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Saturday, May 15, 2021

The Fall of Babylon

 The Fall of Babylon

With Joe Biden and his crew, now in control of America, it appears that many people are not highly interested in scriptural events and articles.  That may sound reasonable but do not give up hope.  There is no seven-year tribulation period, as some claim, but that doesn’t mean a certain amount of tribulation is not possible.  Not only is it possible but highly probable and in America, at least, we are viewing some of that.

As Dr. Jones has claimed, on several occasions, the final world empire named Babylon, although a mystery among the majority of inhabitants, is not a mystery among fellow believers of Jesus Christ.  We are all disappointed to some degree but the end of the Christian world is not here quite yet. 

The Church, i.e. people not a building, is rapidly declining with multiple ungodly teachings and reports being issued every day.  The US Congress is now attempting to pass a bill that would make teaching the gospel a crime.  The US Democrats despise Christianity even though the majority have not quite admitted it.  The Covid pandemic, whether true or not, has decimated most church congregations and caused others to fail.  A few pastors, in Canada and the USA, have recently been arrested for preaching the Bible.

Fewer churches hold in-person services now than did end of last summer, and attendance is way down for those that are open

In the USA, the rightful worshippers have disappeared in great numbers, mostly due to the corrupt teaching in the churches.  Based on a certain amount of information, the committed church worshippers, other than some Catholics, have almost completely quit the scene in Europe (this may not be totally true).

Let’s now take a look at what scripture says about the fall of Babylon.

REVELATION 18:2  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Revelation 17:1 describes Babylon as a “great whore” that sits upon many waters.  Being described as a protestant, it is easy to claim that Babylon is the Catholic church but, for now, we will claim that it is indeed.  Mainly due to the fact that the Catholic church is so widespread throughout that world.  It is also the “beast from the sea” as indicated by Revelation 13 and it is financially supported (or controlled) by the “beast from the earth” (the Rothschild controlled international banking system) also indicated by Revelation 13.

The protestant churches in the USA appear to be mostly interested in building large structures and having various activities.  It is not believed that all of them together have the financial authority to change government attitudes.  Some of them definitely have become the habitation of devils, foul spirits, and unclean birds.  It could also be said that the Catholic church has claimed that habitation for quite a while.  It has been maintained that Rome sits on seven mountains and Revelation 17:9 states the WOMAN also sits there.

It has already been reported by Dr. Stephen Jones that the time period of actual power for Mystery, Babylon has already expired and now it is only a matter of time (hopefully a short time) prior to the complete destruction of Babylon and the true rise of the Millennial kingdom of God. 

This prostitute (i.e. the Vatican and the international banking system) have committed many abominations with the corporate leaders, rulers, and administrators of large companies, and countries.

As a side note the definition of “abomination” includes outrage, scandal, atrocity, horror, repugnance, loathing, revulsion, abhorrence, and disgust (along with several other words).

As a result of these abominations or “revulsions” the people of earth have been intoxicated or completely under the influence of their offerings (not all, but most).

Revelation 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

 

At this point John is spiritually taken into the “wilderness” which is not an actual place but one presenting spiritual understanding.  Here he sees the woman (or prostitute) sitting on a scarlet colored beast.  This beast is full of blasphemous (ungodly, profane) names with seven heads and ten horns.  According to the angel, this beast comes up from the sea, thus it is the little horn of Daniel which is a religious entity or the papacy.  17-8 says the beast from the bottomless pit (or abyss) which means the deep sea.

 

As stated earlier, the seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.  Rome or the Vatican is said to sit on seven mountains.  17:8 relates the events in 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Rome and captured Pope Pius VI, taking him as a prisoner to France, where he died in 1799.  There was no Pope during a short period until Napoleon requested one to grant him emperor status over the French empire.

 

In addition to the literal mountains of Rome the mountains also represent kings or  kingdoms.  According to Dr. Jones the seven hills spiritually represent seven forms of government in the history of Rome:  Kings, Consuls, Dictators, Decemvirs, Military Tribunes, Military Emperors, and Christian Emperors.  (My historical expertise is somewhat limited so we will simply believe Dr. Jones is correct.)

 

The mountains also represent seven “kings”.  The angel claims that “five have fallen” which makes this a first century declaration.  Thus the first five forms of the Roman government had already fallen and had been replaced by the sixth form of “military emperors”.  This occurred after the death of Nero in 68 AD.  Several generals attempted to take the throne.  Finally Vespasian (fighting the Jews in Judea) decided he should have the crown and left his son, Titus, in Jerusalem, while he went to Rome and secured the throne.  The rest you should already know.

 

The seventh form of Christian emperors did not begin until Constantine in 310 AD.  The term “a short space” or “a little while” in verse 10 does not necessarily mean a few days.

 

Of course the pope who died in prison was the seventh and later became the eighth, although not the same person but with the same title of Pope.  The seventh beast could be considered a double beast.  He was the seventh and then became the eighth.

 

Verse 11 claims that the beast with the reclaimed pope as the head goes into perdition (apoleia, destruction).  It generally means “lost” or off the normal path of the beast.  The religious beast from the sea is a so-called disciple and friend of Jesus who betrays Him at the end of this age just as did Judas to Jesus Christ. 

 

Those who usurped the throne after Christ’s first appearance in the first century were not content with the throne, but desired also the birthright of Joseph and the name Israel, which was the mark of the birthright.  Despite protests from the UN the subduers of the Judean land termed their country “Israel” in 1948.

 

The descendants of the real Judahites became the Esau people who were forced to claim Judaism during the Maccabean period.  Due to the scheming of Jacob with Esau to get both birthright titles, it resulted in God giving the Esau people a chance at correctly governing the land until they proved being unable to do so.

 

At the end of the age, the religious beast, as a corporate entity, betrays Jesus and thus “goes to perdition” or destruction in a similar manner as did Judas.  Those claiming that Israel is composed of true Israelites will participate in the betrayal.  This statement may appear cold but if you claim that Israel is truly populated of the original 12 tribes there may be betrayal in your accusation.

 

Daniel’s “little horn” waged war against the saints for “a time, times, and half a time” or 1260 years.  This came to fruition at the French Revolution or 1260 years after Justinian changed times and laws in 529-534 AD.  After the French Revolution and the death of the “little horn” the pope was reinstated and came into an alliance with the 2nd beast known as the beast from the earth.  Daniel was not shown this part of the prophecy, thus John, in many respects, is a continuation of Daniel.

 

Revelation 17:12-13 says the ten horns represent 10 kingdoms.  When John received this revelation in 96 AD the kings or kingdoms had not arisen.  There were 10 semi-nations of ethnic groups controlled by the Roman Empire:  Bavarians, Franks, Bergundians, Alemanni, Suevi, Visigoths, Alans, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Heruli (who merged with the Lombards).  Daniel mentioned a fourth beast with ten horns but a little horn emerged and pulled out by the roots three of the ten horns being:  the Heruli, the Vandals, and the Ostrogoths.  (Again thanks to Dr. Jones for this information)

 

The papal war against the Lamb or the body of Christians on earth.  Revelation 17:15 demonstrates the prostitute holds dominion over many people and nations.  Almost every person on the planet knows of the Pope.  However, whether they heed or not the language of the Vatican, the power of the second beast, i.e. the international banking system, essentially governs the entire world.

 

Revelation chapter 18 proclaims that Babylon has fallen but it gives many details of Babylon’s inter-workings.  Verses 11 through 13 discuss the many items traded around the world by the global Babylon.  A few of the items do not appear reasonable at the present time such as frankincense and thyine wood (a citrus wood) and most appear to be costly.  The item that caught my eye is the slaves and souls of men (people) within verse 13, which appears to be a connection to human trafficking.

 

All in all – Joe Biden and his crew are apparently necessary from God’s point of view.  Do not lose faith.  God is always completely in control.

 

 

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The Financial Phase of Mystery Babylon


THE FINANCIAL PHASE OF MYSTERY BABYLON

By Dr. Stephen Jones

Blog Post Date:  6-30-2020

The Central Banking system, led by the Federal Reserve Bank, was never meant to last forever. The very fact that it usurped the right to create money from the US Treasury and then loaned it to the government at interest meant that the loans could never be repaid. Why? Because the government always had to repay more money than was being created.

The day would come when the debt load reached the tipping point, where the government either declared bankruptcy or the system was replaced or there was a slave revolt.

As it was, the US government went bankrupt in 1933, just 20 years after the Fed was created. When the government went into receivership, the big banking families owned the government, and the people got to choose which presidents would be the best bank employees.

So the US dollar was made the world currency in 1944 in the wake of World War 2 and was given the responsibility to balance the books on international trade through its gold reserves. But the Vietnam war caused us to spend too much, and the gold began to shift to other countries. President Nixon then stopped the flow of gold by closing the “window” in 1971, so no one could convert their paper money (or digital claims) into gold.

The dollar was decoupled from gold and attached to oil instead, creating the petrodollar.
We have now come to the end of that system as well. It came to an end on April 20/21, 2020, when the price of oil dropped to negative $38 on the oil futures contracts. We then entered a new era that few understand even today. Financial experts, however, knew that the old system had to be replaced, one way or another.

I believe that this is the real reason behind shutting down the world economy and the lockdown. The covid-19 pandemic was the cover story, and I believe it was planned long in advance. This was not a random event in history, nor was it an accident. The only real question is which direction will the financial system go? That is what is behind the political battles today.

For years I have studied the new rules of the so-called Basel 1, 2, and 3 bank reserve requirements in the wake of the crash of 2008. Banks were given “stress tests” and were told that they had to increase their monetary reserves in case of panics or bank runs. These rules were phased in over a period of many years until suddenly they were thrown out the window.

In April 2020 the reserve requirements suddenly were dropped to ZERO. See the chart below.


What does that tell us? First of all, such a drastic change means that the central banking system is unstable and could really collapse at the slightest push. On September 11, 2019 the banks began to experience severe liquidity problems, so the Fed began its program of overnight lending to resolve that problem.

They call it the “repo market.” It started out with about $30 million in overnight loans, paid back the next day and then re-loaned immediately until the next day, and so on. Each week the amount of money the banks needed grew, first to hundreds of millions, then to billions, and then hundreds of billions. Who knows when the bank liquidity problem will turn into insolvency and then bankruptcy? All seems well on the surface, but there is a lot of turmoil underneath.

Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase has been investigated for fraud, and some of its traders have been indicted for their manipulation of gold and silver prices. Under the leadership of Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan has already been fined $43 billion in the past 20 years for illegal activities. But they made trillions on those illegal activities, so they considered $43 billion in fines to be part of the cost of doing business. That is what happens when crime pays.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the U.S. Department of Justice charged a handful of JP Morgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) traders in 2018 and 2019 with alleged commodities futures manipulation, it wasn’t the first time the government had probed the bank’s metals trading activities.

The Justice Department’s commodities crackdown has recently targeted “spoofing,” whereby futures traders falsely create the impression of strong demand or supply and then capitalize upon the market reaction.

Congress identified spoofing as market manipulation following the 2008 financial crisis. But it wasn’t until years later, when Zink joined the team investigating the 2010 “Flash Crash” which briefly wiped nearly $1 trillion off U.S. stock markets, that the fraud division learned how widespread the practice was and decided to go after it.

The article notes how hard it is to prosecute cases dealing with these levels of finance, because jurors do not understand how the system works. Nonetheless, ‘new tools” are now being used to combat this fraud and manipulation. If successful, this has the potential of letting gold and silver prices find their real market prices instead of being squashed to make the US dollar look better.

Ever since the Exchange Stabilization Fund was created in 1933, markets have been manipulated or “stabilized” by the government. The takeover by the bankers in 1933 created a “managed economy,” that was “managed” to the advantage of the super-rich. Hence, the rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. Not understanding the underlying problem, the people were convinced to ask the government to “manage” things even more, rather than to re-establish a free market.

So the government, controlled secretly by the bankers, was given more and more power, and the people themselves became more and more enslaved without realizing it. Government was seen as a benefactor of the poor, rather than as the entity creating more poor people. Politically speaking, America (and most other countries as well) were turned into Socialist Democracies. Socialism was created by the rich and powerful who paid their shills to sell it to the poor.

This has been the final financial phase of Mystery Babylon, described in the latter half of Revelation 13. There is no further extension (or “horn”) of the Iron Kingdom after this. Its time has expired, and it is now imploding. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we could see some serious turmoil ahead as the Central Bank system collapses. I believe we will get a new system soon, one that they have been working on for many years in anticipation of the collapse. But even that will be a transitional system that will soon evolve into a Kingdom economy that will be permanent.

What does that look like? Who knows? I just know it will not be based on usury.