Middle Eastern language of things that will happen when Babylon is destroyed:
Revelation 18:19 (KJV)
And they CAST DUST ON THEIR HEADS, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city (Babylon), wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Isaiah 13:20 (KJV)
“It (Babylon) shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the ARABIAN PITCH TENT THERE; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.”
You have heard many times from your favorite pastor, prophecy teacher or preacher that Babylon is Rome, New York or the USA. Did you ever see Italians or Europeans casting dust on their heads when tragedy takes place? Did you ever see Arabs pitching their tents in the city of Rome in Italy?
The Babylon to be destroyed in the Bible is a Middle Eastern city inhabited by Muslim Arabs, not Rome inhabited by Catholic Italians neither New York inhabited by Americans.
Isaiah 13 & 14 and Jeremiah 50 & 51 geographically associate Babylon with the land of Chaldea (see map below).
The Bible is a Middle Eastern centric book about Middle Eatern places. We must not force our western mindset into the scriptures.
The Purpose of The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation Book: If you’ve read our book, you know that we quoted from many excellent prophecy writers who support the Middle Eastern End Time Paradigm but who disagree with us on some details in order to give the reader a broad overview of possible scenarios to take place in the Middle East in the last days. The author’s intention is not to be right about every single detail as we know we won’t be right about everything but to give the reader a general understanding of coming events. Our main intention is to shift the focus away from Europe and toward the Middle East regardless of what nation becomes the head of the last days empire of biblical prophecy. If you happen to have read our book and disagree on some details, know that this is perfectly acceptable to us and that we are on path to search for truth as God keeps opening our understanding to more details as the end approaches. We just hope that this book was worth your time and that it helped you see the Middle Eastern focus of Bible prophecy more clearly. This book is not about the author’s self promotion or the promotion of any denomination but solely of God’s prophetic Word and the soon return of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 19:10 (NKJV) 10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
The purpose of this page is to proclaim the signs of the end times. Jesus Christ and the biblical prophets gave us very specific signs to watch for and the most specific of these signs is the rise of the beast empire of the Antichrist in the Middle East. Some people have an issue with the content of this blog. This blog is designed for believers in Jesus Christ who study prophecy and seek to understand the times in which we live. It is also deigned to proclaim the message of our book entitled The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation. Jesus Christ who is the spirit of prophecy is our focus, but Jesus Christ himself made it clear that before he returns, there will be an Antichrist empire that will rise to persecute the people of God. Our goal is to warn the body of Christ by posting articles and headlines related to the signs that will precede the return of Jesus and the major sign that precedes his coming is the rise of a Middle Eastern Islamic empire which will be ruled by a Middle Eastern Islamic leader whom the bible calls the “Antichrist.”
By understanding the signs around, we understand that the Second Coming of Christ is very close and we must be ready. How will Christians be ready if they don’t know what to watch for? It is our purpose to help fellow Christians understand the signs of the end times. This is not an evangelistic blog, this is a prophecy blog aiming to reach people who are already Christians and who wish to understand end time prophecy and how current geopolitical evens in the Middle East relate to the end times.
The Sensationalist’s Prophecy Nonsense of the Year: Every few years prophecy sensationalists come up with their candidate for the Antichrist. The false European end time paradigm has led people to make all kinds crazy claims regarding who the person of the Antichrist might be. Some have in the recent past pointed to Prince Charles, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, former Secretary General of the European Union Javier Solana and former British prime minister Tony Blair. This year of 2015 is the time of US president Barack Obama and pope Francis to be on the sensationalist’s list for the Antichrist. You find countless videos on YouTube and articles online making this foolish claim. It seems that people never learn from their past mistakes.
The bible is very clear where the Antichrist comes from and leaves no room for meaningless speculations like these. The prophets always point to him as a religious, political and military leader to rise in the geographic region of ancient Assyria. Daniel calls him the “king of the north”, meaning the Assyrian territory north of Israel which encompassed the area of modern day Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and Turkey.
According to Daniel 11:37-39, he honors a god of fortresses (war, jihad) who is worshiped by the natives of that Middle Eastern territory. He is not a Roman Catholic and he is not a western atheist like Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras who is also on the Antichrist list of some sensationalists.
Seleucid empire map where the Antichrist will arise according to Daniel 11
Antichrist will be the king of the north (Assyria and remnant kingdoms) covering modern Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran.
We Could be Witnessing the Prelude to the Great Tribulation: Please take two minutes to watch this video (on the link below the article) where you will see that the Iran nuclear deal is making Iran and its Shiite allies much more powerful in the Middle East threatening Israel and Sunni nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt which will now form a Sunni bloc or coalition against the Shiite crescent of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
This is precisely the scenario we projected in chapter 9 of our book written 6 years ago in which we wrote that the modern day kings of the north and kings of the south of Daniel 11 would be a Shiite bloc north of Israel and a Sunni bloc south of Israel with the antichrist rising as the leader of the northern bloc coming to persecute and destroy Israel and Sunni nations.
We even projected that the Sunni nations in the south would look to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east for help against the Shiite coalition and this is mentioned at the end of the video. I’m not trying to sound like a prophet or smarter than anybody. Im just sounding the trumpet based on history and bible prophecy. If you’ve read our book, please read chapter 9 again and warn your friends and loved ones we might be witnessing the prelude to the tribulation. As I mentioned many times in the book, I could be wrong about some of my conclusions but so far things seem to be happening the way they were written in the book.
Did you know that the rise of Iran as a Military Power and a Radical Religious Empire was predicted in the Bible? The Emblem of Iran (Persian: نشان رسمی ایران, neshān-e rasmi-ye Irān) since the 1979 Iranian Revolution features a stylized Perso-Arabic script of the Arabic word “Allah.”
The name of Allah as depicted on the flag of Iran, the Persian bear of Bible prophecy
The logo consists of four crescents and a sword. The four crescents are meant to stand for the word Allah.
The ten horned composite beast in Revelation 13 has the feet of a bear. We know from Daniel 7 the bear historically represents Persia whose name was changed to Iran in 1935. The fourth [ten horned] composite beast in Daniel 7:7 stamps the residue (militarily destroys) with its “feet” and the feet belong to the bear (Persia-Iran) in Revelation 13:2. The beast is a religious empire since it demands worship from the inhabitants of the earth. The emblem of Iran reveals the deity (Allah) behind this religious empire to rise as a beast kingdom in the last days.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
This passage says that the beast that was, and is not (at the time John received the Revelation) returns as the eighth and is one of the seven mountains which represent seven kings/kingdoms or empires of biblical and prophetic history.
This future kingdom is mentioned by name in Revelation 14:8 and Revelation 18 and there is only one kingdom/empire whose name is directly associated with a “mountain” and Revelation 17:9-11 associates this returning kingdom with a “mountain.”
“24 And I will render unto “Babylon” and to all the inhabitants of “Chaldea” all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying MOUNTAIN (empire), saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt MOUNTAIN (empire).” (Jeremiah 51:24-25)
Here we learn that Babylon which is located in the land of “Chaldea” returns in the end times as a destroying MOUNTAIN (empire) to do evil against Zion (Jerusalem). God says that He will make Babylon a burned MOUNTAIN. This means that this future Babylonian empire will be destroyed by fire. Isn’t that what we read in Revelation 18?
Map showing Chaldea and Babylon in what is known as modern day Iraq
When we study all of Isaiah 13 & 14, Jeremiah 50 & 51 and compare them with Revelation 17 & 18, we learn that the empire that returns as the 8th is the Babylonian empire whose headquarters will be in the land of Chaldea. See how many references to the land of the “Chaldean’s” you find in these chapters. This means that the future and last empire of biblical history and prophecy will be headquartered not in Rome as most popular prophecy teachers say, nor will it be a revived Turkish Ottoman Empire. This coming last days empire is the revival of the Babylonian Empire in the land of the “Chaldeans”, modern day Iraq. Daniel 2 says that when the metal image is destroyed by the stone that comes out of heaven, the gold (Babylon) , the silver, the brass, the iron and the clay are all destroyed TOGETHER. This means that the head of gold will again be present in the last days and it will be the head of the final empire. Babylon was and will again be the head of gold.
“Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold (Babylon), broken to pieces TOGETHER (in the end times), and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.” (Daniel 2:35)
The Identity of the Religious Empire of Revelation 13 is no Longer a Mystery! It is not hard to understand what John saw in Revelation 13. What he saw was a geopolitical conglomerate of the first three kingdoms of Daniel 7. The fourth beast in Daniel 7 is the same conglomerate beast of Revelation 13. Both have 10 horns. The images below illustrate what the Beast empire of the last days geographically looks like.
The beast covers the same area of the Seleucid empire, the king of the north of Daniel 11 which returns in the end times to invade Israel and conquer Jerusalem. Daniel 11 and Revelation 13 talk about the same subject. The only difference is that Daniel 11 uses literal geographic terms whereas Revelation 13 uses apocalyptic symbolism as Daniel 7. The beast demands worship from the inhabitants of the earth and that means that the beast is a religious empire. Islam is the religion that dominates the geographic region of the beast empire. The emblem on the flag of Iran (ancient Persia, the bear) depicts the name of Allah. The identity and the geography of this religious empire is no longer a mystery.
This is another article we wrote back in 2008 in which we explain that the Babylonian empire could be the head of the beast that is healed in Revelation 13. The current situation in the Middle East with the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the recent claim made by Iran that Iraq is the new “capital” of a Shiite Iranian empire shows us how possible it is now for the view presented in this article to become reality.
Iran claims Iraq is the capital of a new Iranian empire
Could Babylon be the Revived Head of the Beast? The article was translated to Portuguese but you can use Google translation to translated it back to English on the following link:
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