I.
Introduction II.
Background III.
The Candidates IV. New
York City, USA
New
York City as Mystery, Babylon
(Note:
To avoid going off message all links that support this position as well as point
to the impending manifestation thereof are tabulated in the consecutive order
of their of appearance on the related links page
as well as highlighted in the main text body.)
III.
The Candidates
(Note: No disrespect
to these authors is intended as they all have done very good and very extensive
work on this subject. The "conspiracy theorist" has merely come across additional
information that proves this article's supposition: The location of Mystery, Babylon
as New York City, USA).
A. Rome
This
one is perhaps the most popular the most obvious being the home of the Catholic
Church as exemplified by popular Christian authors Dave Hunt and Hal Lindsey.
There is a lot symbolism to support this position:
Here the Goddess
Sophia (on right from theosophic.org)
is gathering "Illumination" or "Knowledge" to become God, the real One from a
chalice that is symbolic of the Holy Grail and not necessarily a physical golden
chalice. By the way, her name should sound familiar as it is rooted in Theosophy
(Theo god and sophy or sophia knowledge) as in "Madame" Blavatsky as in one of
Adolf Hitler's heroes and documented in "The Theory of LIVEvolution". The image
on the left (from St. John's the Divine 'seer') illustrates a similar concept
of "ILLUMINATION" this time with the blasphemous so-called "Mary, the Mother of
God".
ii. A City on Seven
Hills
This is also cited as solid
proof that the whore has to be Rome and the Catholic Church:
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. (Revelation 17:9)
Rome is known
as the City that sits on Seven Hills in most geography books. However, we have
one problem: The City of Rome is split by the Tiber River with the Seven Hills
located on the east side and Vatican City the west. Also, as will be explained
later the Bible utilizes copious symbolism. One instance is representing "kingdoms"
as "mountains". Notice this verse mentions mountains and not hills.
The
Catholic Church's fascination with Sun god worship is represented by such things
as the prominent obelisk in the middle of circular Saint Peter's square inside
the Vatican brought to Rome in AD 38. and the sun god looking thingie called the
monstrance carried today by the Pope and other clergy. Sun god worship has been
around since the dawn of humanity itself and is rooted in the first organized
civilization, Ancient Babylon as well as Ancient Egypt, the source of the "New"
Age as documented in here and "The Theory of LIVEvolution". Therefore, by this
very reality alone we see that the Catholic Church is a subset of the Ancient
Babylonian and Egyptian systems. This is confirmed by the fact that these two
systems influenced the subsequent Media-Persian, Grecian and Roman Empires. The
Catholic Church arose out of the latter; hence it is in fact a subset of the Babylonian
system.
iv. The prosecution
of the Saints
There is no
denying that the Romans severely persecuted the true Saints, those that died the
most gruesome deaths due solely to their belief in Jesus Christ as the King of
humanity rather than the Roman Caesars. (By the way this is another of the copious
lies of the Catholics with their Saint this and Saint that. ANYBODY that accepts
the free gift of the pardon of sins vis a vis Jesus' death on the cross is a redeemed
and perfect soul hence a Saint). The formation of the Catholic Church by Emperor
Constantine in 325 AD is a classic example of 'if you can't beat em, join em'.
This is exactly what they did to win over the zealous and sometimes pesky Christians
who were starting to get the masses to listen. Unfortunately many true Christians
took the Roman bait and compromised their beliefs for this world. Emperor Constantine
and his religious associates simply took Biblical Christianity and mixed in their
own "New" Age pagan beliefs (like sun god worship) taken from Ancient Babylon
to create the hodgepodge of blasphemy that we know today as the Roman Catholic
Church. But again, the source of their fake religious customs predated them by
several thousand years and today is much bigger than solely the Catholic Church.
v. Those that know the Truth
have a greater responsibility
The
Catholic Church has deserved this unworthy recognition as the leading candidate
as the whore of Babylon due to its continuing disgraceful existence from the Inquisition
to cooperation with the Nazis and Mussolini before World War II and assisting
the Nazis after with things like the Ratlines to pedophile priests not to mention
its massive wealth and corresponding hypocrisy. In Ezekiel 33 God makes the concept
of knowing Him and doing nothing or worse practicing evil is an unforgivable combination:
But if the watchman
see the sword come and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if
the sword come and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. (Verse 33:6)
One
can little argue that the Catholic Church is guilty of this unforgivable sin of
knowledge of God, the real One, combined with dragging His name through the mud
with a long history of greed, gluttony, self-aggrandizement and outright evil.
However, I have found a "better"
candidate for the whore of Babylon.
(The
best sources of the blasphemies and evil of the Catholic Church can be found on
thebereancall.org.
Such a discussion is outside the realm of the intent here).
B. The physical Babylon, Iraq
Many
well known prophecy scholars have identified the literal City of Babylon as the
reincarnation of the Mystery, Babylon pasted by God, the real One, as described
in numerous accounts in the Old and New Testaments. These include Tim Lahay and
Jeremy B. Jenkins of "Left Behind" fame, Joel Rosenberg of the popular "Epicenter",
John Walvoord and Mark Hitchcock who authored "Iraq, Oil and Armageddon" and Rodrigo
Silva who has an excellent web site especially on the unraveling Middle East situation
entitled BibleProphecyintheNews.com.
But again, these people are incorrect in their conclusions in this instance.
They cite numerous passages in scripture and combined them with
the goings on with the modern (now deceased) Nebuchadnezzar, Saddam Hussein. Granted
the Middle East is a veritable hotbed with believe in Allah or off with your heads
all you infidels who dare question our "religion of peace" or Islam for short
pitted against God's Chosen, albeit far from perfect, People, Israel (now the
Jews in Israel). Fortunately, the rotten Saddam Hussein, the self professed modern
reincarnated Nebuchadnezzar ended up being captured and hung courtesy Skull and
Bones Bush II and friends. Some speculate that the United States is the one who
will be responsible for the restoration of the Ancient City of Babylon since it
is pouring so much money into the place post-invasion. However, these people fail
to realize that good 'ol Uncle Sam is a ponzi scheme courtesy our gang banker
criminal masters over at the "Fed". In other words, we may be building all kinds
of embassies and the like in and around Baghdad and even Babylon but we cannot
afford it, or anything else for that matter, much longer today, December 2008.
Rodrigo Silva makes the compelling case that the recent olive
branch being extended by the Catholic Church to the Islamic world to have some
kind of interfaith love fest will be the impetus for the one world religious system.
Very briefly his analysis does not include any mention of the United States, Eastern
religions, the international criminal banksta racket headquartered here in the
"financial capital of the world", the eco wackos or the UN-dead. Again I find
it illogical that these things can all be overlooked given their influence over
most of the world. And Islam, like Roman Catholicism, is a pagan-based religion
that is rooted in the Ancient Babylonian system of sun and moon worship. Lunar
worship in particular is prevalent in Islam and one need look no further than
its guiding symbol which is a crescent moon. Therefore, it too, just like Roman
Catholicism, is a subset to the original Babylonian system.
In summary, we are left with a case where we have two major
religions that are looking to unite (at least this is what they claim but that's
another article) but are still subsets of the Babylonian (i.e., "Legendary" Atlantis)
religious/political system. Moreover, the entire "New" Age/Eastern religion complex
is left out.
Ex-PLO
terrorist Walid Shoebat makes the case that Saudi Arabia is the Mystery, Babylon
in his book "Why I Left Jihad". Again, I mean no disrespect to Mr. Shoebat and
highly recommend his book for anyone that has any doubts about Islam as a "religion
of peace" from someone that was actually inside it. But in this particular instance
he makes the same fundamental mistake as the two aforementioned groups: he simply
doesn't go big enough. Granted Saudi Arabia is very powerful financially based
on its control of the world oil market but he totally disregards the gang banker
"Federal" "Reserve" and the entire "New" Age eco wacko movement and the entire
"New" Age for that matter.