We have all read in Revelation of the fall of....Babylon....on the great day of the LORD
"Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come....for in one hour such great riches came to nothing." Revelation 18: 10 & 17
God has not identified Babylon....and we speculate all the time....but it does seem that it will be all of the riches gotten through all of the schemes that man could invent....which does describe what we know as....in fact what we call ourselves....the West.
The...."one hour"....tells us something. A supervolcano....such as the one under Yellowstone....could destroy the West in one hour....or a cosmic event....or a nuclear war?
God's Word tells us that this Babylon is on seven mountains....or hills. Rome is the most prominent of all the cities said to have been founded on seven hills....but then....'Rome"....could be construed as meaning the Roman Empire. The term....'seven mountains'....could mean something philosophical or even religious?
We do not know these things....but we are going to find out....maybe before the collapse....or maybe just after the collapse. There is so much more on this in those two chapters of Revelation....chapters 17 & 18. It's like each verse drips with new descriptions. How about this....17:11...."There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes he must continue a short time. And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition."
Well let's think about that. There are eight....somethings. Five are already gone....so the time in question....the reference point....is during the sixth....something. The seventh had not yet come....and will but only for a short time....and here is the kicker....the eighth is of the seven!
Let's go over that again....I have to have an example....what could those "kings" possibly be? Let's say that they are United States Presidents. Hey....they could be UK Prime Ministers....or Popes....or anything.....but let's say....for this example....US Presidents.
For Trump to be the eighth...Biden would have to be the seventh....the short time president. Eight presidents back would take us to Reagan....so Reagan and H.W. and Clinton and W and Obama would be the five that are gone. The sixth would be Trump in his first term....or the reference point....the seventh would be Biden....for a short time.....and the eighth would be Trump again....who was already part of the seven.
You could play this game for United Nations Secretary Generals or just about anything....but it's not a game. Consider this carefully...this is verse 9 from the same chapter 17...."Here is the mind which has wisdom....the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits." Here is the mind which has wisdom! That sounds to me like the mind with wisdom is at least to make speculations like this....and I would take you back to the third verse in the book of Revelation...."Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near."
And go to chapter 13 verse 18...."Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; His number is 666." That's three times that God's Word is telling us what a mind with wisdom tends to do!
Christians have studied these verses for almost two thousand years....and there must have been value in that....even though there were abuses....but that reference point....that sixth king or sixth something....had not come yet. I submit to you that we are that generation....or that time period in question....and it began in May of 1948. We can and will make mistakes in our speculations....but the biggest mistake would be in not even wanting to have the mind with wisdom.
