{"id":19414,"date":"2022-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/zechariah-012-babylons-rising-pt-2\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T17:14:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T23:14:28","slug":"zechariah-012-babylons-rising-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/zechariah-012-babylons-rising-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zechariah 012 – Babylon’s Rising, Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[83],"series_event":[526],"sermon_service_type":[474],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-19414","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-zechariah","series_event-zechariah","sermon_service_type-wednesday-evenings","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Zechariah 012 - Babylon's Rising, Pt. 2","sermon_date":"20220105","sermon_month":"01","sermon_year":"2022","sermon_notes":19641,"sermon_slides":19642,"sermon_mp3":19643,"sermon_id":"1522224947716","series_or_event":526,"service_type":[474],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":83,"chapter_and_verse":"5:11","sermon_transcript":"Zechariah 012 - \u201cBabylon\u2019s Rising Pt.2\u201d<\/u><\/strong>\r\n\r\nBy Dr. Andy Woods \u2013 01\/05\/2022<\/em>\r\n\r\nZechariah 5:11<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/em>Well alright, good evening Everyone. If you could take your Bibles and open them to the book of Zechariah, chapter 6 and verse 1 (Zech 6:1) and so, it\u2019s been a couple of weeks since we have been in the book of Zechariah. Happy New Year to everybody by the way and we\u2019ve done chapter 1, verses 1 through 6 already, cause this is our second quarter, I guess, studying this.\r\n\r\nStructure\r\n
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  1. Introductory call to repentance (Zech 1:1-6)<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. Eight night visions (Zech 1:7\u20136:15)<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
  3. Question and answers about fasting (Zech 7\u20138)<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. Two burdens (Zech 9\u201314)<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nSo we\u2019ve covered the introductory call to repentance by the prophet Zechariah and then we\u2019ve gone through his eight night visions. Eight visions he received in a single night and all of these visions have in common, and they have within them an incentive to get the community that had just returned from the exile, busy rebuilding the temple and typically the way Zechariah does it is he gives them, as the Spirit allows him, a glimpse of the future temple, a glimpse of God\u2019s future program for the nation and he gives them that glimpse as sort of an incentive to get them busy building the temple in the present because the temple is a big deal in the outworking of God\u2019s program.\r\n\r\nEight Night Visions (Zech 1:7\u20126:15)\r\n
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      1. Riders & horses among the myrtle trees (Zech 1:7-17)<\/li>\r\n \t
      2. Four horns & four craftsmen (Zech 1:18-21)<\/li>\r\n \t
      3. Man with the measuring line (Zech 2)<\/li>\r\n \t
      4. Cleansing of the High Priest Joshua (Zech 3)<\/li>\r\n \t
      5. Lampstand & olive tree (Zech 4)<\/li>\r\n \t
      6. Flying scroll (Zech 5:1-4)<\/li>\r\n \t
      7. Woman in the basket (Zech 5:5-11)<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
      8. Four chariots (Zech 6:1-8)<\/li>\r\n \t
      9. Conclusion: crowning of Joshua (Zech 6:9-15)<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nAnd so the last time I was with you, I think it was mid-December, we had finished vision number seven, which is the woman in the basket.\r\n\r\nSo, you might recall, and I just want to make a few comments on it cause I got\u2026 you guys don\u2019t remember but I remember, I got kind of rushed at the end and I didn\u2019t have a chance to really share everything that I wanted to share but Zechariah, 5, verses 5 through 11 (Zech 5:5-11), there was a woman in the basket. The woman is named Wickedness. She\u2019s put in this basket and a lid is placed over her and a lead covering where she can\u2019t get out and it\u2019s in that vision, it\u2019s at the very end of chapter 5 that we learn that in God\u2019s timing the woman is going to be let out of the basket and she\u2019s going to build a temple one day in the land of Shinar. So, it\u2019s a vision really of wickedness in God\u2019s end time program, leaving the nation of Israel and instead, evil is going to be headquartered in Shinar. 3:07\r\n\r\nZechariah 5:5-11\r\n
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        • Woman (wickedness)<\/li>\r\n \t
        • Ephah (commerce)<\/li>\r\n \t
        • House (Temple-2 Sam 7; religion)<\/li>\r\n \t
        • Shinar (Gen 10:10; 11:2; Dan 1:2)<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nSo you\u2019ll notice there in verse 11, I\u2019ve got the word Shinar underlined. So, what do we know about Shinar? Well, we know a lot about Shinar.\r\n\r\nCharles L. Feinberg - God Remembers:A Study of Zechariah <\/em>(Wheaton: Van Kampen, 1950, p. 91.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe first mention of Shinar in the Bible is in Genesis 10:10. (It is found in all six other times: Gen. 11:2; 14:1, 9; Isa. 11:11; Dan. 1:2; and here). In all instances where it occurs it is used as a definite geographical designation. Strictly speaking it covers more than Babylon but is it is employed to denote this land.\u201d\r\n\r\nCharles Feinberg says: The first mention of Shinar in the Bible is in Genesis 10:10. It is found in all six other times\u2026 He\u2019s got all the verses there (Gen. 11:2; 14:1, 9; Isa. 11:11; Dan. 1:2) and then it says\u2026 In all instances\u2026 meaning that Shinar is a technical word. A technical word is a word that always means the same thing everywhere it\u2019s used.\r\n\r\nFeinberg says: In all instances where it occurs it is used as a definite geographical designation. Strictly speaking it covers more than Babylon but it is employed to denote this land\u2026 So, where is Shinar?\r\n\r\nShinar is what the Greeks called Mesopotamia, Shinar is a Hebrew word, Shinar equals Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is basically where civilization started. So, it\u2019s kind of interesting that where civilization started is where civilization is going to end, according to Zechariah\u2019s prophecy. Where did civilization start? Mesopotamia. Meso between, Potamia rivers. You could recognize that word Potomac. Mesopotamia, between the rivers, between the Euphrates and the Tigris, which today is modern day Iraq. It\u2019s the exact part of the world where the Tower of Babel once stood. Genesis, 11, verse 2 (Gen 11:2) tells us that the Tower of Babel was in Shinar. It is the part of the world where the children of Israel, much later on in biblical history, were taken into the captivity for seventy years\r\n\r\nIn fact, when we read the book of Zechariah, the children of Israel had just come out of that captivity and they were taken 350 miles to the east to a place called Shinar which is Mesopotamia, between the rivers, modern day Iraq and so Charles Feinberg says of Zechariah, 5, verse 11 (Zech 5:11):\r\n\r\nCharles L. Feinberg - God Remembers: A Study of Zechariah <\/em>(Wheaton: Van Kampen, 1950, p. 93.\r\n\r\n\u201cNow, the prophet Zechariah foretells that in the last days all wickedness, with idolatry particularly in mind (see Matt. 12:43\u201345), that will be existent in Israel at that time will go back forcibly to the place of its origin, Babylon, the great apostate religious system. Such is the meaning of being settled on her own base. When we come to the book of Revelation all of this is clearly set forth in chapter 17 and 18. Not only the evil in Judaism, but that in Christendom as well, will wind up and culminate in that abominable system called mystical or mystery Babylon. The greatest sin in Israel, even wickedness itself, was idolatry. It will come to it\u2019s settled abode at the very place of its inception (Rev. 18:24).\u201d\r\n\r\nNow, the prophet Zechariah foretells that in the last days all wickedness, with idolatry particularly in mind, that will be existent in Israel at that time will go forcibly to the place of its origin, Babylon, the great apostate religious system. Such is the meaning of being settled on her own base\u2026 You know, the woman comes out of the basket, she\u2019s settled on her own base to build the temple in the land of Shinar and then Feinberg says\u2026 When we come to the book of Revelation all of this is clearly set forth in chapter 17 and 18. Not only the evil in Jerusalem, but that in Christendom, will wind up and culminate in that abominable system called mystical or mystery Babylon. The greatest sin in Israel, even wickedness itself, was idolatry. It will come to its settled abode at the very place of its inception, Revelation, 18, verse 24 (Rev 18:24)... So what he\u2019s saying in this particular vision is evil is going to be taken out of Israel and it\u2019s going to be centralized and headquartered somewhere and where it\u2019s going to be headquartered is in Shinar, which is a technical word meaning modern day Iraq, ancient Babylon; and that\u2019s kind of interesting because that\u2019s where evil started. 7:35\r\n\r\nAs you know from the Tower of Babel there was only one language on the earth at the time and so the sin that was taking place at the tower of Babel was spread all over the world when God took the language and confounded it, preventing the builders of the Tower from cooperating with each other. So, as we tried to explain in prior studies, what was happening at the Tower of Babel was basically the worship of the Mother and the Child.\r\n\r\nThis comes from Alexander Hislop\u2019s book \u201cThe Two Babylons\u201d and he\u2019s putting this together from Babylonian tradition and he\u2019s trying to figure it out what were they doing at the Tower of Babel; and in his conclusions basically what he said is: Nimrod, who\u2019s mentioned in the Bible, his name means revolt or rebellion\u2026 And you\u2019ll see a reference to Nimrod by name in Genesis, 10, 8 through 10 (Gen 10:8-10). He\u2019s married to a woman named Semiramis. The two of them have a child named Tammuz. Tammuz is killed by a wild animal and was miraculously brought back to life under, you know, occultic powers, much like how the antichrist in the future is going to appear to receive a fatal wound and come back from the dead under the dragon\u2019s power; and so once this happened, according to Alexander Hislop, everybody started to worship the mother and the child. They started to worship Semiramis and they start to worship Tammuz. So Babylon or the Tower of Babel, was a political system, it was a city but it was also the headquarters of a religious system and so when God confounded the language so that the builders couldn\u2019t cooperate with each other, what happened according to Hislop is everybody took a piece of that religious understanding into the whole world and Hislop says, no matter where you go in the world, you can find remnants of this mother-child system, it\u2019s just the names get changed from place to place. So when Assyria the mother was called Ishtar, the child Tammuz. In Phoenicia, the mother was called Astarte, the child Baal. In Egypt the mother is called Isis, the child is called Horus. I mean, different names but it\u2019s the same old stuff. Greece it was Aphrodite and Eros, Rome it was Venus and Cupid and you see the different names in Asia, India; and Hislop is almost like a swear word in Roman Catholic circles because he traced the system into Roman Catholicism and he argues in this book the \u201cTwo Babylons\u201d, that the worship of Mary and Jesus in Roman Catholicism is not the Mary and Jesus of the Bible. It\u2019s actually anchored in this mother-child system and then later on in biblical history, that system goes into the borders of Israel and that\u2019s why God is so upset with Israel and sends them into the deportation to rid them of the system. So, you\u2019ll see references in Jeremiah, 7, verse 18 (Jer 7:18); Jeremiah, 44, verse 17 (Jer 44:17); Ezekiel, 8, verses 14 and 15 (Ezk 8:14-15). As you look at that verses some time, you\u2019ll see references to Tammuz and you\u2019ll see references to the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of Heaven is the mother and the child is Tammuz and God wanted Israel to be different than all the other nations and what happened is she became just like everyone else and so God sent her into the seventy years of discipline. 12:03\r\n\r\nSo, what I\u2019m trying to say is, evil itself started from Shinar and that\u2019s how it spread all over the world and what Zechariah is predicting is in God\u2019s timing evil is going to be taken out of Israel and it\u2019s going to recycle back to where it all started. So, here is a quote from Clarence Larkin\u2019s book commentary on the book of Revelation, he says:\r\n\r\nLarkin, The Book of Revelation<\/em>, 151.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe river Euphrates, on which the city of Babylon was built<\/u><\/strong>, was one of the four branches into which the river that flowed through the Garden of Eden<\/u><\/strong> was divided, and Satan doubtless chose the site of Babylon as his headquarters from which to sally forth to tempt Adam and Eve. It was doubtless here that the Antediluvian apostasy had its source that ended in the flood. To this centre the \u2018forces of Evil\u2019 gravitated after the Flood, and \u2018Babel\u2019 was the result. This was the origin of the nations, but the nations were not scattered abroad over the earth until Satan had implanted in them the \u2018Virus\u2019 of a doctrine that has been the source of every false religion the world has ever known.<\/u>\u201d<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe river Euphrates, on which the city of Babylon was built, was one of the four branches into which the river that flowed through the Garden of Eden was divided, and Satan doubtless chose the site of Babylon as his headquarters to sally forth to tempt Adam and Eve. It was doubtless here that the Antediluvian apostasy had its source that ended in the flood. To this center the \u201cforces of Evil\u201d gravitated after the Flood, and \u201cBabel\u201d was the result\u2026 and he\u2019s talking here about the Tower of Babel; and he says\u2026 This was the origin of the nations\u2026 So the nations of course had their start at the Tower of Babel, that\u2019s where you get different language speaking groups, different cultures, you don\u2019t have anything like that before God caused the dispersion but his point is the nations weren\u2019t created until this virus that I\u2019m trying to describe here, this mother child cult or system, was in place and was exported into every nation. That, by the way, is what the harlot of Revelation, 17, verse 5 (Rev 17:5) is called the mother of harlotry, the source of harlotry. So, in other words, evil is going to be centralized back to where it all started. So, Larkin says: \u2026but the nations were not scattered abroad over the earth until Satan had implanted in them the \u201cVirus\u201d... See, we are all talking today about a physical virus, how about a spiritual virus? The mother-child system was planted by Satan at the Tower of Babel and it went into every culture. So he says:\u00a0 The nations were not scattered abroad over the earth until Satan had implanted in them the \u201cVirus\u201d of a doctrine that has been the source of every false religion that the world has ever known\u2026\r\n\r\nAnd it\u2019s kind of interesting, they make reference here to the Garden of Eden and the four rivers that came out of Eden and I don\u2019t really know whether\u2026 you know, I don\u2019t wanna be dogmatic on it, because I don\u2019t know how much the flood altered the topography of the earth but I have a sneaking suspicion that the Garden of Eden was located in Shinar also and the reason I think that is it mentions in Eden the Euphrates and the Tigris. So, if that\u2019s the same Euphrates and Tigris that we know, then the garden of Eden was located in that part of the world as well; and of course, it\u2019s from the Garden of Eden that original sin came forth to the human race and then after the flood, this is the exact location where Nimrod was building this tower to heaven, to make a name for himself. They were trying to make a name for themselves and God says no; and God confounded the language and the builders couldn\u2019t cooperate with each other and the mother-child system spread into the whole world. So it\u2019s really a notorious and infamous part of the world and if Zechariah\u2019s vision means what it says and says what it means, what it says is evil is going to relocate there. Obviously, evil spreads throughout the earth but it\u2019s got to have a headquarters, and it\u2019s going to be headquartered in the land of Shinar and I\u2019m getting all of this from verse 11, Zechariah chapter 5, verse 11 (Zech 5:11). The woman comes out of the basket in God\u2019s timing and she goes right back to the land of Shinar, which is a technical word for Mesopotamia or modern day Iraq. 16:46\r\n\r\nSo with all of that being said, prophetically, I think the source of evil in the world is not going to be headquartered in the west as many, many people think. It\u2019s not going to be headquartered in Rome, but it\u2019s going to be headquartered in the east, in modern day Iraq or Babylon; and of course, the antichrist is going to come forward and he\u2019s going to have a global empire. Daniel, 7 says that, the world is going to be divided into ten regions but those, that system that he\u2019s bringing forth it has to have a headquarters, it\u2019s got to have a capital and so the world capital of it, if I\u2019m understanding my Bible correctly, is not going to be Rome, it\u2019s going to be modern day Iraq. If you follow one of my friends, who does a podcast Kim Duarte, she does a podcast called \u201cLife Clips\u201d and she wanted to talk to me about my book on this and so we did a podcast on it at the very end of last year. She has some really interesting footage that she grabbed from different YouTube channels and websites of a young man and I forgot his name, but he is actually going through Babylon and he\u2019s showing that this is what Sadam Husein, you know, was trying to rebuild and it\u2019s really interesting as he\u2019s going through the buildings that have been sort of destroyed through the Gulf War and all these kinds of things, how close Sadam Husein was in rebuilding the whole thing and so if you\u2019re looking for some interesting footage of somebody that has been over there recently, I would encourage you to look at her podcast, I don\u2019t think she\u2019s on YouTube but I think she\u2019s on Rumble and you can find it under \u201cLife Clips\u201d and she played a lot of that footage as she was interviewing me and I didn\u2019t really know she was going to play that footage and I was pleasantly surprised, you know, to see all that. 19:13\r\n\r\nSo this is another piece of the prophetic jigsaw puzzle of Babylon\u2019s future and even before we got to Zechariah chapter 5, the Holy Spirit has already given us other clues that Babylon is going to be rebuilt, before the book of Zechariah was even written. One of those clues is how Babylon was overthrown by the Persians. Babylon was overthrown by the Persians in the handwriting on the wall chapter in the Bible in Daniel chapter 5; and remember how that happened? Belshazzar, the last reigning king of Babylon was partying as if there was no tomorrow and he thought he was invincible because of the walls around the city and he became so arrogant that he took the vessels from the temple\u00a0 that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken in the deportation and he begin to pour alcohol into those vessels and they did it as acting as if they were gods themselves and God doesn\u2019t exist and we can take His vessels used in the temple and use them for profane purposes and Daniel chapter 5 records what happened, this is in 539 BC; and my professor Harlod Hohner, who was a biblical chronologist, who could tell you anything chronologically, he could probably tell you the exact second Adam, you know, got his belly button supposedly, but he says: This happened\u2026 it\u2019s amazing how detailed Hohner was\u2026 October 12th, 539 BC, Saturday night\u2026 (hahaha) and I took a biblical chronology class with him and listened very carefully how he reached his conclusions and most of the information I forgot but I do remember that day he says: This happens Saturday night, October 12th, 539 BC, that\u2019s when the handwriting on the wall chapter took place\u2026 So, Belshazzar is just, you know, acting as if God doesn\u2019t exist and all of the sudden this hand appears and starts to write on the wall where they were having this party; and it\u2019s kind of interesting that excavations of Babylon had found a room that would have been a suitable place archeologically for a banquet like this all the way back in ancient times. So, the hand wrote on the wall: Mene, mene, tekel ufarsin\u2026 which means basically: numbered, numbered, divided; and of course, what does it mean? Numbered, numbered, divided, I mean, that doesn\u2019t mean much, so they had to bring Daniel who was an old man out of retirement I guess cause he had a great reputation for interpreting dreams and that kind of thing and Daniel says, here is the interpretation: This very night your kingdom is going to be divided, it\u2019s going to be given to the Persians\u2026 excuse me, yeah\u2026 your kingdom, Babylon is going to be given to the Persians and you yourself are going to be killed\u2026 and of course, exactly what Daniel said would happened, happened, October 12th, Saturday night, 539 BC\u2026 And essentially what happened is the Babylonians who thought that they were invincible, you know, tunneled under the walls of Babylon because they diverted the river Euphrates and they went\u2026 the Persians went under the walls and they captured the Babylonians and there wasn\u2019t even a battle. There was no proverbial shot even fired and those Babylonians fell into the hands of the Persians when they thought they were at their most invincible point. 23:49\r\n\r\nSo, it\u2019s kind of interesting when we think we\u2019re the most invincible, that\u2019s actually when we are the most vulnerable. It kind of reminds me of how prideful our nation was, prior to 911 and it\u2019s like\u2026 really? Did they do that with box-cutters? I mean, did they really just take down our twin towers? I mean, I thought we were invincible and the truth to the matter is we are not invincible at all, that\u2019s why the Bible talks about\u2026 Unless the Lord, you know, builds the house, the laborers labor in vain, unless the Lord stands guard over the city, the guardsmen guard in vain\u2026 So this is basically what happened to the Babylonians and so they were fired\u2026 they were defeated without even a conflict.\r\n\r\nIsaiah, 13-14\r\n
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          • Day of the Lord (Isa 13:6-9)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
          • Cosmic disturbances (Isa 13:10-13)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
          • Global judgment (Isa 13:11-12)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
          • Sodom and Gomorrah (Isa 13:19)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
          • Complete and final desolation (Isa 13:20-22)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
          • Universal peace and rest (Isa 14:5-8)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
          • Israel\u2019s regeneration (Isa 14:1-4)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nHenry Morris, Revelation Record<\/em>, 348.\r\n\r\nNow, Isaiah when he predicted Babylon would fall, back in the 8th Century, this happened in the 6th Century, says that when Babylon falls, it would be like the day of the Lord, there would be cosmic disturbances, there would be global judgment, the destruction would be just like Sodom and Gomorrah, which is, you know, from the book of Genesis chapter 19, Sodom and Gomorrah was overthrown instantaneously and cataclysmically by God. When Babylon falls, she\u2019ll never be rebuilt and when Babylon falls, the world would enjoy universal peace and rest and when Babylon falls, Israel would be regenerated; and most, very sadly, most Old Testament scholars will tell you that Isaiah, 13 and 14, given in the 8th Century was fulfilled in Daniel, 5, and I\u2019m here to tell you that\u2019s impossible if you care about literal interpretation. If you don\u2019t care about literal interpretation and you think you can make the Bible say whatever you want it to say, oh, it\u2019s just hyperbole, then you can make that argument, but virtually none of Isaiah, 13 and 14, happened in Daniel chapter 5. One of the things Isaiah predicts is God says when Babylon falls I would make man scarcer than pure gold and mankind than the gold of Ophir\u2026 I\u2019m sorry that didn\u2019t happen when Babylon fell to the Persians in Daniel, 5. Isaiah, 13, and verse 20 (Isa 13:20) says, it will never\u2026. concerning Babylon, once it falls: It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there\u2026 Isaiah 13, verse 20 (Isa 13:20) says that and here\u2019s a picture from 1908 roughly of Arabs pitching their tent in modern day Iraq.\r\n\r\nARAB TENT HOME at Babylon 1899-1908 - \u201cIt will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;\u00a0Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there\u201d <\/strong>(Isaiah 13:20)\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.bibleprophecyaswritten.com\/2-arabs\/\r\n\r\nSo obviously, Isaiah, 13, verse 20 has never been fulfilled. Obviously, Isaiah, 13, verse 12 (Isa 13:12) has never been fulfilled and as much as people try to make it sound like, move right along folks, nothing to see here\u2026 Isaiah, 13 to 14 has already been fulfilled in Daniel, 5, the more you look at the details, the more you see that that simply could not be. 27:36\r\n\r\nThis is why the prophet Isaiah in his oracles against the nations, chapters 13 through 23, has not one oracle against Babylon, but two. Now, here Isaiah is dealing with all of these nations judged by God and Babylon is the only nation that gets two oracles. Once in chapters 13 and 14 and another one in chapter 21; and at some point you have to ask yourself how can Babylon get two oracles and all these other nations get one oracle. The answer is: Cause Babylon is going to be destroyed twice. She was defeated by the Persians in Daniel, 5, that\u2019s what Isaiah, 21, is talking about, but she\u2019s going to be destroyed a second time. She has to come back to life so that all of the meticulous details that God predicted in Isaiah, 13 and 14, can be fulfilled. So, even before you get to Zechariah chapter 5, you have the prophet Isaiah describing the destruction of Babylon in such a way that it\u2019s never happened before like that and so the assumption is: God can\u2019t lie, it\u2019s impossible for God to lie, God says what He means and means what He says. So therefore, Babylon has to be brought back to life. She has to become the center of the new world order, so she can be destroyed in the events of the tribulation period; and you\u2019ll see Babylon destroyed in the tribulation period in Revelation, 16, verse 19 (Rev 16:19) in the seventh bowl judgment; and it\u2019s not just Isaiah that talks about the destruction of Babylon, it\u2019s Jeremiah. 29:44\r\n\r\nJeremiah, 50-51\r\n
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            • Sudden destruction (Jer 51:8)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
            • Complete destruction (Jer 50:3, 13, 26, 39-40; 51:29, 43, 62)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
            • No reuse of building materials (Jer 51:26)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
            • Believers flee (Jer 50:8; 51:6, 45)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t
            • Israel\u2019s regeneration (Jer 50:2, 4-5, 20; 51:50)<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nDyer, \"The Identity of Babylon in Revelation 17\u201318 (Part 2),\" 443-49.\r\n\r\nIn roughly the 7th Century, Jeremiah is predicting the fall of Babylon as well and once again, like Isaiah\u2019s writings, Jeremiah\u2019s description of the destruction of Babylon does not fit what happened Saturday night, October 12th, 539 BC in the handwriting on the wall chapter. Jeremiah says: When Babylon falls, it will be sudden, it will be complete. In fact, it will be so complete that people won\u2019t even use Babylon\u2019s building materials again, believers will flee\u2026 Now, October 12th, Saturday night, 539 BC, Daniel, 5, handwriting on the wall chapter, believers didn\u2019t flee, one of them was named Daniel. He didn\u2019t flee. He continued serving in the empire of Persia. So he basically served through four different administrations. A high ranking government official, he served through two Babylonian kings, Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar and he also served through two Persian kings, Darius\u2026 first Cyrus, I guess, and then later Darius. I might have those last two inverted but there\u2019s two of them. Darius and Cyrus. So, Daniel never fled; and Jeremiah says when Babylon falls, believers are going to flee Babylon, and then Jeremiah also predicts that when Babylon falls, Israel is going to be regenerated. I mean, that\u2019s what Isaiah predicted also. That obviously never happened. 31:40\r\n\r\nSo, here are some notes that we have from history.\r\n\r\nHerodotus, Histories<\/em>, 1:191 (450 B.C.)\r\n\r\n\u201c\u2026he (Cyrus) conducted the river by a channel into the lake\u2026and so he made the former course of the river passable by the sinking of the stream<\/u><\/strong>. When this had been done, the Persians who had been posted for this very purpose entered by the bed of the river Euphrates into Babylon, the stream having sunk so far that it reached about to the middle of a man\u2019s thigh\u2026those Babylonians who dwelt in the middle did not know that they had been captured<\/u><\/strong>\u2026\u201d\r\n\r\nHere\u2019s Herodotus. Herodotus is writing about 450 BC, so he\u2019s writing within a century of Babylon\u2019s historic fall to the Persians and he\u2019s describing how the Persians conquered the Babylonians in Daniel 5. He says: \u2026he \u2026Cyrus\u2026 conducted the river by a channel into the lake and so he made the former course of the river passable by the sinking of the stream. When this had been done\u2026 see what the Persians did, is they just diverted the Euphrates River water which allowed them to go under the walls of Babylon, which the Babylonians thought were impregnable and they conquered Babylon without even a battle, when this have been done\u2026 the Persians who had been posted for this very purpose entered by the bed of the river Euphrates into Babylon, the stream having sunk so far that it reached about to the middle of a man\u2019s thigh\u2026 and look at this last sentence here\u2026 those Babylonians who dwelt in the middle did not know that they had been captured\u2026 So there wasn't even a battle and isn\u2019t that like God, right? As Belshazzar is at his most arrogant pinnacle, God creates a situation where his empire falls in that night exactly what Daniel said it would happen as he interpreted the handwriting on the wall without even a battle. So when you\u2019re most secure, as far as God looks at things, you\u2019re probably at your greatest place of insecurity. That\u2019s why we need to find our security, where? In the Lord. 33:42\r\n\r\nThen we have the Cyrus cylinder.\r\n\r\nThere\u2019s a book called \u201cAncient Near Eastern Texts\u201d It goes by the name ANET, I have it in my office, if you ever want to come look at it. I\u2019ve given that offer out many times and I haven\u2019t have any takers yet, but it\u2019s\u2026 basically what it\u2019s is translations of ancient and inscriptions into English where we can read them; and one of the things that is translated is something called the Cyrus Cylinder and this is Cyrus bragging about how easy Cyrus the Persian, how easy it was to conquer Babylon and by the way I should throw this in, when you look at Isaiah, 44, verse 28 (Isa 44:28) very end of the chapter into chapter 45 verse 1 (Isa 45:1) you\u2019ll see God calling out the name Cyrus, two hundred years before it happened. God says: I\u2019m going to use Cyrus to bring the nation back from the captivity\u2026 And you have to understand how radical of a prediction that is. I mean, that would be like two hundred years ago, someone saying, Ronald Wilson Reagan is going to become president of the United States, you know, long before he was born and then Pow! It happened, just like God said. This is why liberals, they cannot handle the book of Isaiah, they don\u2019t know what to do with that. So what they try to do is they try to pretend that Isaiah didn\u2019t write that section. So someone obviously wrote that after the fact, so it\u2019s called the Deutero-Isaiah Theory or the Trido-Isaiah Theory and the problem with it is the Dead Sea scrolls discovery where they found the Isaiah scroll and it doesn\u2019t give any hint that someone other than Isaiah wrote that section. So what people want you to believe is, well, the theory became popular and it died off so by the time the scroll was discovered nobody in Israel believed the theory anymore, which is crazy but it\u2019s very interesting how Isaiah called Cyrus\u2019 name out two hundred years before it happened;\r\n\r\nJames Pritchard - The Ancient Near East Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 315-16. <\/em>\r\n\r\nWithout any battle<\/u><\/strong>... sparing Babylon... any calamity....I am Cyrus...king of Babylon....When I entered Babylon...under jubilation and rejoicing...troops<\/u><\/strong> walked around Babylon...in peace<\/u><\/strong>, I did not allow<\/u><\/strong> anybody to terrorize<\/u><\/strong> (any place) of the [country of Sumer] and Akkad. I strove for peace in Babylon...and in all his (other) sacred cities....I returned to (these) sacred cities on the other side of the Tigris, the sanctuaries of which have been in ruins for a long time, the images which (used) to live therein and established for them permanent sanctuaries<\/u><\/strong>.\r\n\r\nI (also) gathered all their (former) inhabitants and returned (to them) their habitations. Furthermore, I resettled... unharmed<\/u><\/strong>, in their (former) chapels, the places which make them happy. May all the gods whom I have resettled in their sacred cities ask daily Bel and Nebo for a long life for me...all of them I resettled in a peaceful place<\/u><\/strong>... ducks and doves,...I endeavored to fortify\/repair their dwelling places . . .\r\n\r\nand Cyrus, who Isaiah called out by name, boasted on the Cyrus Cylinder, which is translated in ANET, without any battle, sparing Babylon, any calamity, I am Cyrus king of Babylon, when I entered Babylon under jubilation and rejoicing, troops walked around Babylon in peace\u2026 It doesn\u2019t sound like there was any battle, does it? And if there\u2019s no battle then, Jeremiah, 50 and 51 was never fulfilled neither was Isaiah, 13 and 14 fulfilled, unless you want to just say details don\u2019t matter as modern scholarship, unfortunately does. Cyrus boasts: I did not allow anybody to terrorize any place of the country of Sumer\u2026 that\u2019s Babylon\u2026 and Akkad. I strove for peace in Babylon and in all his other sacred cities. I returned to these sacred cities on the other side of the Tigris, the sanctuaries of which have been in ruins for a long time, the images which used to live therein and established for them permanent sanctuaries. I also gathered all their former inhabitants and returned to them their habitations. Furthermore, I resettled unharmed, in their former chapels, the places which make them happy. May all the gods whom I have resettled in their places ask daily Bel and Nebo\u2026 Babylonian deities\u2026 for a long life for me, all of them I resettled in a peaceful place, ducks, doves and I endeavored to fortify and repair their dwelling places\u2026 Now, the thing to understand about Cyrus is he was used by God, his name was called out two hundred years in advance but he was a non-believer, because Isaiah, 45, verse 4 (Isa 45:4) of Cyrus says: \u2026Though you did not know Me\u2026 So God is so sovereign that He can actually use an unbeliever to accomplish His will and because he was a non-believer, he was a polytheist, he believed in many gods, he was not monotheistic and the reason he didn\u2019t terrorize Babylon, when he conquered it by surprise, is he didn\u2019t want the Babylonian deities mad at him. So, he\u2019s talking here in this Cyrus Cylinder about how he went out of his way to not terrorize anything. Let\u2019s make them all happy, let\u2019s keep them all under their little chapels or whatever and maybe they\u2019ll pray that I live a long life. So my point is, when you read the Cyrus Cylinder, there\u2019s no cataclysm, that Jeremiah predicted and then Isaiah predicted, absolutely none. There\u2019s no war, there\u2019s no battle and one of the things it\u2019s predicted is when Babylon falls, she will never be rebuilt again. 39:51\r\n\r\nHere\u2019s a list of things that have happened in Babylon post-Daniel, 5.\r\n\r\nBabylon\u2019s History After 539 B.C.\r\n
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              • Herodotus gives Babylon\u2019s measurements (450 B.C.)<\/li>\r\n \t
              • Alexander the Great visits and dies in Babylon (323 B.C.)<\/li>\r\n \t
              • Seleucus seizes Babylon (312 B.C.)<\/li>\r\n \t
              • Strabo pronounces Babylon\u2019s hanging gardens as one of \u201cseven wonders of the world\u201d (25 B.C)<\/li>\r\n \t
              • Babylonians present on Pentecost (Acts 2:9)<\/li>\r\n \t
              • Talmud promulgated from Babylon (A.D. 500)<\/li>\r\n \t
              • Haukal mentions Babylonian village (A.D. 917)<\/li>\r\n \t
              • Babylon known as \u201cTwo Mosques\u201d and \u201cHilah\u201d (A.D. 1100)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nHitchcock and Ice, The Truth Behind Left Behind<\/em>, 109\r\n\r\nHerodotus gave measurements of Babylon in 450; Alexander the Great visited and died in Babylon in 323; Seleucus seized Babylon 312; Strabo announced Babylon\u2019s hanging gardens as one of \u201cseven wonders of the world\u201d 25 BC; There\u2019s even Babylonians present to hear Peter preach on the day of Pentecost, Acts, 2, verse 9 (Acts 2:9); The Jews developed a legal code for Babylon called the Babylonian Talmud, AD 500; and it continued on as a village and later became known as the \u201cTwo Mosques and \u201cHilah\u201d. So my question is, if Isaiah, 13 and 14, and Jeremiah, 50 and 51 have already been fulfilled in the handwriting on the wall chapter, why is it that both of those prophets predict that when Babylon falls, she will never be rebuilt, she will never be inhabited nor will any Arab pitch his tent there, how could those prophecies have been fulfilled when you have all of this post 539 BC activity in Babylon. In fact, you can probably get on the internet right now as I\u2019m talking and you can find people doing things in Babylon even now as I speak. My point is Isaiah, 13 and 14, and Jeremiah, 50 and 51, have never been fulfilled.\r\n\r\nDr. John Walvoord -The Nations in Prophecy, <\/em>63-64\r\n\r\n\u201cAs far as the historic fulfillment is concerned, it is obvious from both Scripture and history that these verses have not been literally fulfilled<\/u><\/strong>. The city of Babylon<\/u><\/strong> continued to flourish after the Medes conquered it, and though its glory dwindled, especially after the control of the Medes and the Persians ended in 323 B.C., the city continued in some form or substance until A.D. 1000 and did not experience a sudden termination such as anticipated in this prophecy<\/u><\/strong>.\u201d\r\n\r\nJohn Walvoord writes: As far as the historic fulfillment is concerned, it is obvious from both Scripture and history that these verses\u2026 Jeremiah, 50 and 51, Isaiah, 13 and 14\u2026 have not been fulfilled literally. The city of Babylon continued to flourish after the Medes conquered it, and though its glory dwindled, especially after the control of the Medes and the Persians ended in 323 BC, the city continued on in some form or substance until AD 1000 and did not experience a sudden termination as anticipated in this prophecy\u2026\r\n\r\nIf God can\u2019t lie and words mean things and God gave us a book not to confuse us, then you have to have somewhere in history for Jeremiah, 50 and 51 to be fulfilled and the only place it fits is in Revelation, 17 and 18, which is a description of Babylon coming back to life and being the headquarters of Satan\u2019s system.\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s why this chart here, that I found in the writings of Charles Dyer, shows you all of the prophecies in Jeremiah, 50 and 51 that show up in Revelation, 17 and 18. The golden cup; the dwelling of many waters; intoxicating the nations; the name Babylon; persecuting the saints; Babylon being analogized to a stone sinking into the Euphrates, which happens quick, it\u2019s found in both sections; sudden destruction; destruction by fire; final uninhabitability; when Babylon falls, she\u2019ll deserve it; God\u2019s people will flee and heaven will rejoice. So what the book of Revelation is saying is Revelation, 17 and 18, is the time period when Jeremiah, 50 and 51 will be fulfilled. You can\u2019t cram Jeremiah, 50 and 51 back to the handwriting on the wall chapter because the details are going in a completely opposite direction. 44:14\r\n\r\nLarkin, The Book of Revelation<\/em>, 158.\r\n\r\n\u201c\u2026and this is in exact harmony with the words of Isa. 13:19. \u2018And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees\u2019 excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah;\u2019 and the Prophet Jeremiah makes the same statement. Jer. 50:40. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was not protracted through many centuries, their glory disappeared in a few hours (Gen. 19:24\u201328), and as ancient Babylon was not thus destroyed, the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah cannot be fulfilled unless there is to be a future Babylon that shall be thus destroyed<\/u>.<\/strong> In Rev. 16:17\u201319, we are told that Babylon shall be destroyed by an Earthquake, attended with most vivid and incessant lightning and awful thunder.\u201d<\/strong>\r\n\r\nSo Clarence Larkin says: \u2026as ancient Babylon was not thus destroyed, the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah cannot be fulfilled unless there is to be a future Babylon that shall be thus destroyed\u2026 That\u2019s my point, and see, we haven\u2019t even gotten to Zechariah, 5 yet. Zechariah, 5 hasn\u2019t even been written yet. Even before you get to Zechariah chapter 5, you have two prophets on the books, one from the 8th Century roughly, one from the 7th Century roughly calling for the destruction of Babylon in such a way that it has to come back to life so it can be destroyed exactly like God said in bowl judgment number 7. So then, we finally come to the book of Zechariah where Zechariah had his eight night visions in which year? 519 BC. So he is writing twenty years after the handwriting on the wall chapter. See, you might want to massage if you could Isaiah, 13 and 14 and Jeremiah, 50 and 51 and try to make some case that it was fulfilled in Daniel, 5 but you can\u2019t do that with Zechariah because Zechariah wrote twenty years later. I mean, Zechariah is writing when Babylon already is in the hands of the Persians, twenty years in the rear view mirror.\r\n\r\nNewton in his commentary says:\r\n\r\nNewton - Babylon: Its Future, History, and Doom<\/em>, 1890, p. 64.\r\n\r\n\u201cThat this event predicted in this remarkable passage remains still unaccomplished, is sufficiently evident from the fact of Zechariah\u2019s having prophesied after<\/u><\/strong> Babylon had received that blow under which it has gradually waned. Zechariah lived after<\/u><\/strong> Babylon had passed into the hands of the Persians . . .\u201d\r\n\r\nThat this event, predicted in this remarkable passage\u2026 That\u2019s our woman in the basket\u2026 remains still unaccomplished, is sufficiently evident from the fact of Zechariah\u2019s having prophesied after Babylon had received the blow under which it has gradually waned. Zechariah lived after Babylon had passed into the hands of the Persians\u2026 So look at the details the Holy Spirit is giving us concerning Babylon\u2019s future: (a) Isaiah, 13 and 14; (b) Jeremiah, 50 and 51, both of which were never fulfilled in Daniel, 5; (c ) Zechariah, 5 verse 11; which leads us into (d) Revelation, 17 and 18, where the city comes back to life and it\u2019s destroyed in bowl judgment number seven. 47:00\r\n\r\nDoes it make sense as far as current events are concerned that the capital of the world would be located in modern day Iraq? Henry Morris in his Revelation commentary says:\r\n\r\nMorris - The Revelation Record, 349<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u201cComputer studies of the Institute for Creation Research have shown, for example, that Babylon is very near the geographical center of all the earth\u2019s land masses<\/u><\/strong>. It is within navigable distances of the Persian Gulf and is at the crossroads of the three great continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. Thus there is no more ideal location anywhere for a world trade center, a world communication center, a world banking center, a world educational center, or especially, a world capital!<\/u><\/strong> The greatest historian of modern times, Arnold Toynbee, used to stress to all his readers and hearers that Babylon would be the best place in the world to build a future world cultural metropolis.\u201d\r\n\r\nComputer studies of the Institute for Creation Research have shown that Babylon is very near the geographical center of all the earth\u2019s land masses. It is within navigable distance of the Persian Gulf and the crossroads of the three great continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. Thus there is no more ideal location anywhere for a world trade center, a world communication center, a world banking center, a world educational center, or especially, a world capital\u2026 Now, what he is saying here is Babylon would be a great place for a world capital geographically. By the way, where is most of the world's oil supply? Middle East.\r\n\r\nSo, this chart is little dated but if the antichrist were to set up shop in Iraq, which is what I think is going to happen and he were to annex the surrounding countries within a heartbeat, he would control 60% of the world\u2019s oil supply and of course, that kind of thing would bring the United States to his knees, given the policies of the current administration which have moved us away from energy independence to energy what? Dependence. I mean, whatever you think about the change of leadership that\u2019s happening in our country, that.. Gosh, to me it is one of the most tragic things I\u2019ve ever seen happen in such a short period of time, by the way, through executive orders, where you sign a piece of paper and all of the sudden, we\u2019re not energy independent anymore and then we\u2019re all sitting around scratching our heads wondering why the price of everything keeps going up, including the price of gasoline, etc\u2026 I mean, what is happening now is making us dependent on the Middle East, that\u2019s where the oil is; and the antichrist shows up, sets up shop in Iraq, annexes the surrounding nations and it controls the world just like that. So what I\u2019m showing you, is that, what I am articulating here or trying to articulate, it\u2019s a credible scenario current events wise; and almost every time you turn around, the United Nations is drawing attention to Iraq. Here\u2019s an article that says: Iraq celebrates naming Babylon an UNESCO world heritage site.\r\n\r\nIraq Celebrates Naming Babylon a UNESCO World Heritage Site - QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA of Times of Israel - July 6, 2019\r\n\r\n\u201cBAGHDAD (AP) \u2014 Iraq on Friday celebrated the UNESCO World Heritage Committee\u2019s decision to name the historic city of Babylon a World Heritage Site in a vote held in Azerbaijan\u2019s capital, years after Baghdad began campaigning for the site to be added to the list\u2026The 4,300-year-old Babylon \u2014 now mainly an archaeological ruin and two important museums \u2014 is where dynasties have risen and fallen since the earliest days of settled human civilization. King Hammurabi wrote his famous code of laws in Babylon, while Nebuchadnezzar sent his vast army from the city to Jerusalem to put down an uprising and bring the Jews back as slaves.\u201d\r\n\r\nNow, here\u2019s an absolutely fascinating article\u2026 I learned of this article from my friend Brandon House who has this included in one of his books and basically it\u2019s a couple of professors at the Army War College and I don\u2019t know if they are Christians or not, I don\u2019t know if they are believers or not, I don\u2019t know if they know anything about Bible prophecy or not but they\u2019re involved in this sort of discussion about the United Nations and where it should move to; and personally, I\u2019m sort of happy people are talking about getting it out of our country, but that\u2019s another sermon for another day. So they\u2019re trying to figure out well\u2026 if the United Nations moves, where should it move? And lo and behold, there\u2019s this whole article that they do where they\u2019re saying: Iraq could be a great place and they give all these reasons, nothing\u2026 there\u2019s no Bible references cited, all these sort of practical reasons why, you know, the\u2026 Iraq would be a great place to move the UN to. 51:31\r\n\r\n\u201cWant Middle East Stability? Move UN to Iraq\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cThe idea of moving U.N. headquarters seems to resonate with many....Where should it go? Try Iraq\u2026In order to maintain its fledgling democracy, Iraq needs international commitment, an inducement to stop factional violence, and a stable form of income not subject to the terrorists\u2019 reprisals\u2026New York is an expensive city, and representation at the U.N. is currently a costly endeavor\u2026The remaining big spenders should have a positive effect on the Iraqi job market and improve the overall economy of the entire region, which might in turn reduce the tendency \u2026\u201d\r\n\r\nCynthia E. Ayers and David W. Cammons, \u201cWant Middle East Stability? Move UN to Iraq,\u201d Newsweek, April 9, 2007, posted at: Http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/postglobal\/needtoknow\/2007\/04\/want_middle_east_stability_mov.html\r\n\r\nSo, we\u2019re living in this time period where cities, particularly in that part of the world spring up almost overnight. I found this article here and it\u2019s entitled \u201cA Prince\u2019s $500 Billion Desert Dream: Flying Cars, Robot Dinosaurs and a Giant Artificial Moon\u201d doesn\u2019t that sound fun?\r\n\r\nA Prince\u2019s $500 Billion Desert Dream: Flying Cars, Robot Dinosaurs and a Giant Artificial Moon\r\n\r\n\u201cSaudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince turned to U.S. consultants for help imagining a massive new city-state in a barren section of his kingdom. What emerged was a Jetsons-style world of automation<\/u><\/strong>. SHARMA, Saudi Arabia\u2014This seaside corner of northwest Saudi Arabia is so barren that the only abundant resources a group of consultants could identify were sunlight and \u2018unlimited access to salt water.\u2019 But Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman didn\u2019t see a wasteland when he landed in his helicopter here a few years ago. He saw the future \u2014 and hatched a plan for a $500 billion city-state to cover 10,000 square miles of rocky desert and empty coastline to attract the \u2018world\u2019s greatest minds and best talents\u2019 to the world\u2019s best paying jobs in the world\u2019s most livable city.\u201d\r\n\r\nJustin Scheck, Rory Jones, and Summer Sawww.wsj.comid, \u201cA Prince\u2019s $500 Billion Dollar Desert Dream,\u201d online:, 25 July 2019.\r\n\r\nAnd it says: Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince turned to U.S. consultants for help imagining\u2026 Well, they like that word, reimagine, don\u2019t they?... for help imagining a massive new city-state in a barren section of his kingdom. What emerged was a Jetsons-style world of automation\u2026 and the article goes on and it just describes this city that was built in Saudi Arabia almost overnight. Now, actually, I may have\u2026 yeap\u2026 and then of course, you have the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Look where Dubai is and look where Iraq is.\r\n\r\nThey\u2019re pretty close to each other, aren\u2019t they? Dubai is another example of a city in that part of the world, a flourishing city.\r\n\r\nLet me backup for just a minute. I was struggling to remember the name of this city where this Saudi Arabian crown Prince wants to build this city, is Neom, N-E-O-M, Saudi Arabia; and then in Saudi Arabia is not that far from Iraq. Then in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, there\u2019s what Dubai looks like today and that\u2019s another city that came up almost overnight.\r\n\r\nSo, it\u2019s really interesting to me that as we\u2019re looking at this in the Bible, we\u2019re seeing examples in our world of cities in that region that pop-up almost overnight when there was nothing there before but desert sand. It\u2019s like the Lord is trying to get our attention or something. I think what the Lord is saying is: Look how easy my word could be fulfilled, because that\u2019s what Zechariah, 5 is predicting. The woman is let out of the basket and she goes back to Shinar to build this for a pedestal to be built for her; and then, and I think this is the last thing I\u2019ll cover here. You have something called the Abrahamic House, have you seen this? You can go online and you can google this and it\u2019s like a\u2026. they take you on like a visual tour on these three houses.\r\n\r\nThese three houses are also built in the UAE, United Arab Emirates, and it\u2019s called the Abrahamic House or Houses because Abraham is the tie that binds, right? Because Abraham is respected, the thinking goes, by the three great faiths of the world. The name Abraham is respected in Islam, the name Abraham is respected in Christendom, the name Abraham is respected in Judaism and so that\u2019s why they\u2019re all focusing on this name Abraham because they\u2019re trying to tie together all of the faiths of the world, especially the three great faiths that we know of, Islam, Christendom and Judaism. 55:31\r\n\r\nSo, you might remember from the Trump era, Jared Kushner and his work with the Abraham Accords, you\u2019ve heard of that, right? Why was the name Abraham selected? Because that\u2019s the common name that the Jews can agree with and the Muslims can agree with. So Abraham is the tie that binds. So you go online and you look at this Abrahamic House and basically what it is are three houses and each house represents one of those three great faiths and the whole point of this is, look at what\u2026 look we have everything in common and the Pope, of all people, when he wants to have a kind of a world religions gathering, he doesn\u2019t have these gatherings, and there\u2019s been about three of them that I\u2019ve known of recently, he doesn\u2019t have them in Rome, Vatican City, he wants to have them here in the Middle East. So, I have this news clipping here related to this Abrahamic House and it says: A one world religion headquarters is set to open in 2022\u2026 Hey, guess what? we\u2019re in 2022 now. The headquarters will be called the Abrahamic Family House and it\u2019s been built in the Middle Eastern City of Dubai. The headquarters is being done in collaboration with Pope Francis\u2026 You know, the Pope doesn\u2019t want it in Rome, he wants it in the Middle East\u2026 this headquarters, the headquarters is being done in collaboration with Pope Francis, Sunni Muslim leader, Sheikh\u2026 and I\u2019m not even going to try to pronounce that last name\u2026 after they both signed a global peace covenant called the \u201cDocument of Human Fraternity for World Peace\u201d The stated purpose of the Abrahamic Family House is to bring understanding and tolerance among the faiths\u2026 So that\u2019s why the name Abraham is chosen, cause Abraham is the tie that binds\u2026 The One World Religion Headquarters will have three buildings; one building each representing the mosque, the church, and the synagogue\u2026 Interestingly, though\u2026 However, the church is not permitted to have a cross on the building as a method of identifying it, as it is illegal to display a Christian cross on a building in the United Arab Emirates\u2026 Connected to this construction project will be an interfaith council to oversee projects which aim to advance tolerance\u2026 So, I am saying that the Abrahamic Family House is the final capital of the antichrist? That\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying, what I\u2019m saying is, it\u2019s interesting that when they\u2019re looking for a headquarters of this whole thing, they keep picking locations, not in the west, but in the east. That\u2019s exactly what your Bible says would happen, because the United Arab Emirates is not that far geographically from Iraq, which is going to be if Zechariah chapter 5, verse 11 (Zech 5:11) has been interpreted correctly, that\u2019s going to be the headquarters of the antichrist. So the new world order is being built. I mean, I think that\u2019s where all of this mask mandates, you know, the jab and tracking devices and the world economic forum, I mean all this craziness that we\u2019ve seen for the last two years, what it all is, really at the end of the day, is a giant push into globalism. I\u2019m not saying that COVID is unreal, because I personally know people that have died from COVID related issues. What I\u2019m saying is there\u2019s a much bigger virus than COVID, which could very well have been manufactured as a biological weapon. The virus to keep your eye on, is not COVID, just COVID. It\u2019s the apparatus that\u2019s being erected to supposedly curb COVID and the apparatus that\u2019s being erected is one world government. You have to understand something, that never before in the history of mankind, that I know of, has a single thing like we\u2019re seeing now with COVID united the whole planet. I mean, I\u2019m just shocked at how fast it\u2019s happened and I\u2019ve been studying prophecy for a long time. I am shocked, I can\u2019t believe how fast global regulations are coming into place, travel regulations are coming into place, because of COVID. So if you want to watch a virus, look at the world government that\u2019s being constructed as I speak, but the new world order needs a headquarters so as you watch these global elites, it\u2019s like they\u2019re trying to figure out where are we going to have a headquarters for this whole thing\u2026 I know, the Middle East would be a great place. Saudi Arabia, Dubai, the Abrahamic Family House, those are all the suggestions that they\u2019re coming up with; and what I\u2019m trying to say is that\u2019s exactly what Zechariah, 5, verse 11 said five hundred years before the time of Christ; and it has to happen this way for Isaiah\u2019s prophecies to be fulfilled, Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies to be fulfilled, Zechariah\u2019s prophecies to be fulfilled, it\u2019s all fulfilled in Revelation, 17 and 18 with the opening or the pouring out of the seventh trumpets judgment, that\u2019s when Babylon falls. Babylon can\u2019t fall cataclysmically until she becomes the headquarters of the entire world. 1:02:14\r\n\r\nSo, what I was going to do tonight, is I was going to review Zechariah, 5 briefly and then cover chapter 6 verses 1 through 8 (laughs). So that was my introduction (laughs). No, we\u2019ll\u2026. I have to change what I wrote on the website. So, Ann when you post this, just call it Zechariah, 5, verse 11 forget the chapter 6, verses 1 through 8 which we\u2019ll do next time.\r\n\r\nAlright, it\u2019s 8:02, you guys are\u2026 you guys feel free to take off if you need to do that\u2026","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t