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Image via WikipediaI may be offline for a few days. So I thought I would leave you all with some news they may or may not help clear some things up. I saw this post and though it was decent enough to share with you all. Know the signs of the times. Even if you don't agree. Some key points here are very good to know.
We live in a crazy world. Maybe its time we need to hope to go with it. That Hope is Jesus Christ.
But beginning in Ezekiel 36, after Nebuchadnezzar had taken the Jews to Babylon and burned Jerusalem to the ground, the Lord began using the phrase in a different way. He said the restoration of Israel in the latter days would be the way He would show both Israel and the nations of our day that He is the Lord.
Although the Lord’s promise of restoration was partially fulfilled during the time between Israel’s return from Babylon and the Lord’s first coming, the language in chapters 36 and following make it clear Ezekiel was speaking of the time preceding the Second Coming. Here are some examples.
Speaking to the mountains of Israel, the Lord said.
“No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign LORD” (Ezek. 36:15).
Obviously Israel fell to the Romans after their return from Babylon.
‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms” (Ezekiel 37: 21-22).
During the time of their captivity the Jews were held in Babylon, and they were the ones who resettled the land afterward. There was no official regathering from all the nations as Ezekiel prophesied will take place after the Gog Magog battle ( Ezekiel 39:28
).
Also, prior to the first coming the promised land had been divided among various members of the Herod family and Rome. It was not a single entity with a single king.
Here’s How You Will Know
Each step along the way to Israel’s complete restoration is meant to be a sign to show both Israel and the nations that God is the Lord. Each of these signs is identified by some form of the phrase “You will know that I am the Lord” and there are ten of them.
In effect He was saying, “You will know that I am the Lord,
When I settle people in the land and they become fruitful and prosperous (Ezekiel 36:11)
When I show Myself holy through Israel before the eyes of the nations (Ezekiel 36:23)
When I have rebuilt what was destroyed and replanted what was desolate (Ezekiel 36:36)
When I fill the rebuilt cities with people (Ezekiel 36:38).
When I bring back to life a people long dead (Ezekiel 37:6)
When I open their graves and bring My people up from them (Ezekiel 37:13)
When I put My spirit in them and settle them in their own land (Ezekiel 37:14)
When My sanctuary stands among them forever (Ezekiel 37:28)
When I defeat the Gog Magog coalition (Ezekiel 38:23)
When I have finished calling My people back to Israel, not leaving any behind” (Ezekiel 39:28).
Now here is a bit of hope for those who will listen.
The Disciples Commissioned 14Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16“He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. 17“These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; 18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 19So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.]
I would like to do more on this, actually showing what the Bible says on this very subject. Just to see Babylon mentioned in the news is one thing. But, to see how the world is trying to get together and rebuild it? Amazing. First check out the article.
BABYLON, Iraq - A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving the site or making money off it.
Local officials want swift work done to restore the crumbling ruins and start building restaurants and gift shops to draw in tourists, while antiquities officials in Baghdad favor a more painstaking approach to avoid the gaudy restoration mistakes of the past.
"I'm optimistic because what is happening in Babylon is the proper and scientific step and, God willing, the work in Babylon will open up new horizons," said Qais Hussein Rashid, head of Iraq's impoverished antiquities department.
Of all the battered ruins, the temple has the most potential, with its arched rooms and courtyards holding altars to the gods.
Allen of the WMF argues that going slow now to draw up careful plans will pay off more later with international donors.
First off, What happens in heaven during the tribulation period, and just before the people are called on to take the Mark of the Beast. (As I always tell people pleas read the entire chapters.) Don't take my word for it. See it for yourselves.
Revelation 14 NASB
6And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people; 7and he said with a loud voice, “Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.”
8And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
Doom for Worshipers of the Beast
9Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11“And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” 12Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
13And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.”
If you really want see more about Babylon being broken down and how God's judgments happen. You would be amazed and this prophecy in Isaiah. Read Chapters 21, 22 and 23 you can go on and on.
(Caution to those who think God has no Judgments and think that the evil of this world has no punishment coming.) It's happened before, and what is coming will be much worse.
Isaiah 21
9“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”
As much as I want to post the entire chapter here. It will be way to long to post. The Judgment of Babylon. Please read the entire chapter.
I will place a few of them here that I find very interesting for today.
Jeremiah 51.
2“I will dispatch foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her
And may devastate her land;
For on every side they will be opposed to her
In the day of her calamity.
6Flee from the midst of Babylon,
And each of you save his life!
Do not be destroyed in her punishment,
For this is the LORD’S time of vengeance;
He is going to render recompense to her.
7Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD,
Intoxicating all the earth.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
Therefore the nations are going mad.
8Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
Wail over her!
Bring balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed.
14The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself:
“Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts,
And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”
25“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD,
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
And roll you down from the crags,
And I will make you a burnt out mountain.
29So the land quakes and writhes,
For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,
To make the land of Babylon
A desolation without inhabitants.
36Therefore thus says the LORD,
“Behold, I am going to plead your case
And exact full vengeance for you;
And I will dry up her sea
And make her fountain dry.
41“How Sheshak has been captured,
And the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
42“The sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
43“Her cities have become an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.
44“I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer stream to him.
Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
45“Come forth from her midst, My people,
And each of you save yourselves
( So much happens in this entire chapter. I just wanted to point out just a few of the Judgments for doing so much evil throughout the Nations)
War, Fire and Flooding. Making the land desolate.
Now. isn't this already desolate?
Take a look at What Revelation 18 says about the judgment of the last days. Again Please read the entire chapter so you don't miss out on anything here.
Revelation 18
2And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. 3“For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.” Some translation say luxuries.
4I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; 5for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6“Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.
7“To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.’ 8“For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.
Lament for Babylon
9“And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning, 10standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come.’
11“And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more— 12cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble, 13and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.
(Many have claimed this is America and the Catholic Church.)
What many do not understand is the link between the Roman Catholic and Islam. I won't get into that now though.
In order for Babylon to have these kinds of Riches to be destroyed forever. Wouldn't they need to Rebuild it first? No matter what so many claim today. The more I see today's news the more interesting it gets and lines up perfectly with the Entire Bible.
Since Saddam already tried to rebuild Babylon. That king was taken out. The riches? America didn't take them they still remain. Many still trade. With the rebuilding of Babylon in real life as the news article here.
Leave me raise many questions that most really never though of.
There is so much more to add here. Please read the entire chapters. Let me know what your think about all this.
Image via WikipediaI may be offline for a few days. So I thought I would leave you all with some news they may or may not help clear some things up. I saw this post and though it was decent enough to share with you all. Know the signs of the times. Even if you don't agree. Some key points here are very good to know. 
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