1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,640 Hello everyone, and welcome once again to the Bible Prophecy Masterclass. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:10,120 In this 20th episode in our multi-part series involving a thorough consideration of the 3 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:15,000 18th chapter of the Book of the Revelation, we are going to move, by way of a few more 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,280 introductory remarks, into what might be termed Pandora's Box, or Part 2 of the discussion 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,720 begun in Episode No. 19. 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,380 The Achilles' Heal of the USA. 7 00:00:25,380 --> 00:00:30,200 The idea espoused in this study is such that if an end-times mighty nation was raised up 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,680 by God to be the protector and guarantor of Israel's passage and preservation from its 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:39,240 Reformation as a nation to the outbreak of the events of the Apocalypse of John. 10 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,040 And, if that same powerhouse of a nation is slated by the same God who is the brain behind 11 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,840 her being has so decreed that she can and will be destroyed in relatively short order, 12 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:54,600 against all odds, then, the nations tasked with that dangerous, and perhaps, thankless, 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:01:00,960 preoccupation have, at the very least, at first glance, a virtually insurmountable problem. 14 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,080 Nonetheless, with a combined industrial might at the very least comparable to hers, all 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,200 agree, unwittingly, in full accord with the plans and will of the God they don't know, 16 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,920 that it is a task that must, can be and will be done. 17 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,960 How to Kill a Superpower. 18 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:21,280 I've got something for you, but… don't call it love. 19 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:22,280 Introduction. 20 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,000 Once the world over, do not realize that. 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,520 The same book that prophesied and promised the Assyrian and Babylonian deportations and 22 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,400 captivity, and the Roman diaspora. 23 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,960 The book that prophesies and promises the destruction of the Russo, Islamic, European 24 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:38,360 Confederacy. 25 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,440 That same book with that same assurance and certitude, guarantees a sudden, relentless, 26 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,200 thorough destruction of the greatest, mightiest and most prosperous nation of all time a nation 27 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,240 whose wealth, might and standing on the world stage and in the eyes of all who behold, make 28 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,000 it a superpower, as compared to all others. 29 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,920 They do not know this, because they do not study, nor will they submit to instruction. 30 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,880 i.e., they will not listen to the voice of the God whom they claim to love and serve. 31 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,040 While little active effort will be exhausted bringing her to repentance, the fact of her 32 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,600 prospective desolation will not come without ample warning as to her vulnerability. 33 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,560 Long though she is tied now to the world at large, at the hips of her markets on the 34 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:27,000 one hand, and her need for the lube of foreign, low-interest loans on the other, from a world 35 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,160 as deeply indebted to each other as she is to them. 36 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,960 She is neither invincible, nor is she impregnable. 37 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,240 Toward this end, her wake-up calls have been many. 38 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,880 Consider the section titled, Pandora's Box, page 170. 39 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,960 Birth of the Superpower. 40 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,120 Rise of Babylon the Great. 41 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,280 During the early days of the Church, great strides were made to restore some sense of 42 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,280 normalcy to everyday life, in a world accustomed to living that life without God. 43 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,600 God, who in past times allowed men to do as they pleased, is now calling all men to live 44 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:06,720 a life of repentance, according to Dr. Luke, in Acts 17.30. 45 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,120 The easiest, most accessible route toward that end was the slaughter of all the Christians 46 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,600 born then and who had begun to turn the world upside down, with their teaching and their 47 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,560 preaching. 48 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:23,800 Secular Rome, Revelation 16, and its Caesars, followed by the Roman Catholic Church, the 49 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:30,520 Great Horror, on the one hand, Revelation 17, under the Popes, were, essentially, the 50 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,000 undisputed masters of this trade. 51 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,800 Herein, the voice of God, and, thereby the intrusion of God into the affairs of men, 52 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,400 for the benefit of men, was, for a time, silenced. 53 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,360 People to keep the empire afloat at any level commensurate to its former glory days, Roman 54 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,640 emperors are said to have vanished behind the scenes ditching their crowns, and donning 55 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,840 miters only to re-emerge as the Popes withdrawn swords, making merchandise of the God of whom 56 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:03,320 they could not be rid, according to some, that is, like the late Jack Van Imp. 57 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:08,520 The Popes were actually, initially, the religious leaders of the Church at Rome, i.e., the 58 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:14,040 Church bishops, who were the privileged landowners, who attained political power by default. 59 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,960 That is, they were the ones to whom the people were naturally inclined to defer to for leadership, 60 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,760 in the absence of the emperors, after the empire fell. 61 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,120 They waited in bloodbaths supplied by the slit throats of believers and Jews alike who 62 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,840 would not serve God, per their apostate ritual. 63 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:36,520 In this mode, in this manner, being her religious aspect, the woman lived on. 64 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:41,800 Only a shadow of her former self, she has for centuries existed, actively nurturing, 65 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,200 occasionally stoking and stroking, primping and preening, as it were. 66 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,760 The seven-headed political remains from the ghost of her past, the powerless corpse of 67 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,720 a long dead beast. 68 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,920 A full-blown harlot now, blood soaked, and a mother to be to more to come, she has lived 69 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,360 a murderer's dream, in a true-to-lifetail of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 70 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:08,600 Thus one thousand, five hundred years of dark ages, now called the Middle Ages, the purely 71 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:14,000 religious persona of the woman on the now-long dead beast of Revelation chapter 17. 72 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,040 The great whore has come slashing, robbing and pillaging in the name of God. 73 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:25,480 During this time, none was allowed the privilege of knowing or serving God, except as she specified. 74 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,700 On her orders, anywhere within her jurisdiction, any common person was denied the privilege 75 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:34,360 of any education by which he might read the Bible for himself. 76 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:39,040 Hereby, she controlled and was allowed to stay the hands of God the Almighty. 77 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:44,240 Thus, for these reasons, as such, there were essentially no Christians between roughly 78 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:50,960 500 A.D. and the years prior to and immediately following Martin Luther's 95 theses. 79 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,040 The passing of the baton. 80 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,880 Being German and himself Catholic, his own antisemitic misgiving and prejudice against 81 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,680 Jews notwithstanding. 82 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,360 It was Martin Luther's Reformation, which would, more or less, lead to a stay of the 83 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,320 advance of the Holy Roman Empire. 84 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,600 His effort opened the doors to the education of the masses and personal Bible reading. 85 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,240 In addition, it laid the foundation for the resurrection and rebirth of the Church, so 86 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:22,200 that it could thrive once again and grow according to God's agenda, somewhat. 87 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,980 At the same time, however, Luther's work admitted or invited fresh opportunity for 88 00:06:26,980 --> 00:06:31,600 attack on the credibility of the Bible, so as to bloodlessly eradicate the reality of 89 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,440 God through education. 90 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:39,400 That is, through reason, the sciences and archaeology, enlightenment, higher criticism, 91 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,560 modernism, and technological advances which continue right up to this very hour. 92 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,360 Thus, it might rightly be argued that a lion's share of this fresh assault was carried in 93 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,240 viruses of reason spun by a series of baby harlots birthed within the loins of the Great 94 00:06:54,240 --> 00:07:00,120 Whore, which in turn in time led to the birthing of, modern, political, economical, Babylon 95 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,120 the Great. 96 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:07,200 Thus, the baton was passed on, as it were, whereby, old school, Babylonian thought and 97 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:12,400 thinking calling for brute force, backed by swords of steel, was supplanted by a relatively 98 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:17,960 novel psychological and intellectual approach to, God-containment and eradication. 99 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:24,400 Based upon the sort of reason, see sidebar below, coup d'etat, page 170. 100 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:29,020 In this new combined attack by the Great Whore and her infant harlots, God is kept always 101 00:07:29,020 --> 00:07:33,620 before the people, yet, conveniently out of reach so that they never know or serve the 102 00:07:33,620 --> 00:07:36,320 true and living God of the Bible. 103 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,100 Ironically, while little of the Bible's history and nothing of the Bible's many claims having 104 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:46,160 physics or scientific overtones could have been proved by any theologian, Christian Bible 105 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:52,160 scholars or preachers, teachers of any stripe, anywhere prior to the turn into the 20th century. 106 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,720 All of this renewed antagonism has at best backfired whatever its success is, on the 107 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,480 other hand. 108 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:04,240 Far from destroying the Bible's credibility through reason, modernism, education, etc. 109 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,720 thereby eliminating God from the equation of daily living, practically every claim has 110 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,000 been established and is now verifiable by these very disciplines whatever has not been 111 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,160 proven, will be soon. 112 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:20,520 Therefore, we conclude then that, although God was discarded as unnecessary during World 113 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:25,800 War II and declared dead in Babylon during the 60s, all the evidence in the entire world 114 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,560 shows him to be very much alive. 115 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,760 He stands ready, eager to and able to deal with those of his enemies who have sought 116 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,640 to shut him out of existence altogether, on the one hand, or to make merchandise of his 117 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,800 own name where they could not, on the other hand. 118 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:47,800 God, to many, is big business, representing an industry worth over $5 billion, today. 119 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,360 One by one, the most prominent of all these eschatological adversaries are to be brought 120 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:57,920 down to ashes and ruin most notably Babylon the Great, strongest ever, and the most prosperous 121 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,560 of them all. 122 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,480 Who is Babylon the Great? 123 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:06,800 The Bible anticipates, with virtual longing, the demise of this hated and loathsome entity 124 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,520 known to God symbolically as Babylon the Great. 125 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,720 In addition to ancient Babylon of OT Bible fame, Babylon is mentioned at least two other 126 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,600 times in Scripture. 127 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,520 Most Bible scholars and so-called prophecy experts see two. 128 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:30,100 Only one, Revelation 18, is literal, more or less, the other figurative, Revelation 17. 129 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:34,840 In that usage of the term merely describes the air, attitude or the atmosphere surrounding 130 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,960 another despicable entity, Rome, on account of the presence and influence of an apostate 131 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,440 fundamentally religious institution known to God as the Great Horror, each of which 132 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,800 are also on God's radar screen for total destruction religious and political. 133 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,560 That same entity is referred to as Babylon, on its own merit. 134 00:09:54,560 --> 00:10:00,500 Both are separate entities, each existing in its own right, yet, under the same banner. 135 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,920 Both are destined to be decimated completely annihilated per the mind and will of Almighty 136 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:06,320 God. 137 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,600 For Revelation 17, the woman and the Great Horror. 138 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:15,640 One will be destroyed during the apocalyptic period, during its latter 3.5 years before 139 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,960 the return of Israel's Messiah, in two phases. 140 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:19,960 1. 141 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,320 The Great Horror by the Beast and his Ten Nation Confederacy. 142 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,240 At the commencement of his rise and reign. 143 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,840 Revelation 17, verses 16-17. 144 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:29,840 2. 145 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,400 The Woman, the Birthplace and the Permanent Abode of the Great Horror. 146 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,680 During the demise of her political persona. 147 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,160 By the hand of God. 148 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,680 During the global earthquake. 149 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:44,440 Near the middle of the latter 3.5 years before Christ's return. 150 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,840 Revelation 16, verses 19-20. 151 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,560 The other Babylon the Great Revelation 18. 152 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,000 Will be a truly global, cosmopolitan entity indeed. 153 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,480 Immensely wealthy, far eclipsing Rome and global scope, power and influence. 154 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,360 Having many people and nations cow-toeing to her. 155 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,480 Albeit, without normal path to dominance through war and tyranny. 156 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:13,480 Furthermore, this last of the Babylon's will be wiped out first, well in advance of that 157 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:14,480 period. 158 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:19,440 Though it too is portrayed as undeniably, and unmistakably a high-profiled, internationally 159 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:24,600 recognized and respected, well-connected, very prominent, very powerful. 160 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,400 Although an entirely eschatological entity. 161 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,760 Being as well a potent player in global economics and politics. 162 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,560 There are a total of 3 figurative applications of the term Babylon in the book of the Revelation 163 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:39,200 of the Lord Jesus the Christ. 164 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,920 One simply references a specific entity by the pseudonym Babylon. 165 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:43,920 i.e. 166 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,280 The woman or Rome of Revelation Chapter 17. 167 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,680 While of the other 2 applications. 168 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:53,160 Babylon the Great refers to that same entity in a different light. 169 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:57,840 That is, the woman or Rome with the inscription written across her forehead. 170 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,640 Revelation Chapter 17. 171 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,560 Whereas the second identifies a powerful end times entity. 172 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:05,600 Revelation Chapter 18. 173 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:11,680 Of the three, each is known by its own uniquely distinct, divinely tailored profile. 174 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:15,320 These identifying characteristics reveal the following. 175 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,160 One of those can only be Rome as representative of all of Italy. 176 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:23,420 Thus it is a political establishment and will be destroyed last. 177 00:12:23,420 --> 00:12:25,040 Revelation Chapter 16. 178 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:30,200 So rated and named because of Vatican City, Seat of the Great Horror, Revelation Chapter 179 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,200 17. 180 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,440 Which, of itself represents both a primarily religious institution. 181 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,800 Which is also an internationally recognized political institution. 182 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,000 It is this primarily religious aspect of Babylon. 183 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,560 To be wiped out first. 184 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:49,520 She is recognized all over the world as an independent nation smallest in the world. 185 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:55,000 Occupying all of 108.7 acres as it sits well within the confines of the city of Rome itself. 186 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:01,520 From there she, through her Pope, exerts religious authority and control over more than 1 billion 187 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:07,160 souls as she jealously seeks ways to curtail Protestant activities within any domain under 188 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,160 her jurisdiction. 189 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:14,200 At the same time, this great whore through this same pontiff, rubs shoulders on the secular 190 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,960 stage with world leaders as a political force. 191 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:22,280 The Vatican is the seat of the great whore and it is on her account that Rome has stenciled 192 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,800 across her forehead the expression, mystery. 193 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:26,800 Babylon the Great. 194 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,240 Revelation Chapter 17. 195 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,120 Not to be confused with Babylon the Great. 196 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,760 Revelation Chapter 18. 197 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:39,200 Lastly, that Babylon the Great whose destruction will be celebrated throughout the heavens 198 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,280 will actually be the first to be destroyed. 199 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,840 This is the one portrayed in Chapter 18 of the book of the Revelation. 200 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:51,000 The particulars surrounding the identity of Babylon the Great infer that she is someone 201 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,600 unique among all of history's global powers. 202 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,680 These reveal the following about her. 203 00:13:56,680 --> 00:14:00,560 It is here that any possibility of confusing her with the woman. 204 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:03,360 Revelation Chapter 17 is precluded. 205 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:04,920 1. 206 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:10,320 Religion is an integral part of her makeup as evinced by God's use of the term fornication. 207 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,280 Its use is not arbitrary. 208 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:17,360 An OT metaphorical concept used of God to describe Israel's infidelity as she, as a 209 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:22,600 nation, chose to prostrate herself to other kings of the earth, their religions and false 210 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:23,760 gods. 211 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:28,880 It is used here to signify, similarly, that Babylon has a reputation as one who should 212 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,720 have had a positive relationship with him, but has irreparably tarnished that relationship. 213 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:39,560 Moreover, that she has, fornicated, seems to infer that he, as with Israel, takes full 214 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,160 responsibility for her existence. 215 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:43,280 2. 216 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:48,960 She is rich and fabulously wealthy, and, as such, she is equally conceited, haughty, 217 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:54,120 vain, glorious, self-satisfied, not to mention, egotistical. 218 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,120 3. 219 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,280 The souls of men adorn her treasures. 220 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:03,200 No doubt a reference in these times not just to slavery, which still exists today, and 221 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,840 people smuggling for prostitution and cheap labor, but to the millions upon millions of 222 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,120 unborn babies killed annually. 223 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:16,280 All around the world, as well as in Babylon, to promote sexual pleasure without responsibility 224 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:22,160 for cosmetics by which women beautify themselves at the expense of human life and to fuel farms 225 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,080 of stem cells to give life to those who refuse to die. 226 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,200 Her wealth and merchandise stems from free trade with the nations of the world so that 227 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,680 many merchants around the globe have grown immensely wealthy, amassing great fortunes 228 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:40,200 but, to a very large, very real degree, are hopelessly dependent upon her, so that men 229 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:45,680 of the world virtually bow to her, not to God, without her, they know that they cannot, 230 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:51,520 corporately or individually produce and maintain prosperously the same level of goods and services. 231 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,720 Her relationship with her trading partners is in stark contrast to kingdoms as late as 232 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:57,400 the British Empire. 233 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,200 Consider Hitler and Japan during World War II. 234 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:05,000 The Saddam Hussein incursion into Kuwait during the early 90s, which always sought only to 235 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,520 enrich themselves at the expense of others by war or threat of war even if it meant 236 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:14,720 bankruptcy to those subdued and subjugated, meaning, of course, that their relationship 237 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,720 was largely compulsory. 238 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:17,960 4. 239 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:19,440 She is hated of God. 240 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:24,840 Unlike as is the case involving his people the Jews, he seeks no reconciliation to her. 241 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:30,160 Rather, he issues a stern warning in recognition that he does in fact have precious soul to 242 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,440 the souls caught up in her self-delusion, enamored by her wealth, bewitched by her charm. 243 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,400 All who call themselves by the name of the only born son are to take stock of themselves 244 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:45,120 and their heading, then, separate completely, coming altogether out from her, or risk suffering 245 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,280 the same fate as she, even if they are in fact Christians. 246 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,800 5. 247 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:56,120 Whatever her greatness and power she can and will be brought down, irretrievably ruined, 248 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:01,140 while at the height of her success, even while global economics is booming, more or less, 249 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:02,800 in only one hour. 250 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:03,880 6. 251 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,380 Her collapse means shipwreck to economies all over the planet. 252 00:17:08,380 --> 00:17:13,320 What this means then is that this Babylon the Great, although definitely a solid end-times 253 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,680 entity, will never see the trials and trauma of the apocalyptic period. 254 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:23,680 No nation will survive beyond the seal judgments of the apocalypse, living high on the hog. 255 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,840 Whether the Vatican, the Great Whore, nor Rome, the woman riding the beast, who is the birthplace 256 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,920 and the location where the whore lives, will be sacked prior to the second half of the 257 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,520 so-called Great Tribulation, spanning more than seven years. 258 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:42,160 With the blood of the mentality of past kingdoms running fresh in warmongering veins to within 259 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,480 virtually fifty years of our modern backdoor. 260 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,000 What's yours is mine. 261 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,280 And as soon as I have a big enough stick, and enough bodies to sacrifice on the altar 262 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:56,600 of my greed or need, whichever is strongest, I will come, whoop your butt, and take what 263 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,140 you have for myself. 264 00:17:58,140 --> 00:18:02,360 It is not difficult to envision what an oddity this Babylon the Great is. 265 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:05,440 As a cosmopolitan, global entity. 266 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:07,880 Against the backdrop of all the rest. 267 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,540 There will never again be anything else like her. 268 00:18:10,540 --> 00:18:16,280 It might be argued that, the concept of nations trading, and flourishing economically, freely, 269 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:22,360 relatively speaking, perhaps, independently, is one foreign to the minds of many a nation, 270 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:24,160 even today. 271 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:28,280 Imagine then the difficulty for John and those living during those days when Rome dictated 272 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,520 the foreign policy of the nations under its dominion economic and political trying to 273 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,800 envision times like ours. 274 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:40,680 Thus, although her metaphorical designation specifies, city, the reference here is not 275 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,680 to a specific city at all. 276 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,680 As much as it implies a great nation. 277 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,940 Being an end times entity, where there are no single such great cities that can wield 278 00:18:49,940 --> 00:18:52,720 and boast that kind of leverage and influence. 279 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,240 There being nothing like it in the past among city, states, kingdoms or nations that leaves 280 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:02,600 only one possible foot to fit this theological imprint, as fashioned and tendered by Almighty 281 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,160 God. 282 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:09,060 Given the current global state of affairs, and, therefore the very real, high probability 283 00:19:09,060 --> 00:19:12,420 that there is not likely to ever be anything like it again. 284 00:19:12,420 --> 00:19:16,560 That nation cannot but be our very own United States of America. 285 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:22,520 Certainly, this great melting pot can and does fit the profile, in every aspect thereof, 286 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,160 to a T. 287 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,240 If this is true, then it points up another very subtle perhaps, but pungent truth. 288 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:34,240 The biggest, gravest threat facing the American public right now is neither al-Qaeda, nor 289 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,000 is it radical Islam or the Russians. 290 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,960 Rather, it is the all-powerful hand and the instigation behind these man-made dangers 291 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:47,240 we face that poses the greatest danger, that being, the sovereign Lord of all the universe 292 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:54,760 himself, Elohim Jehovah, the self-existing One, who lives eternally, in multiple persons. 293 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:00,280 The man-made evils present are merely tools in his hands, options, a means to the accomplishment 294 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,840 of a predetermined end, while at the same time being indelible proof that validates 295 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,560 and establishes the credibility of his word the Bible. 296 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:13,280 He has foretold and thereby given plenty of advance warning of his plans to cut things 297 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,460 short, in short order. 298 00:20:15,460 --> 00:20:20,480 At this moment, all the pieces rest dangerously in place to do just that. 299 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:21,980 Pandora's Box. 300 00:20:21,980 --> 00:20:24,080 How to Kill the Superpower. 301 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:29,020 In light of today's awe-inspiring wartime killing technologies, it only seems logical 302 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:33,160 and reasonable to interpret the one-hour time frame within which the greatest man-made 303 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:38,360 political, economic, and military force man has ever known is projected to collapse, as 304 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:40,680 a literal possibility. 305 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,920 One said, it seems rational enough, but is it? 306 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,800 If indeed the US is in God's economy the only possible shoe that fits the foot of Babylon 307 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,480 the Great, as it most assuredly appears to be, is it really sensible to believe that 308 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:59,000 even God can bring down so great, so awesome a world force and military power, so widely 309 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,160 disbursed a people as we, in only one hour? 310 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,760 I mean, us the United States of America. 311 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,160 How utterly absurd. 312 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:12,400 Right, after all, are we not a Christian nation and people, in God's eyes to say nothing 313 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,000 of our own? 314 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,360 Granted, many awesome weapons of mass destruction have surfaced since the turn of the 20th century 315 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:25,520 the most horrifying, for even an industrious power like the US, being the hydrogen atomic, 316 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,800 nuclear bombs, and nuclear-tipped ICBMs. 317 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,880 More horrific than this weapon itself is the fact that they are becoming ever more accessible 318 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:39,540 to unstable, hostile, concerns with their eye on America, and that, not for good. 319 00:21:39,540 --> 00:21:44,440 And yet, there is a greater, more alarming evil than either of these lurking in the wings, 320 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,320 as we shall see. 321 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:51,160 One or several nuclear bursts within the shores of the contiguous states can do a lot of damage, 322 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,720 but, would that be enough to bring down such an institution? 323 00:21:54,720 --> 00:22:00,560 As will be shown by the section on Operation Abel Archer, page 170, in light of their understanding 324 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:05,640 of how the US would most likely launch a pre-emptive first strike against them, the Russians have 325 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,560 no intention of ever attempting such a feat with only a handful of their 6,000 or so nuke 326 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,240 warheads. 327 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:17,080 How many would it take, and as a conventional nuclear offensive even likely, given the high 328 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,480 probability of mutually assured destruction, in retaliation? 329 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,600 Again, for a chilling perspective of what will likely transpire in the future, based 330 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:31,760 upon what almost happened in the past, fast forward to the Abel Archer article. 331 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:37,440 Also, remember that by God's design, Babylon is to be sacked while relatively strong, and 332 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,640 the going for her and the world around her is reasonably good, not while she is weak 333 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,440 and vulnerable to the point of being powerless. 334 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:49,640 But, one may well be wondering, is it not always possible, that an enemy force from 335 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:54,840 offshore could, at some point, invade the land to take it by force? 336 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:59,480 And, of course, one cannot but respond with a resounding, yes. 337 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,760 Highly unlikely though that may be. 338 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:06,800 After all, whatever its faults and weakness, it is still no less the most powerful nation 339 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:07,800 on the planet. 340 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:14,560 So, if a nuke attack within the confines of its normal usage is unseemly, so is this. 341 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:19,960 Without doubt, God himself could do the unthinkable, directly and virtually without effort. 342 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:25,280 But, is that his preferred method? Although he places himself squarely at the helm, the 343 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:30,240 unseen hand guiding and delivering the judgment which will eventually grip her loins, dragging 344 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:36,560 her without a fight pearls, pedestal, prowess and power down into the dusts, sands and ashes 345 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:41,400 of an everlasting destruction, the evidence suggests otherwise. 346 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,480 The ultimate cause will be God. 347 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,120 The immediate cause will be the nations. 348 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:53,120 Furthermore, together with today's WMD, 1.3 billion Muslims worldwide, makes for interesting 349 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,360 and troublesome possibilities. 350 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:59,960 Too many of whom are willing to kill themselves, killing Americans for the prize of celestial 351 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:02,720 sex with 10 virgins. 352 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:09,360 Whether Taliban or al-Qaeda, Hamas or Fata, Shia or Sunni, hostile, terrorist sleeper cell 353 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:14,560 groups among 12 million undocumented aliens scattered throughout the nation today, along 354 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,920 with growing international dissatisfaction with and resentment toward this country only 355 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,920 adds to the fires of an already worrisome situation. 356 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,760 That brings us full circle, back to the original concern. 357 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:32,080 What is likely to be the vehicle the mechanical element that God uses to accomplish so dreadful, 358 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:38,440 so terrifying a deed? In only one hour if not his own hand? Consider the sidebar below. 359 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:44,440 Wake up calls to all of America and to its American churches, page 171. 360 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:49,480 Good way to hell. The threat. Pandora's box is a mythological figment of ancient 361 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:55,600 Grecian thought. Herein, as Greek legend would have it, the God Zeus, in anger, commissioned 362 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,200 the creation of the first woman, who when given a box, was told that she was never to 363 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,760 open it. 364 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:06,800 When placed within a world of men, who had lived happily until she came, curiosity got 365 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,480 the best of her, so that the world of men was never the same again. 366 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:16,280 Upon opening that box, she and her disobedience inadvertently released all of the troubles 367 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,560 faced by mankind. 368 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:23,720 In some sense, the technological advances upon which modern American society is built, 369 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,960 is on the verge of proving itself to be at once a Pandora's box and the Achilles' heel 370 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,520 of the only way of life the Americans know. 371 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,560 Everyone remembers Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the World War II horror stories behind them 372 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,760 each developed and delivered personally by American hands. 373 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,960 We know, as well, the inevitable threat that now by consequence never slumbers, resting 374 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,760 peacefully perhaps, but no less menacingly. 375 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:54,920 In silence, it daily greets our every waking moment. It is a threat that has been held in 376 00:25:54,920 --> 00:26:00,360 check over the years only by jointly held pledges of mutually assured destruction. 377 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:05,680 Today, one of those original players, being seriously weakened, does nothing to lessen 378 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,400 that threat. 379 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:12,480 This in large part to the weaker player, more weak and unstable, trigger happy, players 380 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:18,440 now dot the global landscape. Eager for recognition and difficult or impossible to control. Fidgety 381 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,440 nullifiers of an otherwise effective deterrent to the now inevitable. 382 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:28,600 But, this is only one half of the overall threat. The threat, within a threat. Founded 383 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:34,640 perhaps squarely upon the pillars of one curious query in 1939. What's going to happen if we 384 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,920 hit this uranium atom with a neutron? Pandora's box was formally opened before the eyes of 385 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:45,120 the world in Japan almost 80 years ago, 6 August 1945. 386 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:51,160 Consequently, there is now known to have been a very real, very viable, now pliable, and 387 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,300 unimaginably potent threat, within that original threat. 388 00:26:55,300 --> 00:27:00,320 It was one neither perceived nor understood at the time, although it had been demonstrated, 389 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,160 well in advance. 390 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:07,340 With many nations wishing to see the demise of the US, none being individually, or corporately 391 00:27:07,340 --> 00:27:12,000 able to bring that to pass without enormous risk to themselves, it is within this threat 392 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,080 within the threat where lies the arrowhead or the venomous fangs now poised to pierce 393 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,720 the Achilles heel of the strongest nation on earth. 394 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,680 Does one think all this to be strange? Is it not even more bizarre, when one considers 395 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:29,600 that the nation itself, effectively, has been a leader on the road to its own desolation 396 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:34,360 that, as the country and its churches even now arrogantly deny the practicality of the 397 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:39,400 word of the very God who foretold of its brief, but calamitous day of doom? 398 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,880 The blueprint for her desolation will be one for which she was the principal architect, 399 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,880 having laid the original groundwork. 400 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:52,280 Alright, ladies and gentlemen, this ends another edition of the Bible Prophecy Masterclass. 401 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,880 Prayerfully, you have been and are being blessed by these highly informative studies, and, 402 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,640 we hope that you will tell others about them so that they too can be blessed and prepared 403 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:06,180 to warn the lost, as they contribute to the winning of many souls to a saving knowledge 404 00:28:06,180 --> 00:28:09,240 of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 405 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,560 We hope also that you will plan to be with us next time for episode number 21 of this 406 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,520 podcast. 407 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:28,560 Until then, may the good Lord bless and keep you.