Paul McGuire, an internationally-recognized prophecy expert, Fox News and History Channel commentator, bestselling author and host of the GOD TV show, Apocalypse and the End Times
AMERICA: BABYLON, THE CITY OF MAN AND JERUSALEM, THE CITY OF GOD
Today we are witnessing the most epic transformation
of our planet since the Tower of Babel!
By Paul McGuire | July 20, 2015
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In the Bible there are two primary cities with enormous spiritual significance that profoundly affect our world today and in the future. The first city is Babylon, which originated at the Tower of Babel and is known as the city of Man and the origin of the world system under control of Lucifer. The second city is Jerusalem, known as the city of God, and it is an eternal city. The impact of ancient Babylon impacts our global society every day on television, radio, social media, the Internet, and cell phone apps.
Unless one understands all the various languages that are being spoken, what we hear is largely “babble,” which is a term that originated at the Tower of Babel when God judged the inhabitants by confusing their language; this linguistic confusion is know as ”babble.” Today we are witnessing the most epic transformation of our planet since the Tower of Babel.
This epic period of transformation began with the miraculous return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel in 1948. It is important to understand that the ancient prophets predicted the Jews would return to the land of Israel in a spiritual state of unbelief. They are given the land back by God, not because they deserve it, but as a fulfillment of God’s everlasting Covenant with the physical descendants of Abraham. Part of that Covenant contains a warning by God, who says “I will bless those that bless thee and curse those that curseth thee.”
Until very recently, America has been Israel’s only consistent supporter among the nations, but now we have signed a treaty with Iran, a nation that has openly vowed to destroy Israel. In our treaty with Iran, we have pledged to protect Iranian “nuclear enrichment facilities” from sabotage. However, the end game of the so-called “nuclear enrichment facilities” is to produce nuclear bombs and missiles. What if the U.S. treaty with Iran allows Iran to develop a nuclear weapon and Iran detonates a nuke in Israel? What if the U.S. actually prevents Israel from pro-actively destroying these nuclear facilities? If this happens America will have moved from blessing Israel and being blessed, to cursing Israel and being cursed.
The nation of Israel has been called God’s prophetic super-sign and since Israel’s return to the land in 1948 the “signs of the times” that Jesus Christ talked about have been increasing in intensity. Today we have the continuing aftershocks of the Greek debt crisis that continues to endanger the European Union and the United States and with it we could potentially see the fall of the dollar as the de facto world currency. Russia, China, Iran, and other members of the BRICS nations are attempting to topple the dollar as the world’s currency and replace it with a competing collection of currencies under a new name.
The countless world currencies which operate under the de facto world currency of the dollar is breaking down in what could be described as monetary or currency confusion.
Just as in ancient Babylon, there are plans underway to unify the world’s currencies into a global cashless society and, as Henry Kissinger called it, “a New International Financial Order.” But before that happens we could see a wave of bank “bail-ins,” where middle class depositors in Europe and America would not be able to have access to their savings and retirement accounts, which is what happened to the Greeks when Greek banks closed or limited withdrawals. At the same time conflicts with Russia and the Ukraine, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Israel could trigger either an Ezekiel 38 war of Gog and Magog against the nation of Israel or a Psalm 83 invasion of Jerusalem.
If either of these wars happen, the Old Testament prophets tells us that God will use them to demonstrate the reality of His covenant with Israel in front of an unbelieving world. This will lead to revival and a massive harvest of souls.
Terrorist groups like ISIS and others are using the Internet and other technologies to win converts in America, Europe, South America, and around the world to their militant brand of extreme Islam. But simultaneously these new Internet and communications technologies also make it possible to preach the Gospel in nations that were once previously walled off. Iran, a nation once almost impossible to preach the Gospel in, is hearing the Good News of Jesus Christ through the Internet and television broadcasts.
In addition, there are growing reports that Iranians and people in other Muslim nations are coming to Jesus Christ in unprecedented numbers by receiving dreams and supernatural signs and wonders where God is speaking to them and they are responding by accepting Jesus Christ, and a true Holy Spirit-inspired revival is breaking out.
As Charles Dickens wrote, “These are the best of times and the worst of times.” For God’s faithful and diligent people who are walking by faith in the supernatural power of God and are “clothed with power from on high,” the Lord is giving them supernatural wisdom and wealth.
The forces of militant Islam and other terrorist forces threaten Europe, Israel, and America with nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks. Simultaneously race riots breaking out in American cities and race wars around the world are in fulfillment of Jesus Christ’s words about the “signs of the times,” where “nation will rise against nation,” which comes from the word ethnos, which means racial or ethnic group. The true Body of Christ, which consists of all true believers in Jesus Christ, are obeying Christ’s command to “love one another” despite racial differences. This genuine agape love of Jesus Christ is being demonstrated tangibly by the believing church in the inner cities of America.
God tells us that in the last days He is going to pour out His Holy Spirit on all flesh, for it is only when men and women are filled with the Spirit of God that they are able to truly love one another.
In Acts Chapter 2:17-21
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.”
The above passage of Scripture is directly applicable to our time period as the Earth moves into a state of confusion, which is what happened at the Tower of Babel when God confused the builders’ language as an act of judgment. However, in Acts Chapter 2, we see men and women supernaturally enabled to speak and understand each other in different languages. This restoration began on the Day of Pentecost in the city of Jerusalem.
On September 28, 2015, during the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles there will be a fourth blood moon to appear on Jewish Feast days, which many Bible prophecy experts believe heralds a prophetic event that will change the world forever. The phenomenon of four consecutive blood moons appearing on Jewish Feast days has occurred only three times since 1492 A.D. when Christopher Columbus discovered America. The other two times this “tetrad” of Four Blood Moons has happened was when the nation of Israel was reborn in 1948 and when the city of Jerusalem was reunited during the “Tetrad” of 1967-1968.
Notice in Acts Chapter 2, immediately after the verses about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the last days, it talks about “wonders in heaven above” and says that “the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood,” which is exactly what happens during a “blood moon.”
No one knows for sure what exactly will happen after the fourth blood moon appears on September 28, 2015. Some Bible prophecy experts believe this may mean the signing of a peace treaty in Jerusalem. If that is the case, this would begin a prophetic cycle where the return of both commercial and economic Babylon would happen, as in Revelation 17 & 18. Although Bible prophecy scholars disagree as to the timing of these prophetic events, it could usher in “the Time of Jacob’s Trouble,” predicted by the Prophet Daniel. Essentially this begins a countdown for the return of the Messiah to Jerusalem and what is called the fall of “Babylon.”
Right before our very eyes we are witnessing the death of the old world order along with its monetary systems, independent sovereign nation states, social institutions, and geopolitical alignments. Even Mankind’s oldest institution, marriage, that began in the Garden of Eden between Adam and Eve, has been redefined. It’s as if the world has been set on fire by chaos or crisis of every kind, financial crisis, terrorist crisis, racial crisis, moral crisis, religious crisis and even a crisis in our weather patterns. Even the world’s number one economy, China, is at risk for a 1929-style “Great Depression.”
Is everything we are seeing merely the random chaos of transatlantic financial institutions and what has been called the “Clash of Civilizations,” or is there an invisible hand at work behind the scenes?
As the greatest Evangelical theologian of the last 100 years, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, said over 35 years ago, “An authoritarian government either from the right or left will rise to manage the chaos.” Since the chaos is global, a global authoritarian form of government is rising to manage the chaos. It is not that all of these efforts towards establishing global governance are in themselves dangerous or evil. The controversial globalist groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission actually publish their goals for what they call a new international order and things like a “North American Union” that will consist of Canada, America and Mexico, modeled on the European Union. While in Ecuador, Pope Francis called passionately for a “new economic and ecological world order where everyone will share the goods of the Earth.” Pope Francis has enlisted the help of many well-known Evangelical leaders who are joining the Pope in his call for this “new economic and ecological world order.”
However, even if the intention of some of these groups and individuals appears to be sincere, there is a great danger in ignoring one of the most powerful prophetic warnings in the Bible and that is the account of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. Nimrod, whose name means “let us revolt,” built the Tower of Babel. Nimrod was called a “mighty hunter,” which is translated from gibbor tsayidh, which has a dark spiritual meaning. Nimrod became a type of the Antichrist and was a dictator who led an organized rebellion against the rule of God.
The Tower of Babel was the world’s first one world government, one world religion and one world economic system where the world’s people unified and became one.
Yet God looked down from Heaven and judged it by confusing their language and scattering them across the Earth. The reason God judged ancient Babylon was because at the spiritual root of the Babylonian system was the desire to be like God and the attempt to build a counterfeit Kingdom of Heaven without God. In short, the spirit behind Babylon was Luciferian and represented a revolt against God, led by Lucifer. Being sincere and well-meaning is not enough, for the Bible says the “heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it.” Each of us in our fallen human nature has an infinite capacity for great spiritual deception. I go into this more in the book The Babylon Code.
In the end times the Bible says in the Book of Revelation that Babylon or “Mystery Babylon” will reappear as a global economic, governmental, and religious system. Babylon represents the Luciferian world system that is in rebellion from God. There are many Christians who are either ill informed about this Biblical truth or do not really take the Bible, which is the supernaturally authored Word of God, seriously. The Bible very clearly teaches that there is a great spiritual war currently going on Planet Earth between Lucifer and the fallen angels and God and His angels for the hearts and souls of all Mankind. The Apostle Paul explains this spiritual war in Ephesians 6, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.” The Apostle Paul was teaching the church and Christians that each of us is engaged in spiritual warfare with unseen powers of darkness in the invisible realm or spiritual world, but this spiritual conflict has direct manifestations in the physical world.
These invisible spiritual world rulers or the kosmokratos are very much behind the rise and fall of governments, global financial institutions, media, culture, and the other power centers of our society.
As individual Christians and the Church, we cannot be faithful disciples and truly preach the Gospel, make disciples of all nations, and fulfill Jesus Christ’s words, “Occupy until I come” until we understand the real nature of the spiritual battle we are currently in! This is why it is critical that God’s people understand the real nature behind the global forces at work in our world today.
Jesus Christ said “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” Is it true that there are there clandestine organizations covertly creating a global government, or what is now termed global governance through manufactured crisis or chaos? Understanding the relationship between global events, Bible prophecy, and spiritual warfare is essential if believers are going to be truly effective for God in the midst of a chaotic world. You can only be an effective intercessory if you understand the dynamics of what you are praying for and understand that “our fight is not against flesh and blood,” or people. This is why we are commanded to pray “for all those in authority above us” with the promise “that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.”
A true Christian is called to walk in a relationship with God that is characterized by “true spirituality,” which means that he is not “playing church,” but actually walking with the Lord. True spirituality demands that we have a basic understanding of what is going on all around us. The Bible says “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” Christians should not be looking at the events all around them and becoming confused or even fearful. They should not have “a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.” They should be able to “connect the dots” all around them.
A simple illustration of this principle is to simply pull out a one dollar bill from your wallet and look at all the strange symbolism on the back of it. Since money is such an essential part of our lives, every Christian should have a minimal understanding of what the symbolism on the back of their dollar means. For example, the unfinished pyramid symbol, with the all-seeing eye of Lucifer, is an occult symbol that goes back to ancient Babylon. The words at the bottom of the pyramid read “Novus Ordos Seclorum,” or New Order of the Ages, which means New World Order.
The pyramid is considered an occult symbol, which goes back to the time of the Pharaoh and the children of Israel who were slaves in Egypt.
The architectural design of the pyramid comes from the ziggurat design of the Tower of Babel built by Nimrod in ancient Babylon to function as an astrological tower in order to worship the “host of heaven.” The Tower of Babel was the center point of an ancient occult spiritual and economic system that has passed through successive world empires such as the ones predicted by the Prophet Daniel; Daniel predicted that in the last days the world’s final world empire known as the “Fourth Beast” or “Revived Roman Empire” would emerge as what the Book of Revelation refers to as “Mystery Babylon.” It is not an accident that the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels is designed as a modern architecture version of the Tower of Babel. In front of the building is a large metallic sculpture of a “woman riding the beast,” which comes directly out of the Book of Revelation.
There are openly occult symbols that are often in the background of powerful institutions like the United Nations. This is not to suggest that everyone involved in the UN is involved in the occult. But, pagan and mystical belief systems are intertwined in things like the UN’s Agenda 21.
It is from the UN that Agenda 21 was developed as a blueprint for global transformation through a radical environmental agenda. Agenda 21 was signed by 197 nations at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It directly attacks Christianity as the “root cause” for the loss of “biodiversity” and for “the denial of the sacred attributes of nature.”
The New Age occultist billionaire Maurice Strong led the Rio conference. Strong has a massive ranch in Colorado, which serves as a gathering place for mystical and Earth-centered religions. Under the guise of “sustainable development,” Agenda 21 radically restructures every aspect of our society into a Man-centered and New Age model.
The only way God’s people can be effective spiritually is to have a mature understanding of the global forces at work in our world, an understanding rooted in Scripture and Biblically-balanced. The purpose of understanding these events and the organizations behind them is not to instill a sense of paranoia or fear. God tells us in His Word: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.” None of this information should produce a sense of fatalism, because the Bible does not teach us to be fatalistic. The Word of God does not call us to be spectators in the last days, but participants with God.
If we use the above information not as a speculative conspiracy theory, but rather a kind of “spiritual military intelligence,” we can be effective prayer warriors and intercessors! Jesus Christ defeated Satan and the powers of darkness on the cross and He transferred that authority to the Church when He promised to give Christians power from on high. You and I were called by God, before the creation of the world, for such a time as this.
In Matthew 16:18-19, Jesus Christ said about the church “… the gates of Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”
The message of Bible prophecy is designed to equip God’s people to live victoriously in the last days.
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