IS GOD HARDENING THE HEART
OF BABYLON?
By
Dr. Stephen Jones: July 18, 2018
We
stand at a critical point in history that was prophesied thousands of years
ago. Having reached the end of the “seven times” of divine judgment since the
Babylonians took Jerusalem in 604 B.C., the earth is being released from the
bondage of Mystery Babylon. But that release comes with a fight, because
Babylon is ruled by Satanists who, by nature, refuse to accept the divine
verdict, choosing to fight instead.
The Example of Egypt
They
think, of course, that their decision to fight is their own, for they do not
know that God Himself has hardened their hearts as in the days of Pharaoh. It
is helpful to know how God has treated such people in the past. Before God sent
Moses to deliver Israel from Egypt’s bondage, He told him in Exodus 7:2-4,
2
You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to
Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 3 But
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders
in the land of Egypt. 4 When Pharaoh will not listen to you, then I
will lay My hand on Egypt, and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of
Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.
In
part, God does this so that Egypt does not benefit from all the stolen labor
that they enjoyed in those years. They had gotten rich off the slave labor of
the Israelites, and God intended to take it from them and to give it to those
who had done the labor (Exodus 12:36). This was God’s way of forcing the
Egyptians to comply with the law of slavery. It was commanded that when a slave
was being set free, the slave master must send him out with a generous bonus.
Deuteronomy 15:13-15 says,
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And when you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed. 14
You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing
floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the Lord your God has
blessed you. 15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the
land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this
day.
In
other words, the Israelites were to free their freed slaves like God did when
He set them free from the slavery of Egypt. God saw to it that the Egyptians
paid them liberally. This was Israel’s example to show them how to treat slaves
that were being set free.
The Example of Babylon
Many
years later, God dealt with the Babylonians in the same manner as He treated
the Egyptians. Jeremiah prophesied of Babylon in Jeremiah 50:33 saying, “all
who took them [Judah] captive held them fast; they have refused to let them go.”
For this reason, the prophet said in Jeremiah 50:34, “the Lord of hosts…
will vigorously plead their case, so that He may bring rest to the earth, but
turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.”
Babylon
will be in “turmoil,” while the rest of the earth is given a “rest” from their
slavery. This prophecy is for our time as well. Since October of 2017 the
Babylonians have been in turmoil over the election of President Donald Trump.
Those who understand the issues of the day are seeing this clearly. Those who
do not understand these prophecies continue to walk around in darkness and
blindness, fearful, and not knowing what is happening to their world.
Timing
Defines the Lawful Sentence
This
is why it is important to know the Scriptures and to understand the judgments
of the law. The judgments include specific sentences for restitution payments
and specific lengths of time when sentenced to serve as a slave. The “seven
times” of Leviticus 26:18 and 24 was interpreted by Daniel to be a time cycle
(Daniel 7:25) when he spoke of 3½ “times.”
Revelation
13:5 interprets this further to mean “forty-two months,” which is the
equivalent of 1,260 “days.” In short-term prophecy, these days are literal
days, but in long-term prophecy, a day also represents a year (Numbers 14:34;
Ezekiel 4:4, 5). It is plain that the beast nations of Babylon, Persia, Greece,
and Rome speak of a long-term prophecy of judgment. Hence, the “seven times” of
tribulation are not merely 7 years but 7 x 360 years (2,520 years).
That
time ended in October 2017.
Babylonian Turmoil
We
are now seeing Babylon in turmoil over President Donald Trump. Most recently,
the Babylonians are in a state of panic that Trump has made peace with Russia.
This peace summit in Helsinki is being compared to Roosevelt’s meeting with
Stalin in Helsinki at the close of World War 2.
The
carefully-chosen location signals an end to a long war—in this case, the cold
war between the US and Russia. That cold war was an integral part of Mystery
Babylon’s policy by which both sides were enslaved by the “military-industrial
complex” (as President Eisenhower called it). Turning people into willing
slaves requires an enemy so that the slave masters can claim to be protecting
their slaves from that threat. In other words, they rule by fear.
The
intelligence agencies in the US are the ones who came up with the idea of
making Russia our enemy. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1987-1989 after 70
years of communism, we needed a new enemy, or else Babylon might have collapsed
in America as well. So when Russia tried to be our friend, we rebuffed them,
poked them in the eye, and even broke Clinton’s promise not to move NATO forces
east to the Russian border.
Once
President Trump had consolidated his power by appointing his own head of the
intelligence agencies, he began to work toward making peace instead of
maintaining a war status. First it was Korea, now Russia. That has caused
former CIA heads like John Brennan and Clapper to go ballistic. They are even
suggesting that Trump has committed treason for making peace with Russia! Dr.
Paul Craig Roberts, who worked in the Reagan administration and has long
political experience, wrote a good article asking, “Is President Trump a
traitor because he wants peace with Russia?
“Therefore,
the American public gets not representation, but lies that justify war and
conflict. The military/security complex, about which President Eisenhower
warned the American people to no effect, is in desperate need of an enemy.
In obedience to the military/security complex, the Clinton, George W. Bush,
and Obama regimes have made Russia that enemy. If Trump and Putin do not
understand this, they will easily be made irrelevant.”
The
treason was already committed by Brennan and Clapper in past years when they
worked against the American people by creating enemies and threatening the
peace. If we had helped Russia in its exit from communism, they would have been
grateful, and we could have been their friends. But when we threatened Russia
and did everything we could to destabilize it, Putin found it necessary to
defend his country from US aggression.
Then
we blamed Putin for taking steps to defend his country against US hostility. To
me, that is treasonous behavior.
Dr. Ron Paul has also added
his voice to the conflict.
The
meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is a "step in the right
direction," former US Senator Ron Paul told RT, while also addressing the
"propaganda" notion that the US must have an enemy in Russia.
"I
was very pleased with what went on today," Paul said. He added
that if the two leaders ever had a serious discussion, "I guess it
would come out on how much we've been involved when we shouldn't be involved,
for instance in Ukraine, and how that occurred.”
But
from a prophetic standpoint, I understand that God has hardened the hearts of
the Babylonian leaders in Europe and America. It will all work out for good in
the end. Babylon has stolen the labor of the people for more than a hundred
years through the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, and God does not intend to let
them keep it.
We
are being set free, and Babylon will be forced to send us away “liberally” (pun
intended). The Babylonian “liberals” will be forced to live up to their own
moniker, because the law of God demands it. God is indeed setting us free, not
just the American people, but the entire world. When we look at the political
turmoil around us, we should see events in the light of Scripture—prophecy in
particular.
Hence,
we should view the present political conflict in a positive manner. When God
begins to move, you can bet that the Babylonians will scream in panic. That is
what is happening today. When I see Brennan, Clapper, and McCain in a state of
panic, I rejoice, because I know that our redemption is drawing near.
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