Revelation 18: 2: A cage for every unclean and hateful bird
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"And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird."
Revelation 18: 2, New American Standard Bible Copyright 1995
Do you ever get the feeling we're living in the End Times? I sure as hell do. (Pun quite intended.)
The Book of Revelation is traditionally a very difficult book of the Bible to interpret but it seems pretty clear two things from this quote: The 'Babylon' to which the writer of the Book of Revelation was referring does not seem to be the Babylon of old-it is some other nation being being referred to as a metonymy, and the demons and unclean spirits and 'hateful birds' are spirits of corruption, larceny, greed, etc.
So which nation on Earth seems likely to be this new 'Whore of Babylon'? Well it could be anyone or maybe one that doesn't exist today. But I would bet on it being right here. The Whore of Babylon will be home grown. We have the precursors for a system such as that laid out in Revelation now. A global financial system, in which wealth is traded horizontally among the tiny ultra elite class who freely trade in goods and slaves. This isn't here obviously yet but let's examine the writing on the wall.
We already in this nation have a system in which a sovereign government has no right or ability to print its own money-the only legal entity in the nation is the Federal Reserve-a conglomerate of private banking intererests. Now this is old, old news and it's like beating a horse skeleton to repeat it but bear with me. Consider that this is a form of bondage which keeps the American citizen and the American Government both held in sway to the will of the Banks. A form of financial slavery of which we are all born into. A one world government will have a single currency which will probably be fiat and will be controlled by a tiny handful of powerful elite.
The one world government of the Book of Revelation will have total control over all aspects of life including commerce, religion, finance, etc. We don't don't have a one world government right now but we have in our midst a tiny prototypical experiment, The European Union. While it looks like it's in serious trouble and maybe on the verge of collapse it still stands that this monolithic system has already been tested. There are only a handful of institutions which would be able to rule a One World Government. The financial system will probably be something like that in Bolshevik Russia and I dare say that Catholicism will probably be the religion as it is one of the few institutions with the power to influence world politics on the scale in which it does. And it goes more or less without saying that the only kind of government that could possibly stand as a One World Government would be a tyranny and a police state. An autocracy. The evidence for this is spelled out in Revelation also. And if you want a model for this sort of activity going on today there are a number of police states out there, Indonesia being a notable one. England also is absolutely obsessed control of the population in fine detail.
Another (frightening) aspect of the One World Order of Revelation is the routine trade of slaves (souls) as goods. If you believe the world will never see slavery again well, I wouldn't hold my breath. Already it appears that the status quo is gearing up to create two classes of people-the ultra rich and the ultra poor. I ask you-how will these permanently unemployed ultra poor survive? And if you don't believe that American institutions already embrace a form of indenture that's little above slavery take the case of the notorious 'Ipod City'; Apple's Ipod manufacturing plant in China where the workers literally earn pennies a day and live in dormitories and where conditions are so bad that the workers made shows of jumping off the railings from the upper stories of the plant in suicide while American Executives visited the plants. This Apple here-Good old Steve Jobs' company. He must be rolling in his grave. I don't think he would have approved. Either way it's become what it's become. The company's response? Put nets up to stop people from jumping to their death. American Industry's response in general? Threaten China that if it attempts to enact laws protecting its workers and holding American Industrialists accountable for such Human Rights violations that it will withdraw industry and funding from China. And right now the Chinese are living the 'American Dream' through American funding. If Industrialists can get away with this kind of enforced servitude today who knows what they'll be able to get away with in the future.
This passage might not be very persuasive to some but to me I see all these things unfolding just as spelled out in the Book of Revelation. We're in the embryonic stages of the 'Great Tribulation' now. It's all prophesy coming to the fore as my father would say.
So what do I suggest? Vote now while you still can because who knows how long we'll still be able. The Whore of Babylon could be right around the corner with her cup of filth.
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