Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Daughter of Babylon, part 1

Isaiah 47:9
    But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.


Coming from Isaiah 47, the whole chapter refers to the "Daughter of Babylon."  For the last couple days, my study has been around the city of Babylon, so I will give some shorts of it.  Babylon and Babel come from the same Hebrew root word, where Babel meant confusion, while Babylon was call the "Gate of the Gods."  It was known for its hanging gardens, and like many of the surrounding regions and tribes, had their gods of worship.  It was ahead of its time with its mathematics, but personal gods and witchcraft was prevalent in its culture.  Now let's move to today.

Who could the daughter of Babylon be?  Certain parts of the chapter I will list and maybe we can find some clues on possibilities on possible countries, and then we will check on Revelations to see if we can get a match. 


 1.  virgin daughter of Babylon
 2.  daughter of the Chaldeans
 3.  lady of kingdoms
 4.  "given My people until thine hand, but shown them no mercy"
 5.  I shall be a lady forever
 6.  thou given to thou pleasures
 7.  not sit as a widow
 8.  the loss of children
 9.  multitude of the sorceries, great abundance of enchantments
10. trusted in thy wickedness
11.  With wisdom and knowledge, there is none like me
12.  Weary of the multitude of thy counsels
13.  monthly prognosticators.

For now, there is more to add, but I believe this is sufficient to see where this blog is going.  I am going to concentrate on a few of them and see about later connecting the dots.  Number 4 talks of where the LORD actually allowed His people, the Jews, to be placed in their hand, but was shown no mercy.  Around the last quarter century of the 1800's, America saw an influx of immigrants from around the world, including Jews that were scattered on the globe.  Not many people know this, but during the 1910 through the Great Depression, there was made a declaration to limit immigrants to America.  This number was so small of those allowed in America, that millions were turned away.  Just before World War II, German Jews were given a chance to leave Germany in fear of the eugenics brought forth by Hitler's dream of a master race.  One ship left Germany, and sought asylum through many countries, including America, but we turned them away.  They had no choice but to return to Germany, running out of fuel and no country willing to take them in.  On board was around 500 Jews, and they were led to slaughter.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt was boasted of being a great President, but from my standpoint, this is a great blemish.  All he had to do was open up our borders, and he could have possibly saved millions of Jews.  He chose, as America's spokesman, to show no mercy.
Fast forward past Israel's rebirth in 1948.  For argument sake, I will bring up the last few Presidents since 1988. All of the Presidents and their administrations since George H.W. Bush up to our current administration headed by Barack Obama, has done everything to promote a two headed state with Palestine by Israel giving up more of her land.  Everyone of these has tried, some have succeeded in getting Israel to concede more land, and now the United Nations, with the United States help, has "approved" in acknowledging Palestine has a state, even being brazen enough to announce East Jerusalem under Palestinian rule.  Israel has defied this, but building more Jewish settlements there.  Every time America's leaders has attempted more land cessation, God has responded in big deal, but America has snuffed her nose at God (more on that in a later post).  President Barack Obama has been careful not to tip his hand, but his desire for Israel to give up her land, just like his predecessors, is still in the cards.  His number one goal is to destroy America from its current state of democracy from the Constitution to a socialist state is taken him longer, but now that he has four more years, and those who voted for him are willing participants.  The reason why I bring this up is Israel has a bigger threat, and that is Iran with nuclear capability, and a president who would love to see her obliterated from the face of the earth.  If he does, he will meet the God of Jacob and he will not like His anger aroused.
I will bring up a couple more, number 6, 8 and 11.  Given in to thy pleasures, the Hebrew translation could be better translated as "self-pleasures."  Currently, America, including the church, seems to be enamored by materials, wealth and the power associated with it.  As of this writing, America has rung up a debt around $16.5T dollars.  To put this in perspective, it would take 16,500 BILLIONAIRES to pay one billion each to pay off the debt.  Sad part is, that doesn't include interest and the seizure of the government stopping its borrowing AND spending. 
America loves its self seeking pleasures.  Iphones, ipads, Nike shoes, and the like are sought after with fervency, people standing in line to purchase the newest model to brag to their friends.  Black Friday is the biggest show of greed, where businesses now are willing to open Thanksgiving night and stay open through the night to collect the almighty dollar.  Lines begin the day before, waiting outside hoping to get the best deal.  Lately, there have been videos of people shoving others just to get a two dollar deal at a WalMart store.
Pornography is a multi-billion dollar business, with the ability to keep men and women in hidden sin, confined in the comforts of their homes.  People act like they can't live without their smartphones, not caring that their government is tracking every thing they do.  When I lived south of Dallas for one year, I drove by some run down neighborhoods, where the cars were worth  more than two to four times the place it was parked.  The attitude was the owners wanted to look good to their friends.  Somehow, many believers have been led to believe that more and better material possessions is a sign of God's blessings.  It couldn't be further than the truth.  We want more, but not of Him.  Just a sign of His blessings.
Number eleven is about bragging of itself.  America WAS the number one in military, force, and even could boast of its education.  Not anymore. America couldn't finish the job in Vietnam, a country that may have been fortified by China but not even one tenth its size.  Yet, we still continue to play dominion for the world and now the government has put the military on hold or cuts, which will undermine our ability to help defend Israel (which I believe our President does not wish to do).  Ultimately, with America out of the way, it will leave Israel no choice but to pray and rely on the God of Israel, for the Jewish country is the apple of His eye. 
Number eight should be the biggest of all - the loss of children.  Since the legalization of Roe vs. Wade (incidentally a couple days ago was the fortieth anniversary), over 55 million abortions have been committed.  There may be more that are unaccounted for, but God has each hair counted, and His mercy will eventually run out for repentance. 
The aforementioned Scripture that led this blog view says that a moment will come where He will have to judge us, especially for all the children that never got to live their lives.  More disturbing, is our government is endorsing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood and abortions all around the world.  The number America has "paid for" is unknown to man but not to God.  I believe it will happen sooner or later that the number that God has set that will tip His scales of justice will come, and America will pay - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.  Every blood that was shed must be paid in kind, since America has not repented for its deeds and refuses to acknowledge God through the covenant from the Founding Fathers.  Our current government has promised under oath to uphold the Constitution yet, in the span of a year, of now passed laws restricting free speech around political personnel and the Second Amendment is now under attack through executive orders from a President who HATES Congress and the checks and balances that the three ring government should provide.  Our government has come to a place where the Second Amendment is the only thing preventing it from total control.  Pride has taken new meaning in our government.
When will this day of reckoning come?  America is the daughter of Babylon.  She has played the harlot to a T.  The church needs to pray according to Nehemiah and Daniel and ask for God's forgiveness of their sins and their forefathers sins as they were their own.  I am hoping my children will enjoy the freedoms I did as a child, but the church needs to get off its derriere, stop seeking self-pleasure, and truly find God through repentance.  If it doesn't happen soon, I pray the rapture isn't far away. 

Blessings,

Michael
Jeremiah 6:16

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