Creation And The Second Coming Of Christ - Lesson 3

Back to Babel
Next to Jerusalem, Babylon is the most frequently recorded city in the Bible, beginning at Babel.
Jerusalem, the Holy City, is where the redeemed will dwell forever, to be made new.

Babylon is the opposite: "the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." (Revelation 17:5.) After the fall of the Babylonian empire, the city was destroyed but has been inhabited to some extent and was in reconstruction under Saddam Hussein. In Revelation, John is shown the city: "that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth"... "clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones and pearls." Revelation 17:18; 18:16. But it will be destroyed utterly by fire, and shall be found no more at all.

Hussein's plans were to restore the symbol of the Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnez'zar. His ultimate dream was to unite all Arabs under himself as the new Emperor of the entire Muslim world. None of his plans were successful. Babylon is still there, 55 miles south of Baghdad, and substantially complete.

After the destruction of the Russian and Moslem states coalition against Israel, there will be a power vacuum in the Middle East. Oil will still be immensely valuable to developed nations. Western Europe (the E.U.) is the predicted power bloc. Some have called it the Revived Roman Empire. All western nations have a Roman style legal system, some form of representative democracy, military, and governmental institutions. This has been extended to the colonies of those nations such as Australia and America.

The implication is that the Antichrist will become leader of the configuration of nations and appropriate the rebuilt city of Babylon for his capital. This is the central location of the global empire he assumes control over: finance, transportation, communication, and political power. This would be the predicted "one world government". This will last for 3 and 1/2 years. Any needed construction can be done quickly, and set up to be the center of wealth, commerce, power, propaganda, ungodliness, and immorality.

The Beast (named in Daniel and Revelation) that man of sin... The son of perdition, may be alive today, waiting for the proper time. He will be possessed by satan to rule this totally materialistic and ungodly empire.

The new age movement is part of this. It includes belief in evolution and a utopian "one world government", as well as occult religion and philosophy. It is all based on evolutionary humanism. This movement teaches people to become one with universal consciousness, to be as gods, deciders of their own destinies, to believe in evolved humanity. It will also lead people to follow the charismatic leader of the world - the Anti-Christ who would lead the world into one world utopian global government and religion.