If the trends of our present age continue, a world order dominated by socialist ideas will emerge. In time, the realignment of nations will bring about the reign of the antichrist.
I am not a prophet. I repudiate those who speak in the name of the Lord today and are constantly wrong in everything they predict. I refuse to guess or trust my own changing spirit to produce messages for God’s people.
Because you see, God has already spoken. What I will share with you from Revelation 17 and other similar chapters is God’s truth. It will happen. And if the reboot we see after fall 2020 in America continues, it may start to look like the end very soon. Pay attention to the Word of God.
Revelation 17 (NASB, 1995.)
The seventeenth chapter of Revelation has been discussed and discussed so often that men wish to ignore it today. But that is unfortunate. Revelation 17 tells us about
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the final world religion.
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the identity of Babylon.
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the identity of the antichrist.
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the ordering of world empires.
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the order of end-time events.
It’s certainly worth a little examination of Revelation 17 to enlighten us on these issues, isn’t it? Let’s try.
When the curtain rises on this chapter (17), it is clear that a setback is about to occur. Because, at the end of chapter 16, all the great cities of all the great nations have fallen. Babylon, a world empire and a world religion, has fallen. Islands and mountains no longer exist. Hailstones are falling on the inhabitants of the earth as a last blast of judgment.
John is then called by an angel who participated in that horrible scene and asks him to take a closer look at Babylon and the entity that she has come to power. before they met their cataclysmic end. Suddenly a sea of mysteries is discovered, and we do well to see what Juan saw.
After all, the Holy Spirit has told us in the first verses of the book: “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of prophecy and heed the things that are written in it” (Revelation 1: 3). So read with me, listen and pay attention.
First there is a description of a prostitute sitting on many waters. It is defined in verse 18 as “the great city that reigns over the kings of the earth.” Pretty straightforward I think. We Christians have avoided “naming names”, but is there any other great city in John’s day – “queen” is present tense – that could fit such a description, but the city of Rome?
Did not Rome do terrible damage to the Christian Church in the days of John and after? Did not pagan Rome pose many threats to the Church over the centuries? Did not pagan Rome merge with Papal Rome with the burning of the Scriptures and their translators? Didn’t Rome turn over to the fire the believers who spoke out against her in those long years that we call the Middle Ages? Dark because the Word of God was withheld from God’s people and the world?
Has all this been better explained? Why should we try to hide something that is as clear as can be here in God’s Book?
The woman sits on many waters, on many nations, but get a little closer and you will see (v. 3) that a scarlet “beast” helps her in conquering the world. An animal with seven heads. And ten horns. It will be explained to you soon, but not before the woman herself gets a close-up.
The beautiful attracts. Purple. Scarlet. The colors of royalty. Colors of bishops and cardinals of the Roman church, some have said.
Extraordinarily rich. Is there a religious power on earth more worthy of this description than the Vatican-based Roman church / state? Although listed as a religious organization, the earthly side of Vatican City is the 18th richest nation in the world, in per capita terms.
The church is rich in its art, its land, its gold, its buildings, its investments, its political connections. Every source that tries to describe rich religious institutions places Roman Catholicism at the top of the list.
He carries a cup full of things and practices that God hates, things that condemn men to eternal punishment. Jeremiah had a vision of the original city of Babylon (Jeremiah 50-51) of which John’s revelation is an echo:
“Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, intoxicating the whole earth. The nations have drunk of his wine; therefore, the nations are going mad. Suddenly, Babylon has fallen … (vs 7-8) “
And then the angel who describes it turns away from the image of a city that we thought we knew and speaks of a Babylon in the days of Jesus. This Babylon of the New Testament era is “drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses – martyrs – of Jesus.”
John is puzzled. We also. Weren’t you talking about the old city of Babylon, angel? The one who came against your people Israel? How is this woman linked to the massacre of Christians?
We keep reading.
Did I speak of the “original” Babylon? Did I give the impression that everything that is said about Babylon in the Old Testament is just that, the Old Testament?
I have become more and more convinced that there is only one Babylon, renowned and superimposed city after city, whose final manifestation is none other than the city of Rome.
Jeremiah said with John, a little later in Revelation, that Babylon will suddenly fall. But the “original” Babylon did not fall suddenly. Hundreds of years after the Medes and Persians captured her, she was alive and well, even in the time of Jesus and after.
If we look at the big picture, we could say that Babylon It has never fallen at all. She lived in Medo-Persia. In Greece. In Rome. Pagan Rome. Papal Rome. A kingdom still with us today.
For this we need Daniel’s help. Remember the statue of Nebuchadnezzar, who predicted the kingdoms of the earth after him? The statue represented Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and a confederation of ten nations leaving Rome and culminating in the coming of Christ to establish His own kingdom (Daniel 2).
If Rome was “Babylon” in the early days of the Roman Empire, why isn’t it still Babylon, now and to the end?
While the United States was fully engaged in contesting and defending a fraudulent election, on November 10 there was a meeting of the Union of the Mediterranean. Nothing sinister here. Nothing spectacular. But proof that Rome still lives, that the Roman Empire can arise at any time God sees fit. A report from the ec.europa.eu meeting:
“The UfM Trade Ministerial Conference highlighted the importance of ensuring that Mediterranean partners can take full advantage of open markets. Recently launched trade and investment initiatives supported by the EU and implemented by partner organizations: the Trade Center International, the International Labor Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – will contribute to this goal. For a total value of 11 million euros, they will strengthen the impact of trade and investment on job creation in the south of the Mediterranean and promote inclusive economic development. “
Executive Vice President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis set:
“The Mediterranean region has been known throughout history for its flourishing trade in knowledge and goods. I am pleased to see that the current pandemic did not stop this and that we agree that dynamic regional trade can play a critical role in economic recovery in the EU and the Euro-Mediterranean region in general “.
UfM General Secretary Nasser Kamel said:
“Today’s meeting demonstrates the common will of 42 countries to work together in these areas and illustrates the action-driven methodology of the UfM, which turns our political mandates into concrete initiatives through a regional multi-partner dialogue. “
Summary: A lot of money is being generated in the region. Much interdependence. Much power. Keep your eyes on this region.
Rome / Babylon stands before us. The answer to a dream of world domination, world unity. Be prepared.
