[What
God spoke to Jeremiah concerning the Babylon of his day
Parallels
what is spoken of the Babylon in the Book of Revelation.
In
fact I believe that God was not only speaking of the Babylon
Of
Jeremiah's day but also of the final Babylon to come. Listen:]
'Flee
from Babylon! Run for your lives!
Do
not be destroyed because of her sins.
It is time for
the Lord's vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
Babylon was a gold
cup in the Lord's hand;
She
made the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank
her wine; Therefore they have now gone mad.
Babylon will
suddenly fall and be broken.
Wail over her! Get
balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
We would have
healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed;
[When sin and
godlessness reach a certain point there can be no healing.
This is what happened
in the days of Noah, in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and what will
happen today, with the final Babylon.
The final Babylon is
every nation, coming together as one kingdom,
Under one ruler,
Satan.]
Let us leave her and
each go to his own land,
For her judgment
reaches to the skies, it rises as high as the clouds.'
The Lord has
vindicated us;
'Come, let us tell
in Zion what the Lord our God has done.'
(Jeremiah 51:6-10)
The
Lord will take vengeance, vengeance for His Temple.
Lift up a banner
against the walls of Babylon! Reinforce the guard,
Station the
watchmen, prepare an ambush!
The Lord will carry
out His purpose,
His decree against
the people of Babylon
You who live by many
waters and are rich in treasures,
[This very well could
be spoken of the U.S.A.,
Who lives by many
waters and is rich in treasures.]
Your end has come,
the time for you to be cut off.
The Lord Almighty
has sworn by Himself:
I will surely fill
you with men, as with a swarm of locusts,
And they will shout
in triumph over you.
He
made the earth by His power;
He
founded the world by His wisdom
And
stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
When He thunders,
the waters in the heavens roar;
He makes clouds rise
from the ends of the earth.
He sends lightning
with the rain
And brings out the
wind from His storehouses.
Every
man is senseless and without knowledge;
Every goldsmith is
shamed by his idols.
[Today
men have created many idols for themselves.].
His images are a
fraud; they have no breath in them.
They are worthless,
the objects of mockery;
When their judgment
comes, they will perish.
He who is the
Portion of Jacob is not like these,
For He is the Maker
of all things, including the Tribe of His Inheritance--
The Lord Almighty is
His Name.(Jeremiah 51:11-19)
You are My war club,
My weapon for battle--
With you I shatter
nations,
With you I destroy
kingdoms,
With you I shatter
horse and rider,
With you I shatter
man and woman,
With you I shatter
old man and youth,
With you I shatter
young man and maiden,
with you I shatter
shepherd and flock,
With you I shatter
farmer and oxen,
With you I shatter
governors and officials.
'Before your
[Zion] eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in
Babylon
For all the wrong
they have done in Zion [God's
people].
'Declares the Lord.
I
am against you, O Destroying Mountain,
You who destroy
the whole earth,' Declares the Lord.
[Here
we can tell God is not taking only about the Babylon of Jeremiah's
day
But
of the “final” Babylon, the Babylon of today,
As
it is the one that destroys the whole earth.
The
spirit that rules over Babylon is Satan; Babylon is his bride.]
'I will stretch out
My hand against you,
Roll you off the
cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain.
No rock will be
taken from you for a cornerstone,
Nor any stone for a
foundation,
For you will be
desolate forever,' Declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 51:11-26)
[In the Book of
Revelation the “Beast” and the ten kings destroy Babylon,
(Revelation 17:16-17).]
'Come out of her,
My people! Run for your lives!
Run from the fierce
anger of the Lord.
Do not lose heart or
be afraid when rumors are heard in the land;
One rumor comes this
year, another the next, rumors of violence in the land
And of ruler against
ruler.
For the time will
surely come when I will punish the idols of Babylon;
Her whole land will
be disgraced and her slain will all lie fallen within her.
Then heaven and
earth and all that is in them
Will shout for joy
over Babylon,
For out of the north
destroyers will attack her,' Declares the Lord.
Babylon must fall
because of Israel's slain,
Just
as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
You who have escaped
the sword, leave and do not linger!
Remember the Lord in
a distant land, and think on Jerusalem.'
'We are disgraced,
for we have been insulted and shame covers our faces,
Because
foreigners have entered the holy places of the Lords house.'
[The “Beast” sets
up his abomination that causes desolation
In God's Temple. (2
Thessalonians 2:4)]
'But the days are
coming,' Declares the Lord, when I will punisher her idols,
And throughout her
land the wounded will groan.
Even if Babylon
reaches the sky [potentially
space travel]
And fortifies her
lofty stronghold, I will send destroyers against her,'
Declares the Lord.
(Jeremiah 51:45-53)
In the broadest sense
Babylon is worldliness; the enemy of God.
The apostle John
admonishes the saints:
'Do not love the
world or anything in the world.
If anyone loves the
world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1 John 2:15)
The
apostle James says: You adulterous people,
Don't you know that
friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
Anyone who chooses
to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
(James 4:4)
We
must all flee worldliness, the spirit of Babylon.
Today,
the nations are raging against God; rushing to oblivion!
As
God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!
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