"And after these things I saw ANOTHER angel come
down from heaven, having great power; and the earth
was lightened with his glory."-REV 18:1
This is an introduction to the STUDY “AMERICA IN PROPHECY”. Before looking at America as viewed in the light of Old Testament prophecy, in a 3 part study on Nahum, which shows America in a modern Replay of that book of Prophecy over the last 80 years, I wish to show America in light of New Testament Prophecy, to an event far more recent. In such, this is just the introduction to that Study, by which I share personal experience relative to the same, and set the foundation. At the end of this introduction, those paying attention, will be given direction where to go to find the rest of the study.
-Benjamin
December 28, 2012
June 2001,
an early morning recap of a conversation between myself and Branch Davidian Survivor Clive Doyle, after I had a bizarre spiritual encounter on the side of the road in a Mississippi Rest Area as I was traveling back to North Carolina from Texas. After that encounter, I would turn my vehicle around, and head back to Texas. Upon reaching Texas, I would in just a few hours, call Clive very early in the morning and this is a narrative of that call:
STEVE: "Clive, I am telling you, I have been given the seventh Angels message, It's hard to describe it was like all at once
I knew the Bible, I mean intimately like a man knows a woman. Tell me, I know that obviously there was a guy
Named Steve in the audience, But has he, or did he ever Claim to have the Seventh Angels Message? Has
FOR THAT MATTER Has Anyone ELSE come foreword claiming to have the Seventh Angels Message?
Clive: "NO."
Clive: " SO, What is the Seventh Angels Message?"
Steve: " I can't tell you, not yet, ...it is for the time of the end."
REV 18:2 AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A GREAT VOICE..."BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN...IS FALLEN"
Consider in Revelation chapter 18 vs 1,2 we see the arrival of a messenger, and ANGEL. The term ANGEL in scripture at times is a reference to an being of the Angelic races, at other times, the term “Angel” is scripture is a reference to “A Messenger”, and at times both.
This Angel in Revelation 18, he comes and makes a proclamation…in which he does not say…
”BEHOLD…BABYLON IS GOING TO FALL…IS GOING TO FALL”
nor for that matter does scripture or the recorded vision of the Prophet John declare that the Angel of Revelation 18:1,2 proclaims:
”Behold…BABYLON is “FALLING” is “FALLING”…
Consider that what the Angel of Revelation 18 proclaims, what he is told of Heaven to speak, that message he brings is in fact :
”BEHOLD…BABYLON is FALLEN…IS FALLEN!”
Imagine, for a moment such a proclamation, to what world would such a thing need be said?
First consider that Historically, Babylon was both a City, and a Nation.
Consider that for decades preachers of many mainstream denominations have declared that America is the Modern Equivalent of Babylon. IN her day, Babylon influenced the entire world, the music, the clothing, the entertainment trends, the technologies discovered and shared…in her day, Babylon of old, was a world leader, a seat of global commerce, and in our day, so then for some time has been the USA.
The story of the TOWER of BABEL in which God confounded the languages of those trying to build a tower unto Heaven, so that all were in confusion, all were “BABBL-ING” instantly and the project could not be finished. Many of the Kingdom Churches of our age, the Jehovahs Witnesses, the Mormons, The Seventh Day Adventists, the Branch Davidians, when referring to “Babylon” refer a modern reference to THE USA as does many Baptist, Pentecostals, Church of Christ and other denominations. But when the Kingdom Church groups make the statement “They are ‘IN BABYLON’,” or “They are LOST IN BABYLON”, they are not stating that those spoken of are in fact geographically in the USA, but rather such is a metaphorical application, to be literally stating “THEY ARE LOST IN CONFUSION”…”THEY ARE BABBLING”…thus the saying “THEY ARE IN A STATE OF BABYLON” or “THEY ARE IN THE STATE OF BABYLON” is to say, “THEY ARE LOST TO THE TRUTH, THEY ARE IN CONFUSION.”
NOW, that said, let us consider the state of a nation, or world, in which an entire region called “BABYLON” be it a city, or nation, could fall, and no one even notice! Seem outrageous… consider the message of that Angel in Revelation chapter 18 vs 1, 2 in which A messenger has to be sent, and is to address both the inhabitants of this world, and Heaven itself to proclaim several things, all of which beginning with the proclamation “BABYLON….”IS” Fallen, “IS” Fallen.” This proclamation is citing to BEHOLD, an EVENT WHICH HAS ALREADY TRANSPIRED… a THING WHICH HAS COME TO PASS and NO ONE RECOGNIZED IT AS IT WAS HAPPENING BEFORE THEIR VERY EYES! ONLY AFTER THE EVENT HAS HAPPENED…and ONLY when a Messenger is sent to PLACE THE PAST INTO PERSPECTIVE, is the truth seen clearly by those paying attention, that a PROPHECY has in fact been fulfilled, that an event happened before their very eyes and they did not recognize it until a messenger was chosen by the Throne of Heaven to illustrate…”Babylon “IS” Fallen, IS FALLEN’!”
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