BABYLON THE GREAT

(WHO, WHAT, WHERE IS IT TODAY)

This is so important that I hope you will look up the scriptures, & Pray about it before you throw this away-----PLEASE!!!!

The 18th Chapter of Revelation talks about the Destruction of the City, Babylon the Great. The First thing we have to understand is that it is talking not about the real city of Babylon, but a PLACE that is the End Time Incarnation of the spirit of Babylon, and not a city at all but a Nation, that has perfected the ancient mystery religion of that place, with all of its holy days under a Disguise. Also we must look close at the description of this place to see if any place we know of qualifies.

The first thing it talks about is her spiritual fornication and how she has been a world leader to bring other nations to worship strange mighty ones, and to promote Natural and Spiritual fornication. The first thing that comes to my mind is Hollywood and T.V. The United States has been that leader and still is. The next thing it talks about is how rich she is, so rich that the merchants of the whole earth can be made rich with the abundance of her delicacies, and I can think of no other place that this can be talking about than the U.S. Look at your Car or T.V. from Japan, or your shirt or skirt from China, or your socks from Mexico, or your tools from Taiwan or from Korea, or from Western Europe. They won't buy ours. Next it talks about YAHWEH's PEOPLE being in her, and that they are commanded to leave her before her destruction, which begins shortly there after. Then we see the merchants weeping because no man buys their merchandise any more. Then we see that it starts to talk about people having been made rich, that have ships in the sea, showing plainly that this place must be separated from the rest of the world by oceans, and most of the trade would be done by ships at sea. Also Revelation chapter 18 talks about the business men of the world standing afar off, showing that there is a separation again from the rest of the world. Then we see a mighty angel take up a stone like a great millstone and casting it into the sea saying, "THUS with violence shall this great city (Nation) be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all." The word THUS means it will take place in this way. First we see Smoke & Fire then violence then it disappears into the SEA.

I have often wondered how the great Anti-Messiah will come to power in the world in this day and time. We have a lesson in recent history of how Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany in the 1930's. The country was in the middle of a great depression brought on by the First World War.

And I'm sure that is what is going to be necessary again for this to happen. When people get hungry and scared they will do anything. If some one rises up and convinces them they have the answers, they will follow them anywhere.

Have you ever thought of what kind of depression this world would be in, if the United States would be destroyed all of a sudden? It would be hard to imagine. Not only would there be a world wide depression, but there would be fear that can not be imagined. People would loose the kind of security that they feel now.

I don't know if you realize it or not, but the U.S. feeds a big proportion of the world.

Not only that, but the smoke and dust in the atmosphere would be a catastrophe world wide, it would be the beginning of the End as we know it.

WHEN WILL THIS TAKE PLACE? We don't know and I'm sure no one does, but the scriptures say in Amos 3:7 "Surely YAHWEH will do nothing, but he revealth his secret unto his servants the prophets." In the late 1960's, I read about several ministers, especially on the west coast, having dreams & visions of these kind of things happening. But I think that most of them thought only of the west coast of the U.S.

I want to bring something to your mind again. The 8th. Chap. of Daniel talks about a battle between King Darius III of Media and Persia and Alexander The Great King of Grecia. This was a important battle that changed the ruling Empire of the holy land. But more important is the 2300 days (YEARS) talked about in verse 14.  I have wondered about this important transition of time. I went to an encyclopedia to look up the date of this battle, and found that it took place in 333 b.c.e. I then counted forward in time 2300 years and found it came to 1967 c.e. As you know, the Jews (Judah) who call themselves Israel took the old city of Jerusalem from the Arabs in the Six Day War, in June of 1967. Yahushua prophesied in Luke 21:24 ".....and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE!

Now, we believe that YAHWEH has a forty year transitional time, as there was before the tribes of Israel entered into the promised land and there was a forty year transition from the time of the crucifixion until the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. So it is reasonable to think there will be one now. But there is a major thing I wish to point out to the people of Babylon The Great (The United States)

LOOK AT THE 14th. CHAPTER OF REVELATION

1. The first five verses talk about 144,000 people who WERE redeemed from among men. These are not the same 144,000 that is talked about in the seventh chapter, as it plainly says they were not defiled with women (The Great Whore Church & Her Daughters). They are Virgins, and the fact that they are the FIRSTFRUITS unto Yahweh and the Lamb, prove that these would of had to come from the Early Church, because the Great Whore took a little time to get started, and have all of her OFFSPRING, who are just as bad as she is! Look at your church. See if it came out of a church, that came out of a church, that came out of the Great Whore. Well you know what I mean, you probably don't like it, but its the truth.

2. In verse 6 we see the evangel being preached through the next 2,000 years until the present time. This covers a lot of time, but this is the way Revelation is written.

3. What we need to see here is that Chapter 14 runs in order of how it has, and is, going to take place.

4. In verse 8 it talks about the destruction of Babylon the great, which I think any thinking person will see is the last day replica, The United States, which contains his chosen people.

5. Then in verse 9 it talks about the mark of the beast and many people of Yahweh being killed for not taking it. This takes place after the destruction of Babylon the Great (The United States).

6. After that, we see the coming of YAHSHUA in verse 14 - 16, when he will finish his week of ministry that is talked about in the ninth chapter of Daniel, which says, "And He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease". How? by his sacrifice of his own blood on Calvary. He preached for 3 1/2 years at that time, and He will be getting the true people of Israel ready to enter the 1,000 year Kingdom, for 3 1/2 years, while the wrath of Yahweh is being poured out on the rest of the world as we shall see.

7. In verses 17 - 20, we see the wicked of the world being put in the great winepress of the wrath of YAHWEH to destroy that part that YAHWEH has ordained to be destroyed before the entering in to the REST, that YAHWEH promised at the end of the age.

Zeceriah chapter 14 makes it plain that there will be left on this planet a remanet left of the Gentiles. Verse 16 says"....that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, YAHWEH of host and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

WHAT, KEEP A FEAST?! --------You thought they have been done away with. If you have bought that LIE, then you are in for a big surprise, and not a very joyful one at that! Now, I want to get to a very important point. Lets assume that there will be a Forty year time of transition between 1967 and the entering in of the new covenant of Hebrews 8: 7-13. Here YAHWEH says he will make a new covenant with the House of Israel (Anglo Saxons) and the House of Judah ( the Jews), and at that time All Israel will be saved (Romans 11: 25-29). That would bring us to the year 2007 c.e., but there is a three and one half year time of Jacob's Troubles here on the Earth, which could bring it back to 2004 c.e. But the point is that Revelation chapter 14 shows that before either one, Babylon The Great will be destroyed.

READ YOUR BIBLE DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE DECEIVED.

I don't want to leave you with a mistaken idea that I am trying to pass my self off as some great prophet or a prophet of any kind. I want you to look at the scriptures and see if you see the same thing that I am seeing. YAHWEH has not given me a dream or a vision or talked to me about this in anyway. And if you are like I am, when it comes to people predicting the end or the world, or great catastrophes on our nation, you will be very leary, and want to see some proof.

Here are some thoughts I have on the subject.

I'm sure that Satan would send a lot of false prophets crying wolf to throw us off the track and make us skeptical of any true prophecies that YAHWEH would let us discover in the kodesh scriptures.

Another thing is that I am talking about is straight out of the scriptures, in the book of Amos 7: 7-8 ".....behold ELOHIM stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. And YAHWEH said unto me, Amos what seest thou? And I said, "A Plumbline." Then said YAHWEH, "Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more:" I think it is obvious that this plumbline is the word of ELOHIM, because that is what we have to measure up to, if we want to be saved. Some people have asked me, what are we suppose to do, leave the country or what? I truthfully do not know. But I know one thing... YAHWEH will not let it take place with his people still here.

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Revelation chapter 12 talks about a Woman that is "clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." Here we refer to the book of Gen. 37: 9-10 where Joseph dreamed a dream about the Sun and the Moon and the eleven stars bowing down to him. His father, whose Household was Israel, said, "Do you expect me and your mother and your brothers to bow down to you." Showing that Rev. 12th chapter is about the House of true Israel. The Point I want to make here is that in the 14th verse it talks about the woman being......."Given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into her place where she is nourished for a time, and times , and half a time from the face of the serpent." Another thing to think about is in Gen. 19: 22 as the Angels were about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot was told to ..."haste thee, escape thither" (hurry and get out of here and go there) "for I can not do any thing till thou be come thither" (till you get out of here). So I think all we need to do is get our heart right with YAHWEH, keep his commandments, and try to take the word to other people, and be ready. And YAHWEH will take care of us. We don't need to worry, but we do need to get our loved ones to look at this.

In the Days of Noah I'm sure that he warned the people of what was going to happen, but all he could get saved was his own family, and a thing to think about is that YAHWEH shut the door to the Ark seven days before the first drop of rain fell. The contents of this book are so extraordinary that they can be hard to believe. To get the ideas of this book you must first really want to know the whole truth, and have an open mind. If you are looking for a reason not to believe it, you will find it. It is easy to try to want things as they have always been, without change. That is the safe way. I have to say though that things are changing, and there are new revelations about Yahweh and his people. If I may use an old saying, "Sticking your head in the sand like an Ostrich will not make it go away". The Bible is written in a manner that it requires a spiritual mind and a honest heart to rightly divide the word of YAHWEH. This was done for a purpose, so that only the people who are serious about YAHWEH will take the trouble to search it out. The Bible has many references to mysteries, parables, and riddles but people still believe that it is not necessary to really seek after the truth. I again quote the following scriptures that are but two of the many on this subject: Proverbs 25:2: "It is the glory of YAHWEH to conceal a thing but the honor of kings to search out a matter." Also see Proverbs 3:13: "Joyful is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding." The Bible was written as a mystery, and the spirit of YAHWEH must open your understanding.

It has been commonly taught in the present day churches that it is not necessary for people to know more than they have been taught by the church. It is a common belief that it is not necessary for people to search matters out for themselves. Some people think that they do not have the capability to understand or search out the Bible. The Bible says "Knock and the door shall be opened, search and ye shall find." YAHSHUA says in John 10:35 that we are to search the scriptures, and that they can not be broken. I must insert that I consider it imperative that each person find their own salvation. If you are uneducated in the word of YAHWEH, then you are an easy target for being deceived. It is very common that people are deceived by scriptures taken out of context, half truths, and faulty doctrine, that has it's basic roots in paganism. I would like to add that it is impossible to be deceived and know it. For another study on Babylon, go to...http://assemblyofyahshua.com/babylon2.htm

BUDDY ARTHUR

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