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Hello everyone and welcome to this second episode of the podcast we are calling the

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Bible Prophecy Masterclass.

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In it, we are continuing our dive into all of the Bible's prophecies as they relate

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to the end times, including the entirety of the Book of the Revelation.

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Again, this is and will always be a study rooted in a prophecy series written by Mr.

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Alvin Mitchell and Arya along with Michael.

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That's me, and or others of my colleagues on occasion will be your affable host.

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As noted in our trailers, our conviction here in the Bible Prophecy Masterclass is such

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that the road to Armageddon can be subdivided into at least three main broad categories.

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Number one, the fall of Babylon the Great, Revelation 18.

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Number two, the rise and the global dominance of the Jews in Israel, per Ezekiel 38-39,

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and Thurfor 3 God's systemic destruction of the earth, per Revelation 6-19.

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Thus, you might say that the thrust of our study will proceed according to three primary

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subcategories of this class titled as follows, all detailed in three books written by Mr.

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In

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today's discussion we will continue with introductory remarks that will lead into our

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consideration of the 18th chapter of the Book of the Revelation, which is a detailing of

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God's sore displeasure with and His holy animus toward Babylon the Great.

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With that bit of introduction behind us, let us pray that God's will be done and that

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He will bless this study.

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In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Revelation chapter 18 Babylon the Great

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Burn her with fire Death of the world's biggest loser

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I will be merciful, to whom I will be merciful?

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God.

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In my father's house, there are many dwelling places, John 14 verses 1-4.

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Oddly, the language of this segment of the Revelation suggests strongly that there will

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be practically none reserved for the inhabitants of Babylon the Great, some, yes.

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For those who obey the call to distance, and to distinguish themselves from her and her

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brand of Christianity, but not many.

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She is discarded, like a dirty, filthy, nasty white rag, a worthless, useless thing of no

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further value.

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She is proof positive that not everyone who calls Jesus Lord, will be saved, Matthew 7

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verses 21-23.

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Contrary to popular evangelical or fundamentalist thought, there is no dwelling place for her

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religious remnants, in the father's house.

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Like squeezing a camel through the eye of a needle, so is the difficulty in getting

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the wealthy, the intellectual, into the kingdom of God, Jesus said.

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Solomon was the legitimate son born to King David and Bathsheba, in an otherwise illegitimate,

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blood-soaked marriage, rooted in the shame, the sham and the sin of adultery, the illegitimate

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son was received into glory by God, at his birth i.e., per the will of God, he died while

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still a newborn.

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The well-favored son of the King after God's own heart, God's love for this legitimate

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son of the illegitimate union was supreme.

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God showered this love freely and royally, giving the new King, not only his humble request

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for wisdom so that he might rule over the people of God wisely, but God gave him great

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wealth as well.

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In spite of its otherwise happy outlook, however, there is, and was from the start, a dark side

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to this saga of Solomon.

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Not surprisingly, of course, God ultimately knew Solomon better than Solomon the wise

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man knew himself.

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The problem for this neophyte King lay not at all in that God, knowing the downside,

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failed to inform Solomon.

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Rather, this incident served to dramatize and play up the fact that this, the wisest

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man who ever lived, was yet utterly unperceptive and lacking in understanding.

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With the perceptivity and immense wisdom God imparted to him, Solomon appears to have sought

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diligently and found out profound statements of information on every subject under the

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sun.

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The one thing he did not know early in life, however, was himself.

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Speaking of the building of the temple proposed and provided for by King David, Solomon, like

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his father, appears to have never got the point.

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The temple of their, short-term, understandably short-sighted, dreams, of which they spoke,

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and for which they prepared, materially, placed in juxtaposition to the one God had in mind,

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the one at the center of the long-term promise made to David, were two entirely different

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entities.

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With regard to the ultimate of the two temples, Solomon was told, in no uncertain terms, that

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he was not going to participate, he was rejected, even while he was yet the most favored and

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most blessed of all of Judah's kings.

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He lived large, high on the hog, all per the hand of the Lord his God.

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Nonetheless, all the while, this giant among Israel's kings, with all of his wealth and

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material possessions, was being blown off by his God as a loser.

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Intellectually, he soared on eagles' wings.

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He towered over all the kings of the earth.

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Yet, the message was, he would have no part in the coming of Israel's Messiah.

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It was a very subtle forecast that overshadowed the even more grim fact that this one, most

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highly esteemed of Almighty God, would in the end be lost forever.

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Among the most successful men of any generation, Solomon is therefore the world's biggest

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loser.

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The closest he will ever get to walking on streets of gold is the great white throne,

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before which he will stand at the last judgment.

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Thus, God's communication to him might be termed, in essence, a sublime implementation

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of the height of reverse psychology.

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God chose to lavish love and affection upon one he knew would not only ultimately fail

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miserably, but do so without ever looking or turning back.

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Similarly, in a manner mindful of the plight of King Solomon, Babylon the Great has been

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served notice of her status in God's eyes she is rejected.

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Although, without controversy, she is the brainchild of Almighty God, he takes full

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responsibility for her being, all her wealth, all of her good deeds, her appearance and

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the image she portrays upon the global stage will avail her nothing in terms of deliverance,

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in light of the awesomely awful plan of God for her.

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Stuffed to the brim with wealth, overflowing with prosperity untold, strutting in the stupidity

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of her arrogance, even as she revels in grand illusions of superiority, she is to him like

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a fatted calf, built and set up only to be struck through, knocked down in humiliation

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and eternal damnation.

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In keeping with the divine formula to.extend mercy, where he sees fit while, by implication,

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withholding it as he chooses, all mercy is to be, and will be withheld from Babylon the

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Furthermore, perhaps, in strict keeping with the spirit of the biblical usage of the parable

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and the riddle, the reality is Babylon need not be confined to either a specific end-time

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city nor must she be ancient Babylon, a rock rebuilt.

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New World Order, Phase 1

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The New World Order

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It is a concept rarely spoken of in the American media and public arena.

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Nevertheless, it is one very real and very much anticipated behind the scenes much more

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so in foreign countries, it seems, than here in the US.

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On August 14, 2008, NPR radio featured a news clip from an interview it conducted with a

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woman from the breakaway region of Ossetia.

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The focus of that interview was the Russian invasion of Georgia following Georgia's attempt

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to reign in the rebel state, which sought its independence, allegedly, according to

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the Georgians, instigated by the Russians.

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The woman stated dogmatically, something to the effect, that the Georgian president Mikhail

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Sakashvili's attempt to maintain control of those states which want to separate from Georgia

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while at the same time Georgia seeks to ally itself with the West via NATO was all part

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of the New World Order, see the sidebar titled The New World Order, on page 30.

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Not long after that, someone else in the news was careful to make mention of this coming

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global state of affairs.

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Former President George Bush, Sr. was shown in online video footage speaking affectionately,

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in glowing terms, about the New World Order, http://www.youtube.com/.

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Except from the lips of media ministers and Bible prophecy sensationalists, it remains

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an idea heretofore generally unheard of in America, otherwise, see sidebar note below,

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The New World Order.

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Chapter 122-4 Babylon the Great has not received a fair amount of press in the Revelation narrative.

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As a separate, quantifiable entity, she only appears in but occupies all of the discussion

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confined to the 18th chapter, Babylon the Great in Chapter 17 is an inscription on the

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forehead of the woman in that riddle, who otherwise has no bearing on the entity in

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Chapter 18.

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Moreover, her eventual drubbing, on all fronts, holds an especially dear place in the heart,

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in the mind and in the eschatological plans of God.

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By way of review, in Chapter 17, the identity of the woman on the scarlet red beast and

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her two extreme polarities were established.

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Being bipolar, each of her split personalities was shown to be firmly, solidly rooted in

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Rome, the Eastern Empire or the Byzantine Empire, established in Constantinople, stood

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for several centuries longer than the Western Kingdom, it had no meaningful impact on what

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occurred later in the West.

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On the one hand, the first aspect of the bipolar nature of the woman was political.

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She represented ancient Rome as the capital of the Roman Empire, symbolized by the scarlet

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red beast on which she rode.

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Her commanding view from atop the seven heads of the beast, as opposed to its back, was

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emblematic of the totality of her absolute authority.

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The heads were the emperors, although they also represented hills or mountains upon which

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the woman was physically located, which further helps to establish her identity as that identity

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relates to her locality.

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It should be noted that, when this political persona of the woman fell in 476 AD, there

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was no international shedding of tears, there were no expressions of grief.

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No one missed her, as they were in the end more benefited than they were hurt.

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The then known world was delighted when the woman's political aspect was gone.

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So it was or would have been for any such kingdom which had forced itself upon another.

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Whether ancient Babylon, Greece, or Rome, no one would have wept at their collapse.

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On the other hand, that woman in chapter 17 was to survive under the sway and the control

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of a highly pious alter-ego he calls the great whore.

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As such, she represented, initially, a Roman shambles, led by the popes at the head of

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the totally apostate church at Rome, Paul's Church of the Romans, following the collapse

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of the Roman Empire.

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Each aspect of the woman's persona was, in God's economy, separate and distinct, they

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could never have coexisted peacefully the Caesars of Rome would not have tolerated the

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competitive reach of the western popes.

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When the western arm of the empire fell, the eastern emperors at Constantinople were not

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able to subdue and maintain control over the ancient city.

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Strangely, perhaps, it might rightly be argued on the other hand that they could scarcely

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have succeeded without this great whore and her crusaders.

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Furthermore, it was established that the demise of the religious great whore, on whose account

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the woman she controls has the expression Babylon the great stencil on her forehead,

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which exists to this very day, at this very hour, will be at the hands of the end-times

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beast, the eighth and final of only seven rulers, aided by his consortium of ten other

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nations, all inspired by God Almighty himself, this will occur early in his short, 3.5-year

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global reign.

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It is more the destruction of a chiefly religious institution, which doubles now as a globally

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recognized political entity.

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Since their 1929 settlement to get the pope's corrupting influence out of Italian politics,

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Vatican City has been a nation making the religious pope a political head of state as

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well.

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Nevertheless, for all that has happened, or that has been determined will happen around

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the theme of Babylon the great, the subject is far from done.

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As it was in the days of Noah.

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Life Goes On, lyrics to a popular 70s-slash-80s song.

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With the silent encroachment of God's long-awaited doomsday scenario, life for men and women

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the world over will continue as it always will have, Jesus assured his inquisitive disciples.

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Men on every continent, in every nation, in every city and countryside, will marry and

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give away their daughters, celebrate holidays eating and drinking and generally being merry,

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they will get up in the mornings so as to toil away the hours at their various jobs,

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Jesus said, just as was done in the days of Noah and of Lot, Matthew 24 verses 36-42,

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Luke 17 verses 26-27, 34-37.

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While at the same time enjoying some sense of tranquility and calm owing in part to a

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general cessation of conflict amongst the nations, Paul says of the nations including

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the Jews they will at some point sigh in relief, saying to themselves, peace and safety, at

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last, 1 Thessalonians 5 verses 2-3.

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Paul goes on to say of those end-times days that. perilous times will come, in which

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men will be lovers of themselves. blasphemers. having no natural affection. traitors. unconcerned

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about the things of God. having a form of godliness that even they won't adhere to.

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Second Timothy 3 verses 1-9.

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Both the words of Jesus and those of Paul allude to that point immediately preceding

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the outbreak of the apocalypse, in which all Christians will be snatched out of this world

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in what is commonly called the rapture in which case Christians are admonished to be

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always on guard, watching and waiting expectantly.

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Throughout what might appear to be the most tranquil of times, much in the way of sinister

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plotting will be taking place.

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It may well be assumed that the primary focus of said plotting, which will without doubt

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involve a peace deal to dampen fears, promote trust and encourage a dropping of their guard

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will be Israel, Ezekiel 38 and 39.

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The objective of what by then will amount to an extensive amount of planning and preparation

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will be to obliterate the tiny nation of Israel, once and for all, beginning the process of

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ridding the world of any reference to God.

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Standing in the way, representing a dangerous and powerful impediment to that hell-spun

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initiative will be the only ally that the apple of God's eye can count on.

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Having been thorough, having done their homework well, thus, knowing and understanding well

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that their goals represent at best a calculated risk of immense proportions, all will know

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and agree that there simply are no other options.

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That foreboding obstacle to the nation's crave for the blood of the Jew will itself pose

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a menacing threat on its own merit that must be eliminated, the consensus therefore being,

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we're damned if we attack, we're doomed and damned if we don't.

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Notwithstanding the dangers associated with what will be the most daunting of tasks indeed,

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Almighty God will ensure the success of an otherwise well-crafted, well-coordinated pre-emptive

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first strike, per Rev 18.

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At that point, with all saints out of the way, all hell will break loose, culminating

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in the fall and the eternal ruin of the most powerful nation to ever have existed.

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With all the world's major economies left in shambles, the nations will be free to turn

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their guns on the slumbering Jews.

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Meanwhile, in heaven, ecstasy will be the order of the day.

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Babylon the Great, who while masquerading as Christian, promoting her own multifaceted

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brand of pseudo-relationships with God, having lived for 450 years and living still in flagrant

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opposition to the will of God, will have been laid waste forever.

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And that, ladies and gentlemen, will conclude this edition of the Bible Prophecy Master

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Class.

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We sincerely hope that you've been blessed by this study and that you will encourage

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others to join in on future podcasts.

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As we depart, please smash that like button and make plans to join us next time for Episode

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Number 3 of Judgment Day, Volume Number 1, Prelude to Armageddon, Part 1 The United States

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of America in Bible Prophecy.

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Until next time, may God bless you.