1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 Currently, the world is said to have this unquenchable growing desire for the spillage 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,180 of the blood of all Jews. 3 00:00:08,180 --> 00:00:15,300 It has nurtured this lust for quite some time, perhaps since 1948 and or the days of Yasser 4 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:16,840 Arafat. 5 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:22,780 The Bible, the infallible word of the living God, assures us that, at some point in the 6 00:00:22,780 --> 00:00:29,300 not too distant future, on his command, a hostile, bloodthirsty consortium of nations 7 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:30,960 will do just that. 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,620 They will come literally gunning for the blood of all Jews. 9 00:00:34,620 --> 00:00:40,180 As the deck is stacked now, however, there is a major, powerful, and highly influential 10 00:00:40,180 --> 00:00:47,360 impediment to that grand initiative that must, and the Bible assures us, will be removed. 11 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,400 Informed Bible prophecy students know that this impediment cannot but be the hated and 12 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,800 despised Babylon the Great. 13 00:00:54,800 --> 00:01:01,640 Join us in this riveting study as we reveal the who of Babylon the Great, and the why, 14 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,480 driving God's unabated loathing of her and his relentless determination to see her forever 15 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,080 demolished, never to rise again. 16 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:15,760 Preface Pearl Harbor aside, 1993 was the year of the 17 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:21,720 first enemy offensive on mainland American soil, since in concession to defeat, the Red 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:28,200 Coats were driven out in 1776, or at least it was officially declared, and documented 19 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,320 that they no longer controlled the colonies. 20 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:39,800 9-11-2001 was a reminder and proof positive that it was far from the last. 21 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:45,920 Note, it has been brought to my attention that, by consequence of the War of 1812, the 22 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:51,920 British were drawn back onto American shores briefly, in which case Washington, D.C. was 23 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,440 destroyed before they left for good. 24 00:01:54,440 --> 00:02:00,260 This appears to be another one of those facts of American history that revisionists conveniently 25 00:02:00,260 --> 00:02:04,440 saw fit to leave out of school textbooks. 26 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:11,440 Military analysts and forecasters fully anticipate and warn that, whether by Al-Qaeda, Hamas, 27 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:17,920 or whomever the U.S. could be hit again, hard, sometime within the next few years. 28 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,720 Some thought as early as 9-11-2013. 29 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:29,920 Today, as of 07 or 04-2021, as the nation celebrated another 4th of July, we can all 30 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:36,640 breathe a sigh of relief given the fact that that grim prospect has yet to materialize. 31 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:42,400 Meanwhile, in answer to the expectations of those analysts and other pundits which square 32 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:48,640 with the Bible's millennium's old predictions, the grim reaper stands, his sickle ever at 33 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:50,560 the ready. 34 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:55,880 Whatever the joyous festivities surrounding this or any Independence Day celebration, 35 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:02,280 the fall of a powerful, globally recognized, in times commercial and political entity that 36 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:08,180 will be catastrophically cut down while still standing tall at the height of her glory remains 37 00:03:08,180 --> 00:03:10,840 as much imminent as it is assured. 38 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,040 The reaper's weight will not go unrequited. 39 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,240 His patience will be served its just reward. 40 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:22,800 He will have his day and his fill at the expense of that in times nation who is the center 41 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,040 of God's sore displeasure. 42 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:31,520 As with the Pharaoh and his Egyptians of old, followed by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians, 43 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:37,620 this is why this nation was raised up, an arrogant, gloating, egotistical entity that 44 00:03:37,620 --> 00:03:43,880 could and would be knocked down to the glory and satisfaction of the one who beyond question 45 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,180 orchestrated her being. 46 00:03:46,180 --> 00:03:48,560 Who could that be, you ask? 47 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:54,460 Contrary to Harold Camping and the Mayans and their calendar, the Bible purported without 48 00:03:54,460 --> 00:03:59,000 equivocation that there would be life after 2012. 49 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,600 And so it is. 50 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,240 The world did not end, but many wondered. 51 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,840 Could this be the year of the beginning of the end for the world's most powerful nation 52 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:10,440 ever? 53 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:15,040 Is America mentioned here or anywhere else in Bible prophecy? 54 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:20,860 Like Babylon the Great of the Apocalypse, none has ever enjoyed such privilege and prestige 55 00:04:20,860 --> 00:04:22,300 as she. 56 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:28,760 The melting pot shares a profile with antiquity that is exactly identical in virtually every 57 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:29,760 way. 58 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,840 Could it be, therefore, that God actually harbors a deep-seated loathing and a seething 59 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:40,880 longing that could see her calamitously emptied of all that she holds near and dear, thrown 60 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:47,840 back in time two hundred years in horrific short order, in the not-too-distant future? 61 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:50,040 Why would He, you wonder? 62 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:55,880 Furthermore, modern technology is marvelous indeed, but has it contributed sufficiently 63 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:01,840 to any nation's killing machine, so as to allow for the downing of so strong and dispersed 64 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:08,820 a nation, so formidable a force, in only sixty minutes, knowing her might and the known strategic 65 00:05:08,820 --> 00:05:12,400 distribution of that might around the world? 66 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,440 Is that rational? 67 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:20,720 After all, God's assurance is that it is the nations who, unwittingly, perhaps, will 68 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,980 do the honors of the administration of His wrath. 69 00:05:24,980 --> 00:05:27,160 The facts are startling. 70 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:32,900 By careful and thorough analysis and discussion of Chapter 18 of the Book of the Revelation 71 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:39,240 in Light of History, Current Events and Modern Technological Killing Mechanisms, this book 72 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:45,440 promises to lay out and to establish in chilling detail that the Babylon the Great portrayed 73 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:53,060 here is not an ancient entity, nor is she a future pet project of the beast, the Antichrist, 74 00:05:53,060 --> 00:06:00,740 by whom ancient Babylon is rebuilt, contrary to evangelical fundamentalist dogma, a metaphor 75 00:06:00,740 --> 00:06:07,160 and pet name to the Almighty, for an economic commercial entity bred for destruction, she 76 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,480 is per se not a city at all. 77 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:16,120 Rather, this author will show in no uncertain terms that Babylon the Great prances today, 78 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:23,720 across the world seen, unwittingly, in a virtual dance of death, like an arrogant fool, blinded 79 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:30,800 by excess, misled by her churches, used and abused by her politicians, she struts now, 80 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:37,040 at this hour, as one fattened for slaughter, overly satiated, she basks in the heat of 81 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:43,560 an inconspicuous glare from eyes that stare, continuously, from a distance. 82 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,960 They await the revelry as she is set ablaze and levelled to the ground, pummeled without 83 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:55,540 mercy by rains that drop, as if from steaming hot clouds, shot straight up from the depths 84 00:06:55,540 --> 00:06:56,640 of hell. 85 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:02,440 The technology of modern war and end-times killing machinery makes it so, products and 86 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:07,520 toys, complements of the unlocking of Pandora's box. 87 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Babylon the Great must be, and she will be humbled, by divine decree. 88 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,320 She will be eternally humiliated before the apocalypse can commence. 89 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:24,000 God assures us that He seeks glory and recognition in the eyes of men from both her ruinous collapse 90 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,720 and the triumphant rise of the Jews. 91 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:32,440 In the space of sixty minutes she will absorb an eternity of flames on her way to the lake 92 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:38,840 by way of a millennial hell so great is his hatred, so deep is his revulsion for her. 93 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:44,720 No nation is, has been or ever will be more hated than she is. 94 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:50,680 The die having been cast, the type now set, God issues a stern, searching and sweeping 95 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:58,760 warning to a symbolic seven thousand in her midst, 1 Kings 19, 13, 14, 19. 96 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:04,080 As if to a private Ryan who weighs heavily on his heart, distinguish yourselves, or you 97 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:10,680 will share in the gluttony of her ravenous, complete decimation, Rev. 184. 98 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,160 Prologue 99 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:18,520 Every waking moment three hundred million citizens of privilege face unknowingly the 100 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:24,320 grim prospect of an arrogant homeland who, at the height of her folly, in nonchalant 101 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:31,320 frolic, is subject to an everlasting oblivion through a virtually instant vaporization. 102 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:38,280 She is as much known for her power, as for her prosperity, for her prestige, as for her 103 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:39,760 privilege. 104 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,880 There is none like her now. 105 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,700 There has been none like her in the past. 106 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:47,800 There will never be another like her in the future. 107 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,000 God's will does not demand it. 108 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:55,840 The nations, per the wisdom of Henry Kissinger, are already conditioned to never allow for 109 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:57,000 it. 110 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:02,760 From her conception in antiquity, she was as real as life itself, known and confined 111 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,080 to the mind of her Creator. 112 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:10,840 Since her revelation, in the unveiling, she has long been to men a mere specter of her 113 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:12,480 current reality. 114 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:18,720 For two virtual millennia, relished from afar with only the most grievous loathing, her 115 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,520 being is confined to these last days. 116 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:27,920 Across the annals of time throughout all the history of mankind, only two entities 117 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:35,640 gracing the minds of modern men can claim her profile one on paper, the other in flesh. 118 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:41,560 The amount of attention and detail given to her much-desired downfall far surpasses that 119 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:46,360 of any other single theme in the apocalypse written by John. 120 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,960 That makes her the lead-off witness in this revelation of God's determination for the 121 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,960 close of the latter days. 122 00:09:53,960 --> 00:10:00,440 For almost 2,000 years, she has been catalogued under the pseudonym Babylon the Great. 123 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,320 Who is she in today's terms? 124 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:09,060 She is envied and hated by most, loved by some, needed by all. 125 00:10:09,060 --> 00:10:15,880 Any of her citizens making 2,000 U.S. dollars in one month make more than 75% of the world's 126 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,660 7 billion souls will earn in one year. 127 00:10:19,660 --> 00:10:25,080 This makes Babylon the Great unmatched in every way among global entities, in these 128 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,720 end times. 129 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:32,720 Nonetheless, examined from a higher point of view, rated on a higher scale, none is 130 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,320 more insufferable than she. 131 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:41,240 She is cosmopolitan, a free trader, greatest military power of all time. 132 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:47,880 No nation has ever been more blessed in virtually every sense of the word than Babylon the Great, 133 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:54,440 not even the apple of God's eye, yet from above, as she is scrutinized daily, sifted 134 00:10:54,440 --> 00:11:01,120 and weighed in the balances moment by moment, having defied even God and His will in favor 135 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,080 of her own. 136 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:08,860 One sole determination for this end times giant and envy of the other nations has been 137 00:11:08,860 --> 00:11:15,560 handwritten upon the walls of her waning hours, for impact, for a dramatic and dynamic show 138 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:17,360 of force. 139 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:23,160 As she struts, as she rattles her saber, as she flexes power-packed muscle of a military 140 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:30,240 might most uncanny, and as she gloats in Goliath overtones before the world around the globe, 141 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:36,160 wielding teeth in testament to that strength by divine decree, she must and she will be 142 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,880 obliterated in under one hour. 143 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:45,600 Although envied and despised by all, the industrialized world will not be able to continue as is without 144 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:46,600 her. 145 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:51,920 Her impact and influence upon the nations of the earth will have been unparalleled. 146 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:58,080 Her loss and downfall will spell financial ruin and economic chaos the world over. 147 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,400 To date, one and only one foot fits her profile. 148 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,680 By God's design, none can ever fill the void she will leave. 149 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:13,360 This book, Prelude to the Apocalypse, America in Bible Prophecy, begins with a thorough 150 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,320 examination of the 18th chapter of the Book of the Revelation. 151 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:23,160 To further develop, establish, and buttress the thesis of this treatise, the book is basically 152 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,840 divided into several main topics. 153 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:32,960 Revelation 18, an expository look at the 18th chapter of the Book of the Revelation, Gateway 154 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:39,320 to Hell, gets the ball rolling in terms of why the US must be destroyed. 155 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:45,080 Babylon the Great discusses and establishes the who behind the mask of Babylon the Great. 156 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:51,200 In addition to showing, as well, that the profiles of chapter 17 and chapter 18 point 157 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:57,600 to two entirely different entities, whatever the similarities in names, Babylon the Great 158 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:03,520 discusses at some length relevant history, current events, and textual perversions of 159 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:09,920 scripture widely held by white Protestant American evangelicals and fundamentalists. 160 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:15,360 These discussions all coalesce so as to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Babylon the 161 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,480 Great is not Babylon, Iraq. 162 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:24,080 The Achilles heel sheds light in the area of the horrific technology that breathes life 163 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:30,600 into a 2,000-year-old, otherwise lethargic Bible prediction, making it now an eminent 164 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,240 reality. 165 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:38,720 Trojan Horse on 5th column recognizes that in order to affect so horrendous a collapse, 166 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:44,240 some of the most advanced and technologically superior early warning systems on earth must 167 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:45,720 be compromised. 168 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:53,320 In addition, Trojan Horse, 5th column, illustrates how 9-11 demonstrated in broad daylight just 169 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:59,520 how such a breach could and doubtless will be carried out, imperiling the lives of over 170 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,120 300 million unsuspecting souls. 171 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,960 Notwithstanding her placement in the apocalyptic narrative, her fall is mandated so as to open 172 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:15,960 the gateway to the apocalypse, foreseen by John, feared now by leaders around the world. 173 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:23,800 With the U.S. occupation and engagement in Afghanistan drawing to a close as of Or 9-04-2013, 174 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:29,440 and with the administration of current President Obama fishing for excuses to stay in the Middle 175 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:36,760 East, based upon Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's alleged gassing of his civilian population, 176 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:42,400 America's God-ordained doom could be much nearer than we might ever wish to imagine. 177 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:48,200 The tension in that region raises the specter of that impending doom that much higher, thanks 178 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:53,520 to Assad's counter-threat to Israel and, by the Russia-China threat to intervene on 179 00:14:53,520 --> 00:15:00,280 behalf of Assad, should the U.S. go ahead with plans to fire missiles into Syria. 180 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:06,360 But for God's determination no one wants, nor can any side afford, a protracted war 181 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,360 with the U.S. 182 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:14,280 The chief beneficiary quite in keeping with her motto, war is good for the economy, would 183 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,240 be the melting pot. 184 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:23,320 Thus, realizing that she wants war and she needs war, like a green-eyed monster who thirsts 185 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:29,400 for blood, should a shoot-out start, once it starts, whatever is to be done to her by 186 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,280 her enemies must be done quickly. 187 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:37,080 Babylon the Great must be dispatched in short order, and that post-haste. 188 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:43,840 And, as mentioned previously in the preface, the events and tensions surrounding the Ukrainian 189 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:50,760 Crimea Peninsula just might be the trigger that fires the one nation most capable, alone, 190 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:56,960 of ushering in the Bible's long-anticipated downfall of the USA. 191 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,360 This being the case, before either the events spelled out in the Revelation or those of 192 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:09,240 the visions of the prophet Ezekiel can transpire, Babylon the Great must and will fall, well, 193 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,360 within the space of 60 minutes. 194 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:17,360 And that, my friends, will do it for this first episode of our Bible Prophecy Masterclass. 195 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:22,160 Please make plans now to join us next time for episode number two of this compelling 196 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,160 podcast. 197 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:28,280 Also, don't forget to tell others about this grand initiative. 198 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:34,580 Until next time, as we depart and you smash that like button and subscribe, may God richly 199 00:16:34,580 --> 00:16:48,280 bless you and yours.