America and Mystery Babylon

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Greetings friends, this is Steve Dupuis for the Bible News Prophecy Program with Dr. Bob Teal bringing you news and analysis of world events and light of Bible prophecy.

Dr. Teal, it seems like everyone senses there is dread and the horizon of humanity.

Is there any connection between mystery Babylon from the book of Revelation and the United States?

Yes, but it's not the way some believe.

This week, a son article, this title was, is American Mystery Babylon.

It says that for over 2,000 years, prophecy students have wondered about mystery Babylon of Revelation 17 and 18.

Traditionally, the article says many have pointed to Rome, but sitting on seven hills of persecuted saints, clothed in purple and scarlet.

Others have said it's more literals got to do with Iraq. He says there's third theory.

It's controversial, unsettling, increasingly discussed. That's a different question.

Could the United States of America be the final manifestation of mystery Babylon?

Does Revelation 17 describes a woman sitting on many waters?

Ancient Babylon sat on one river. Rome ruled one sea, but the United States is uniquely positioned in Atlantic Ocean to the east.

Pacific Ocean to the west. Gulf of Mexico to the south. Great Lakes to the north.

Mississippi River running through its heart. No nation history has been so literally surrounded by waters.

So is this third option correct? America is indeed surrounded by many waters.

Travel Canada is similar to this way. So the United States is not totally unique that way.

But the article mentions the fact that Rome ruled one sea.

And that is the prophesied sea that the Babylonian beast power is associated directly with from the Bible.

If you've got a Bible, you can follow along going to Revelation 13, starting in verse 1.

I'm going to read this from the New King James Version of the Bible.

John says, I stood on the sand of the sea and I saw a beast rising up out of the sea.

Seven heads, ten horns, and blasphemous name. It was like a leopard, feet like feet of a bear, mouth like mouth of lion.

The dragon Satan gave him his power throwing great authority.

The saw one of his heads had been mortally wounded.

And this desert wound was healed. Well, world, world, world, world were two.

The German access powers. They were defeated.

What's interesting.

Well, but it's good. This wound is going to be healed in all the world marveled and followed the beast.

They worshiped the dragon who he gave with dirty the beast and they worship the beast.

Who's like the beast? You can make war with him.

So we see this composite beast with different parts.

Well, if you go to Daniel, Neil Testament, Daniel chapter seven, starting in verse two, we read.

You saw an invitation by night.

Four winds of heaven. We're stirring up the great sea.

Four great beasts came up each different with each other versus like a lion.

Next was like a bear.

The other one was like a leopard.

And after this verse seven, saw fourth beast dreadful and terrible strong head iron teeth.

It was devoured, breaking in pieces, trampling a residue with its feet.

It was different from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns.

Very similar to the composite beast of what we read about in Revelation chapter 13.

And he says.

This was from the great sea.

So if we are to be looking for a ruler that rises out of the great sea, what sea should we be looking at?

According to the Bible, the great sea, which is one that bordered ancient lands of Israel, was a Mediterranean sea.

Now you can look this up. You prove it to yourself.

First chapter 34, Joshua chapter one, Joshua nine, Joshua 23, and is equal 47.

That's the sea that Daniels referring to. That's the sea of Revelation 13.

The United States of America is not directly connected with the Mediterranean sea in this prophetic way.

Although we have own misinterpretations that Protestant prophecy writer Joel Richardson, New York Times bestselling author,

says that yeah, some people claim America's Babylon, but the prophecies don't fit.

He said that he understood the United States has profound influence around the world.

But the United States does not represent the greatest system of false religion that mankind has ever known.

The United States is not the great false religion. It's not the great system of idolatry.

So as America sometimes accused of being the example of false religion of materialism, etc.

But other countries are like that as well.

So as the city of the anti-Christ must serve as a great system of idolatry.

It's got to persecute the body of Christ.

And so since that's just not the United States.

So anyway, I agree with them. It's not the United States.

Now back into that is America mystery Babylon article.

It pointed this scripture about many waters.

Yet two parts of this, the Church of Rome certainly was ruled over many waters as its rule over kings and governors in both Eastern and Western hemisphere.

And later I'll explain what the prophecy actually says with that.

Furthermore, there in Rome is the St. John's Latter-in Church, which is Church of Rome's premier cathedral.

It's got an inscription on it in Latin translated in English, which means sacred Latter-in Church, mother and head of all churches of the city and the world.

Roman Catholic Church considers it some other church of the other world's churches are its children as daughters.

Now really you can't say that about the United States.

Now getting back to the is America mystery Babylon article.

It also says that a revelation describes Babylon as a woman adorned in luxury holding up a golden cup.

Then it says America's most recognized symbol is a statue glory, although she does not have a golden cup.

In any comments that Washington DC has ejection Roman Masonic symbolism, it's got an obelisk.

Well, yeah, the United States has got a lot of pagan symbols, but so do a lot of other nations.

As far as a large obelisk goes, there's one I've seen in Vatican City.

If a lot of nations have pagan symbols, how are we supposed to tell which one is mystery Babylon the Great?

By looking at what the Bible says in Revelation 17, we find that there's a woman who sits on her rides a scarlet beast and she's arrayed in purple and scarlet in gold.

An underneath before has written mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.

And says this here, the seven heads of the seven mountains which she sits in the evening corner Roman Catholic scholars.

This is reference to Rome and the waters which she sits are people's multitudes nations and tongues.

It doesn't say it's the Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean and takes like that.

It says horns which you saw in the beast will hate her and eventually destroy her and says the woman you saw is the great city which rules over the kings of the earth.

And again, and St. John's Ladder and Church, it says they're the mother of the world's churches and the city.

So there's all kinds of ties into to Rome in terms of colors, ambitious of Rome, where you in use purple.

In terms of scarlet, their cargels were scarlet, they're purple.

Now, as far as the original Bible goes, in the book of Genesis, you can read about the Tower of Babel.

In Zilla him chapter, we read that all the world had one speech and they decided not to listen to God and they all wanted to stay together to build themselves a tower.

Because they want to get spread all broad.

Versailles' God came down, saw the city, said, hey, they got one language.

I'm going to go down and confuse their language so they won't understand each other's speech.

So God does this so the name is called Babel.

Multiple language confusion because the Lord confused the language of all the earth and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

I'm not sure I understand the connection of those verses.

Well, that's because the European Union has at least 24 official languages and it actually uses something like the Tower of Babel to symbolize itself.

Its own parliament building is intentionally unfinished like the Tower of Babel.

And there's a poster which I'll hold up here.

We're going to use the Tower of Babel for a symbol.

And it says Europe many languages one voice is basically mocking what God did.

Furthermore, when I was in Greece, I got a two-year-old coin and on it in the two-year-old coin they show a woman writing a beast.

So those European connections are much closer than the United States having an obelisk and a statue of liberty.

The Bible itself specifically warns about a religious system based out the city of seven hills that rise to European peace power.

We'll go back to the USA and mystery of Babylon. Are there any others that feel the United States is Babylon the Great?

Yeah, based on writings from Ellen White, the 17th Adventist Church, they were runnously identified the United States as a two-horned beast of Revelation 1310.

And that's the one that promotes the beast that rises from the sea.

And the position of the building and the churches of God difference completely from those held by the SDAs and their leaders.

In what way?

The Church of God writers of the last couple of centuries tying in the two-horned beast with the fact that the Roman Catholic Potts have both civil power as had the Vatican state, the religious power as head of the Roman Catholic religion.

Could you add a little bit more to that force?

Yeah, the Church of God teaches its two-horned beast represents the false prophet who leads the final and revised large church claim to papacy, the Sianic Christ.

And the other beast that rises from Mediterranean Sea is the leader of the Revive Roman Empire.

Now, getting back to the America mystery Babylon article also states, three times from Revelation 18, the same phrase is repeated in one hour.

Modern intercontinental missiles travel from North to South in minutes. A full exchange would conclude in an hour.

And it's possible. Jeremiah repeatedly warns that Babylon's destroyers come from the North.

And it says, for the United States, the shortest missile pass from the greatest adversary passes over the North Pole.

Now, the article is correct that a powerful North will destroy End Time Babylon.

Jeremiah wrote, chapter 50, verse 2, declare among the nations proclaim it.

So say, Babylon is taken, for out of the North, the nation comes up against her, which will make her land desolate.

And going down to verse 41, Jeremiah is inspired to write,

behold, the people come from the North, a great nation and many kings will be raised up from the ends of the earth.

It's not just Russia.

Set an array like a man for battle against you, old daughter of Babylon.

So it's not ancient Babylon. It's different. The End Time Babylon.

Verse 43, the king of Babylon has heard this report. His hands have grown feeble. Anguish is taken on him.

Payings is the woman in childbirth. Now, this is a nation from the North.

Well, Canada is a nation that's North United States, and it's not going to fulfill that prophecy.

But Europe, there's something north of Europe, and that's Russia.

It and its allies consists from the ends of the earth.

We're going to destroy End Time European Babylon.

America is not End Time mystery Babylon, though it will one day face quick destruction.

What is America's tie to mystery Babylon?

What is tie to mystery Babylon is the Bible prophesized in Daniel 1139 that the power with the strongest military,

which means the United States in this century, will be conquered by a future European leader,

referred to also as a king of the North.

Other prophecies, such as Isaiah 10, show that, quote,

and hypocritical nation, old King James, meaning United States,

is going to be destroyed by a European power.

So that's the tie. The biblical reality is that End Time Babylon is a church state alliance connected to the Mediterranean Sea

in which the United States is not.

Mystery Babylon, the great, has to do with the European power that cooperate with Rome, the film City of Seven Hills.

And again, this connection to the United States is that it will lead the conquering of it.

Thank you, Dr. Till. For more interviews with Dr. Till in addition to written, as well as audio articles,

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