1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 Side note number 1. The New World Order. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:09,880 Actually, as of today, March 17, 09, a number of months after the initial pinning of this 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:15,340 section, new information spurred by Jack and Roxella Van Imp, on their Jack Van Imp Presents 4 00:00:15,340 --> 00:00:20,820 TV program, shows that this idea of a New World Order is anything but dead in America's 5 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:26,000 upper-echelon political circles, don't typically put a lot of faith in their ministry nowadays, 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,760 but, like all charlatans, they do manage to get some things right, once in a while. Consider 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,920 also a Hal Lindsey report aired later in April of 2009. 8 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,940 Lindsey's report affirms the existence and determination among the world's richest 9 00:00:40,940 --> 00:00:45,920 including Rockefeller, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey to play God in the establishment of 10 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,880 population control measures designed to facilitate a New World Order. 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,640 By implementation of said, control measures, these people would effectively decide who 12 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:02,400 lives and who must die. In short, they would instigate, authorize and supervise the systematic, 13 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:07,400 otherwise indiscriminate killing of a substantial portion of the global population, no doubt 14 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,000 by the various means cited in Chapter 6 of this revelation. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,620 This killing would make room for those deemed worthy of living i.e., a kind of survival 16 00:01:16,620 --> 00:01:22,200 of the fittest, via systemic and methodical, however diabolical, slaughter of those less 17 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:29,080 fortunate. Other online articles and credible documentation affirm this to be so. 18 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:34,720 In the online version of their show, the Van Imps refer to a 2008 PBS broadcast hosted 19 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,600 by Charlie Rose, in which Henry Kissinger is quoted stating that, there is a need for 20 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,120 a New World Order. Mr Kissinger was a highly visible politician, active as Secretary of 21 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,520 State during the Nixon, Carter and Ford administrations. 22 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,200 They went on to cite a quotation in which he, Kissinger, asserts that President Barack 23 00:01:54,200 --> 00:02:00,320 Obama is primed to create this New World Order, that is, President Obama knows and is apparently 24 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,520 at peace with the notion that he has been chosen, for such a time as this. 25 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,800 Roxella and Mr Van Imp went on to highlight quotations from Barack Obama's speech delivered 26 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:16,120 in Germany, which seem to suggest his vision of this New World Order, and, his complicity 27 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,760 with the idea of political, as well as economic globalization, even if it undermines American 28 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,560 individuality and sovereignty. 29 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:31,680 I am a fellow citizen of the world. In this new world, we'll have a global citizenship. 30 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:37,200 We need a globalized world. We must come together to save the planet. 31 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,360 Video footage of an interview with Mr Kissinger confirms the Van Imp claims. 32 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:48,880 At Truvio.com, a video clip records the former Secretary of State saying that, his task, 33 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:53,740 President Obama's, will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when really 34 00:02:53,740 --> 00:02:55,520 a new world can be created. 35 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,080 It's a great opportunity, he concluded. 36 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,800 $64,000 question, why America? 37 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:08,080 Why not chart a new course for the rest of the world, since they, corporately or individually, 38 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,840 cannot seem to get their act together, so as to bring themselves up socially, economically 39 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:17,200 or politically, to a level commensurate with that of America? 40 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:22,240 Just what precisely does Mr Kissinger have in mind here? How does President Obama interpret 41 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,000 his language? 42 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Mr Kissinger's, new world, is not one to be crafted around ideals and principles that 43 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,520 contribute to or that allow for the creation of an America-like world. 44 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:39,640 Rather, Barack Obama, in Kissinger's ideology, is tasked with the responsibility of overseeing 45 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,760 development of, an overall strategy for America. 46 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,200 That eliminates her from the new world equation altogether recognizing that no one in his 47 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:53,720 right mind is likely to believe that a democratic, free-wheeling, free-thinking people, the most 48 00:03:53,720 --> 00:04:00,400 powerful ever, in the history of all of civilization, numbering presently only 5% of a global population 49 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:06,280 of 7 billion-plus, is likely to roll over and simply die to its independence, or, stay 50 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,360 down willingly, should she somehow succumb to the Obama-Kissinger vision and interpretation 51 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,000 of globalization. 52 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:19,400 Remember, 95% of the world currently, and, 100% of the world before the Declaration of 53 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:24,560 Independence, has never known a true democracy, American style. 54 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,960 That is, or at least that appears to be, the world into which our President, Performer 55 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,680 Secretary of State Kissinger, is to lead the way a totalitarian global society swept clean 56 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:40,040 and free of the germ of democratic free-thinkers, on an individual or state level, see Gateway 57 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:46,640 to Hell, page 45-61, to gain a better perspective in terms of why. 58 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,800 On an even less positive note, which could help to explain the future and fate of the 59 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,280 United States of America, journalist? 60 00:04:54,280 --> 00:05:01,360 Eric Wahlberg quotes, the Independent, 01, 2009, which cites Mr. Kissinger gloating over 61 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,640 what he sees as a, unique opportunity for creative diplomacy. 62 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:12,920 The Wahlberg article was titled, Henry Kissinger's Choice to the World, New World Order or, Chaos. 63 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:17,880 Such reasoning, Mr. Kissinger admits, will strike, a major blow to the standing of the 64 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,880 United States, as each nation is encouraged to, seek to make itself independent, to the 65 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:27,800 greatest possible degree, of the conditions that produced the collapse, the collapse, 66 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,720 of course, being this present housing and banking mess, on account of which all fingers 67 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,200 point accusatorily at the United States. 68 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:42,240 The Kissinger solution, Mr. Wahlberg continues, is actually a call for, a common action, amongst 69 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:47,440 the nations, resulting in a political New World Order that would be similar to the present, 70 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,880 international economic one. 71 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:56,080 In spirit and in cooperation, the extraordinary impact of President-elect Obama on the imagination 72 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:01,320 of humanity is an important element, in the shaping of this New World Order, Mr. Kissinger 73 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,720 is said to have enthused. 74 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,440 Failure to so indulge is to invite, chaos. 75 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:12,680 Mr. Wahlberg cites as the Kissinger definition for, chaos, the democratic awakening of the 76 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:17,480 people, i.e., the cultivation of a yearning among the people of the world to think and 77 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,680 to govern themselves, American style. 78 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,840 He further concedes that free-spiriting nations, who meet in global organizations such as the 79 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:30,760 WEF and the G20, are to be seriously frowned upon. 80 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,440 It seems reasonable to assert then, based on the foregoing, that clearly no one wants 81 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,480 to see another republic, after the order of the United States. 82 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:45,080 Thus, we conclude that the collapse and destruction of Babylon the Great will be the inroad to 83 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,160 this New World Order, see chap. 84 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:49,360 6. 85 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,040 Babylon the Great must fall before the apocalypse can transpire. 86 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,520 Sidebar number 2. 87 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:57,520 Vulnerability 88 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:03,960 As of January 22, 2008, and since, Katrina, and the Gulf Coast devastation, not one day 89 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:09,060 goes by without dropping hints relative to just how vulnerable global markets and international 90 00:07:09,060 --> 00:07:14,280 economies are, how susceptible they are to any negative activity, being joined together 91 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,800 at the hip, as it were, to the most prominent of them all. 92 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,520 Someone has said that the search for cheap labor, cheap sex, and cheap crude has created 93 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:28,980 a class of deep pockets throughout Asia, etc., all of which are being courted by international 94 00:07:28,980 --> 00:07:34,360 banking concerns, especially American, trying to reposition themselves and shore up huge 95 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:39,400 losses they have sustained, self-inflicted through bad investments, having been left 96 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,960 troubled and reeling due to the sudden downturn in the American construction industry, which 97 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:50,000 is said to have been heavily invested in by foreign governments, including China and Russia. 98 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,960 As of today, March 18, 2008, while some have collapsed and or have been forced to sell 99 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:00,580 ridiculously cheap, others are dangerously close to the brink of collapse. 100 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:02,440 Sidebar number 3. 101 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,800 Uncle Sam's Poppy Farms 102 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:10,160 By its involvement in Afghanistan, the US controls the world's chief and foremost supplier 103 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,400 of illegally traded opium. 104 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,760 Taliban farmers in Helmand province maintain and manage the largest poppy farms in the 105 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,520 world. 106 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:25,000 Before the US drove them out, the Taliban, some say, had shut down opium production, 107 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,680 altogether with ever their evils and atrocities, otherwise. 108 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,600 Sidebar number 4. 109 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,600 Fault Lines of Collapse 110 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,960 Witness again the antics of the CEOs of failed, top corporations, who sought and got welfare 111 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:45,800 checks at taxpayer expense, then paid themselves, shamelessly and without flinching, $18 billion 112 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:51,500 in bonuses, sought to buy $50 million corporate jets and otherwise maintain the high, lavish 113 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:56,160 lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed, while investors and taxpayers languish in 114 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,960 uncertainty. 115 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:02,360 Consider the foolish government officials who took part in the behind-the-scenes regulations 116 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:07,160 that allowed for the rise of these robber barons, gave them taxpayer money, then failed 117 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,840 to anticipate that some sort of clearly defined oversight might be necessary to ensure how 118 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,680 they spent it. 119 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:18,360 The fools are spending it on themselves, and word is, there is no way the government can 120 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,220 get it back. 121 00:09:20,220 --> 00:09:25,960 As of January 31, 2009, apparently, not one job has been created, out of all the money 122 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,180 they have been given. 123 00:09:28,180 --> 00:09:33,160 With this kind of oversight and fiscal mismanagement at every level of government and industry, 124 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,440 the fault lines have been firmly lain. 125 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:40,200 The collapse of Babylon the Great is imminent, along precisely those lines, as they have 126 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,500 been foretold in this the apocalypse of John the Revelator. 127 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:50,280 At some point, America is bound to find that it can no longer support, nor defend itself. 128 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:56,480 That, doubtlessly, will allow foreign powers, so inclined, to levy a much-desired humbling 129 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,240 humiliation, under the cover of a wave of coordinated terror attacks by a network of 130 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:06,840 suicide bombers from sleeper cells already in place, within US borders, supplemented 131 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:12,680 and reinforced by a hemp lay-down, finalized by an all-out nuclear attack. 132 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:17,280 The pain and suffering she experiences on her way down will be equal to the extent of 133 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:22,720 her high lifestyle, heretofore in full accord with the biblical mandate. 134 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:28,240 As 9-11 so wonderfully demonstrated for all the world to see, superior defense systems 135 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,960 and all the fancy equipment and fighter aircraft in the world need not be a deterrent, when 136 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:38,560 an enemy otherwise external, yet rides a high-level Trojan horse, as it were, well within our 137 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:44,120 camp, carrying a fully concealed fifth column, behind otherwise tightly guarded gates. 138 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,240 See Trojan Horse, the enemy who mounts our gates. 139 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,040 P161-171 140 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,000 Side Bar Number 5 141 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,200 Drug Capital of the World 142 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:02,420 That is how the US is labeled, as of March 13, 09, by the government of Mexico. 143 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:07,880 Drug war violence between Mexican drug cartels has not only escalated in recent years, but 144 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:14,000 the choice and lethality of their weapons now demands law enforcement by Mexico's military. 145 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,680 It seems that the warring gangs to the south easily overwhelm local police in their border 146 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:23,180 towns' battles for control of the drug routes that service the lucrative trade this side 147 00:11:23,180 --> 00:11:25,000 of the border. 148 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,720 Making matters worse, it seems our government, the Obama administration, in a well-publicized, 149 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:36,160 undeniable blunder, is hugely responsible for increasing the supply of deadly firearms, 150 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,960 inadvertently, perhaps, with which the cartels can make life miserable now, even for the 151 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,080 Mexican army. 152 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,200 Side Bar Number 6 153 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,160 The EU No Match for the USA 154 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:53,520 The 25 or so states of Europe, which form the EU, have a power and presence otherwise 155 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,040 unattainable by any of them individually. 156 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,560 That power and presence, however, is short-circuited by verbal infighting and squabbling, which 157 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:06,640 effectively reduces the union to the level mandated by the Bible. 158 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:11,020 They are like an adhesion of iron and clay whatever strength is there, is sapped by their 159 00:12:11,020 --> 00:12:13,040 insurmountable differences. 160 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:19,760 Thus, the EU, for all it is worth, will not be able to pick up Babylon's slack. 161 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,520 Like an economic Humpty Dumpty, her fall, from the top of the wall of global opulence 162 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:29,760 onto the unyielding, super-hard, concrete floors of everlasting financial ruin, will 163 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,560 be thorough and irretrievable. 164 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:34,800 None will ever piece her back together. 165 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,120 No one will be able to take her place. 166 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,120 Side Bar Number 7 167 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:41,520 Great Babylon 168 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:46,600 Is this not Great Babylon, that I have built, to be the seat or the capital of my kingdom, 169 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,760 by the might of my power, for the honor of my majesty, or, as a testament to and an 170 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,960 exhibition of just how majestic I am? 171 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,720 Daniel Chapter 4 Verse 30 172 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,700 Coincidentally, perhaps, this is the same type of arrogant, boastful language employed 173 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:07,640 by white Americans when they gloat about, American exceptionalism. 174 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:12,440 As with Pharaoh, God gave himself full credit for the existence and ascension of the pagan 175 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,720 king of Babylonia. 176 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:19,860 He even took gentle pains to introduce himself on several occasions by interposing himself 177 00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:21,840 into the king's dreams. 178 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:26,720 There, having gotten inside Nebuchadnezzar's head, quite literally, where he could not 179 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:32,040 through the life, the ministry or the example set by the apple of his eye, sound like today's 180 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:33,440 church. 181 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:38,200 God portrayed himself as the one having ultimate authority, and a power far superior to his 182 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:44,000 or, to that of any other monarch, whatever his level of genius and ingenuity. 183 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:49,480 Where the blindness of arrogance, a haughty spirit, and a stubborn predisposition to self-exultation 184 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:55,200 persisted, the Lord humbled the great king, stripping him of his most cherished aspect, 185 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:00,960 thereby, publicly humiliating him through seven years of some form of psychosis. 186 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,920 That is, i.e., the king's insistence upon elevating himself to a status to which he 187 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:10,840 did not belong, was treated as if it were an attack upon the sovereignty of God, which 188 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:16,280 it was, given the history of that region and of Babylon, and no doubt, Nebuchadnezzar's 189 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,200 full knowledge of it. 190 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,480 To his astonishment, he was met by the true and living God on the offensive, who counter-attacked 191 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,200 by reducing a king's overrated mind to the level of an animal, locking his psyche in 192 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,640 a prison of insanity from which he could not release himself, except by turning the key 193 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:38,240 to acknowledgement professing publicly that God was ultimately responsible for his greatness. 194 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:45,160 Daniel chapter 4 verse 34, 37, 5, 18, 21. 195 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,000 Great Babylon, her Achilles heel! 196 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,760 And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall 197 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,560 be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 198 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:01,840 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 199 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:11,600 Isaiah chapter 13 verses 19 to 20, Jeremiah chapter 50 verse 39, 51, 24 to 26. 200 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:19,760 Long before Nebuchadnezzar, too, ascended the throne of his kingdom, 605 minus 561 BC equals 201 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,400 44 years. 202 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,260 Well in advance of the day he brought her to the height of her glory a day perhaps no 203 00:15:25,260 --> 00:15:30,600 one saw coming, when Babylon was just another lovely city rebuilt from ancient ruins by 204 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,680 a priestly class known as the Chaldeans God articulated the day of her doom by Isaiah 205 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:36,920 the prophet. 206 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:42,000 Nebopolasur was Nebuchadnezzar's father, and the king who led in the overthrow of Assyrian 207 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,820 rule in 626 BC. 208 00:15:45,820 --> 00:15:49,640 Years went by and nothing happened, one hundred or so. 209 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,040 Then God summoned Jeremiah to take up the call. 210 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:57,940 Years went by again, and nothing happened until just before the collapse and final deportation 211 00:15:57,940 --> 00:16:01,860 into the Babylonian captivity in 587 BC. 212 00:16:01,860 --> 00:16:06,560 It appears Daniel and company had been there since before the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's 213 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:12,240 rule, which would have been around 603 BC, approximately eighteen years. 214 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:17,200 Per divine decree, pursuant to an ego that refused to see God, beyond the crest of his 215 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:23,480 own nose, the magnificent dream of the mighty Nebuchadnezzar encompassing 196 square miles 216 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,760 of well-thought-out citadel. 217 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:30,000 With all of that splendor, with all of that enchantment and, in the bright light of all 218 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:35,160 of its power fell before the God-appointed might of the Medes and Persians. 219 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:40,480 That fateful blow was delivered in 539 BC during the early years of the reign of his 220 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:45,360 grandson, Belshazzar, his father, Nabonidus. 221 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:50,720 Irreparably crippled, the city that had stood tall and proud, seemingly invincible for roughly 222 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:57,000 70 years, hobbled almost unrecognized for centuries, almost 1000 years, until, according 223 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:03,200 to divine agenda, it was finished off, its walls toppled, in the 4th century AD by Julian 224 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,360 the Apostate. 225 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:10,120 Like Jericho, some of the most exquisitely managed prime real estate ever was never to 226 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:12,060 be revived. 227 00:17:12,060 --> 00:17:19,120 Like the titanic, 56 miles, some say 14, of impregnable wall, s, there appears to have 228 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:26,000 been several, covering an area 187 feet wide, 200 feet tall extended by towers that stood 229 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,760 an additional 100 feet above the ground, crumbled completely and hit rock bottom. 230 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:37,120 Its Achilles heel, having been breached and exploited, Cyrus, the Persian general, brought 231 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:40,480 Great Babylon to her knees, to rise no more. 232 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,480 Isaiah chapter 14. 233 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,700 Jeremiah 50 and 51. 234 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:49,500 In Defiance of God The message sent to rulers and governments 235 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:54,320 of the world, by way of God's dealings with the Pharaoh and with Nebuchadnezzar, is quite 236 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,480 simple and straightforward. 237 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:01,240 Flouting the will of God is dangerous business that could be injurious to one's well-being, 238 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,240 or even fatal. 239 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,880 So far as anyone seems to know, one of the only historical figures who has shown any 240 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:13,240 real ambition and potential for the resurrection and restoration of ancient Babylon is Alexander 241 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:14,840 the Great. 242 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:20,440 He died relatively young, in Babylon, before his vision could materialize. 243 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,840 The late Saddam Hussein of our generation went a step further, in that he was allowed 244 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,280 to actually put shoe leather to his initiative. 245 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,120 He, too, died under the load of his work in progress. 246 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:39,240 Thus, we might conclude that their defiance, like that of Nebuchadnezzar, was requited early. 247 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:44,200 As with Nimrod, whose name is said to imply that he was a rebel against the idea of submission 248 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:50,200 to the will of Almighty God, their kingdoms fell into disrepute following their deaths. 249 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:55,960 It should be noted, perhaps, that Nimrod, the great-grandson of Noah, grandson of Ham, 250 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,960 son of Cush said to be the father of all the world's black races, thus himself a black 251 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:06,480 man, was the defiant instigator who led the rebellion at Babel, Genesis chapter 10 verses 252 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:14,120 8 to 10, 11, 1 to 9, which defied God's decree to scatter and to repopulate the earth. 253 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:19,200 Being a mighty hunter before God, it is said that he was not a hunter of wild game, as 254 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:24,600 much as, he was a warrior and a conqueror who tracked down men, to bring humanity back 255 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:29,400 together, under his authority, and to keep them away from God by means of a system of 256 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,360 religion that forms the basis of many others even today, including Roman Catholicism and 257 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:38,480 its offshoots in the Anglican and in the Orthodox churches. 258 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:43,180 He is the actual founder of Babylon, which was destroyed and rebuilt several times before 259 00:19:43,180 --> 00:19:45,280 Nebuchadnezzar's day. 260 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:51,280 Thus, Babylon is a city that is, from its very foundation, by its being, nature and 261 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:57,360 ideological fabric, symbolic of, and synonymous with, defiance of and rebellion in the face 262 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,320 of Almighty God. 263 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:04,520 Moreover, it is therefore not coincidental that God chose this designation to identify 264 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:10,620 the two most prominent characters, shall we say, featured in the book of the Revelation. 265 00:20:10,620 --> 00:20:16,220 So then, two chief opponents to the will of God are dead and the city is in complete ruins, 266 00:20:16,220 --> 00:20:21,600 as prophesied, to the supreme satisfaction of God, and yet, the spirit of defiance has 267 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,400 not died in fact, far from it. 268 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,120 US State Department and the Future of Babylon Project 269 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:34,040 One might be inclined to think it highly unlikely that the EU would ever consider uniting with 270 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,700 the US in a joint venture to rebuild ancient Babylon. 271 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:42,480 Their governments are financially burdened to the limits and their banks are in as much 272 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:47,520 turmoil as are those of the US after all, they unionized in the first place so as to 273 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:53,440 compete with the Americans for a slice of the global pie of position, power and prestige. 274 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,160 This they did out of envy. 275 00:20:55,160 --> 00:21:00,400 Moreover, out of all the investment initiatives afloat, no one seems to be interested in any 276 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,600 prospect that ancient Babylon might hold at least, not on the surface, as far as the average 277 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,560 eye can see. 278 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,800 When the building craze of recent years gobbled up investment dollars from all around the 279 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:17,200 world, much if not most of it planted in US markets, not even scant thought appears to 280 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,240 have been levied toward Babylon for obvious reasons. 281 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:26,840 Regional instability being perhaps paramount, also, consider the side note above. 282 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:32,640 And yet, contrary to personal premonition, rumor has it, there is a movement afloat now, 283 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:39,460 in our day, that dares once more to openly defy the plainly stated word and will of God. 284 00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:44,520 Not inconceivably, that initiative appears to be if not rooted primarily in, certainly 285 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,220 heavily invested in by our own United States government. 286 00:21:48,220 --> 00:21:53,080 In league with the World Monuments Fund, based in New York, with, affiliates, around the 287 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:58,200 world, together, they work with Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, and have 288 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:05,480 contributed at least $700,000, all this per the June 28, 2009 edition of the US military 289 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,760 publication, Stars and Stripes. 290 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:13,700 Just as reports have it that the world's biggest company, Exxon Mobil, and other oil companies 291 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:18,900 like it, are drooling at the mouth, salivating over the thought of Babylonian oil flows and 292 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:21,400 are gearing up to go back into Iraq. 293 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:26,840 So likewise, a renewal of that anti-God vision, as some are even now proposing, could see 294 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:32,920 Babylon brought back to life as a major tourist destination on a par with the Egyptian pyramids, 295 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,520 replete with all sorts of money-making amenities. 296 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,460 Some think that, should all of this transpire, Iraq stands a good chance to become the richest 297 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:46,240 country on the planet, this due in part to a drive to shore up relations by patching 298 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:51,880 hurt feelings and mopping up bad blood, owing to damages caused at the ruins by US and coalition 299 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:52,880 troops. 300 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:58,160 US State Department involvement appears to be mainly focused on preservation, at this 301 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:03,080 time, more so than on actual rebuilding of Babylon although one need not rule out that 302 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,080 possibility. 303 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:10,080 Saddam Hussein is dead, and, for the time being at least, so is his dream of a rebuilt 304 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:11,920 Babylon. 305 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,400 Double Jeopardy? 306 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,880 If the death of Alexander the Great and the death of Saddam Hussein say anything at all 307 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:23,560 in terms of Bible prophecy, Babylon is most definitely not going to be rebuilt. 308 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,240 God will see to that. 309 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:30,880 Thus, as this narrative will establish, ancient Babylon is definitely not Babylon the Great 310 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,560 of this book of the Revelation. 311 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,320 That being so, what does that say about the future of the United States, given her evident 312 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,620 determination to get fiscally involved in a preservation initiative that she without 313 00:23:42,620 --> 00:23:47,120 doubt knows is sure to lead to an all-out drive to revive the ancient city of wonder 314 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:52,740 and splendor a city built on foundations conceived primarily for the exaltation of man, in staunch 315 00:23:52,740 --> 00:23:55,760 opposition to the sovereignty of God. 316 00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:01,120 Are we, here, faced with a clear case of double jeopardy for the only high-profiled, international 317 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:06,180 foot in history that has ever fit the profile laid out for us here by John the Revelator, 318 00:24:06,180 --> 00:24:09,000 in Revelation chapter 18? 319 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,640 This we know, the United States is a nation in great, great danger, very much so, on a 320 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,580 scale that is biblical in proportion per the mind and plan of God. 321 00:24:18,580 --> 00:24:23,320 Do we therefore need to add this act of defiance to our resume? 322 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:28,400 Could this act, in fact be the tipping point, the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's 323 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,160 back, leading to the prophesied downfall of the U.S. of A? 324 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,840 Side Bar Number 8. 325 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,040 The handwriting on the wall. 326 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:42,760 In addition, in point of fact, it is interesting that contrary to their 70s blitz mentality, 327 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,540 wherein they sought to dominate the American market by dumping or flooding it with their 328 00:24:46,540 --> 00:24:52,200 better quality, smaller, more fuel-efficient economy cars Japanese automakers and others 329 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,480 today, at December 19th 08, are making no such power grabs. 330 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,920 It appears that, some at least, if not all now realize that the collapse of an economy 331 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:07,380 comprised of only 5% of the world's population, so intricately interwoven with theirs and 332 00:25:07,380 --> 00:25:13,320 consuming in the area of 40%, almost half, of everything the world produces, would probably 333 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,120 not be in their best interests. 334 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:17,560 Others, of course, don't care. 335 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,840 At some point, all will agree with this consensus. 336 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:27,080 i.e., tanking of the American economy would spell the doom and downfall of theirs. 337 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:32,760 So likewise, OPEC oil that, until following the housing financial debacles, sold for well 338 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:39,260 over $100 a barrel, was quoted recently at around $40 per barrel, no doubt in realization 339 00:25:39,260 --> 00:25:41,200 of this same phenomenon. 340 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:46,640 8,000 toy makers in China have been forced to close shop owing to the American economic 341 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,440 downturn. 342 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,080 With the announcement recently that, giant home electronics store Circuit City is closing 343 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:58,700 its doors for good, at January 30th 09, cracks in the fault line along the foundation of 344 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:02,160 Babylon the Great keep cropping up. 345 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,120 Even if she somehow manages to pull out of this recession should God choose to allow 346 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:12,560 it clearly, the handwriting is and will remain on the walls, her future is overtly and precariously 347 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,100 in the hands of the Almighty. 348 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:19,800 The imprint for Babylon the Great is firmly etched upon the horizon, for the first time 349 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,000 in 2000 years after the unveiling of her conception. 350 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:29,180 The possibility for her reality is no longer a thing that skeptic, scoffer or critic can 351 00:26:29,180 --> 00:26:31,240 justly deny. 352 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:36,040 Long word from him, one more moment of disgust on his part at the sight of her, and, it is 353 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,200 all over. 354 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,200 Side Bar Number 9. 355 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,760 Shiite Islamic Rule 356 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,480 Iran sits in the number 2 slot for worldwide crude reserves. 357 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:52,200 However, left to its own devices, like most of the Eastern Arabic nations, Iran cannot 358 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,800 build the infrastructure needed to support the kind of economy and industry necessary 359 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,680 to meet and or sustain the level in crude exports international and domestic consumption 360 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,200 demands of her. 361 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:09,140 Therein, in exported barrels of crude oil, lies the basis of her wealth. 362 00:27:09,140 --> 00:27:14,160 Even more bizarre, Iran is anxious and eager to subdue and rule the world for Allah, by 363 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:20,280 force if need be to bring it under some form of Shiite Islamic rule known as Sharia law. 364 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:25,160 Toward that end, the nation works feverishly as it invests heavily, against international 365 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,800 concerns and appeals to the contrary, in the refinement and production of weapons-grade 366 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,200 uranium with which some fear it will make a bomb, with which it intends to hit the US 367 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:40,520 – big mistake, if it cannot amass a stockpile of around 2,000 warheads, in relatively short 368 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,160 order. 369 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,560 Those lofty and dangerous ambitions aside, Iran lacks the capacity to refine the petroleum 370 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,160 it needs to fuel its own economy, much less the war machine it will need to fight the 371 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,080 mother of all wars. 372 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,960 Thus, the prospect of ever producing a shoe size large enough to accommodate the foot 373 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,000 of the biblical mandate for a Babylon the Great is quite beyond the reach of either 374 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:25,160 Iraq or Iran, or, the combined featherweights of both.