This was the Empire that broke the power of
Assyria, and, in its westward sweep, destroyed Judah, and
conquered Egypt. This empire lasted 73 years (612-539
B.C.). The 70 year prophecy runs from the fall of
Jerusalem in 587 B.C. until 517 B.C. at the
worship rededication in the Restoration Temple. Cyrus,
king of Persia, conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., in
538 B.C. he authorized the return of the Jews to
their own land. First return was in 536 B.C.
The Empire's capital was in Babylon. In Isaiah's time
Assyria was the dominant power of the world. Babylon was
a dependency of Assyria. Babylon rose to world power
status and then fell in 539 B.C. Isaiah sang of
the Fall of Babylon 100 years before its rise in
612 B.C. (Isa 13:1, 13:19, 14:22). Babylon's
splendor as the Queen city of the pre-Christian world,
"the glory of kingdoms" and "the city
of gold" (Isa. 13:19, 14:4) was clearly
envisioned. Babylon's fall is also pictured in detail,
naming the unknown Medes as destroyers of Babylon. (Isa.
13:17-19). Babylon was to supersede Assyria (Isa 14:25),
Media shall supersede Babylon (Isa 13:17); and Babylon
shall pass away forever (Isa 12:19-22, 14:22-23, Dan
5:31).
The Persian Army took Babylon without a battle during
the days of Nabonidas and his first son Belshazar.
Rulers of the Babylonian Empire
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Date
(B.C.)
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King
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Events
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Biblical Event
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625-605
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Nabopolassar
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Viceroy of Babylon, threw off the yoke of
Assyria and established the independence of
Babylon in 625 B.C.
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Destroyed Nineveh with Cyaxeres the Mede in
612 B.C. (Nahum, Isa 13-14).
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605-562
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Greatest of all Babylonian Kings, reigned
about 45 years, he extended the power of Babylon
over the then known world. Carried Jews into
captivity, including Daniel and Ezekiel.
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II Kings 24-25, Daniel. Daniel became one of
chief advisers.: probably eased the lot of
Jewish captives.
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562-560
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Evil-Merodach (Amer-Marduk)
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II Kings 25:27-30; Jer. 52:31-34.
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560-556
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Neriglissar
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Jer. 39:3, 13.
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556
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Labashi-Marduk
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556-539
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Nabonidus
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Babylon fell and supremacy passed on to the
Persians. Probably in retirement outside of
Babylon.
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541-539
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Belshazzar
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Son of Nabonidus and co-regent with his
father. He was in control of army and the
government, and surrendered to Cyrus.
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Handwriting on the wall, during a feast.
Daniel had been in Babylon for 70 years (Dan 5).
Daniel was "third" in command.
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Babylon, oppressor of God's Old Testament
people, gave its name to the Apostate Church.
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Revelation 17
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Nebuchadnezzar'
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The capital of
Babylonia fell to the Persian King, Cyrus the
Great on October 29 539 B.C. After 70 years of
supremacy, the Babylonian empire, the "head of
gold" in Daniel's statue, came to an end. ...
The main entrance to Babylon was the Ishtar gate
which can be visited today. Underneath King
Nebuchadnezzar's name Saddam Hussein has had his
name inscribed
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Iraq, under Sadam Hussein, if successful would have
gained control of half the known oil reserves of the
world. The nations of the earth would not tolerate Iraq
to have such a stranglehold on the international economy.
They banded under American leadership to oust the Iraqi
army out of Kuwait. In an effort to rally the Islamic
nations to his cause, Hussein aimed his feared scud
missiles mostly toward Israel, a non-participant in the
war. Once again, Satan's hatred of Israel was shown and
Israeli citizens had to run to shelters and don gas
masks, not knowing what poisons might be hurled at them,
as the scuds rained on their cities. A few years later
Saddam was running for shelter and hiding.
Saddam falls
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Saddam
called himself The Successor of
Nebuchadnezzar. The Bible records
in Daniel 4:4 "I, Nebuchadnezzar, was
living in my palace in comfort and
prosperity. Daniel 4:29-30 Twelve
months later, he was taking a walk on
the flat roof of the royal palace in
Babylon. As he looked out across the
city, he said, `Just look at this great
city of Babylon! I, by my own mighty
power, have built this beautiful city
as my royal residence and as an
expression of my royal splendor.'Daniel
4:31 "While he was still speaking these
words, a voice called down from heaven,
`O King Nebuchadnezzar, this message is
for you! You are no longer ruler of
this kingdom.‚ Daniel 4:33 "That
very same hour the prophecy was
fulfilled, and Nebuchadnezzar was
driven from human society. He ate grass
like a cow, and he was drenched with
the dew of heaven. He lived this way
until his hair was as long as eagles'
feathers and his nails were like birds'
claws ... And so it has come to pass:
Saddam Hussein followed in the
footsteps of Nebuchadnezzar just as he
himself predicted.
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Babylon is a literal city. There is also a
second
Babylon called
Mystery (religious) Babylon (Revelation 17:5) a cult
started by Nimrod and his queen, Semiramis. The Babylon
Kings, who were descended from Nimrod, served as both
king and priest of the Babylonian Mystery religion. As
priests, they bore the title "Pontifex Maximus" or
"Supreme Pontiff," meaning "supreme pathfinder" or
"bridge maker," representing "the path or connection
between this life and the next. They ruled upon the
throne (seat) of Nimrod. ............ THE FATE OF
SPIRITUAL BABYLON - SEE BELOW
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Ezekiel
26 - 28
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Revelation
17 - 18
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I will cause the
noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of
thy harps shall be no more heard
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The voice of
harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and
trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee
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The
princes of the sea .
Inhabited of seafaring men .
Thy mariners, and thy pilots
All that handle the oar, the mariners and
all the pilots of the sea
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Every
shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and
sailors, and as many as trade by sea
All that had ships in the sea
Thy merchants were the great men of the
earth
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They
shall take up a lamentation for thee .
Cause their voice to be heard against
thee, and shall cry bitterly
They shall weep for thee with bitterness
of heart and bitter wailing. And in their
wailing they shall take up a lamentation for
thee, and lament over thee
The merchants among the people shall hiss
at thee
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The
merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over
her .
The kings of the earth ... shall bewail
her, and lament for her
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How art thou
destroyed
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In one
hour is she made desolate
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The renowned
city
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That
great city, which reigneth over the kings of the
earth
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I shall
bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters
shall cover thee
Thou shall be broken by the seas in the
depths of the waters
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A great
millstone ... cast ... into the sea. ... Thus
... shall that great city Babylon be thrown down
.
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Thou shall be no
more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou
never be found again
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Found no more at
all
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A merchant of
the people
The merchants among the people
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The merchants
... were made rich by her
Thy merchants were the great men of the earth
.
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Thy merchandise
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The
merchandise.
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Cast up dust
upon their heads ... wallow themselves in the
ashes
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Thy cast dust on
their heads
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What city is
like Tyrus?
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What city is
like unto this great city!
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Thou
didst enrich the kings
Kings shall be sore afraid
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The kings
of the earth
The merchants which were made rich by her
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Thine heart is
lifted up because of thy riches .
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She
hath glorified herself and lived deliciously
So great riches
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I will
bring strangers upon thee. the terrible of the
nations.
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He
gathered them together into a place called in
the Hebrew tongue Armageddon
In righteousness he doth judge and make
war
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Therefore will I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee. it
shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to
ashes upon the earth
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Burn her
with fire
She shall be utterly burned with fire
The smoke of her burning .
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THE
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
The last king to
reign in Babylon was Belshazzar, who celebrated
the pagan Babylonian ritual using the sacred
Jewish Temple vessels which his father, King
Nebuchadnezzar, confiscated from the Jewish
Temple in 587 B.C. Later that night the Persian
Emperor Cyrus conquered Babylon and forced the
Babylonian princes to flee to
Pergamum.
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King Belshazzar made a great feast for his lords, his
wives, and his concubines They drank wine, and praised
the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and
stone. Immediately the fingers of a man's hand appeared
and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's
palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the hand
as it wrote. Then the king's color changed, and his
thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees
knocked together....Then from his presence the hand was
sent, and this writing was inscribed. And this is the
writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, AND
PARSIN. This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE,
God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it
to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances
and found wanting; PERES, your kingdom is divided and
given to the Medes and Persians....That very night
Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
For centuries,
Pergamum remained the site of Nimrod's seat or
throne. With the appearance of Christianity,
Babylonian paganism threatened the early Christian church
of Pergamum as related in Revelation 3:12,13 a... "And to
the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of
him who has the sharp two-edged sword.' I know where you
dwell, where Satan's throne is [ Nimrod's ]; you
hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in
the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was
killed among you, where Satan dwells.
They continued their
reign there until 133 B.C. when Attalus III, the last
Babylonian King to rule in Pergamum, willed his
dominions to the Roman Caesar, and the kingdom of
Pergamum merged with the Roman Empire along with Nimrod's
throne and the title "Pontifex Maximus."130 In 63
B.C., Julius Caesar, who had been elected Pontifex
Maximus, became emperor of Rome and vested the office of
Roman emperor with the priestly powers and functions of
the Babylonian Pontiff. Henceforth, the title
Pontifex Maximus was used by the Roman Caesars as
illustrated on a Roman coin depicting the image of
Augustus Caesar (27 B.C.-14 A.D.) with his title "Pont.
Max.," which is an abbreviation of Pontifex Maximus.
Thus, the Roman emperors, like the preceding Babylonian
emperors, now served as priests of Babylonian paganism,
and bore the title Pontifex Maximus.
At the Council of Nicea
in 325 A.D. the Universal or Roman Catholic Church
was formed. Emperor Constantine then required the
Roman armies to carry a shield with a cross.
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The
architect of the Tower of Babel.
Nimrod, from the
Hebrew "marad" or "we will rebel," was the son
of Cush and a mighty hunter before the Lord born
in Ethiopia - Genesis 10:9.. Nimrod established
the first Kingdom in Babylon and later extended
it to Nineveh in Assyria. He also established
the first Universal false religion "before the
Lord" or openly in the presence of God and
defied God to send another Flood
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The Greek historian
Herodotus, the 'Father
of History,'
visited it between 484 - c.424 BC. and said "It has a
solid central tower, one furlong square, with a second
erected on top of it and then a third, and so on up to
eight. All eight towers can be climbed by a spiral way
running around the outside, and about halfway up there
are seats for those who make the journey to rest on."
The tower of Babel,
discovered in 1876, was originally 300 feet high and 300
feet square with 8 stories or platforms. (the ruins are
only 150 feet high) The tower was finished but the city
was not. ... An ancient Babylonian tablet reads "The
buiding of this illustrious tower offended the gods and
they threw down what was built. They scattered them
abroad and made strange their speech" The tower was
rebuilt IN 605 B.C. by Nebuchadnezzar who inscribed these
words ""I have completed its magnificence with silver,
gold, other metals, stone, enameled bricks, fir and pine.
The first which is the house of the earth's base, the
most ancient monument of Babylon; I built and finished
it. I have highly exalted its head with bricks covered
with copper. We say for the other, that is, this edifice,
the house of the seven lights of the earth, the most
ancient monument of Borsippa. A former king built it, but
he did not complete its head. Since a remote time, people
had abandoned it, without order expressing their words.
Since that time the earthquake and the thunder had
dispersed the sun-dried clay. The bricks of the casing
had been split, and the earth of the interior had been
scattered in heaps. Merodach, the great god, excited my
mind to repair this building. I did not change the site
nor did I take away the foundation. In a fortunate month,
in an auspicious day, I undertook to build porticoes
around the crude brick masses, and the casing of burnt
bricks. I adapted the circuits, I put the inscription of
my name in the Kitir of the portico. I set my hand to
finish it. And to exalt its head. As it had been in
ancient days, so I exalted its summit."
In Histori Romani
Scriptorium Justin states, "Ninus ( Nimrod ) strengthened
the greatness of his acquired dominion by continued
possession. Having subdued, therefore, his neighbors,
when, by an accession of forces, being still further
strengthened, he went forth against other tribes, and
every new victory paved the way for another, he subdued
all the peoples of the east."
The
Woman sitting upon the Beast in Revelation
And upon her
forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE
EARTH.
The picture on the EU symbol is that of the Goddess
Europa, who according to Greek mythology, rode on the
back of a bull.( actually Zeus in disguise ).... But what
has this got to do with Bible prophecy?
This is how the Apostle John describes the identity of
the Beast, the last world empire
in...Revelation 17:
[1] And there came one of the seven angels
which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying
unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment
of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
[2] With whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth
have been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication.
On the back of the EU
postage stamp above and the Greek Euro, we have exactly
the same image as the Apostle John describes below. A
woman, arrayed in purple and scarlet, sitting on a beast,
with a cup in her hand. This reveals the identity of the
woman and the beast she rides as the EU, The Revived
Roman Empire
[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven
heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones
and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
[5] And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Papal coin from Leo XII with the
legend around the woman, "Sedet super universum," "The
whole world is her seat."
Babylon is a
literal city. There is also a second Babylon called
Mystery (religious) Babylon (Revelation 17:5) a cult
started by Nimrod and his queen, Semiramis. The Babylon
Kings, who were descended from Nimrod, served as both
king and priest of the Babylonian Mystery religion. They
ruled upon the throne (seat) of Nimrod the grand
distinguishing feature of the ancient Babylonian system
was the Chaldean "MYSTERIES," that formed so essential a
part of that system. The Chaldean Mysteries can be traced
up to the days of Semiramis the wife of Nimrod, who lived
only a few centuries after the flood, and who is known to
have impressed upon them the image of her own depraved
and polluted mind. The cup of Semiramis, which fell into
the hands of the victorious Cyrus. Its gigantic
proportions must have made it famous among the
Babylonians and the nations. It weighed fifteen
talents,... PLINII, Hist. Nat.
THE FATE OF THE
WOMAN AND THE BEAST
[6] And I saw the woman drunken with the
blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of
Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great
admiration.
[7] And the angel said unto me, Wherefore
didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the
woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
seven heads and ten horns.
[8] The beast that thou sawest was, and is
not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go
into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall
wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life
from the foundation of the world, when they behold the
beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
[9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the
woman sitteth.
[10] And there are seven kings: five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and
when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
[11] And the beast that was, and is not, even
he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into
perdition.
[12] And the ten horns which thou sawest
are ten kings,
which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power
as kings one hour with the beast.
10 Nations of WEU:Belgium, France, Germany, Greece,
Italy, Luxemburg The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United
Kingdom
( Dec. 10, 2004 - There are now 28 member states in
the European Union (EU), but there are still only 10 in
the Western European Union. They are the first ten of the
member states and the most powerful ones as well. The WEU
is a ten-nation core of powerful European states in
charge of maintaining Europe's military security. It
controls NATO, the world's most powerful military
alliance and it insists on retaining a separate identity
to keep its voice from being diluted by that of the
greater EU. .... In the light of Biblical prophecy that
the final world government would begin with "ten kings,"
this is a most interesting fact. ....Source:Jack Kinsella
- Omega Letter..)
[13] These have one mind, and shall give their
power and strength unto the beast.
[14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and
the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords,
and King of kings: and they that are with him are called,
and chosen, and faithful.
[15] And he saith unto me, The waters which
thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and
multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
[16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon
the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her
desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her
with fire.
[17] For God hath put in their hearts to
fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom
unto the beast, until the words of God shall be
fulfilled.
[18] And the woman which thou sawest is that
great city, which reigneth over the kings of the
earth.
Riding on a sea of peoples .....
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where
the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues.
This last world empire will be a multi-lingual
confederacy. No other regional bloc has more diverse
languages and cultures than that of Europe. Even the
European Parliament building was designed to look like
a modern day tower of Babel, (as seen below) where
God previously confounded the languages of all men back
in Genesis 11:9.
The Holy Spirit adds further emphasis on the blood,
revealing that it is also a picture of how the woman has
martyred the true saints of God, so much so that she is
now become drunk on their blood. One of the bloodiest
times in the Roman Empire was during the time the book of
Revelation was written, when millions of Christians were
killed for entertainment, and sent into the catacombs of
Rome with conditions so dank, life expectancy was only
around six months..... The image is full of Babylonian
symbolism. The woman represents Semiramis, the ancient
Babylonian Madonna. The rays emanating from her head
represent Nimrod, whom the ancient Babylonians believed
died, and was transformed into the Sun. Babylonians
believed Semiramis was conceived by the Sun, and gave
birth to Tamuz, a reincarnation of Nimrod.
Europa is a great city that rules over kings ....
Revelation 17:18
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which
reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Rome has literally ruled over kings for centuries (
William the Conqueror, the Spanish inquisition, the
Huguenots, etc), and still desires today to maintain her
Holy Roman Empire.
The
Mark of the Beast
"And the
third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If
any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall
drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and
he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the
Lamb:" -Revelation 14:9-10
The
United States Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday
that Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach,
Fla., could market the VeriChip, an implantable
computer chip about the size of a grain of rice, for
medical purposes..... With the pinch of a syringe, the
microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that
takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches.
Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code
that releases patient-specific information when a scanner
passes over it. .... Microchips
have already been implanted in 1 million pets. But the
chip's possible dual use for tracking people's movements
has raised alarm.
MEXICO
CITY, MEXICO - Security for Mexico's attorney general and
at least 160 people in his office have been implanted
with microchips that get them access to secure areas of
their headquarters. Mexico's top federal prosecutors
began receiving chip implants in their arms in November
in order to get access to restricted areas inside the
attorney general's headquarters, said Antonio Aceves,
general director of Solusat, the company that distributes
the microchips in Mexico.
At a
global security conference held on November 21, 2003, in
Paris, an American company, Applied Digital
Solutions, announced a new syringe-injectable
microchip "VeriPay" implant for humans, designed to be
used as a fraud-proof payment method for cash and
credit-card transactions. The chip implant is being
presented as an advance over credit cards and smart
cards, which are subject to theft, resulting in identity
fraud. ... Cashless payment systems are now part of a
larger technology development subset: government
identification experiments that seek to combine cashless
payment applications with national ID information on
media (such as a "smart" card), which contain a whole
host of government, personal, employment and commercial
data and applications on a single, contactless RFID
chip. "We are the only ones out there offering
implantable ID technology," said Silverman, who announced
the "VeriPay" service during a speech at ID World 2003 in
Paris. "We believe the market will evolve to use our
product."
Nimrod invents
banking
Banking was developed in
Babylon. Once relative values were placed on commodities
(like cattle, grains or craft), silver and gold became
accepted as a store of values and convenient means of
exchange. In order to guarantee the safety of their
wealth, Nimrod, the priest-king, offered the temple
vaults and protection of the gods as security for the
treasure of his citizens. Observing that the bulk of
deposits remained in the vaults at any one time, he
developed the lucrative concept of fractional reserve
banking.
This device was the key
to unparalleled prosperity and unbounded influence.
Nimrod explained and franchised his scheme to certain
trusted commoners who were licensed to take deposits and
lend gold from the temple vaults at 20% interest.
Nimrod's next innovation was to issue clay tablet
receipts in the value of the gold, and sealed with the
high priest's signet as legal tender. A precursor of
today's paper money. Safer and easier to carry than
bullion, it quickly gained acceptance.
Josephus
(Ant. Jud.) says: "2. Now it was Nimrod who excited them
to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the
grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of
great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe
it to God, as if it was through his means they were
happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which
procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the
government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning
men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a
constant dependence on his power. He also said he would
be revenged on God, if God should have a mind to drown
the world again; for that he would build a tower too high
for the waters to be able to reach! and that he would
avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers
!
3. Now the multitude were
very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to
esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they
built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in
any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of
the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high,
sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it
was so great, and it was so strongly built of burnt
brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen,
that it might not be liable to admit water."
Following the death of Nimrod, his heathen form of
worship was continued by his wife, Queen Semiramis. She
claimed that her husband had become the Sun god, and was
to be worshipped. Queen Semiramis conceived through
adultery and gave birth to an illegitimate son whom she
named Tammuz and declared that he was actually Nimrod
reborn, and that he had been supernaturally conceived by
the Sun God and declared herself the Queen of Heaven.
Israel, when it fell into apostasy, worshipped Ashteroth,
who was also known to the Jews as the "Queen of Heaven",
the title first used of Semiramis. Jeremiah 44:17-19 She
is symbolically called Jezebel in the letters to the
seven churches.
In 2150 B.C. Queen
Semiramis built a tunnel below the Euphrates River
linking the royal palace of Babylon with the Temple of
Jupiter. In his deified form, Nimrod the Sun god is known
as Baal. Semiramis, as the female divinity, would be
called Baalti.
This area, in which we are now fighting a military
battle, is God's land and where He began MANKIND. Its
original people, from whom Abraham was called were
descendants of Shem, Noah's son. The Garden of
Eden was located near the junction of four rivers
--the Pishon, the Gihon, the Hiddekel, and the Euphrates.
These were real rivers which existed before Noah's flood.
The now-dry Wadi al Batin was the Pishon River, the Gihon
was the Karun River, and the Hiddekel (Tigris) and
Euphrates Rivers flowed in approximately the same course
as they occupy today in Modern Day Iraq.
The Tower of Babel
was built in the city of Babylon, Capitol of the ancient
Babylonian Empire one hour south of Baghdad in Iraq. ...
Genesis 11:4 Let's build a great city with a tower that
reaches to the skies--a monument to our greatness! This
will bring us together and keep us from scattering all
over the world."
Abraham was from
Ur, which is in the south of Iraq. ... Nehemiah 9:7 "You
are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him from Ur
of the Chaldeans and renamed him Abraham.
Isaac's wife
Rebekah was from Iraq ( Mesopotamia ) ... Genesis
24:4 He traveled to Aram-naharaim and went to the village
where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.
Jacob met Rachel
in Haran which is in the southern part of Iraq. ...
Genesis 29:4 Jacob went over to the shepherds and asked
them, "Where do you live?" "At Haran," they
said.
Jonah preached in
Nineveh, which is the current city of Mosul in Iraq.
... Jonah 3:1-2 Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second
time: "Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and
deliver the message of judgment I have given
you."
Daniel was in the
lion's den in Al Hillah in Iraq ... Daniel 6:19-22
Very early the next morning, the king hurried out to the
lions' den. When he got there, he called out in anguish,
"Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God, whom
you worship continually, able to rescue you from the
lions?" Daniel answered, "Long live the king! My God sent
his angel to shut the lions' mouths so that they would
not hurt me, for I have been found innocent in his sight.
And I have not wronged you, Your Majesty."
Ezekiel was the
Prophet to Israel during the Babylonian Captivity. His
tomb is in Kifl, Iraq about 100 miles south of Baghdad
... Ezekiel 1:1 On July 31 of my thirtieth year while I
was with the Judean exiles beside the Kebar River in
Babylon, the heavens were opened to me, and I saw visions
of God.
The Tomb of Ezra the
Scribe is located in Southern Iraq... three hours'
journey south from Bagdad and not far from the Tigris and
is venerated equally by Jews and Arabs .
Matthew 2:1-2 Jesus was
born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign
of King Herod. About that time Wise Men from
eastern lands (Iraq or Mesopotamia) arrived in Jerusalem,
asking, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We have
seen his star as it arose, and we have come to worship
him."
