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1 | Anti Christ? Is America Babylon or Iraq? | Daniel | Greg Martin | 73882 | ||
Some say Rome was an extension of Babylon and hence Europe, and hence the United states. This by culture and migration and some other such things. I personally believe Babylon is Babylon and if you look at the looming action to come down on the dictator of Babylon, one might surmise a democracy taking his place. this could lead to wealth and Babylon becoming a world economic power. I have a problem with democracy. The United States was never meant to be, nor has it ever been, a democracy. The US is a Federalist Republic. The Founders wrote wisely on the tyranny of mob rule. Democracy is a humanist invention that overrules the inalienable God given rights. In a democracy, majority rules. So abortion can be voted legal. All the whites could vote for all the blacks to be slaves, etc, etc. Majority rule is mob rule and has little regard for things holy, or given by God. It violates the supremacy of God and puts man in His place. We used to think the one-world government would be a tyranny of a dictatorship. But I can see now it is more likely to be a tyranny of democracy! This is both fitting and ironic. Fitting in that man sets himself higher than God, and ushers in the antiChrist. It has always been Satan's goal to get man to commit the same sin as he did - to attempt to overthrow God and put himself in His place. Ironic in that man will vote himself into Hell! Anyway, I can see Babylon becoming a marvelous "triumph of democracy", becoming an international, global, economic power; all set for the end times. |
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2 | Anti Christ? Is America Babylon or Iraq? | Daniel | richilou_2003 | 73911 | ||
If I may add something to that, I know that the Dr. John MacArthur said one day that it would be possible to interpret the Babylon of Rev. 18 as an economic power. Therefore, though USA is one, we could say that some other countries could be placed in that category as well. For this reason it is very difficult to be too much dogmatic on this issue. The Bible being not fully clear on some passages, many times it is only the unfolding of history that tells us what it is. Keep on praying to be open, but at the same time, God is the Only One who knows what is what? which is which? and who is who? in this nebulous matter. | ||||||