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Modern
Babylon Will Die
Drunk! God swears to delude an
evil society. By Ken Raggio Jeremiah the Prophet received
a revelation from the Lord
that ancient Babylon was going to fall. He chronicled his
revelation in Jeremiah 51. "And Babylon? ...I will make
them
drunken,
that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith
the LORD," (verses 37,39). "And I will
make drunk her princes, and her
wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they
shall sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD
of hosts," (verse 57). God promised that in the fall
of ancient Babylon, He would
actually "MAKE THEM DRUNKEN, that they may rejoice and sleep a
perpetual sleep." In their stupor, God sent in enemies who destroyed
them. The same vow will determine
the destiny
of modern Babylon. When
Ancient Babylon fell, they were drunk! Do you remember the downfall
of ancient Babylon? It
happened during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar's son, Belshazzar, in
Daniel 5:27. "Belshazzar the king
made a great feast to a
thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the
thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted
the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his
father Nebuchadnezzar
had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and
his princes, his
wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. Then they
brought the
golden vessels
that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at
Jerusalem; and the
king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in
them. They drank wine,
and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of
wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth
fingers of a
man's hand, and wrote over
against the
candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the
king saw the part
of the hand that wrote," (Daniel 5:1-5).
The story is
infamous. Daniel interpreted
the
mysterious handwriting on the wall. "You have been weighed in the
balance and found
wanting. Tonight your kingdom will be divided and taken from
you." It was a message of doom from
God to
Belshazzar. BELSHAZZAR and all the
Babylonian dignitaries WERE DRUNK
WHEN GOD'S JUDGMENT FELL ON BABYLON. That night, the Medo-Persians
conquered them. King Belshazzar was killed. The
ancient Babylonian empire fell into the hands of its
enemies while it was drunk. When
judgment comes to modern Babylon, it will also be
drunk! The
18th Chapter of Revelation describes the fall
of
modern Babylon. Let me interrupt this
thought to explain to you
the correlation between ancient Babylon and modern Babylon. There are actually FOUR
Biblical definitions of Babylon. FOUR
BABYLONS 1. The
ancient CITY
of
Babylon. It is the ancient site of Nebuchadnezzar's "Hanging Gardens,"
the
Gate of Ishtar, and was once known as one of the Seven Wonders of the
World. It is also the site of the ancient Tower of Babel. 2. The
ancient EMPIRE
of
Babylon (made famous in Nebuchadnezzar's day). That empire stretched
across the Middle East, north,
south, east and west. It was the largest empire in the world in its
time. 3. Modern
Political Babylon - the descendant of ancient Babylon -
generally speaking, this refers to the kingdom of man (as
opposed to the
Kingdom of God by Jesus Christ). It is a regional political entity
with global imperial ambitions. Some
people think of the United Nations as Babylon, or the New
World
Order as Babylon, or some refer to New York or America as Babylon, but
that is really inaccurate. You will see in my explanation below exactly
who modern Babylon is according to Bible prophecy. 4. Mystery
Babylon
- the
spiritual roots of Babylon, from
the days of the Tower of Babel, include an encyclopedia
of pagan religious beliefs and practices that were handed down
through the centuries. They were all born in hell, springing originally
from Lucifer himself. They are evil and abominable in
the eyes of God. God judged the builders of the
ancient Tower of
Babel by coming down and confusing their tongues so that they "left
off" finishing the tower. But the evil intentions present at Babel did
not die. Babylon rebounded and
became a virtual
global empire in the days of King Solomon of Israel. In sad fact, Solomon corrupted
Jewish religion in
the days of his backsliding by introducing the Babylonian mysteries
into his religious beliefs and practices. Collaborating with Hiram,
King of Lebanon, Solomon began to concoct a mystical, esoteric religion
that eventually corrupted the priests and subsequent kings of
Israel.
In Solomon's day, God's
anger began to boil against Babylon, and that is
PROBABLY the reason why God finally turned over the backsliding nation
of
Israel TO Babylon in the first place! Because they
demonstrated their desire to know the
Babylonian mysteries
instead of the truth of God's Word, God gave them over to Babylonian
masters. Over a period of
more than 2,500 years, Jewish rabbis and scholars have shown their
preference to the Babylon-inspired Cabbalistic mysteries over the
unadulterated word of God. Caballism
made its way not only into the Jewish religious hierarchy, but
eventually into a wide array of secret societies, and
eventually taken up by
kings and princes and power brokers throughout world history. The Middle Ages were rife with
Luciferic secret societies, and the history of Europe is filled with
the shenanigans of Popes and Kings and their dealings with these secret
societies. Ultimately, the Catholic church was infiltrated and
controlled by that lot who now engage in global political and financial
intrigue through the auspices of the "church". The modern international banking
system was created by Caballists such as Lord Rothschild, and powerful
secret orders were created by Caballists like Albert Pike, Madam
Blavansky and others, and to this day, the New World Order is
run in large part by Caballists. The Jewish Talmud (oral
traditions) and the
Caballah each tragically contain pernicious Babylonian corruptions.
This is the stuff of modern-day Zionism, and it is in the root
of the modern-day State of Israel. The spiritual abominations of
ancient Babylon
continue to thrive in the esoteric (secret) mysteries of the
Roman Catholic
Church, Freemasonry, and the Caballah. Believe it or not, they are all
intricately and heavily intertwined. One of the principal reasons
God JUDGES Mystery Babylon is because
it made all the KINGS AND NATIONS of the earth DRUNKEN! God hates these
diabolical mystical schemes. "For all
nations have drunk of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have
committed
fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich
through the abundance
of her delicacies," (Revelation
18:3). In order to understand why God
hates Mystery
Babylon, you have to contrast it with His divine plan for the
ages. God will have an eternal
kingdom, ruled by
Him. Mystery Babylon would have a
kingdom ruled by
Lucifer. Believe it or not, the mystery
religions I am
refering to are very explicit to say that Lucifer should rule the
world. This includes the behind-the-
scenes powers-that-be
in the RCC, the Jesuits, the Knights Templar, Freemasons, the
Illuminati and so many other of its sister mystical
societies. History is jam-packed with stories of
the collaberations between most of the Babylonian mystical
societies and the Roman Catholic Church. This diabolical, Luciferic,
esoteric, mystical
religion, allied with the Roman Catholic Church, has been fornicating
with the secular governments of the world for almost 1700 years. Today Europe is controlled by
a powerful cabal of
men who are deeply rooted in the Luciferic mysteries. Many of them are
power brokers in the Roman Catholic Church. If you take the time to
study all the powerful men in global politics today, you will be
shocked out of your mind at how many of them have Roman Catholic
connections. THE
COMING FALL OF BABYLON Ironically,
while the Roman Catholic Church has always contained a strong element
of
Babylonian mysteries at its core, it
has distanced itself
from geographical Babylon. Islam, on the other hand, has
struggled to control geographical Babylon while preaching a
murderously anti-Catholic rhetoric. Now, in the end of the age,
Mystery
Babylon, Political Babylon, and Geographical Babylon are set
to collide in a major, major volcanic eruption. Nothing less
than a total melt-down is going to occur. Mystery
Babylon, as defined above (RCC, Freemasonry, Caballah) is now
pervading the globe in various other forms: the New Age
movement, the Green Movement, but especially global ecumenical
religious initiatives such as the
World Council of Churches, the United Religions Organization, even the
United Nations Economic and Social Council. WHY
BABYLON IS SUCH A MAJOR TOPIC IN THE BIBLE Israel's trouble with Babylon
began in the days of
King Hezekiah of Judah. The Babylonian King in those days was named
Berodachbaladan. During a time of Hezekiah's sickness, King
Berodachbaladan sent letters and gifts to him, so Hezekiah invited a
Babylonian entourage to tour the Jewish Palace and Temple, showing them
all of Israel's precious treasures. Isaiah prophesied to Hezekiah
that Babylonians
would soon carry away everything of value to Babylon, and would take
Hezekiah's descendants as servants to their king. That happened soon
thereafter. Nebuchadnezzar, King of
Babylon, laid seige against
Jerusalem, and took the Jews captive back to Babylon. Eventually, all
the precious furnishings of the Temple were stolen and taken to
Babylon. God brought Babylon into His
grand scheme to judge
the Nation of Israel for their sins and backslidings. God used the
Kings of Babylon to exucute His punishments upon Israel for their
idolatries and abomination they had committed against God. God sentenced the
Israelites to become captives in Babylon for seventy years. Afterward,
He promised to deliver them, and punish Babylon with "perpetual
desolations." "And it shall come
to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the
king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity,
and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations,"
(Jeremiah 25:12). Furthermore, God revealed to
King Nebuchadnezzar
what His plan for the ages actually was. God gave Nebuchadnezzar
several dreams that showed him things to come. The first was a dream about a
huge IMAGE, a statue,
whose head was
gold, chest was silver, thighs were brass, legs were iron, and legs and
feet were iron and
clay. At first, Nebuchadnezzar could
not understand the
dream, but God sent the prophet Daniel into the picture to explain it. God
revealed that Babylon was the first of a series of WORLD GOVERNMENTS
that would span from ancient times until Jesus Christ comes and
overthrows the kingdoms of men and establishes His holy Kingdom on
earth for 1000 years. This
is a VERY IMPORTANT concept you must
understand if you are to comprehend what MODERN BABYLON is all
about.
Modern Babylon is the
extended, evolved global kingdom from ancient times. You have to grasp that fact!
Babylon was ruled by
Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Cyrus and Darius. It was overthrown and
became known as a twin kingdom of Media and Persia (the MEDO-PERSIAN
EMPIRE). Later, the Medo-Persian empire
was overthrown by
Alexander the
Great and became the GRECIAN EMPIRE. Following the GRECIAN EMPIRE,
the
ROMAN EMPIRE ruled the world. Even though the political
borders evolved from
century to century, it was nevertheless a CONTINUATION of Babylon,
under new management! All the successive world
governments are viewed as
extensions of Babylon. The first was the GOLDEN HEAD
of BABYLON. The second was the SILVER
CHEST AND ARMS of
MEDO-PERSIA. The third was the BRASS THIGHS
of GREECE. The fourth was the IRON LEGS
of ROME. The fifth was the IRON AND
CLAY FEET of the HOLY
ROMAN EMPIRE. What is the difference between
the Roman Empire and
the HOLY Roman Empire? The ROMAN EMPIRE was a
SECULAR, POLITICAL
empire. The HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE was
political, but it was
controlled by the
religious hierarchy of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The SECULAR empire of Rome is
depicted as IRON LEGS. The RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR
empire of the Roman
Catholic Church is depicted as IRON AND CLAY FEET. The iron was the
political portion, the clay was the religious portion. The ROMAN EMPIRE governed most
of the world from
the first century BC until about the seventh century AD. The HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE ruled
from the eighth century
AD until modern times. We are presently seeing a revival of the Holy
Roman Empire as the Roman Catholic Church plays its hand in helping to
develop the European Union into a United States of Europe. The DESTINY of these empires
is fore-ordained by
God. They will rule until Jesus Christ returns at Armageddon to destroy
the evil kingdoms of men and establish a 1000 year kingdom in
Jerusalem. Daniel interpreted the meaning
of
Nebuchadnezzar's dream. He said that each
time the image
changed (from gold, to silver, to brass, etc.) it was a CHANGE OF
POLITICAL STRUCTURE. Yet
it was the SAME IMAGE! All these world governments
(Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
Rome) each represented the predominant world government of its
respective age. Even though the visible
leaders changed, the kingdoms were
comprised of most of the same territories and peoples from one
government to the next. To
be precise, when
modern Babylon
falls, as referred to in
Revelation 14, it will be the collapse of IRON AND CLAY FEET of that
image. One very significant
conclusion that can be drawn
from these prophetic scenarios is that the IRON AND CLAY FEET will be
the strongest global political organization when Jesus returns. That indicates a POWERFUL
EUROPEAN UNION driven
behind the scenes by the Roman Catholic Church. THAT is clearly the
empire Jesus will
crush when He comes. When we homogenize that
understanding with John the
Revelator's prophecies concerning the Antichrist, the Beast, the False
Prophet, the Mark of the Beast, etc., then we can see clearly that
EUROPE and the CATHOLIC CHURCH will be MAJOR FORCES in the last days.
The Pope will be the False Prophet of Revelation 13 who makes an image
to the beast and causes the nations to take the Mark of the
Beast.
I
predict that whereas the United States has historically played the role
of superpower at the United Nations, we will soon see a major
diminishing of
the United States' role. In Biblical terms, the United States may
become almost insignificant, except for its final role in attempting to
defending Israel. I
believe the European Union will soon become the superpower at the
United Nations and will overshadow the influence of the United States.
As soon as Great Britain, Germany and France finally get their heads
together to finalize a single-headed political entity for Europe, and
their individual sovereignties are handed over to the EU, the EU will
become the Beast at the UN. I wouldn't be surprised to see the UN moved
from New York to Brussels or Geneva. That wouldn't be necessary,
however, to fulfill prophecy. I further predict that the
European Union will
reflect an increasingly Muslim political mindset on that world
body. Islam
has worked furiously for centuries to control the territory of
ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was not Muslim. It was
Luciferic.
Nevertheless, they are kindred spirits. From Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islam is right now attempting to take
complete control of Iraq, Turkey, Palestine, and in very fact, ALL OF
EUROPE. From Europe, Islam intends to
rule the world at the
United Nations. I
believe we will also see an dramatic power struggle escalate
between
the Roman Catholic Church and Islam over control of Europe. For a
while, the Roman Catholic Church will maintain its presence, doing
everything in its power to maintain detente' with Islam, but
in the
end, the Roman Catholic Church will be destroyed, according the the
ancient prophecies. AS A FULFILLMENT OF BIBLE
PROPHECY, the FALL OF BABYLON
prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ just may be referring to the
OVERTHROW OF EUROPE
BY ISLAM. The Kingdoms of this world
will soon become the Kingdoms
of our Lord and Christ. But before they do, Satan is
going to wreak HAVOC upon the
earth. He is going to collapse nations and governments into the final
form of the New
World Order. People
are drunk right now! Have you noticed that there
is a DRUNKEN EUPHORIA in the
general public? The
world has a love affair with money. And the love of money is the root
of all evil. The only thing that holds a more powerful sway over global
politics than COMMUNISM, CAPITALISM, CATHOLICISM or ISLAM is the
individual's love for money. People really do not care what
is happen
politically as long as they are making money. Even
though the daily news is filled with horrifying stories of
governments-gone-wild, of terrorism on a global scale, and catastrophic
news about environmental hazards, and epidimecs of diseases, famines
and droughts, the average man on the street only cares how much money
is in his pocket. On March 19, 1999, as the Dow
Jones average danced around the
10,000 mark, the New York Post published an
article entitled, "Mart's Wealth
Effect Could Make You Poor", in which this statement was
made: "Wall
Street
remained drunkenly optimistic yesterday, A 92-year-old man, who had
been in the stock market
for 72
years commented
that he had never seen such mania in the market. There is NOTHING RATIONAL
about society's behavior right
now! BABYLON IS DRUNK!
Every night, prime-time
television
comedians make
everybody LAUGH at their own calamity, getting millions DRUNKER and
DRUNKER! Society is DRUNK on
MONEY, PROSPERITY, HOUSES, CARS, TRAVEL,
SEX, DRUGS, PARTYING, ETC., ETC. Even CHRISTIANITY at large is
DRUNK on MATERIALISM,
SUCCESS, and FRIVOLOUS THINGS! They cannot be SOBER! (Jesus said, "As it was in
the days of Noah...") Belshazzar
was drunk when the message of doom came! EVERY DAY, the doomsday
message is strewn across the headlines in every newspaper,
magazine, radio, TV and Internet report. The warnings are
everywhere. BABYLON is FALLING!
We are NOT FAR from the Mark of the Beast! Novices to Bible Prophecy may
have a difficult time
understanding this concept. Many people cannot understand HOW the
Antichrist will
introduce the MARK OF THE BEAST. Here
is HOW. The NEW WORLD ORDER must
ultimately subdue every nation,
government, bank and industry in the world before it can rise to power
without resistance. In order to subdue nations,
etc, it is necessary to cause
their collapse. God
has literally given this generation to
Lucifer. "And for this cause God shall
send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might
be
damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness," (II Thessalonians
2:11,12). It is the same kind of act as
Jesus’ giving
permission to Judas Iscariot to betray him. "And after the
sop Satan
entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do
quickly," (John 13:27).
Lucifer was then free to take
over. "And supper being
ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
Simon's son, to betray
him;" (John 13:2). God
is giving this generation to Babylon's drunken demise. Lucifer will be free to take
over. God will not stop him.
God will actually supply the event. God knew BEFORE ANYONE ELSE
that this century would end in
a devastating social catastrophe! Don't forget that God declared the
events of the
endtime centuries before Lucifer ever had a man or a group of men to
carry out his scheme. In 1929, when the stock
market crashed, it was an
engineered collapse. Big banks literally ate up small independent
banks. "Big
Brother" took advantage of their collapse to absorb them all. Today, we
are seeing huge monopolies in industry and
commerce devour smaller corporations EVERY SINGLE DAY! So the FALL OF BABYLON
precipitates the EMERGENCE of a
FULL-BLOWN NEW WORLD ORDER! And with it, you can expect to see the MARK
of the BEAST
emerge within a few short months or years. ONLY the governments and
industries who are fully compliant with the New World
Order will survive. All the
others will have been forever eliminated! The New World Order
operatives will have
effectively destroyed them. I believe that the New
World Order Zionist
Caballah will
attempt to make use of the Mark of the Beast to control Islam from
becoming the world power. By demanding global participation in the Mark
of the Beast system, the nations of Islam will be forced into
submission to the New World Order. It will backfire, however, and Islam
will make every defiant effort to destroy the Roman Catholic Church and
the Zionist New World Order by wreaking havoc in Europe just before
Jesus Christ comes to save the day. We are truly living in
ominous times. It is time for Bible
believers everywhere to recognize the fact that our lives are about to
be RADICALLY and
PERMANENTLY ALTERED. Most Christians have never
stopped to consider what it
will be like when the Mark of the Beast is issued, and BELIEVERS are
forced to REFUSE THE
MARK! It is imperative to your
survival that you prepare for the
day when you will no longer be able to buy or sell. If you want to be of any use
to God or His kingdom, you
had better first of all develop a strategy to SURVIVE! You can't save
souls and build
churches if you are DEAD! It
is time for Bible believers to be SOBER! "Therefore let us
not sleep, as do others; but
let us watch and BE SOBER. For they that sleep sleep in the
night;
and they that be
drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the
day, be
sober, putting on
the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of
salvation," (1 Thessalonians 5:6-
8,). Titus 2:11-13, "For
the
grace of
God that bringeth salvation
hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying
ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world; Looking for that
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ." ISAIAH 13 is the major prophecy about the final and total demise of Babylon. If you want to see exactly what God is going to do to finish them off, that is what you should read. I am continually writing new content for this site. Please return often for more material, and tell your friends about www.kenraggio.com , too! THANKS! And God bless you! Ken Raggio 
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