast power prevails in this World War.

  6. Then the tide turns, and the 200 million Armies of Russia and the East speedily conquer Europe (called the 2nd Woe or 6th Trumpet in Revelation 9:13-21) and destroy Rome. These Asian Powers of the East & North (Daniel 11:44) eventually drive the Beast armies back to Jerusalem, where they will make their last stand.)

  7. These “Kings” of the East and North then advance back from Europe overland via Russia, and attack and destroy the End-Time City of Babylon in Iraq (attacking from the North).

  8. After destroying End-time Babylon, they will cross over the dried up River Euphrates (Revelation 16:12 ...The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River. Its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East), and advance towards Jerusalem, where the Beast Power (the EU), and the two individuals the Beast and the Last Pope, the False Prophet, have amassed their remaining forces to await the final battle for Earth.

  9. Eventually the Kings of the East gather their massive armies at a Place called Armageddon; from where they advance upon Jerusalem.

  10. Then the Returning Messiah appears with His armies, and the Kings of the East and the Beast Power’s Armies combine to face this alian attack on the Earth. Their armies are destroyed by the Messiah during The Battle of the Great Day of Yahvah.

  Zech 14:12-15 And this shall be the plague with which Yahvah will strike all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shallconsume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Yahvah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against then hand of his neighbor.

  Revelation 19:19-20 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked the signs in his sight, by which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshiped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

  11. This Babylonian System is finally destroyed by Messiah at His Return, and the Evil Satan behind this Evil System of Babylon is removed from power (Revelation 20:1-2).

  12. Yahvahosha Messiah, the SOVEREIGN of Sovereigns and KING of Kings, now ushers in the 1000 Years Rule of the Kingdom of Yahvah .

  Many Scriptures show the destruction of End-Time Babylon.

  The End-Time Babylon in Modern Day Iraq is to be attacked from the North.

  Ancient Babylon was attacked from the East by the Medes and Persians (Modern Iran today).This again proves that we are dealing with 2 different Cities (albeit with the same name, but centuries apart). Yahvah  has supplied us with more than ample Scripture in this regard, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are dealing with an End-Time City of Babylon.

  NEXT SABBATH WE WILL CONTINUE THIS TOPIC OF TWO BABYLONS.

  Let us sing a closing song and a closing prayer

   

   

   

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