The Tenth Harbinger

Genesis 11:1-9
(the extrapolated original version)
1 - And the whole land was of one government, and of one ruler.
2 - And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the
land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 - And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had slime for mortar.
4 - And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach]
unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of
the whole earth.
5 - And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of
men had built.
6 - And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they have one government;
and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 - Come, let us go down, and there disrupt their government, that they may not
follow their rulers commands.
8 - So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth:
and they stopped building the city.
9 - Therefore the name of the place is called Babylon [city of religious towers]. And
the LORD disrupted the government of the empire: and from thence did the LORD
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the land

The Tenth Harbinger

Americas Exact Role in World History
and Triple Destiny Revealed

Watchman Bob

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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the Lord, who has blessed the world with a few truly
wonderful, rare and brave souls who, for the sake of knowing the Truth, are willing
and able to suspend the beliefs about their country and their religion with which they
have been indoctrinated all their lives long enough to consider, with open minds and
hearts, ideas that may challenge those convictions they take for granted. Those Spiritled believers are the only ones we can trust to show us the way to the Kingdom of
Heaven.

Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1
The Correct End of the Story? .................................................................................................... 2
Consequences ............................................................................................................................. 3
Another Witness ......................................................................................................................... 3
The Whole Truth and Our Response to It .................................................................................. 4
What You Get ............................................................................................................................. 5
The Harbinger: Insightful but Incomplete ...................................................................................... 7
Israels Demise and Destruction Prophesied ............................................................................. 8
Historical Background Brief 2 ..................................................................................................... 8
Ominous Precursors of Disaster to Comethe ......................................................................... 9
Assyrian Threat and Invasion ..................................................................................................... 9
The First Harbingera Breach in the Wall of

Israels National Security ........................ 10

Prophetic Implications for the United States of America ....................................................... 11

The Second HarbingerAssyrian Terrorism ........................................................................... 12
The Third HarbingerThe Fallen Bricks ............................................................................... 12
The Fourth HarbingerThe Tower .......................................................................................... 13
The Fifth HarbingerThe Hewn Stones .................................................................................. 14
The Sixth and Seventh HarbingersSycamores Cut Down and Replaced with Cedars ........ 15
The Eighth HarbingerThe National Vow of Defiance........................................................... 16
The Ninth HarbingerThe Pronouncement of Judgment on the Nation .............................. 17
The SchemitahGods Schedule of the Execution of His Judgment on the Nation............... 18
What is Next? ............................................................................................................................ 20
A Second Witness: The 9/11 Prophecy ......................................................................................... 23
Accepting Gods Call................................................................................................................. 23
Sounding the Alarm and New York Citys Response ............................................................... 25
Confirming New York City as a Type of Babylon the Great ................................................... 25
Lack of Repentance: A Precursor of National Judgment ...................................................... 27
The Last Generation ................................................................................................................. 27
The Beginnings of Sorrows ................................................................................................... 28
The First Horseman, Riding a White Horse ........................................................................... 28

The Second Horseman, Riding a Red Horse .......................................................................... 29

The Third Horseman, Riding a Black Horse........................................................................... 29
The Fourth Horseman, Riding a Pale Green Horse ................................................................ 29
The Rise of Antichrist ............................................................................................................... 30
The One Who Restrains............................................................................................................ 30
The Apostasy of the Church ..................................................................................................... 31
When, not If .............................................................................................................................. 31
A Third Witness is Called .............................................................................................................. 33
The Calling of a Watchman ...................................................................................................... 33
Social, Religious, Spiritual and Moral Roots............................................................................ 33
Personal and Religious Crises ................................................................................................. 35
Resolution of the Crises ......................................................................................................... 36
Exploration, Discovery and Deliverance ................................................................................ 37
An Insiders Experience with U.S. Education, the Mirror and Perpetuator of American Society
................................................................................................................................................... 37
The Last Straw ....................................................................................................................... 40
An Insiders Experience with American.................................................................................... 41
Christianity................................................................................................................................ 41
The Lord Provides..................................................................................................................... 42
Accepting the Call..................................................................................................................... 43
Thank God for Jonathan Cahn and James ............................................................................... 45
Fitzgerald! ................................................................................................................................. 45
Caution and Encouragement ................................................................................................... 45
Is the United States of America a True Christian Nation? ........................................................... 47
The Churchs Deadliest Disease ............................................................................................... 47
Three Spiritual Maladies........................................................................................................... 48
Are you an almost Christian?................................................................................................. 53
The Bottom Line ....................................................................................................................... 55
The New Covenant ................................................................................................................... 56
The Apostate American Church ............................................................................................... 57
The Reason for it All ................................................................................................................. 58
The True Spiritual Roots of America ............................................................................................ 61
What is True Christianity? ........................................................................................................ 61

God Incarnate ........................................................................................................................ 61

Total Human Depravity Apart from Jesus Christ ................................................................... 62
The Pervasive Influences of Deism, Unitarianism and Freemasonry in the Founding, the
Government, and the Spiritual Life of the U.S.A..................................................................... 63
American Christian Deism (a contradiction in terms) ......................................................... 63
Unitarianism: the Theological Basis of Deistic Churches ....................................................... 65
Satanic Roots of America ...................................................................................................... 66
The Exception ....................................................................................................................... 69
Was The United States of America Founded on Christian Principles?.................................... 70
The Declension of Christianity in America ............................................................................... 72
The Results ............................................................................................................................... 72
The Identity and Destiny of America in Bible Prophecy .............................................................. 75
Two Babylons ........................................................................................................................... 75
Ancient Babylon1 ................................................................................................................... 76
Modern, Prophetic, Mystery Babylon.................................................................................. 82
What is Modern Babylons Destiny? ........................................................................................ 97
The Assyrian Connection ....................................................................................................... 98
The Tenth Harbinger .................................................................................................................. 101
The Exact Identity and Destiny of the United States of America Foretold........................... 102
How will the destruction of America-Babylon occur? ........................................................... 103
What choice are you making? ................................................................................................ 105
Whats next? ........................................................................................................................... 105
The Final Seven Years ................................................................................................................ 107
The Tribulation .................................................................................................................... 107
Babylon the Great During the Final Seven Years .................................................................. 108
A Narrative of the Final Seven Years ..................................................................................... 109
The Kingdom of Heaven ..................................................................................................... 110
The SetupThe First Three and One-Half Years .............................................................. 110
The Takeover and the Great Tribulation............................................................................ 114
The Day of the Lord Begins ................................................................................................ 117
The Final Showdown .......................................................................................................... 120
The Beginning..................................................................................................................... 121
Will Christians Escape, Survive, or Take Dominion of the Earth During the Final Seven Years?
..................................................................................................................................................... 123

Three Erroneous Views .......................................................................................................... 123

The Pretribulation Rapture Pie-in-the-Sky Fantasy ........................................................... 123
The Suicidal Survivalist Mentality ......................................................................................... 126
The Domininist Apostasy................................................................................................... 127
How should we then live? ....................................................................................................... 128
In The End, there is GOOD NEWS! ............................................................................................ 133
In The Beginning ..................................................................................................................... 133
Paradise Restored! ................................................................................................................. 135
Appendices ................................................................................................................................. 137
Scriptural Evidence that America is ....................................................................................... 139
Modern Babylon the Great ..................................................................................................... 139
Chapter 17Spiritual, Religious Babylon .......................................................................... 139
Chapter 18Material, Secular Babylon ............................................................................. 144
Be Saved from the Wrath of God ........................................................................................... 149
What is the Day of the Lord? ............................................................................................... 150
When will the Day of the Lord occur?.................................................................................. 151
Where will you be on the Day of the Lord? .......................................................................... 153
Notes & References .................................................................................................................... 159

Introduction
If the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not
warned, and the sword comes and takes away any person from among them, that person is taken
away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand. (Ezekiel 33:6)

hen this watchman first read The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn1, like most
Bible expositors and prophecy teachers, he was astonished by the clarity
of its insights into the prophetic Scriptures. And he was mesmerized by
the undeniable way in which it connected the details of an obscure, 2,850-year-old
passage of prophetic Scripture (Isaiah 9:10) with specific current events and, very
possibly, events in the near future of the United States of America.
In 2011, when The Harbinger was first published, it quickly made the New York
Times Best Seller list and remained there for an amazing (for a religious book) 52
weeks. Then, in 2012 and 2013, The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment DVD, based on The
Harbinger and featuring Jonathan Cahn as its narrator, was the number-one selling
Christian DVD in the world. Various notable Christian ministers, Bible prophecy
teachers and U.S. government leaders have referred to The Harbinger with
superlatives like astonishing, stunning, and mind-blowing.
In The Harbinger author Cahn reveals, in a captivating, vivid, narrative style, that
the September 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City
was precisely predicted, in explicit detail, in the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy by nine
harbingers or signs of terrible things to come. And by astutely linking the Isaiah
9:10 prophecy with the prophetic implications of the Shemitahthe practice of
Ancient Israel of allowing the land to lie fallow every seventh year, as commanded
by the Lord (cf. Leviticus 25:2-4)The Harbinger also reveals how the economic
collapse of 2008 and perhaps a much greater catastrophe to come on the U.S.A. in
2015 are accurately foretold in the ancient Hebrew Scriptures (the Old
Testament).
But, however intriguingly insightful and startlingly revelatory The Harbinger is, as
this watchman reached the end of the book, he sensed that something was
missing. It left him hanging. Although it hints at the possible, even probable
destruction of the United States of America as a political nation in the same way
the Northern Kingdom of Israel (the immediate subject of the Isaiah 9:10
prophecy) was destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 B.C., The Harbinger stops short of
stating that, according to Bible prophecy, the U.S.A. will actually be destroyed as a
political and/or physical nation.
In Chapter 20Things to Comethe main character Nouriel, who speaks
in the first person throughout the story, asks the prophet, the one who had been

revealing the meanings of the nine harbingers to Nouriel, what happens next to
America. The prophet replies that, as long as the U.S.A. does not turn back to
God, there will be intermittent disasters intended to get the nations attention.
And if America continues to refuse to heed the warnings, all of Gods favor
prosperity, protection and peacewill be withdrawn and the fall of the U.S.A.,
which was foreshadowed by 9/11, will occur.
Through his narrative, Cahn goes on to explain that the verses following Isaiah
9:10 predict the total destruction of Israel and, by projection, the American
empire (note his use of the term empire in referring to the U.S.A.). Verses
other than verse 10 that he references from Isaiah chapter 9 foretell the total
political (verses 11 and 12), spiritual (verse 18) and physical (verse 19) destruction
of ancient Israel and (again by projection) modern America. (Note that verses 18
through 21, although speaking figuratively of the people being destroyed by the
fire of wickedness, also foretell their devouring one another and the land being
burned up.)
However, when pressed by Nouriel to tell him if the American empire will
definitely be destroyed, as Israel was, the prophet applies the admonition of the
Lord to His people Israel to the U.S.A.:
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and
turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their
land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

So, The Harbingers final conclusion as to whether or not the United States of
America will, according to Bible prophecy, definitely be destroyed by descendants
of the ancient Assyrians (modern-day Middle Eastern Muslims) is contingent on
whether or not the people of the U.S.A. repent of their spirit of defiance, fully
change their course and return to God (cf. pages 218, 219 and 221).

The Correct End of the Story?

It is very difficult to honestly deny the uncanny accuracy of the nine harbingers
of Isaiah 9:10 in predicting not only the demise and destruction of ancient Israel
but their amazing specificity in foretelling the 9/11/2001 destruction of the World
Trade Center towers, the arrogance and defiance of Americas leaders in
proclaiming, without first turning to the Lord, We will rebuild!2 and the collapse
of the previously strong U.S. economy during the Bush and Obama
administrations. But, does the final conclusion of The Harbinger as to Americas
future really concur with the Bible?
This watchman/commentator has been diligently studying and declaring the
present-day implications of the prophetic Scriptures for many years, and he has

found no such indecisiveness and equivocation there. In fact, there are over 250
verses of Scripture and about 60 specific indicators in the Bible that tell those who
have ears that hear exactly what both the immediate (within the next few years)
and final destinies of the United States of America are. Whats more, there was a
very important item that was discovered, in an amazing way, in the rubble of the
fallen World Trade Center towers that links the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy to all those
other passages of Scripture in confirming the destiny of the U.S.A. And that item
is the Tenth Harbingerthe key to completing the prophetic message of the
first nine harbingers explicated by Jonathan Cahn.
One may wonder why, if the Tenth Harbinger is so important in understanding
the Biblical identity and destiny of America, it was totally omitted from Jonathan
Cahns book. Cahn was not unaware of it, because he mentioned it incidentally in
The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment DVD. But he placed no significant importance on it
certainly not as much as he placed on the first nine harbingers. Nor is Cahns
overlooking the Tenth Harbinger because it does not exist or is insignificant. It
does indeed exist and is of critical, life and death importance in warning Americans
what is coming very soon on our nation so that we can do what we must do to be
saved. So why has the Tenth Harbinger been ignored, not only by Cahn, but by
virtually all Bible scholars, expositors and prophecy teachers?

Consequences
The reason this watchman believes that most Bible prophecy teachers,
especially U.S. prophecy teachers, refuse to acknowledge the Tenth Harbinger
given to us by the Lord is because its implications are just too inflammatory and
threatening to the status quo of their American churchianity. If they openly
acknowledge and teach the Truth about the Tenth Harbinger, their profitable
ministries, jobs and book sales will probably quickly come to a halt. This
watchman knows that to be a very real probability because he has experienced
some pretty severe repercussions, including losing his job, his 30-year career, and
alienating most of his friends and family members because he has, for over ten
years, been declaring in every way that he canin person, through
correspondence, a newsletter, a commentary on the Bibles book of Revelation 3, a
website4 and a blog5the warning of the Tenth Harbinger.

Another Witness
However, this watchman is greatly encouraged to continue proclaiming the true
and complete message about the identity and destiny of the United States of
America in Bible prophecybefore it is too late for those precious souls who are
willing to listen to the warningbecause another witness to the Truth (cf. 2
Corinthians 13:1) has bravely stepped forward. His name is James F. Fitzgerald.
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Just last year (2013), two years after The Harbinger was published, Fitzgerald
published his eye-opening book The 9/11 Prophecy6. In The 9/11 Prophecy,
Fitzgerald takes the warning of The Harbinger a giant step farther by connecting the
Isaiah 9:10 prophecy with the End of the Age (Matthew 24:3) prophecies of last
book of the Bible, the Revelation of the Lord, and correctly, unequivocally (unlike
Jonathan Cahn), at least partially discerning the destiny of the American empire
and its great city (Revelation 18:10), New York City, in those prophecies. He also
correctly observes that we are, at the present time, in the generation (Matthew
24:34) during which all the prophesied cataclysmic events that will destroy this
present, dark and evil world, especially the United States of America, and usher in
the wonderful world to come will be fulfilled. (cf. Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke
21, Hebrews 2:5 and Revelation 1:1-5)

The Whole Truth and Our Response to It

Nevertheless, although James Fitzgerald is closer to correctly discerning the
Biblical identity and destiny of the U.S.A., by also, like Jonathan Cahn, overlooking
the Tenth Harbinger, he fails to connect the dots which complete the picturehe
fails to see that the prophecies of Isaiah 9, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, 2
Thessalonians 2, and the book of Revelation are linked to hundreds of other
passages of prophetic Scripture to reveal the exact identity of America, her role in
Bible prophecy and the three ways (one political and two physical) in which the
United States of America will be destroyed. Therefore, both Cahn and Fitzgerald
fail to correctly recognize what the Lord commands His people in America to do
in preparation for the awesome, terrible or wonderful (depending on ones point
of view) events of the beginnings of sorrows (Mark 13:8), the Great
Tribulation (Matthew 24:21; Revelation 7:14) and the Day of the Lord (2 Peter
3:10; cf. Revelation 6:17) very soon to come, and leave them in real danger of
being sucked, by the great deception (Matthew 24:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:11) that
will accompany those tremendously trying times, into the clutches of the lawless
one and perishing (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10).
And why do both Cahn and Fitzgerald fail to recognize the Tenth Harbinger?
One reason is that they, like the vast majority of other American Christians, do not
understand the true spiritual, religious foundation on which the United States of
America was built and continues to function.
So, it is the fervent prayer of this watchman that those of you who read The
Tenth Harbinger will have the courage to at least temporarily set aside your
preconditioned traditions, allegiances and understandings about the history and the
role in the world of the United States of America, and honestly open your minds
and hearts to what Gods sure Word of prophecy really reveals about the identity
and destiny of America. You may be infuriated or you may be terrified by the

contents of this book, but I assure you that you will not be bored; it will rattle
your cage and you will have to get way out of your comfort zone to honestly,
with an open mind evaluate the veracity of what is written here. But, please allow
this watchman to assure you, from his own experience, that if you do have the
honesty and the courage to face up to the Truth about what is happening and what
will soon happen in the world, especially the U.S.A., what our Heavenly Father
tells us to do about it and take it to heart and act on it in obedience, you will be
able to face whatever comes. And you will be able to face the future not only with
the confidence and peace of knowing exactly what to expect and how to deal with
it, but with the thrilling joy of anticipating the end of this dark, rapidly
deteriorating world and entering into the incomprehensibly wonderful Paradise of
the Lord. Just be sure to read all the way through this book, through last
chapter, In The End, theres GOOD NEWS!

What You Get

Heres what to anticipate from The Tenth Harbinger :
The Harbinger and The 9/11 Prophecy will be reviewed, pointing out their
revelatory insights as well as their flaws.
The calling of a third witness, Watchman Bob, to testify to the exact
identity and destiny of the United States of America will be described.
A thorough, Biblical explanation of True Christianity will be given.
The historical spiritual roots and present religion of the United States of
America will be closely examined, revealing whether or not the U.S.A. is
truly a Christian nation.
The true Biblical identity and destiny of America will be irrefutably proven.
The Tenth Harbinger will be explained, confirming that it foretells the
future of the U.S.A. just as accurately as do the first nine harbingers, as
revealed in The Harbinger.
A quasi-fictional, End Times narrative will be given, revealing how,
according to current events in the light of Bible prophecy, things may go in
the world and in the U.S.A. during the Final Seven Years.
What the Lord commands His people in America to do to not only survive,
but to achieve a glorious victory during the coming time of great testing and
trouble will be explained.
The true, gloriously happy end of the story for the Lords Overcomers will
be told.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)
Watchman Bob
November 2013
Updated April 2014

Chapter 1

The Harbinger: Insightful but Incomplete

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The Lord sent a word against Jacob, And it has fallen on Israel.
All the people will knowEphraim and the inhabitant of Samariawho say in pride and
arrogance of heart:
10
"The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stones; the
sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars."
11
Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and spur his enemies
on, 12the Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with an open
mouth. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
13
For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
14
Therefore the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and bulrush in one
day.
15
The elder and honorable, he is the head; the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
16
For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.
17
Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and
widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this
His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
18
For wickedness burns as the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and kindle in the
thickets of the forest; they shall mount up like rising smoke.
19
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned up, and the people shall be as
fuel for the fire; no man shall spare his brother.
20
And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry; he shall devour on the left hand and not
be satisfied; every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm. (Isaiah 9:8-20)
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n The Harbinger, The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment DVD, and in many speeches and
television interviews, Jonathan Cahn, in an extraordinarily perspicacious, eyeopening way, explains how nine events in the destruction of the Northern
Kingdom of Israel (also identified by the name of its principal tribe Ephraim and
capital city Samaria) foretold, with amazing specificity and accuracy, the
destruction, more than 2,700 years later, of the World Trade Center towers on
September 11, 2001. Let us briefly review the history surrounding the fall of Israel
and how the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy was fulfilled in Israels destruction, then see, as
explained by Cahn, how that prophecy applies with equal or even greater precision
to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Finally, we will explain how, by
overlooking the Tenth Harbinger, Cahn has unfortunately, even tragically,
neglected to correctly tell the Biblical end of the story.

Israels Demise and Destruction Prophesied

The Hebrew prophet Isaiah began to utter his predictions in about 754 B.C.1
During the following years, the first nine events in the destruction of the northern
kingdom of Israel, as foretold by Isaiah (which, thanks to Jonathan Cahn, we now
know were harbingers of disaster in a future kingdomthe United States of
America) occurred.

Historical Background Brief

Throughout her history the Lord had been warning His nation Israel of the
severe consequences of not keeping His commandmentsespecially the second
and third of the Ten Commandmentsto not get involved in idolatry (cf. Exodus
20:3-4; Deuteronomy 6:14-15). But after Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim led the
ten northern tribes of Israel to secede from the union of all twelve tribes in 931
B.C. and was made king of the new Northern Kingdom of Israel, he established
two royal idolatrous worship centersat Dan, in the northern part of the
kingdom, and at Bethel, at the southern extremity of the kingdom. Dan and
Bethel had long been steeped in idolatrous, pagan, cultic traditions. Jeroboam also
established shrines throughout the kingdom staffed by non-Levitical priests. (The
Lord had designated only Levites to serve as priests in Israelcf. Numbers 3:610.) Then, for the next 200+ years of Israels (Ephraims) history, every one of
the eighteen kings who followed Jeroboam, to one extent or another, continued
the idolatrous practices established by him. Therefore, at various times
throughout her history, the Lord, true to His Word, brought other kingdoms
against Israel to punish her. Also, the chronicles of the kings of Israel record a
history of treachery, assassinations and violent deaths.
Jeroboams reign was punctuated by conflicts with the Southern Kingdom
(Judah, the House of David), in most of which Judah prevailed. In about 911
B.C. the forces of Abijah, King of Judah, dealt the forces of Jeroboam a crushing
defeat, pushing the border of the Southern Kingdom about nine miles north into
Israel. Jeroboam died shortly afterward. Then, Jeroboams son, Nadab, who
succeeded his father as king of Israel, soon found himself at war with the
Philistines. But while the Israelite army was besieging the Philistine city of
Gibbethon, Nadab was assassinated by his successor Baasha (1 Kings 15:27). In
895 B.C. Baashas Israel was attacked from the northeast by the army of Benhadad of Aram (Syria), who gained control of most of eastern Galilee (1 Kings
15:20; 2 Chronicles 16:4). In 885 B.C. Baashas son Elah succeeded his father as
king of Israel, and was immediately forced by the threatening Philistines to resume
Israels war with Philistia. However, in the second year of his reign, Elah was
assassinated and replaced as king by Omri (1 Kings 16:16). For the next six years,
Omri was engaged in a civil war with a would-be usurper to his throne, Tibni, but
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finally prevailed. Then, Omri went on the offensive and managed to expand the
borders of the kingdom through purchasing land, treaties with the surrounding
kingdoms, and intermarriage between his children and those of other kings.
Omris son Ahab, who succeeded him, married the idolatrous, pagan daughter
of the king of Tyre, Jezebel, so he had plenty of encouragement to perpetuate the
idolatrous ways of Israel, establishing the Canaanite/Phoenician god Baal as the
principal deity worshipped in Israel. Also, after he became king, Ahab continued
the land acquisition program of his father, but in doing so, he threatened to
encroach on the land east of the Sea of Chinnereth (later called the Sea of Galilee)
controlled by Aram-Damascus. A coalition of Aramaic (Syrian) kings, led by
another Ben-hadad (a royal title rather than a name), responded by invading Israel
and besieging Samaria. But, because they were disorganized, the Syrians were not
able to sustain their control over Israel (1 Kings 20:1-22). And when Ahab
mustered his forces and attacked the Syrian army, he won a decisive victory and
gained a treaty with and generous trade concessions from Ben-hadad (1 Kings
20:23-34). However, three years later, in 853 B.C., Damascus challenged Israel
again, and Ahab was killed in battle near the Transjordan city of Ramoth-gilead.
Ahaziah, Ahabs son, then became the king of Israel. However, like his
parents, he was a worshipper of Baal. And when he inquired of Baal-Zebub as to
his fate when he sustained injuries from a fall, the Lord instructed the prophet
Elijah to tell the king that he would die, which he did, and the king died.
Ahaziahs brother Jehoram (Joram) became king in his place. (1 Kings 22:51-2
Kings 1:17). However, Jehu, the commander of Israels army, who had been on
guard against the Syrians at Ramoth-gilead, was anointed by a messenger from the
prophet Elisha to be the king of Israel and told to slay all of Ahabs family,
including his wife Jezebel and Joram, because of their idolatry and murders of the
true prophets of the Lord. And, in a real bloodbath, that is what Jehu did. He
also killed all the priests of Baal and destroyed their idols and places of worship.
However, he continued the idolatrous practices of Jeroboam, and the Lord
brought the army of Syria, now led by its new king Hazael, against Israel, and
various parts of the kingdom were taken, diminishing its size and power. (2 Kings
9:1-10:33)
And so it went throughout the history of Israel: idolatry, treachery, violent
deaths and destruction caused by wars, exactly as warned by the Lord and foretold
by His prophets. But, through it all, the kings of Israel managed, to a large extent,
to maintain the cohesiveness of the kingdomuntil the breach occurred.

Ominous Precursors of Disaster to Comethe

Assyrian Threat and Invasion

Prior to the reigns of Omri and Ahab, the kingdom of Assyria, with its capital
at Nineveh (which was founded by Nimrod), 200 miles directly northeast of
Samaria, was a relatively insignificant kingdom. However, during the reign of
Omri over Israel, the king of Assyria Asshurnasirpal II started expanding his
kingdom to the west until his armies reached the northeastern corner of the
Amurru (Mediterranean) Sea, then started advancing down the coast, extorting
heavy tribute from the cities of PhoeniciaArvad, Byblos, Tyre and Sidon.
Asshurnasirpals son, Shalmaneser III, continued his fathers aggression when he
became King of Assyria in 859 B.C.
So, during the armistice between Ahab and Ben-hadad, they banded their
armies together with those of nine other kings of the Levant and engaged the army
of Shalmaneser in western Syria, at Qarqar. That was in 853 B.C., the year of
Ahabs death (which occurred later that year). The allied forces won a decisive
battle, and, although Shalmaneser continued to make forays into eastern Syria and
other areas, it was years until the Assyrian army returned to the coast.
Finally, in 841 B.C., Shalmaneser carried out a successful military campaign that
took him all the way through Damascus and northern Israel to Mount Carmel on
the coast of the Great Sea (the Mediterranean), then up the Phoenician coast
through Tyre and Sidon to the Dog River, just south of Byblos. On this foray,
Salmanesers army plundered and destroyed numerous cities (cf. Hosea 10:14) and
he exacted tribute from Israel and Tyre. However, he then withdrew to Syria
where, for many years, the Assyrians were occupied with their expanding empire in
places far removed from Israel.

The First Harbingera Breach in the Wall of

National Security

Israels

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall,
whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. (Isaiah 30:13)
Almost a century after Shalmanesers invasion of Israel, Tiglath-pileser III, king
of the greatly expanded, much more powerful Assyrian Empire, led his army into
the western states. His method of conquest was different from his predecessors:
Rather than simply exact tribute and submission from local kings, Tiglath-pileser
placed governors over their territories and, if resisted, exiled the upper classes to
other parts of the empire. That way, he could use the newly annexed provinces as
stepping stones for further conquests.
In 743 B.C., the Assyrian army engaged the army of a coalition of western
states led by King Azariah of Judah. The Assyrians won the battle, and the
defeated kings, including King Menahem of Israel (2 Kings 15:19-20)3, were forced
to pay heavy tribute to Tiglath-pileser.

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Eight years later, when Tiglath-pileser was engaged in other campaigns, Pekah,
who had replaced Menahem as king of Israel, joined forces with Rezin, king of
Damascus, in an effort to build a coalition powerful enough to fight the Assyrians.
When Ahaz, king of Judah, refused to join their coalition, Pekah and Rezin
enlisted the help of the Edomites and attacked Judah. Judah was also attacked
from the southwest by the Philistines. (2 Kings 16:5-8; 2 Chronicles 28:5-18).
Although the armies of Pekah, Rezin, the Edomites and the Philistines inflicted
heavy damage on Judah, the kingdom was not destroyed and Ahaz continued as
king. And when he appealed to the king of Assyria for help, although Tiglathpilezer did not come to Judahs aid, his attention was drawn to the unrest in that
part of his empire and he promptly responded.
In 734 B.C. the Assyrians conquered Philistia. The following year, after key
cities in Phoenicia were conquered by the Assyrians, the wall of Israels security
was breached, numerous cities in the northern and Transjordan (Gilead) parts of
Israel fell to the Assyrians (2 Kings 15:29), and many of Israels inhabitants were
taken captive and exiled to other parts of the Assyrian Empire. In 732 B.C., the
Assyrian army defeated the army of Rezin and conquered Damascus. Also that
year, Pekah was assassinated by Hoshea who assumed the throne of Israel (2 Kings
15:30). It was the practice of Tiblath-pilezer to allow some of the states he
conquered, if they did not rebel and continued to pay the tribute he demanded, to
keep their present governments. And so, although she had lost her independent
sovereignty, Israel, with Hoshea as her king, was allowed to continue to exist.

Prophetic Implications for the United States of America

On September 11, 2001, a massive breach was blown in the seemingly
invincible wall of Americas national security. Not just one, but four giant,
commercial airliners were inexplicably4 not intercepted by the U.S.A.s vaunted air
defense system before they crashedtwo into the World Trade Center towers,
one into the Pentagon, and the fourth, apparently headed for the nations capital,
into a field in Pennsylvania.
What links this unprecedented invasion of and destruction in America with the
invasion of Israel by the forces of Tiblath-pilezer, as prophesied by Isaiah? First,
the symbolic significance of the targets of the attacks (the center of world
commerce and the centers of the U.S.A.s government and defense) links precisely
the 9/11 attack with many passages of Scripture that foretell the future destruction
of America. Second, the ones who hijacked the planes and the ones behind the
attack (al-Qaeda) were descendants of and from the same part of the world (the
Near East) as those who have, throughout history, hated and longed for the
destruction of Israel. Third, the ones who are prophesied to attack Israel in the

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Gog-Magog War (Ezekiel 38) and who are prophesied to destroy the United States
of America are from the same part of the Near East that was occupied by the
Assyrian Empire. All these Scriptural prophetic connections between the Assyrian
attacks on Israel, the 9/11 attack, and future attacks on both Israel and America
will be explained in detail in the following chapters of this book.

The Second HarbingerAssyrian Terrorism

And they [the Assyrians] shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and war-horses, with a
horde of people. They shall array against you buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will
delegate judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. I will set my
jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you; they shall remove your nose and your
ears, and your remnant shall fall by the sword; they shall take your sons and your daughters, and
your remnant shall be devoured by fire. They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away
your beautiful jewelry. (Isaiah 23:24-26)
According to Cahn, the Assyrians were the original terrorists, striking great fear
in the hearts of their enemies, brutally torturing and mutilating those they
captured. They very effectively used terror tactics as psychological warfare in
intimidating those they came against in war, and to keep in line any captives who
showed rebellious tendencies. And their terror techniques were often brutalas
examples, killing every living human and animal in a conquered city, burning them
alive, or taking them captive and using them as human shields in the next conflict.5
The prophetic implications of the Second Harbinger for the 9/11 attack on
America are obvious: The capital of Assyria was Nineveh, in what is now
northern Iraq. And the Assyrian Empire encompassed territories that are now
terrorist-sponsoring, Arabic, Muslim nations, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and Egypt, plus the Gaza Strip (ancient Philistia).
Osama bin Laden, the founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and alQaedas leader at the time of its operatives 9/11 attack, was a Saudi Arabian Sunni
Muslim. Also, remember that Tiglath-pilezers method of conquest was often to
export captives from the conquered lands to other parts of the empire and to
move governors and others from Assyria and other parts of the empire into the
conquered territories. So, the populations in all those countries were mixed.
Therefore, it is not inconceivable that the 9/11 terrorists were descendants
certainly in their determination to terrorize and conquer those who differed from
them in nationality and religionof those Assyrians who conquered Israel.

The Third HarbingerThe Fallen Bricks

The bricks have fallen . . . (Isaiah 9:10)

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Sun-dried mud or clay bricks, or bricks made with a mixture of mud and other
materials, were often used to build houses, walls and other structures in the ancient
Near East.6 The principal task of the Israeli slaves, before they were liberated
from Egypt, was making bricks (Exodus 5:18-19). Archaeologists have discovered
massive brick walls in Israel dating to the eighth century B.C.the time period
of the Assyrian invasions of Israel.7 These are probably the fallen bricks to
which the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy was referring.
In the same way the bricks in Israel fell during the Assyrian invasions and
attacks on Israel, the bricks of the World Trade Center fell when the Assyrian
terrorists attacked it on 9/11/2001.

The Fourth HarbingerThe Tower

The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild (Isaiah 9:10)
In The Harbinger (page 66), Jonathan Cahn points out that the English
translation of the Greek Septuagint version of Isaiah 9:10 reads, The bricks are
fallen down but come let us build for ourselves a tower. Cahn also notes, correctly,
that Israels attitude of arrogant defiance of the Lord did not change after being
attacked by the Assyrians in 732 B.C., and that it manifested the same spirit as that
of those who built the Tower of Babel (cf. Genesis 11:4; Isaiah 9:9). Throughout
her history, Israel had been warned about the consequences of being proud
hearted that it was solely by the Lords power and the strength of [His] hand,
not by theirs, that they prevailed over their enemies or accomplished anything (cf.
Deuteronomy 8:17; Jeremiah 50:32). Yet, even after being subjugated by the
Assyrians, rather than repenting and turning to the Lord for their salvation, Israel
proudly proclaimed, We will rebuild with hewn stones [incomparably stronger
and more durable than mud bricks]! Or, if the Septuagint version is correct, they
were declaring, exactly as did the ancient followers of Nimrod, in effect, We will
build a tower that cannot be destroyed!
Incredibly, after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, Americas leaders
responded with exactly the same words as those prophesied by IsaiahWe will
rebuild! On 9/11, the same day the World Trade Center fell, the mayor of New
York City proclaimed, We will rebuild! On September 12, a U.S. senator from
New York proclaimed on the Senate floor, We will rebuild! On September 14,
a New York state senator proclaimed, We will rebuild! On September 20, the
President of the United States proclaimed, We will rebuild New York City. On
August 8, 2006, during a fifth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade
Center memorial ceremony, the governor of New York proclaimed, We will
rebuild!

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But not only did the leaders of the U.S. respond to the attack and destruction
with the same words, but in the same spirit of arrogance and defiance as
prophesied by Isaiah. The day after the attack, on January 12, 2001, an American
senator proclaimed, in referring to rebuilding the World Trade Center towers, I
believe one of the first things we should commit to . . . is to . . . show the world
that we are not afraidwe are defiant! Then, on January 2, 2002, New York
Citys mayor proclaimed, We will rebuild, renew, and remain the capital of the free
world! (Note that he referred to New York City as the capital of the free
world.)8
So, quotes reflecting Americas leaders arrogance and defiance following the
fall of the World Trade Center towers are easy to find. However, quotes
expressing their contrition of heart and crying out to the Lord for His protection
and deliverance, especially in the Name of Jesus (the true Christian response to
calamity), are virtually impossible to find. Those kinds of quotes are even difficult
to find in the Christian community. In a survey of responses to 9/11 of ten wellknown Christian leaderswriters, pastors and leaders of various Christian
organizationspublished in Christianity Today, only two mentioned sin and the
need for repentance and only two suggested turning to God in reliance on Him
rather than on self. Most spoke of changes that need to be made (with no
mention of repentance and no reference to the Lord): forgive, pursue justice,
local church revivals, speaking truth to power, a national spiritual
awakening, creating a Christian counter culture, ensuring that goodness
prevails, and so forth.9

The Fifth HarbingerThe Hewn Stones

The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stones (Isaiah 9:10)
Hewn stones (Hebrew: gaziyth) refers to stones quarried or cut out of rock and
shaped and smoothed by tools.10 King Solomon had 80,000 hewers of stone
(New International Version: stonecutters) cutting stones out of mountain rock to
build the Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 5:15). After coming out of Egypt, Israel
was commanded by the Lord to not build the altar on which they sacrificed burnt
offerings of hewn stones, for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it (Exodus
20:25). Perhaps it was this command, to not arrogantly deny the provision of the
Lord by resorting solely to the works of their own hands, to which Isaiah was
referring in his prophecy.
Amazingly, not only was Isaiahs prophecy concerning the words (we will
rebuild) and the arrogant, defiant spirit in which they would be proclaimed
precisely fulfilled by Americas leaders after the 9/11 disaster, but the exact
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at Ground Zero as the symbolic cornerstone of the new Freedom Tower of the
World Trade Center just before construction on that tower began. In fact, at the
dedication of the massive stone, the governor of New York confidently
proclaimed,
On September 11th 2001, this nation was challenged; attacked by those who
sought to shake our faith in that freedom, our confidence in democracy. They
sought to deny us those unalienable rights, so wisely, bravely and boldly
proclaimed by our forefathers so many years ago. They attacked us to break our
spirit. . . .
How badly our enemies underestimated the resiliency of this city and the resolve
of these United States. How badly our enemies underestimated the power and
endurance of freedom. In less than three years, we have more than just plans on
paperwe place here today the cornerstone, the foundation of a new towera
new soaring tribute that will climb 1,776 feet highmarking the year of our
nations birth and proudly declaring our steadfast allegiance to freedom. . . .
Today we take 20 tons of Adirondack granitethe bedrock of our Stateand
place it as the foundation, the bedrock, of this new symbol of American strength
and confidence. Today, we lay the cornerstone for a new symbol of this City and
this country, and of our resolve to triumph in the face of terror.
Today we build the Freedom Tower.
Today, we, the heirs of that revolutionary spirit of defiance, lay this cornerstone
and unmistakably signal to the world the unwavering strength of this nation. . . .11

Note the tone of the above proclamation. Was it one of contrition and soulsearchingasking the Almighty what had gone wrong with this Christian nation
to make it so unexpectedly and tragically vulnerable to the 9/11 attack? Was it one
of appealing to the Lord for His mercy and grace in protecting America from
further devastating attacks? No, the governors speech reflected just the opposite
spirit, exactly as prophesied by Isaiah, did it not?

The Sixth and Seventh HarbingersSycamores Cut Down

and Replaced with Cedars
"The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut
down, but we will replace them with cedars." (Isaiah 9:10)

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The prophet uses a second example of Israels prideful intractability to

emphasize his point. Just as hewn stones were prophesied to replace fallen bricks,
cedars were prophesied to replace sycamores.
During biblical times sycamore trees (a variety of fig) were native to and
common in Israel . . . growing mostly in the lowlands. They were valuable for the
fruit they produced (cf. Judges 9:8). However, because their wood was soft and
porous, it was not preferred as a building material.12 Although most of the wood
of cedar trees had to be imported from Lebanon, because it was beautiful,
aromatic, strong and durable, it was the most the most highly favored building
material in Israel, as it was throughout the Near East.13 Solomon built most of the
Temple and its furniture of cedar (cf. 1 Kings 5-10).
It is not certain whether the Assyrian invaders actually cut down the sycamores
in Israel and the Hebrews replaced them with Cedars, or if Isaiah was just using
the illustration of replacing what was native to Israel with what was foreign as
figurative of the Ephraimites arrogant defiance of the Lord. But it is certain that
the prophecy applies in a literal way to the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade
Center.
On 9/11, as the towers were falling, a steel I-beam from the North Tower
struck and uprooted a giant, lone, 70-year-old sycamore tree which had grown at
the corner of Ground Zero! And that sycamore became a symbol of the 9/11
attack. On September 11, 2005the fourth anniversary of the attacka huge,
sprawling, bronze sculpture of the trunk and roots of the sycamore, which had
been placed in the Trinity Church courtyard at the head of Wall Street, was
dedicated.14
But that is not all. On November 22, 2003, a tree, called the Tree of Hope, was
planted in the spot where the sycamore had been uprooted; but it was not a
sycamore . . . it was a Norway sprucea tree of the same family (Pinaceae) of
evergreen conifer trees as the cedars of Lebanon!15

The Eighth HarbingerThe National Vow of Defiance

The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut
down, but we will put cedars in their place. (spoken by a national leader in Washington
D.C. on the third anniversary of 9/11)
Incredibly, when the conifer tree was planted in the place of the sycamore, every
element of the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy (the arrogant, defiant proclamation We will
rebuild, the fallen bricks replaced with the hewn stone, and the cut down
sycamore replaced with the cedar tree) had been specifically and literally fulfilled
during and after the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. But,

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there are implications of the prophecy for the nation as a whole, rather than just
the World Trade Center.
As is explained in The Harbinger (page 105), Isaiahs prophecy was not limited to
part of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, but as words that would be spoken by the
leaders of the kingdom from its capital, Samaria, regarding the kingdom as a
whole. And exactly the same occurred in the United States of America following
the attack on the World Trade Center.
Many of the proclamations following the 9/11 attack involved the entire
U.S.A., not just the World Trade Center or New York City. For example, as has
already been noted, on July 4, 2004, at the ceremony dedicating the cornerstone of
the Freedom Tower, the governor of New York declared, Today, we, the heirs of
that revolutionary spirit of defiance, lay this cornerstone and unmistakably signal
to the world the unwavering strength of this nation. And numerous
proclamations based on Isaiah 9:10 regarding America were from the nations
capital, Washington, D.C., from national leaders. For example, on the third
anniversary of the 9/11 attack, just two months after the governors proclamation,
the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the U.S. that election year and a
member of the Senate, speaking in the nations capital to a congressional caucus
gathering, defiantly, at the beginning of his speech, quoted part of the Isaiah 9:10
prophecy as the Lords word to get us throughThe bricks have fallen, but we
will rebuild with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will
put cedars in their place. Then, during his speech, the V.P. candidate made other
references to the 9/11 tragedy and the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy, the implications of
which he generalized to the U.S. as a nation (e.g., Walk with me through this day.
And you will see that while those bricks fell and the sycamores [were] cut down,
our people are making those cedars rise.).16

The Ninth HarbingerThe Pronouncement of Judgment on

the Nation
All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. (Psalm 56:5)
Obviously, what none of those leaders who used the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy as a
rallying cry realized was that it was intended as a pronouncement of judgment on
those who uttered it. Little did the leaders of Israel, after the first invasion of the
Assyrians in 743 B.C., foresee that their words and the spirit of arrogant defiance
and self-reliance in which they were spoken would, 18 years later, bring on a third
attack by the forces of Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria following the reign of
Tiglath-pilezer, that would not just oppress and reduce to indentured servitude
Israel, but totally destroy the kingdom.

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After the second invasion and the conquest of Israel by the Assyrians in 732
B.C., King Hoshea, in defiance of the Lord, continued the idolatrous ways of all
his predecessors beginning with the first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel,
Jeroboam. So, the Lord prompted Shalmaneser to make Hosea his vassal and exact
additional tribute money from him. But, Hoshea remained unrepentant and,
during the sixth year of his reign, he made a foolish error that led to the total
destruction of Israel. He failed to pay the tribute demanded of him by
Shalmaneser and appealed to So, the king of Egypt, for help against the Assyrians.
But Hoshea did not receive the help he requested from Egypt and, during the
seventh year of his reign, he was imprisoned by Shalmaneser. Then Samaria was
besieged by the Assyrian army for three years and, in 722 B.C., fell to the
Assyrians. Then, as they had done with other kingdoms they conquered who had
continued to resist them, the Assyrians dismantled Israel, took many of the
kingdoms citizens (especially the nobility) captive and deported them to remote
places, and brought in people from other places to replace them. And that was the
end of the Northern Kingdom of Israelall because of their stubborn, arrogant,
unrepentant rebellion against the Lord their God. (2 Kings 17:1-6; 18:9-12).
And in exactly the same way that Israels leaders pronounced judgment on their
kingdom by proclaiming the words prophesied by Isaiah, Americas leaders, by
proclaiming Isaiah 9:10 from the nations capital, have unwittingly pronounced
judgment on the United States of America. The day after the 9/11 attack, the U.S.
Congress issued a joint resolution expressing the official national response to the
catastrophe. And the U.S. Senate majority leader presented the resolution with
these words:
I know that there is only the smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken
from this devastation, but there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that I think
speaks to all of us at times like this . . .
The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees
have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.
That is what we will do. We will rebuild and we will recover. The people of
America will stand together because the people of America have always stood
together, and those of us who are privileged to serve this great nation will stand
with you.17

The SchemitahGods Schedule of the Execution of His

Judgment on the Nation

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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it . . . [T]he seventh day is the Sabbath of the
LORD your God . . . Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day
for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death . . .
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and
pay nothing . . . Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, but
the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow . . . (Genesis 2:3; Exodus
20:10; 21:2; 23:10-11; 35:2)
God is not arbitrary and unpredictable. He runs His creation on schedule. And
that schedule is based on the number seven and multiples of seven. From the time
Israel was established as a nation, the Lords people were commanded to live their
lives according to His schedule (not theirs)the seventh day Sabbath, the seventh
year release of servants and debts, lepers quarantined for seven days before being
examined, seven Feasts of the Lord, seven Sabbaths from the Feast of First Fruits
until Shavuot (Pentecost), the Feast of Trumpets (which is a rehearsal of the
coming Resurrection and Day of Judgment at the beginning of the Seventh
Millennium) on the first day of Tishrithe seventh month on the Hebrew
calendarand so forth. And there were severe consequences, appropriate to the
violation, for those who did keep the appointments set by the Lord according to
His calendar.
For example, from the time the children of Israel entered and occupied the
Promised Land until the Southern Kingdom (Judah) was destroyed and its citizens
who survived being killed were taken captive to Babylon (490 years), they did not
obey the Lords command to allow their land to lie fallow every seventh year. So,
as prophesied (cf. 2 Chronicles 36:20-21), they were subjected to the destruction of
their kingdom and servitude in Babylon, estranged from their homeland and close
relationship with the Lord, for 70 yearsone year for every Schemitah (seventh year
of rest for the land)18 they failed to keep.
And, as Jonathan Cahn has astutely observed and brought to our attention in
The Harbinger (Chapter 17), since 9/11 the executions of the judgment of the Lord
on America seem to be operating according to the Schemitah schedule.
During the seventh anniversary week of the attack on the World Trade Center,
the week of September 7-13, 2008, the Great Recessionthe collapse of the
global economybegan with the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
government-sponsored mortgage lendersthen Lehman Brothers, one of the
worlds leading financial firms. During the ensuing days, financial institutions and
individual investors all over the world went bankrupt, and the global economy
bottomed out on September 29. Some of those U.S. firms (e.g., Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac) were bailed out by the government, in effect cancelling their debts
(Schemitah); others (e.g., Lehman Brothers and thousands of investors) lost

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everything which, like the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel losing their
land and being taken captive, settled their debt to the Lord (punitive Schemitah).
But, other than the economic collapse of 2008 occurring during the seventh
anniversary week of 9/11, there are other amazing coincidences which seem to
confirm that the Great Recession did not occur randomly, but was indeed brought
on by the Lord according to His Schemitah schedule. September 29, 2008, the day
the stock market crashed and the economy bottomed out, just happened to
occur on Elul 29 on the Hebrew calendar, the eve of Tishri 1the Day of
Judgment.19 But, as Cahn points out in The Harbinger (page 167), the economic
collapse did not happen overnight. The entire previous year, beginning with the
financial crash of Northern Rock, Britains fifth largest mortage lender, on
September 13, 2007, was marred with increasing numbers of loan failures,
foreclosures and failing credit markets. And what date was September 13, 2007,
on the Hebrew calendar? It just happened to be Elul 29. Whats more, from
the next day, Tishri 1 (the Day of Judgment), until Elul 29 the next year (the day
the economy crashed), just happened to be a Schemitah year on the Hebrew
calendar! But that is still not all. The previous greatest stock market crash in
Wall Street history occurred seven years earlier, on September 17, 2001, six days
after 9/11. And what was September 17, 2001, on the Hebrew calendar? It just
happened to be Elul 29, the last day of the Schemitah year that preceded Elul 29 of
the Schemitah year exactly seven years later (on the Hebrew calendar), when the
stock market crashed in 2008!
Are all these dates that seem to connect the 9/11 attack on the World Trade
Center with the economic collapses of 2001 and 2008, exactly according to Gods
Schemitah schedule, just coincidences? As if to confirm that they are not, on
February 24, 2009, the newly-elected President of the United States, in his first
address as President to a joint session of Congress and to the American people,
proclaimed, confidently and defiantly, concerning the floundering economy, We
will rebuild! 20exactly the same words spoken by the leaders of New York
City, New York State, the leaders of the U.S. Congress, and the previous President
of the United States . . . and exactly the same words prophesied by Isaiah to result
in the total destruction of Israel.

What is Next?
If indeed the economic collapse of 2008 was a punitive Schemitah of the Lorda
scheduled execution of His judgment on Americait begs the question: What will
happen at the next seventh year Schemitah in 2015? In The Harbinger (page 222),
Jonathan Cahn leaves the answer to that question open-ended. He states, through
The Harbingers prophet, that the destiny of America (which Cahn considers

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basically a Christian nation) depends on whether or not the Lords people in this
nation believe and act on Gods promise to His people Israel:
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and
heal their land. (2Chronicles7:14)

But is, according to the Bible, the soon-coming (perhaps as early as 2015) total
destruction of America really contingent on the response of the Lords people in
the U.S.A., or is it inevitable? Did Jonathan Cahn overlook a key to understanding
the ultimate destiny of America? If you really want to know the answers to those
questions, keep reading, because the Truth will be toldclearly, exactly and
irrefutably according to the Word of God.

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Chapter 2

A Second Witness: The 9/11 Prophecy

By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established. (2 Corinthians
13:1)

onathans Cahns startlingly eye-opening book The Harbinger, published in 2011,

is an amazingly insightful, well-documented witness of the fulfillment of the
Isaiah 9:10 prophecy in the destruction of the World Trade Center on
September 11, 2001. Plus, it plausibly presents the prophetic implications of the
recurring seventh-year Schemitah in foretelling the economic crash of 2008 and
probable future catastrophes to befall the United States of America.
But, just last year (2014), another compelling witness came forward who, by
connecting the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy with other Bible prophecies regarding
America, particularly those of Revelation 18, has taken us a significant step
forward in understanding the ultimate destiny of the U.S.A. That witness is James
F. Fitzgerald with his book The 9/11 Prophecy.1

Accepting Gods Call

Here am I! Send me. (Isaiah 6:8)
In The 9/11 Prophecy, Fitzgerald uses an autobiographical style in describing
how, through a lifetime of experiences, he has been brought by the Lord to an
understanding of Americas destiny, as revealed in the Bible. And, in The 9/11
Prophecy, he describes how the Lord used him to forewarn New York City of the
attack on the World Trade Center.
Fitzgerald is also the author of the video production, The WatchWORD Bible.2
After five years of labor-intensive work in producing The WatchWORD Bible, in
May 1999 the first four video booksthe four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John)were completed. But then, although it was out of sequence, Fitzgerald
was convinced that he and his team needed to jump to the the last book of the
Bible and produce The Video Book of Revelation. And that decision was proven to be
providential, because the Lord used The Video Book of Revelation to warn New York
City of the attack on the World Trade Center (although, as with the Isaiah 9:10
prophecy, the warning was unheeded).
Because of all the symbolic imagery in the 22 chapters of the Bibles book of
Revelation, producing it as a video book was a monumental task. But Fitzgerald
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something else remarkable happened: In June 2000the first year of the new
millennium, before all the uncertainties and trepidation of Y2K had dissipated
The Video Book of Revelation was accepted to be shown at that years New York
International Independent Film and Video Festival.
But even more remarkable than the acceptance of The Video Book of Revelation at
such a prestigious event, where mainly secular films and videos were showcased,
was the prophetic significance of its showing in foretelling the destruction of the
World Trade Center in the same city fourteen months later. In developing the
video book, Fitzgerald did a thorough study of Revelation. And, when reviewing
The Video Book of Revelation just before he and his team took it to New York City,
he was particularly struck by a statement in chapter 18: This is the greatest city ever
(CEV). In context, verses 17 and 18 state,
For in one hour such great riches came to nothing. Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors,
and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her
burning, saying, What is like this great city? (NKJV)

And Fitzgerald began to wonder if there was some connection between the
prophecies in Revelation 18 concerning modern Babylon the Great and New York
City which considers itself the greatest city in the world. On close examination of
the text, he discovered that Revelation 18, in foretelling the destiny of Babylon the
Great, exactly describes New York City.
So, before The Video Book of Revelation premiered in New York City, its author
became convinced that it prophesied a future destruction of that greatest city
ever, in a very short period of time (one hour). And he was also convinced
that The Video Book of Revelation was not intended by the Lord to be simply a
compelling video rendition of Revelation, but was a prophetic warning of future
disaster. He also reasoned, if the showing of The Video Book of Revelation,
specifically Chapter 18, was truly prophetic of a catastrophe that would strike New
York City, to not be disconnected from the prophecy, the disaster must occur in
the near future. Fitzgerald also reasoned, because the disaster was prophesied to
occur in a very short period of time, to strike a specific target, and its smoke could
be seen from far away, that it must be caused by a terrorist attack. Finally, he
concluded that New York City must be a type of Babylon rather than the actual
Babylon the Great because, according to Revelation 18, Babylon the Great will be
totally destroyed; but, according to other chapters in the book of Revelation, that
would not occur soon after the year 2000 because numerous other prophecies that
could not possibly be fulfilled soon after the turn of the millennium must first be
fulfilled.
So, producing The Video Book of Revelation took on incomparably more
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watchmans mission in the mind of Fitzgerald. And, with some trepidation

because of the possibility that other members of his production team would think
he had lost his mind, but convinced that he needed to add action to his
convictions for them to be confirmed as more than just vain imaginations, he
immediately gathered his team and explained everything he believed the Lord had
shown him. And, to his surprise, no one on the team, including his wife Betty,
argued or had issue with anything I said.3

Sounding the Alarm and New York Citys Response

The great day of the LORD is near . . . a day of trumpet and alarm . . . against the high
towers. (Zephaniah 1:14, 16)
On July 7, the date of the festivals grand opening, the display booth for
promotion of The Video Book of Revelation had been set up in Madison Square
Garden, in the heart of New York City. And, after the event started, all evening,
for several hours, a member of the team, dressed like John the Baptist, cried out
Repent! The kingdom of heaven is near! and Turn back to God! 4 Meanwhile,
Fitzgerald and others on the team were praying that the Lord would have mercy
on New York City. Then, Saturday, July 7, the video book was highlighted on the
Madison Square Garden marquee and promoted through news releases sent to
papers and radio stations. And its world premier showing was that night.
In The 9/11 Prophecy, Fitzgerald writes that sounding the alarm of impending
doom at the grand opening evoked very little positive responsemost ignored it
and some were annoyed. And most who came by the display, apparently oblivious
to its message, paid no attention to it. The response to the showing of The Video
Book of Revelation was somewhat more encouraging. Although it was a small
audience of 100 or so (including some family friends, a former pastor and a
ministry colleague) who attended the premier, and some who were invited did not
attend, the video was given a standing ovation by those who were there. The net
effect of the film and video festival experience on Fitzgerald was an increased
sense of foreboding that New York City, in its self-absorbed complacency, was
indeed ripe for the judgment of the Lord.5

Confirming New York City as a Type of Babylon the

Great
I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north
country. (Jeremiah 50:9)

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During the months following the New York International Independent Film
and Video Festival, although he was occupied with completing the video book
New Testament, the identity of Babylon the Great of Revelation 18 was never far
from Fitzgeralds thoughts and was frequently the topic of his Bible studies,
particularly the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah. Prior to the festival, he had
noticed that Revelation 18s description of Babylon was remarkably similar to that
of New York City, in three aspects:
All the kings of the earth [have] committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her.
(Revelation 18:9). New York City is the headquarters of global politics (the
United Nations). And, to a large extent, it is through doing business with
the U.S.A. and the support of the U.S. government that virtually all nations
leaders remain in power and maintain their luxurious wealth.
And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their
merchandise anymore. (Revelation 18:11) The headquarters of world
commerce (the World Trade Center) is in New York City. Also, the worlds
largest stock market (the New York Stock Exchange) and the center of
global finance (Wall Street) are located in New York City.
What is like this great city? (Revelation 18:18) The CEV version states, This
is the greatest city ever. In many aspects, New York Cityin its standard of
living, commerce, culture and influence on the rest of the worldis indeed,
and by its own self-assessment, the greatest city ever.
Also, reflecting on the national sins of greed (e.g., hoarding of wealth through
the financial markets), immorality (e.g., approval of homosexuality), murder (e.g.,
abortions), and idolatry (e.g., worship of celebrities), reinforced Fitzgeralds
perception of New York City, where those sins are concentrated and unbridled, as
a type of Babylon.
Next, during the festival, the obliviousness of those who attended the grand
opening to the warnings of impending catastrophe and the lack of interest in the
showing of The Video Book of Revelation, plus his studies of Scripture during the
months following the festival, continued to heighten Fitzgeralds sense of
foreboding concerning what he anticipated to be a coming Muslim terrorist attack
on New York City, just as Babylon was prophesied to be attacked.
Finally, all of Fitzgeralds apprehensive perceptions of New York City as a type
of Babylon the Great were confirmed when the towers of the World Trade Center
were destroyed in almost precisely one hour (Revelation 18:10, 17, 19) by
descendants of those from the north country (Jeremiah 50:9; 51:27, 28), and the
smoke of her burning could be seen from the sea, many miles away (Revelation
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Lack of Repentance: A Precursor of National Judgment

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of
their deeds And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of
the fierceness of His wrath. (Revelation 16:11, 19)
Following the destruction of the World Trade Center, Fitzgeralds thoughts
turned to its implications for the nation as a whole. Was the 9/11 attack just an
isolated fulfillment of prophecy, or did it portend an even greater future disaster
that would affect the entire United States of America?
One objection to such a scenario is that the Lord will not destroy this Christian
nation because He will be killing the righteous along with the unrighteous.
However, in reflecting on the Civil War, which claimed the most American lives of
any catastrophe in the nations history and which Abraham Lincoln considered the
execution of Gods judgment on America, Fitzgerald observed that death had been
no respecter of persons in that conflict, regardless of their faith or lack of it, or
whether they were on the side of the North or the South. He also noted that for
the Christian death is redemptive rather than punitive; it dooms the unrepentant
sinner to Hell but frees the righteous in Christ from the bonds of this mortal life
to be with Him in glory forever (cf. Philippians 1:21-23). Therefore, whether or
not the Lord destroys a nation in judgment does not depend on the number of
Christians in that nation but on the fidelity of the nation as a whole to the Lords
ways and the response of that nation to the Lords warnings to repent and change
its ways. Although, as prophesied in Revelation, the people of great Babylon
will be severely chastised by disasters brought on by the judgments of the Lord,
they will refuse to repent and will continue to blaspheme Him (Revelation 9:20-21;
16:21), and their nation or empire will finally be totally destroyed.
In The 9/11 Prophecy, published ten years after the destruction of the World
Trade Center, Fitzgerald laments that America has exactly followed the course that
Babylon the Great is prophesied to take. Immediately following the disaster,
Americans flocked to churches where they were consoled, the attackers were
demonized, patriotism was fueled, and retaliation was encouraged. There was very
little soul-searching, mention of the Biblical reasons national catastrophes occur,
or of the means of avoiding those disastersrepentance and obedience.
Therefore, the incoming tide of church-goers in the U.S.A. soon abated and the
nation was back to its ever-increasing godless waysheaded intractably for a date
with her final destiny.

The Last Generation

This generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. (Matthew 24:34)

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As recorded in Matthew 24, Jesus told His disciples that the Temple in
Jerusalem would be totally destroyed. They asked Him not only when that would
occur but, What will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" Brilliantly, He
replied with a prophetic discourse that answered all their questions, not with dates
but with signs of the times (Matthew 16:1).
Jesus warned his disciples of the coming destruction of the Temple, which
occurred in 68 A.D.; of wars and rumors of wars, natural disasters, persecutions
and deceptive false prophets and messiahs that would continue to proliferate
through the centuries; and the preaching of the Gospel to all nations, which would
be fulfilled just before the end. He warned them of the coming abomination of
desolation that would be set up in the rebuilt Temple, and the great tribulation that
would claim the lives of everyone on Earth if it were not cut short. And finally,
He told them how to recognize Him at His coming to gather His chosen ones
from all over the earth.
Then, Jesus said, This generation will by no means pass away till all these things
take place. The question is: to which generation was Jesus referring? Although,
because of different eschatological stances among denominations, churches and
sects of Christianity, the answer to that question is a subject of great debate, it is
obvious from a simple, common-sense reading of the text. This generation must
be the last generation up to the end of the age, which includes the final events
prophesied by Jesus in His discourse to His disciples and to the apostle John, as
recorded in the book of Revelation.
James Fitzgerald agrees and, in fact, presents his case in The 9/11 Prophecy
(Chapter 15) that, according to current events in the light of Bible prophecy, the
final generation of 40 years began with the 9/11/2001 destruction of the World
Trade Center.

The Beginnings of Sorrows

"For many will come in My name, saying, I am He, and will deceive many. But when you hear
of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not
yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be
earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the
beginnings of sorrows. (Mark 13:5-8)
According to Fitzgerald we are, at the present time, experiencing the events of
the beginning of sorrows foretold by Jesus in Matthew 24:4-8 and Revelation 6:1-8.
And those beginnings (in the Gospel of Mark, beginnings is plural) consist of
the results of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse going forth on Earth.

The First Horseman, Riding a White Horse

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And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given
to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. (Revelation 6:2)
Some expositors teach that the first horseman will be the King of Kings when
He returns to defeat His enemies and conquer the earth. Others think that he is
Antichrist. Fitzgerald, consistent with his contention that the final generation and
the beginning of sorrows began with 9/11, believes that the first horseman is a
positive figurePresident George W. Bush who declared the War on Terror
after the attack on the World Trade Center, and who declared that the war would
take a long timeperhaps 20 yearsto win.
Please read this watchmans commentary on Revelation Chapter 6 for the
correct identification of the first horseman, who represents the spirit of the antiChrist controlling the rulers of the world during the beginnings of sorrows. 6

The Second Horseman, Riding a Red Horse

Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace
from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great
sword. (Revelation 6:4)
Fitzgerald interprets the prophecy of the second horseman as foretelling allout global war7World War III. And, in his view, the basic conflict of that war
will be between the combined forces of atheistic Communism and Islam and those
of the western nations that have a Judeo-Christian heritage. More specifically, he
believes World War III will be probably be instigated by an attack on western
targets by Iran, who will be joined by Russia, and then other Communist and
Islamic nations will be drawn into the conflict. And World War III will prepare
the way for Antichrist, who Fitzgerald believes will be a Muslim. (Islamists
anticipate their soon-coming messiah, the Mahdi, who they believe will arrive on
the wings of all-out war between the Muslims and non-Muslims.)

The Third Horseman, Riding a Black Horse

I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And
I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A quart of wheat for a denarius,
and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine. (Revelation
6:5, 6)
Fitzgerald interprets this prophecy as referring to famine, which inevitably
follows war. Most Bible expositions researched by this watchman agree.

The Fourth Horseman, Riding a Pale Green Horse

I looked, and behold, a pale [greenish-yellow] horse. And the name of him who sat on it
was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the
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earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (Revelation
6:8)
Death and Hades (the place of the dead) naturally follow war, famine and
beasts of the earth (pestilence). Fitzgerald reasons that pestilence probably also
refers to biological warfare, in which deadly microbes will take a terrible toll on
populations during and after World War III.
The cumulative effect of the destruction brought on by the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse will be the death of one-fourth of Earths population.

The Rise of Antichrist

[The day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ] will not come unless the falling away
comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God And now you know what is restraining, that he may be
revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now
restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed
Antichrist is coming. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-8; 1 John 2:18)

The One Who Restrains

Jesus discourse with His disciples and His revelation to the apostle John
concerning the events at the end of the age make it clear that the beginnings of
sorrows will precede and set the stage for the global reign (Revelation 13:7) of the
one called the prince who is to come (Daniel 9:26), the man of sin, the son of
perdition, the lawless one, and Antichrist. The Bible also states that someone is, at
the present time, restraining Antichrist. But whoever is doing the restraining will
be taken out of the way, then the satanic prince who is to come will be revealed.
As with his conviction that the final generation and the beginning of sorrows
began with 9/11, Fitzgerald has a unique take on the identity of the one who
restrains Antichrist. He believes that he, the restrainer, is the United States of
America personified. The reason he believes that is because America has led the
world in the War on Terror and against the takeover of Islamists. So, in his view,
it is the United States of America who will be taken out of the way before
Antichrist is revealed.
Actually, in Fitzgeralds view, the whole Western world since the Roman
Empire was Christianized has been restraining the arrival of the man of sin. But,
because Europe has been greatly weakened by secularism and the influx of Islam,
the U.S.A. has, to a large extent, taken on the sole role of the restrainer.

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However, careful exegesis of the text reveals that he who restrains is Michael
the archangel. The identity of the U.S.A. in relation to Antichrist will be made
clear later in this book.8

The Apostasy of the Church

There is also another precursor to the revealing of Antichrist that gives us a
clue, if Fitzgerald is correct, as to just how close the U.S. is to being taken out.
And that is the falling away (apostasy) of the Church (2 Thessalonians 2:3).
Fitzgerald observes that the American Church is just a rapidly fading shadow of
what it once was in its impact on life in the nation. In fact, all vestiges of
Christianity, including faith in God and prayer, are being removed from the public
arena. And, most alarming in the light of Bible prophecy is the influx of and
interest in Islamism in America, fully encouraged by the U.S. President and his
administration. Islam, with its false god (Allah), false messiah (the Mahdi), and
false gospel (conquering the world by force and violence rather than redeeming
it by love), is the actualization of Antichristian religion, and the Mahdi is the
Antichrist. America is rapidly approaching the spiritually emaciated and even antiChristian state of Europe as she is coming closer and closer to being overrun by
Islamists. And when that happens, the main antagonist, Antichrist, will enter the
stage and steal the show . . . until the true Messiah comes to take back what is
rightfully His.

When, not If
Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your
redemption draws near. (Luke 21:26)
Jonathan Cahn, because he, in concluding The Harbinger, did not make the
connection between the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy, Jesus end of the age prophecy, and
the Revelation 18 prophecy concerning the fall of Babylon the Great, left the
destiny of the United States of America contingent on whether or not the nations
people will repent and return to the Lord, as Gods people Israel were exhorted to
do (2 Chronicles 7:14).9
However, as he states in The 9/11 Prophecy, James Fitzgerald believes that the
takeover and destruction of America by the Muslim horde led by Antichrist is
inevitable and imminent.10 That is because, after the first attack by Muslim
terrorists on New York City, Americans, as represented by their leaders, responded
with a spirit of arrogance and defiance rather than repentance and turning to God,
just as did ancient Israel after being attacked by ancestors of those same terrorists.
Then, ten years later, the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered and totally
destroyed by the Assyrians. Likewise, if Fitzgeralds conviction that the U.S.A. is
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the restrainer who will be taken out of the way before Antichrist takes global
dominion is accurate, America must be conquered and destroyed during this
generation (by about 2040).

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Chapter 3

A Third Witness is Called

By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.
(2 Corinthians 13:1)
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you
should follow His steps. (1 Peter 2:21)

hrough Jonathan Cahns book The Harbinger, the Lord has opened
Americas eyes to the certainty that, if her people do not repent and turn to
the Lord, the nation will be destroyed. Then, through James Fitzgeralds
book The 9/11 Prophecy, published two years after The Harbinger was published,
further revelation has been given which clarifies that, although individual
Christians, by turning to the Lord in repentance, may be saved from the coming
holocaust, the destruction of the U.S.A. as a sovereign nation is inevitable and
imminent.
However, by overlooking a tenth harbinger that was revealed in the rubble of
the collapsed World Trade Center, neither Cahn nor Fitzgerald have realized that
the prophecies of Isaiah 9 and Revelation 18 are connected to hundreds of other
Bible prophecies that confirm the exact identity of the United States of America
in Bible prophecy and Americas three-fold date with destruction at the end of the
age.
What is the Tenth Harbinger and what does it reveal concerning the destiny of
America? If you really want to know, keep reading.
But first, how the Lord brought this third witness, Watchman Bob, to the point
of recognizing the Tenth Harbinger and its importance in foretelling the destiny of
the U.S.A., plus the reason it was overlooked by Cahn and Fitzgerald, need to be
explained.
[You are asked to be patient as you read through the autobiographical sketch of
this chapter. Just be assured that knowing the spiritual, social and religious roots
of Watchman Bob and how he was called to be a watchman will help you
understand the importance and validity of the Tenth Harbinger in identifying the
United States of America in Bible prophecy and foretelling her destiny.]

The Calling of a Watchman

Social, Religious, Spiritual and Moral Roots

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Watchman Bob was raised in New Mexico and Texasarguably one of the
most religious, conservative, patriotic areas of Americain a staunch, Christian,
church-going family. And, while growing up, he was (from all appearances) a
model son, student, citizen, and church member. In high school, he was a
member of the National Honor Society and he was selected as Teenage Christian
of the Month one month by a national Christian publication for teens. Then, he
attended and graduated from a college affiliated with the church in which he was
raised. So, Bob was thoroughly instructed in church doctrine and Bible
knowledge. Also, a strong conscience was instilled in him.
But, although he was quite adept at maintaining appearances of living a good,
Christian life on the surface, in his mind and heart Bob was full of questions, selfdoubt and turmoil. And during his first two college years, he found himself
occupying much of his time with various amusements rather than focusing on his
studies. Bob enjoyed sports, so he and his closest friend played golf during the day
and tennis during the evenings. Then, virtually every night after playing tennis,
they would go to their favorite restaurant and eat a big meal. On the weekends
they would take their dates on outings to the lake, the amusement park or other
places of entertainment or recreation, or would travel to another town and spend
the day playing golf on the course there. So, with little effort or time invested in
his schoolwork, Bobs grades were below average and he washed out of the premed program in which he was enrolled. But that was okay with him, because his
main interest was sports, so he decided to become a coach. But when he went
home after his sophomore year and told his mother that he was changing his
major from pre-med to physical education, he could see the disappointment on her
face and hear it in her voice.
So, filled with guilt because he had wasted so much time, effort, and his
parents money during his freshman and sophomore years of college, Bob changed
his major to psychology, not because he had strong aspirations of becoming a
psychologist, but he had taken a couple of psychology courses that were
interesting. And he applied himself to his studies enough to make pretty good
grades his junior and senior years, and was accepted into graduate school. He
continued making good grades in his graduate courses and earned a masters
degree in pre-clinical psychology. (Only those with PhDs are considered fullfledged clinical psychologists.)
During his entire time in college, although he maintained the faade of being a
faithful, church-going Christian, Bobs moral and spiritual life continued to be in a
state of turmoil, and he began to question the validity of his Christianity.
Also, this was during the tumultuous 60sthe time period during which the
entire American society, following the placid, post-war 50s, was in upheaval,
shattering its image as a good, Christian nation. It was a decade of nationally
demoralizing assassinations: In November 1963, during Bobs first year of college,
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popular President John F. Kennedy was assassinated; in April 1968, civil rights
leader Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated; in June 1968, John F. Kennedys
brother Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. The 60s were the years during which
the unpopular Vietnam War and the anti-war protests, especially on college
campuses, started. It was also the decade of hippie love-ins, the proliferation of
the use of psychedelic drugs, the formation of counter-culture organizations like
the National Organization for Women (NOW), and the popularity of antiestablishment singers like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.
So, in addition to questions about the effectuality of the form of Christianity in
which he was raised and the guilt and anxiety that plagued his personal spiritual
and moral life, Bob was beset by strong doubts about the integrity of America,
which he had always been taught was Gods redeemer nation that would, as a
banner of righteousness in the world and through its benevolence and missions to
other nations, win the whole world to faith in Jesus Christ.

Personal and Religious Crises

In December 1968, the year Americas involvement in the Vietnam War

peaked, Bob was drafted into the U.S. military. He was completing the
requirements for his masters degree, so he enlisted in the U.S. Navys 90-day delay
program, which gave him enough time to get his degree before starting active duty
in the Navy on March 1, 1969. And, with his heavy baggage of personal and
religious guilt and confusion, plus questions and doubts about the goodness of
America and the righteousness of the nations involvement in the Vietnam War, it
was with strong mixed feelings that Bob entered the military.
Compounding his confusion and emotional turmoil, Bob was in a difficult
marriage. He had married immediately following his senior year of college and,
just before he entered the Navy, his wife gave birth to a girl. Bob loved his baby
daughter dearly, but disagreed with his wife on how she should be raised, and on
other issues. These conflicts combined with guilt over immoral behavior in which
Bob had gotten involved prior to their marriage resulted in an unsatisfying
emotional and physical relationship with his wife.
Finally, adding to the frustration and unhappiness of those years, Bob didnt
like his Navy job. He had, because of his masters degree, been granted an
officers commission as a psychologist in the Navys Medical Service Corps, which
seemed, on the surface, like a pretty cushy job. But he did not enjoy doing
psychological evaluations on military personnel who had returned from Vietnam
with severe mental and emotional problems, and having to make
recommendations (therapy, discipline, discharge, or return to active duty) based on
those evaluations. Bobs recommendations were usually followed, and he was just
not comfortable with those recommendations (that were based on 30-minute

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evaluations and theoretical psychology) being a key factor in making important,

life-affecting decisions for those sometimes quite disturbed men.
From all appearances, as always, Bob lived a nice life. He was a Navy officer
stationed in the states (didnt have to go overseas, especially to Vietnam), a family
man with a beautiful wife and daughter, and a respected member of a local church
congregationteaching a junior high Sunday school class. But it was in teaching
that class that his doubts and misgivings about the version of Christianity in which
he was raised came to a crisis point. The young people in the class asked him
some quite penetrating questions, for which he had weak answers . . . questions
like: Why are we taught pure, unselfish love, boundless joy, and peace that
passes understanding, but we see very little of those fruits of the Spirit in the
Church? Why do we pray for sick people to be healed, but usually do not see
them get healed? and, Why do we think that the members of our church are
better than the members of other churches and the only ones going to Heaven?
Bob gave the standard, pat, church-contrived answers, but, more and more, the
questions of those thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds hounded him.

Resolution of the Crises

Throughout his time in the U.S. Navy, Bobs doubts, guilt, confusion, and
sense of futility continued. But near the end of his four years of active duty,
something remarkable happened that started to turn things around. One day, he
received a postcard in the mail. It was an advertisement for a subscription to a
religious magazine. Bob had no clue as to how the magazine publisher had gotten
his address, because he had just been transferred to his last duty station. Normally,
he would have trashed mail clutter like that, but unexplainably, he subscribed to
the magazine. Then, in about the second or third issue he received, there was an
article by a man who had been a ministerial student at the college from which Bob
graduated! And this man, who was now a pastor in a different denomination,
explained how the church in which he and Bob had been raised had the cart
before the horse because it emphasized correct doctrine (dogma) and practice
(legalism) over a personal relationship with God the Father, His Son, and the
indwelling, guiding, enabling Holy Spirit. And the lights came on! Bob
suddenly understood what was missing (the active presence of the Holy Spirit) in
his impotent, ineffectual profession of Christianity, which had proven to be
incapable of delivering him from the mental, emotional, and moral morass that he
was in. And when he asked the leaders, teachers and ministers of the congregation
he and his wife were attending about the revelation he had received, they reacted
in a way (defensively, with the same contrived, specious, pre-formulated answers
that he had given to his junior high Sunday school students two years earlier) that
confirmed his new understanding of the flaw in the form of Christianity in which
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Then, when Bob was released from active duty, more shackles came off. He
no longer felt trapped in the military of a government whose purposes in waging
wars around the world were questionable at best. Next, he had more discussions
with ministers and teachers in the Christian denomination in which he was raised,
but when they gave him no more valid and satisfactory answers than he had
already received, Bob finally decided to cut the umbilical cord and leave. That was
frightening, because all his life, he had been taught that anyone who left the only
true church was damned to Hell. But, the moment he made the decision to leave,
it seemed that a thousand tons of dead weight lifted off his shoulders. . . . He was
FREE to pursue a genuine relationship with the Lord and a fellowship of Believers
who practiced True Christianity. Sadly, Bobs new-found understanding of
Christianity came too late to save his marriage, which ended in divorce. Finally, he
decided not to continue in a profession that was based on competing, confusing,
and often contradictory, anti-Biblical theories of human behavior and that
imposed therapies on disturbed people that, more often than not, worsened their
mental and emotional maladies or, at best, temporarily relieved them, like
prescribing aspirin for cancer. Besides, Bob was convinced from his own personal
experience that most of the pathologies psychologists and psychiatrists attempted
to treat were caused basically by unresolved sin, guilt, and the influence of evil
spirits, which were beyond the domain of non-Christian and pseudo-Christian
therapists, and even Christian therapists who attempted to mix psychotherapy with
spiritual counseling and intercession.

Exploration, Discovery and Deliverance

However, it turned out that finding a doctrinally sound yet spiritually vibrant
congregation with which to fellowship and a teaching/coaching situation in which
he was free to share his Christian faith were elusive goals, even in Christian
America. Compounding his quest for True Christianity was that Bob had a lot
of personal, spiritual, social and religious chaff from the first half of his life that
needed to be threshed out. At times it was an arduous struggle. It was like
learning to swim against a fast-flowing current. But the Lord graciously kept him
moving forward toward his, as yet unknown, calling.
For the next 30 years after leaving the Navy, Bob moved from job to job and
church to church. Each job and each church ended up being a dead end street.

An Insiders Experience with U.S. Education, the Mirror and

Perpetuator of American Society
Bobs first teaching job was at a large junior high school. He taught ninth
grade health and physical education. The school was located in an upper class part
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of the city. The parents were college professors, doctors, government officials,
successful business owners and well-to-do others. It was a rude awakening for
Bob. He expected to get to work with well-behaved, bright young people who
were eager to learn and prepare for college so that they could become successful
professionals and contributors to society, like their parents. But those privileged
students were very difficult to teach. Bob mistakenly and naively started out the
year giving his students the benefit of the doubt and a lot of freedom to regulate
themselves. But, to his dismay, it immediately became almost impossible to
maintain order in the classroom, much less teach. Most of the students couldnt
care less about learning anything; all they wanted to do was to have fun and cause
troubleoften at the teachers expense and the expense of the few students in the
class who did want to learn. So Bob spent most of the year struggling to regain
the control in the classroom he had lost in the beginning.
Due to his poor performance that first year, Bob was transferred to an
elementary school in a low income area of the same city, to teach physical
education. It too was a large school, and he was the only physical education
teacher. So, it was very hard workan average of 45 wiggling, restless children
per class (six classes), eager to get out and play, plus an after-school recreation
program to run. But, although his classes were twice as large as those at the
previous school, Bob found that the students were much easier to teach and
control, and his job was much more enjoyable.
The next year, Bob got his first coaching job . . . in his home town, where he
had graduated from high school. He taught ninth grade science and was the eighth
grade assistant football coach and the tennis coach. It was nice being back where
he had friends and family and memories of success as a high school student and
athlete. But things had changed, or rather, Bob had changed. He wanted to
develop close, personal relationships with his students so that he could share his
Christian faith with them and minister to their spiritual needs. But his classes were
too big and Bob was too busy preparing lessons and teaching and coaching to
interact much on a personal level with his students. Also, few if any of them were
interested in discussing spiritual or even personal issues.
So, the year after that, Bob got a job teaching science and coaching girls
basketball, helping coach football, and coaching tennis at a very small farming
community school. That, it seemed, was a better situation, because he could
interact with the students and other members of the community on a more
personal level. However, there too, the students were much more interested in
their games, sports, parties and other activities than they were in spiritual issues.
And the bottom fell out of that job. Bob attempted to discipline some of the girls
on the high school basketball team he coached because he caught them drinking
on a game trip. But he quickly found himself in the superintendents office in a
meeting with two of the girls fathersChristian leaders in the community who
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also happened to be on the school board. They informed Bob that he was not
going to discipline their daughters, because that would result in a blemish on their
otherwise stellar high school records. So, having had the discipline rug jerked out
from under his feet and his credibility destroyed in the eyes of his students and
athletes, Bob started looking for another job.
And he found a similar teaching and coaching position, beginning the next
school year, at a small Christian school affiliated with a Baptist church. Bob
reasoned that his freedom to practice and share his faith and have a positive
spiritual influence on his students and athletes would surely be less hindered in a
church school than it was in the public schools. Again, he was mistaken. In fact,
most of the students in that Christian school were just as worldlyinterested in
fun and games, partying, and glorifying themselves through their academic and
extracurricular accomplishmentsas those in the public schools. The only
difference was that they were more pretentious and hypocriticalclaiming to be
good Christian kids while doing the same things as the public school students.
And exactly the same thing happened to Bobs job in that school as had happened
to it at the public school the year before: Bob caught a young woman on his high
school girls basketball team with a bottle of alcoholic beverage on the bus on a
game trip. And the day after he suspended her from the team, the pastor of the
church called together an assembly of all the schools students and staff, and told
them that a mistake had been madethe player was not suspended from the team.
Bob confronted the pastor on the spot, in front of the assembly, asking him why
he had lied. And the pastor told him to pack his stuff and leavethat he was
fired. So that was Bobs eye-opening first experience working in a so-called
Christian school.
During the following years, Bob taught and coached in two larger, solidly
established Christian schools. The Lord gave him success there: some of the
basketball teams he coached won state championships and some individual track
and field athletes he coached won state and even national private schools
championships. Also, there were a few students who had real hearts for the Lord.
And Bob, especially since he was respected for his coaching success, was freer to
share his faith and to encourage his students and athletes to seek first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33). Nevertheless, the general spirit of those
two schools was no different than that of the first Christian school where Bob
workedworldliness in Christian disguise. On the surface, wonderful Christian
worship, ministry and service were practiced, but the main real emphases at those
schools were on self-gratification and preparing for worldly success. Bob
continually encouraged and even trained his athletes to express gratitude to the
Lord and to glorify Him for their accomplishments, but in the end, when awards
and recognition were handed out, it always seemed to come down to how proud
they were of those accomplishments. And when Bob rocked those schools
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worldly boats too much, his employment at both ended on a sour note. The first
school had been accepting students because of their athletic ability rather than
their Christian character. Some had been kicked out of public schools because of
misbehavior and drug use. When Bob protested, he fell out of favor with the
administration of the school, could see the handwriting on the wall, and resigned.
At the second school, the pastor of the church affiliated with the school was trying
to get the members of the church and the staff of the school involved in a getrich-quick, pyramid marketing scheme. And when Bob wrote the pastor a letter
explaining why he could not go along with that enterprise and would have to
resign if it continued, although he had been a very successful and popular coach
there, he was immediately fired.

The Last Straw

Bob could no longer get a job in a Christian school (bad references), so he took
a job coaching and teaching in another small, farming community, public school.
By that point in time (2002), Bob had studied enough prophetic Scripture and
current events that his understanding of Americas end-times role in the world and
ultimate destiny (which, according to Bible prophecy, are as Jonathan Cahn and
James Fitzgerald have described them) was pretty well crystallized. Unfortunately,
patriotic fervor in the U.S.A., especially in the Texas farming community in which
Bob worked at that time, one year after the 9/11/2001 attack on the World Trade
Center, was at an all-time high. Also, President George W. Bush, who had
declared the War on Terror following 9/11, was a Texan. Finally, two men who
worked at the school where Bob taught and coacheda fellow coach and the head
of school maintenancewere veterans of the Desert Storm War in Iraq and
Kuwait. So Bob was in for a real test of his convictions.
But, he could not keep quiet. By this time, he had sensed Gods call on his life
(although he did not conceptualize it as being a watchman at the time), and there
was no turning back. Bob wrote a series of newsletters in which he explained the
meaning of True Christianity (see Chapter 4), explained the identification and
destiny of the U.S.A. in Bible prophecy, and urged believers to come out of her, My
people (Revelation 18:4), which he mailed to the entire communityabout 300
addresses. Well, as can be imagined, the spiritual climate in the community quickly
turned very cool toward Bob. There were a couple of positive responses to his
newsletters and a few negative reactions, but mainly there was stone, cold silence.
By the grace of God, Bob managed to stick it out for three years there,
probably because it was a very Christian communitymost of the school staff
and administration and other members of the community professed to be
Christians and attended one of the three protestant churches in the town. Also,
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loved her. So, bless her heart, she provided a buffer between Bob and the rest of
the community.
However, at the end of the school year 2005, the last straw was broken. At the
annual awards banquet the week before the last day of school, Bob made a little
speech in which he observed that not once during his three years at the school had
he heard anyone in that Christian communitya teacher, administrator, student,
faculty member, coach, minister, or other member of the communitygive God
the full credit and glory for the accomplishments being recognized at those awards
ceremonies. All that he had heard were the words pride or proud. The
following evening, there was an emergency school board meeting. And the
morning after that meeting, Bob was told to turn in his keys and leave the school
campus immediatelyhe was finished there (and, by implication, his days as a
teacher and coach were over).
That was the end, 30 years after his first teaching/coaching job, of Bobs career
in education. And that was his experience with American education, as it reflects
the society in general.

An Insiders Experience with American

Christianity
Also for 30 years following Bobs release from active duty in the U.S. Navy, he
went from church to church seeking true Christian fellowship. He visited and/or
fellowshipped with Brethren Assemblies; Baptist, Methodist, Nazarene, Seventh
Day Adventist churches; charismatic and Word of Faith churches; nondenominational, non-charismatic churches; a Catholic church; and
Messianic/Hebraic Roots assemblies. He taught in some of their schools. And he
studied their doctrines and teachings plus those of numerous other Christian sects
and denominations. But Bob (and his wife, after he was remarried) never found a
congregation, assembly, or church in which he sensed the Lord wanted him to
place his membership.
There were numerous reasons that he did not fit in, including exclusive legalism
(modern-day Pharisaism), anti-Semitism, quenching the Spirit, heresies, secular
humanism, and cultism practiced or taught, to one extent or another, in many of
the various denominations and congregations that Bob visited and/or studied.
But the main reason that he avoided seeking permanent membership in any
denomination or sect was simply the worldliness, sometimes blatant and
sometimes subtle, that pervades American Christianity. This worldliness is
manifested in a spirit of pride, self-sufficiency, self-indulgence, and exclusivity
(manifestations of American Exceptionalism2 ), rather than total dependence on
the Lord and submission to His will. This worldliness has no real understanding
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his cross daily, and follow Me (Luke 9:23), or His command, Do not lay up for yourselves
treasures on earth (Matthew 6:19). This worldliness seeks to set up its own
kingdom on earth (cf. Daniel 7:23) through politics or, if necessary, by force
rather than waiting on the King of Kings to return in person to establish His
kingdom of Heaven on Earth (cf. Matthew 4:17; John 18:36; Revelation 19:11-20:4).
This worldliness is apparent in the emphases in the churches on entertainment, fun
and games, and good food, rather than in humbling ourselves, repenting, and
seeking the knowledge of the Lords Word and will in this rapidly deteriorating
world.
And reciprocally, the congregations Bob visited invariably rejected his warning
from the Lord, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of
her plagues (Revelation 18:4). At first, they received him (a new potential member)
warmly. But, as soon as his views on America in Bible prophecy became known,
the atmosphere chilled and they let him know that he was no longer welcome
there.

The Lord Provides

After Bob was fired from his last teaching/coaching job in 2005, his wife
Donna, who was a teacher at the same school, resigned from her job. So, they had
to scramble to earn a living. They attempted to run a concession stand, but that
didnt generate enough income. They managed a lodge at a mountain resort
during the ski season, but that was temporary. They sold their home and moved
into a travel trailer. Bob worked as the maintenance man at a motel and Donna
worked as a cleaning attendant at an interstate highway rest area for a few months.
But the rest area jobtwelve hours per dayproved to be too stressful for
Donna, so she resigned. Bob took over her job, which paid a little more than his
maintenance job. Also he had been converting an old camping trailer into another
concession standa mobile one (the first was stationary and in a bad location).
After he completed the concession trailer, at 6:00 each morning he would move it
to a location he had found on the main street of the little town in which they lived.
Then Donna would run the concession trailer while Bob was working at the rest
area. After work, he would return to help Donna for a couple of hours, clean up
the concession trailer, then move it back to where they had parked the travel trailer
in which they were living. That routine was exhausting, and Bob and Donna were
still earning barely enough on which to subsist.
Finally, in clear answer to prayer, Donna was given another teaching job. She
prayed, in September, Lord, school has already started, so Im not going to apply
for another teaching position, but if You want me to have one, Your will be
done. And, during her prayer, she visualized a friend, Patthe secretary at the
local schoolasking her if she wanted to teach that year. That same day, Donnas

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friend came to the concession trailer when Donna was working there. Donna was
excited because she thought Pat was going to buy some hamburgers to take to the
school. But she asked Donna, Do you want to teach this year? Donna, of
course, seeing that as an answer to her prayer, told Pat that she would like to teach,
so Pat told her to come to the school office that afternoon. So Donna, thinking
that the job was at the school where Pat worked and that she was just going to fill
out an application, closed up the concession trailer that afternoon and went
directly to the school office. But when she arrived at the school, Pat told her that
the teaching position was at a school in a nearby town. The job had just opened
up because the teacher who had been there had resigned, so it was an urgent
situation. Pat called the other school to set up an interview for Donna, then
turned to Donna and asked her, How soon can you get up there? So Donna,
without changing from her concession stand work clothes or fixing herself up (the
way professional women normally do for a job interview), drove to the other
school for the interview. After the interview and she had left the interview room
and closed the door, Donna heard the school administrators and teachers who had
interviewed her laughing. So she said to the secretary sitting there, Well, I guess I
didnt get that job. But the secretary told her to just fill out the application
because she had the job. The interviewers were laughing because they were
amazed and delighted that they were able to hire such a highly qualified teacher on
such short notice after the school year had started. Later, a reporter from the
town newspaper interviewed Donna, who told her how she had gotten the job.
And the reporter said, Wow! Im just going write it up as an answer to prayer.
And so it went after that. Bob and Donna never had much, but the Lord
always provided. In 2007, Bob was eligible for Social Security benefits, so those
monthly payments helped relieve the financial pressure. He tried to get several
enterprises started, but none of those worked out. And, at his age and with no job
experience (except teaching and coaching), it was difficult to find employment. He
worked temporarily at two manual labor jobs, but old back and joint pain
problems flared up, and he had to discontinue those jobs. So Bob found himself
spending a lot of time at home. But that was okay, because Donnas job was
stressful, and it helped for Bob to do the housework and cooking. Also, it gave
Bob time to focus on his real passionwhat he wanted to do more than
anythingstudy and write about current events in the light of Bible prophecy.

Accepting the Call

Here am I! Send me. (Isaiah 6:6)
Like most Christians, Bob had always thought the end-times prophecies of the
Bible, particularly the book of Revelation, were so enigmatic, allegorical, and

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difficult to understand that they had little literal application to the present times in
which we are living. But then, he discovered a real key to understanding those
prophecies. He learned that the book of Revelation is inundated with references
to the Old Testament (the Hebrew Scriptures)from over 200 to about 1,000,
depending on how they are counted.3 Then, he realized that the writer of
Revelation, the apostle John, was a Jew and probably originally wrote the book in
Hebrew, or at least from a Hebraic perspective, as did all the other writers of Bible
prophecy, who were also Jews. So, Bob decided to study Revelation, the best he
could, from that Hebraic perspective.
With a fine-toothed comb, using cross-references, he read through Revelation,
looked up Old Testament Scriptures referenced there, and studied them. If he was
not sure about some of the words or figures of speech used, he looked those up in
reference booksconcordances, Bible dictionaries, and commentariesand
online sources. He also studied the Feasts of the Lord and the Temple sacrifices,
plus historical events, traditions, and practices of Israel alluded to in Revelation.
And as Bob continued to scan mainstream and non-mainstream sources for news
about current events, to read articles and commentaries, to listen to audio
teachings, to watch teachings on the Internet and on DVDs, and to study the Bible
from the Hebraic perspective of its writers, he was amazed at how clearly the
implications of the prophetic Scriptures for the present times in which we are
living started to come into focus.
Finally, Bob started writing what he had learned. And on July 1, 2010, he selfpublished, through CreateSpace (an Amazon-company), a 310-page commentary
on the book of Revelation entitled The Revelation of Yahushua the Messiah, a Clear,
Common-Sense Commentaryand Morefrom the Hebraic Perspective of the Writer of the
Last Book of the Bible.4 That is a rather cumbersome title and subtitle, but Bob felt
that it was necessary to get the purpose of the book across to Christians who are
not familiar with the Hebraic perspective. Also, to get the prophetic, last days
message of the Revelation out to as many as possible, Bob simultaneously
published the entire contents of The Revelation of Yahushua the Messiah online, at
revelationunderstoodcommentary.com. The website also includes a blog on
current events in the light of Bible prophecy and a Contact Watchman Bob page
to encourage dialogue.
During the three years since The Revelation of Yahushua the Messiah commentary
and the Revelation Understood! website were published, consistent with previous nonresponses to Bobs newsletters and other warnings of the impending judgments of
the Lord, responses to the book and the website have been very weak. Just as
before they were published, a few have responded positively, a few have reacted
negatively, but most shout, loud and clear through their silence, Just leave us
alone! We dont care about the warning you are giving us!

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Thank God for Jonathan Cahn and James

Fitzgerald!
A threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:22)
After shouting his warnings into the unresponsive silence and in a frequently
hostile climate for over ten years, Watchman Bob was almost incredulous when he
received, from one of his few supporters, a copy of The Harbinger, a New York
Times Bestseller that very clearly and powerfully tends to confirm everything that
Bob had been proclaiming about the destiny of the U.S.A. The only misgiving that
Bob has about The Harbinger is that it does not definitely nail down the ultimate
identity and destiny of America, as he believes the Bible does.
But then, just last year (2013), The 9/11 Prophecy was published by the same
news website company, World Net Daily (wnd.com), that distributes The Harbinger.
And Bob is even more encouraged to keep sounding the alarm, because The 9/11
Prophecy does concur with Scripture that the U.S.A. will definitely be taken over by
evil Islamic forces in the near future.
However, there is more to the Bibles prophecies concerning the ultimate
identity and destiny of the U.S.A. than either Jonathan Cahn or James Fitzgerald
has perceived. There are hundreds of verses of prophetic Scripture that tell us
exactly what the identity and the three-fold destiny of America are. And there
was a tenth harbinger exposed in the rubble of the fallen towers of the World
Trade Center on 9/11 that is the key to unlocking the door of our understanding
of what is happening, from Heavens point of view, in the United States of
America at the present time, what will happen in the very near future, and what
Father God tells His children, in no uncertain terms, to do about it, before it is too
late. And the reason that Cahn and Fitzgerald have overlooked the Tenth
Harbinger and its connection to those many other passages of Scripture is because
they have not fully or correctly discerned the true spiritual foundation and
character of the U.S.A. This book, The Tenth Harbinger, will correct that
misperception.
And it is in praying that there are some who have the courage to face up to the
reality of these terrible, awesome last days and who can, like Israels smallest tribe
Issachar, fully understand the times and know what to do (1 Chronicles 12:33),
that The Tenth Harbinger has been published.

Caution and Encouragement

A word of warning, please: If The 9/11 Prophecy is more difficult to read than
The Harbinger, The Tenth Harbinger is that much more daunting. This watchman
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read this book will be infuriated and some will be terrified. But if you really want
to understand and are willing to face up to the Truth, you will be greatly
enlightened through understanding the prophetic message of the Tenth Harbinger.
And if you take what the Lord shows you to heart and act on it, you will be filled
with great hope and joy as you, in seeing end-times prophecy rapidly being fulfilled
before your eyes, anticipate the awesome, soon-coming Day of the Lord, sharing
in His victory over the forces of evil, and reigning with Him over His redeemed
and restored creation in the wonderful World to Come! (See Chapter 10In
The End, there is GOOD NEWS!)

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Chapter 4

Is the United States of America a True Christian

Nation?
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes
first. (2 Thessalonians 2:3)

hat the Tenth Harbinger portends for The United States of America
cannot be fully understood unless the spiritual condition of the nation is
understood. Is The United States of America truly a Christian nation, as
most American Christians believe? If it isif America is truly the Lords nation of
people, in the same sense that Israel was called out of Egypt to be His nation of
people (cf. Hosea 11:1)then there is still hope that the U.S.A. will be saved from
whatever economic, social, political, psychological, spiritual, or physical holocaust
might be coming on the rest of the world. If America is truly the Lords nation of
people, Gods promise, as recorded in 2 Chronicles 7:14, applies just as much to
the U.S.A. as it did to Israel:
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and
turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their
land.

But if the United States of America is not truly the Lords nation of peopleif it
is a nation of false Christians (apostate anti-Christians)then it is doomed,
because the Bible declares that all nations that are not His nation of people will be
destroyed on the Day of the Lord (cf. Zechariah 14:1-3, 12-13).
So, please keep reading, because this chapter and the next will answer,
irrefutably, whether or not the U.S.A. is Gods nation of peoplea true Christian
nation. This chapter, by getting very personal, will examine the spiritual condition
of the Christian Church in America at the level of its individual members,
including you (if you consider yourself a Christian), to help you determine if the
U.S.A., even in its churches, is made up of true Christians. The next chapter will
answer the question: was the United States of America ever, from its beginning, a
true Christian nation?

The Churchs Deadliest Disease

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CancerAmericas second deadliest disease (next to heart disease)dreaded

by everyone. AIDSincurable loss of immunity to disease, deterioration of
health, and finally death. But during the past few years, I, Watchman Bob (since
this chapter is personal, I will write in the first person), have been made painfully
aware of a far more insidious, pervasive, and devastating disease infecting the
American Christian Churchan evil, spiritual malady capable of destroying both
body and soul if not checked. Why so painful to me? Because I have had to admit
that for most of my 69 years on Earth, I too have been infected by this disease,
and I am presently striving, by Gods grace, to eradicate it from my own soul. So
please understand, dear friend, that I am not pointing an accusative finger at any
individual, because I realize that when I do, there are always three fingers pointing
back at me. Therefore, if you feel that what is written here is speaking to or about
you personally, youd better pay attention, because that conviction is not coming
from meit is probably the Lord speaking to you through your own conscience.
And it is definitely not wise to ignore the voice (Word) of God. If the shoe
seems to fit, rather than getting offended at the shoe, no matter how much you do
not like that shoe, I pray that you will wear it until you can replace it with a good
shoe.
One other point: If you are not a Christian, some of this essay will not apply to
you because it is directed primarily to Christians, or at least to those who claim to
be Christians. But some parts may hit home with you too, and I pray that you will
take those to heart. Your (eternal) life may be at stake. Also, reading this chapter
will help you understand the difference between a True Christian and a false
Christian, so that you can avoid the hypocritical fakes and, if you become a
Christian, you can make sure that your faith and your life in Christ are genuine and
will lead to eternal life rather than to Hell.

Three Spiritual Maladies

There are two terrible maladies closely related to and feeding the third, most
insidious and pervasive evilthe Churchs deadliest disease.
The first is pride, which often manifests itself in a sense of self-sufficiency or a
were better than you are attitude, especially in competitive activities. Pride
pervades our whole culture, doesnt it? America is the home of the rugged,
independent, self-made man. Pride is a primary motivation for most Americans
accomplishments. One Sunday, when my wife Donna and I visited a local church
in the small farming community in which we lived, we heard the pastor preach an
excellent sermon against the evils of pride. But later, we heard the same pastor,
who was also the head science teacher at the high school in that community, going
on and on about how proud he was of his students accomplishments. Too bad

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his own sermon wasnt taken more to heart. Isnt pride what the Were number
one, Were the best, and We-are-proud-of-you cheers are all about at
sporting contests? And isnt building self-esteem (pride) in our children a basic
goal of education? I use these examples because I was in education and coaching
for 30 years. But doesnt this ungodly spirit of pride pervade everything we do
our occupations, our accomplishments, and our accumulation of material
possessions? Dont we take pride in our jobs, our achievements, our promotions,
our homes, the vehicles we drive, our family members . . . ad infinitum?1
Some may object, Well, hold on, Bob. Thats not the kind of pride were
talking about when we say, We are proud of you [as if there are two kinds of
prideone good and one evil]. Were simply showing our appreciation and
support of the ones we love. Oh, really? Then why not say, I appreciate what
you are doing, or, even better, I thank God for you, or simply, Good job, or
I am very pleased with you (what the Father told His Son, Jesus), rather than
using a form of that horrible word pride? Or dont you know that pride is one
of the three basic, fundamental sins (cf. 1 John 2:16) and that Jesus listed pride
right along with other evil things that defile a person (Mark 7:20-23)? Perhaps
you are not aware that it was pride that got Lucifer (later called Satan) kicked out
of Heaven (Isaiah 14:11-14). It got Adam and Eve kicked out of Eden (Genesis
3:5). And pride will get those who are infected by it a hot reservation in Hell,
excluded from Heaven (Proverbs 16:18).
What is the Christian alternative to pride? Obviously, its humility. Scripture
states, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble (Proverbs 3:34). And how
can we tell that someone is humble? Again, thats obvious: The truly humble
person always gives credit, honor, and glory to whom credit, honor, and glory are
dueand that is not to oneself or to any other human being. Jesus said, Apart
from Me, you can do nothing (John 15:5). You see, my friend, unless Jesus (God
the Son) gives us the will, the opportunity, and the power, we cannot inhale one
breath, speak one word, take one step, or even think one thought, much less
achieve other accomplishments, whether we acknowledge Gods omnipotence
or arrogantly deny it (cf. Philippians 2:13). Later, the apostle Paul wrote,
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus (Colossians 3:17),
and again, In whatever you do, do it so as to bring glory to God (1 Corinthians 10:31).
Thats both specific and comprehensive, isnt it? Yet, we insist that pride is OK.
In fact, in America, pride is considered a virtue, isnt it? That just goes to show
how subtle and deceitful the Devil is, and what total control, apart from Gods
gracious intervention, he has over our hearts and thought processes.
At a high school activities awards banquet, just before I was fired from that
schools staff, I mentioned that in my four years of teaching and coaching there, I
had not once heard anyoneany student, any athlete, any teacher, any coach, any
school administrator, any parent, any church leader or minister, or any other
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member of the communitygive God the full credit and glory for the
accomplishments being recognized at that banquet. In fact, the most frequent
word heard there was proud. Now, whats wrong with that picture? Didnt
most of the people in the community, including the administrators, teachers, and
coaches at the school, claim to be good, church-going Christians? And again, Im
not finger-pointing here, because much of my life, especially during my teaching
and coaching career, I too was guilty of keeping credit and glory to myself, rather
than praising God for what He had enabled my classroom kids, athletes, and me to
do. All that I wanted to do at that awards ceremony and all that I want to do
now is to light a little candle in the darkness of self-adulation (including my
own). Acknowledging God in all that we do, rather than just patting ourselves on
the back, is very, very important, with eternal implications, because Jesus said,
Whoever acknowledges Me before others I will acknowledge before my Father in Heaven. But
whoever denies Me [keeps the credit and glory for self] before others I will deny [disown]
before my Father in Heaven. (Matthew 10:32)

Isnt stealing the credit and glory for what God has done, or even giving it to
others to whom it doesnt belong, a form of denying Him?
The second spiritual malady pervasive in the American Christian Church is
covetousness (greed). Jesus said,
Do not lay up treasures [wealth] on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and burglars break in and
steal. Instead, store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moths nor rust destroys, and
burglars do not break in and steal. For where your treasures are, there your heart is also.
(Matthew 6:19-21)

Now, wait a minute, Bob, you may again object. I live in a community with
very modest incomes. No one is extravagant. Everyone works together and
shares. I certainly am not greedyI give to the Church and Im generous with
others. Im just trying to get by. Well, are you willing to test that assertion
against Gods Word (and again, Im speaking primarily to Christians)? Jesus
said,
If anyone wants to follow Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and keep following Me.
For whoever tries to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life on My account will
save it. (Luke 9:23-24)

And He told a wealthy young community leader who asked what he needed to do
to be saved, Sell whatever you have, distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you
will have treasures in Heaven. Then come, follow Me! (Luke 18:22). So what
does Jesus mean to deny ourselves? He means just what He said: Unless we are

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willing and in fact are in the process of giving up all of our prideful, self-indulgent,
worldly pleasures and treasures to follow and serve Him (primarily in bringing
others to Him - Matthew 28:19-20), we will have no place in His glorious, sooncoming kingdom with Him. And carrying that cross (the figurative instrument of
death to self) is not a comfortable, painless thing to do. And what are treasures
in Heaven? They are certainly not the things we accumulate on Earth, are they?
We cant take anything (money, homes, vehicles, land, awards, fame, position,
pleasure, unsaved family members, etc.) with us after this short puff-of-smoke
life on Earth is over (Ecclesiastes 2:18). Let me submit to you that the only
treasures we can lay up in Heaven are human souls (our own and those of others
whom God saves through our influence). Proverbs 11:30 states, He who saves
souls is wise. And are you familiar with Jesus Parable of the Pearl of Great
Price? When a merchant found a very valuable pearl, he sold everything he had to
purchase it. What is more valuable than a human soul? Get the picture? Saving
souls is Gods heavenly savings plan.
So, dear friend, let me ask you a few simple questions. Please answer them
honestly, then decide for yourself if you are infected with the covetousness malady.
Are your awardsyour certificates of accomplishment, letter jackets,
ribbons, medals, trophies, plaques, pictures in the newspaper and on the
walltreasures on Earth or treasures in Heaven?
How is most of your time spenttrying to secure your own and/or others
success, comfort, and pleasure on this Earth, or helping those you love
secure their place in Heaven?
On what do you spend most of your moneyon yourself and the worldly
success, comfort, security, and pleasure of your family and others, or, either
directly or indirectly, on the Gospelgetting your loved ones saved from
this evil world?
What do you talk about most of the timetemporal, worldly things, or,
either directly or indirectly, the Lord and His great and wonderful plan of
salvation?
When someone compliments you, do you say, Thank you, and keep the
praise to yourself, or do you give the credit and glory to God?
And heres a real soul-searcher: What do you think about most of the
timetemporal, worldly success, things, pleasure, and relationships, or the
Lord and His great and wonderful plan of salvation and how to get your
loved ones saved?
Your honest answers to these questions should give you a pretty good idea of
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Heaven. And again, my friend, I have to admit that I have wasted most of my life
working foolishly and futilely for worldly success and possessions. But, by the
grace of God, I am changing that focus and direction in my life. I pray that you
will join me.
But the third evil, spiritual disease, which is the child of and is reinforced by
pride and covetousness, is the most insidious and the deadliest of all, because most
Christians are not even aware that it infects them, and when confronted with its
existence in them, they tend to deny it. The good news is that, unlike many forms
of cancer and AIDS, it is totally curable, if they will face up to and admit
(confess) it, reject (repent of) it, and allow God to replace it with His
alternativesHis Truth and pure, unselfish Love. Jesus spoke His strongest
words of censure against the third evilthe Churchs deadliest disease. What did
Jesus call those who claimed to be good, law-abiding people, but who were
really full of the first two spiritual maladiespride and covetousness? That is
correct; He called them hypocriteswhite-washed tombs [beautiful on the
outside but full of dead peoples bones and all kinds of rottenness on the inside].
(Matthew 23:27) Does that description fit you? Are you claiming to be a good
Christianperhaps even a church leaderbut are really full of hateful bigotry
condemning and mistreating those who dont agree with your political, religious, or
racial views? Do you claim to be a good Christian, but are really full of pride and
covetousnesspatting yourself on the back and denying the grace of God by
refusing to give Him the credit for your accomplishments (and encouraging others
to do the same), thereby laying up your treasures on Earth? Are you mainly
preoccupied with maintaining your own materialistic, self-indulgent lifestyle, and
just giving the tithe or the leftovers to the needy, the Church, or devote it to the
Gospel?
And again, Im not pointing my finger at any individual. I have been as guilty
of all three of these deadly spiritual diseases as anyone, and its only by Gods
wonderful mercy and amazing grace that He has saved me from them and their
eternal consequences, although I pray daily for Him to continue to eradicate
them from my own soul. (True Christianity is not a static state of goodness and
holinessit is a continual process of putting off the old person and putting on
the new person or growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ). I pray the same for each of you whom the shoe fits, before it is too
late. Remember, the blatant sinners were not the ones who were primarily
responsible for killing Gods prophets and His Son; those were the hypocrites
the ones who claimed to be good religious peopleespecially the religious leaders.
Are you considered a good Christian or even a church leader, but are really, deep
in your heart, congratulating yourself and proudly accepting the praises of others?
If so, thats pure hypocrisy. Please repent and start giving God all the credit,
honor, and glory, and start devoting all that you have to the Gospel, before it is
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too late and you find yourself sharing a place in Hell with the Prince of Pride and
Covetousness (Satan).

Are you an almost Christian?

God tells Believers to Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the
life of faith. Test yourselves. Dont you realize that Jesus Christ is in you?
unless you fail to pass the test (2 Corinthians 13:5). In other words, search your
heart, asking yourself and God if you are a True Christian or are really just a phony
hypocritewhat the Puritan preacher, Matthew Mead, called an almost Christian.
Ive been doing a lot of that soul-searching lately, and I invite those of you who
claim to be Christians to join me as we share a few points from Meads book, The
Almost Christian Discovered.2 If you dont claim to be a Christian, this part may
interest you anyway, because it will help you see who in your community is a True
Christian and who to avoid because they are infected with the Churchs deadliest
disease.
A person may go through all the steps of becoming a Christian and even
have a highly emotional and spiritual conversion experience in being savedand
still be but almost a Christian. The Bible says that even the demons believe in God
and know that Jesus is His SonGod in a human bodyand tremble (Mark 1:34;
James 2:19). There is a faith that is seated in the understanding but does not touch
the spirit and permanently change the heart and the will. A person may believe in
his mind every word of the Bible, be convicted of, confess, and repent of his sins
(see the next section), believe in Jesus, be baptized, and become a member of a
Christian Church, but still be as lost as one who hates Jesus and never sets foot in
a church. His natural mind and conscience may be enlightened by Gods Word,
and he may be saved to avoid going to Hell or even out of gratitude to God for
his saving grace in sacrificing His Son for us, but if his heart is not transformed by
the Holy Spirit, his conversion is basically just a selfish device designed to get
him the benefits of the Kingdom of Heaven without the totally new and unselfish
life in Christ. And the new Christian is but almost a Christian.
A person may hate sin and go far in repenting of sin, overcoming sin in his
own life, and opposing sin in othersindeed, be a great crusader against eviland
yet be but almost a Christian. Every human being, somewhere in his soul, although
it may be seared over by much wrongdoing, has a consciencea sense of right and
wrong, good and evil. Most would agree that rape, murder, stealing, greed, abuse
of others, arrogance, selfishness, and other attitudes and actions that the Bible calls
sin are wrong. And they may hate that sin in themselves and others. And they
may go far in eliminating sinful attitudes and behavior in themselves and helping
others do the same. They may even make those changes in response to the
enlightening of Gods Word, the Bible. And so they consider themselves and

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others consider them Christians. Yet those changes may be but natural and
rationalnot spiritual. Their natural and rational hearts, attitudes, and behavior
are changed in hoping that they will receive the benefits of a sinless life (basically a
selfish motive), but their spiritual hearts are untouched by the Holy Spirit of God.
So they remain but almost Christians.
A person may be under great, visible changesmay become a good, moral
person and yet be but almost a Christian. There is a civil and moral change as well
as a spiritual and supernatural change. Many are changed morally, even to the
extent that it is said of them that they have become new people; but they are, in
heart and nature, the same still. A person may be converted from a profane life to
a form of godliness, from filthy to clean, wholesome conversation and behavior,
and yet the heart is basically the same in one as in the other because it is not
permanently renewed by the Holy Spirit. King Saul changed greatly when he met
the Lords prophets, even becoming a prophet himself. Indeed, it was written of
him that God gave him another heart (1 Samuel 10:9). But in the end, Saul was
not saved after all: an evil spirit entered him and the Spirit of God departed from
him (1 Samuel 16:14). Thats because theres a critically important difference
between having another heart and having a new heart. God can give someone
another heart to transform his outward attitudes and behavior temporarily, or he
can give that person a new heart transforming him from the inside out eternally.
A person whose outward attitudes and behavior are changed but who has not been
given a new heart is but an almost Christian.
A person may be very religiousa zealous church leader and even a pastor and
a pillar of the communityand yet be but almost a Christian. Jehu, a king of Israel,
served God and did what He commanded, destroying all the worshipers and
priests of the false god Baal, and was very zealous in His service, proclaiming,
Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord of Hosts! (2 Kings 10:16). And yet, in all
this, Jehu was a hypocrite, making no effort to live wholeheartedly according to
the Word of God and refusing to turn from the sins introduced into Israel by King
Jeroboam. So a person may be a very religious, zealous, and devoted church
member, and yet be but almost a True Christian.
A person may go farther yet. He may have a love for God, the People of
God, his friends, and even his enemies, and yet be but almost a Christian. There is
a natural affection for those who love us and bless us. Some will even go so far,
Jesus said, as to give his life for his friends. But this is basically a selfish love
which loves only those who return that love, even if its just a Thank you from
them. But when God gives a person a new heart and fills it with His totally
unselfish love, which blesses and even lays down ones life for someone, including
an enemy, expecting nothing in return, as Jesus did, then that person is a True
Christian. But a person may even go so far as to give his life for his enemies
even to the point of being tortured or burned at the stakeand still be lost. How?
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Because when he does anything primarily for the purpose of getting something in
returnperhaps only a reputation as a martyr or the salvation of his own soul
then his love is basically conditional and selfish. So, a person may have great
love and make great sacrifices for others and still be but almost a true Christian.
A person may have great spiritual gifts and yet be but almost a Christian. God
can use anyone or anything through whom or which to manifest His gifts. He
spoke to the pagan prophet Balaam through a donkey (Numbers 22:28). That was
a gifted donkey! He then spoke through Balaam to the pagan king Balak a true
word of prophecy concerning Israel (Numbers 23:16). But neither the donkey nor
Balaam were true believers, were they? So, a person may speak amazing
prophecies that come true, do astonishing miracles, heal people, speak in other
tongues supernaturally (Antichrist and the False Prophet will do all these things),
and still be but almost a Christian.
Now you may ask, If a person may hate, repent of, and go far in overcoming
sin in his life, become a good, moral person, be a zealous and devoted church
member, love and make great sacrifices for others, and manifest powerful spiritual
gifts from God in his life, and still be but almost a Christian, how in the world may
I know that I am a True, saved Christian? The answer is simple and takes us back
to the beginning of this article: Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the
Lord Jesus (Colossians 3:17), and again, In whatever you do, do it so as to bring
glory to God (1 Corinthians 10:31). If there is the tiniest element of selfishness
or pride in anything we think, say, or do as Christians, then that is not True
Christianitythat is hypocrisythe deadliest spiritual disease. Fear of going to
Hell may drive us to God, or gratitude to God for what He has done for us may
draw us to Him (self-interest is what motivates unsaved people), but fear of Hell
or hope of Heaven, by themselves, will not keep us saved. When we are truly
saved, He gives us a new heart and fills it with His pure, unselfish love, and we are
no longer as concerned about the consequences or benefits to ourselves as we are
in glorifying Him and blessing others. Yes, of course, in our humanity, we all want
to be blessed in this life and saved from the horrible destruction soon to come on
this world, but, as Christians (new creations in Christ), those basic human
desires are no longer our focus and no longer provide the primary motivation for
our lives. If any impulse other than the pure, unselfish love of God governs our
attitudes or behavior, then we are but almost Christians and will perish with the rest
of the unbelieving world.

The Bottom Line

So, what is the conclusionthe real difference between a True Christian and a
phony, almost Christian? It is very simple: The True Christian is a person who
has come to the full realization that he is not basically and naturally a good

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personthat, in fact, apart from the indwelling Spirit of God, there is absolutely
no goodness or righteousness in us (Romans 3:10-12). And whatever goodness is
in us or whatever good thing that we do is really Christ in usthat, as the apostle
Paul affirmed, It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20). The
True Christian is one who has come to the end of his rope as far as attempting
to live the Christian life in his own goodness or power, repented of his sin in
arrogantly attempting to do that, surrendered his life totally to God in the name of
Jesus Christ, and allowed Jesus the Holy Spirit, to totally take over his life. The
phony Christian has never gotten to the point of absolute surrender to God. He
still clings to the delusion of Satan that he is basically a good (God-like) person
(Genesis 3:5) and can live a good, Christian life in his own righteousness and
strength, except, maybe, for needing Gods help occasionally when the going gets
tough. He lives by the old deluded, self-sufficient dictum: God helps those who
help themselves. He does not understand Jesus who said, Without Me, you can do
nothing (John 15:5). And he does not understand nor has he ever experienced
the wonderful mystery of godliness which is Christ in you (cf. 1 Timothy 3:16;
Colossians 1:25).

The New Covenant

And the reason that most Christians do not understand and have never
experienced the Spirit-filled life in the Christ is because they do not understand the
New Covenant which was promised to Gods ancient People Israel (Jeremiah
31:33) and ratified by Jesus death on the cross (Matthew 26:28). They think that,
when the New Covenant went into effect, the Old Covenant of God with His
People Israel, which was His promise to bless them if they kept His
commandments or Law (Torah), was replaced by the New Covenant. But what
they do not understand is that the Hebrew Torah was not comprised of just the
legal requirements of the Law of God, but was all the instructions for living
righteous, good, happy, prosperous, successful lives as His People. That is why
Jesus said,
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law [Torah] or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but
to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no
means pass from the Law [Torah] till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of
these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever
does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-19)

And how did Jesus fulfill the Torah? In two ways: (1) He fulfilled the legal
requirements of the Torah by keeping all of its commandments perfectly, so Christ
is actually the living personification of the Torah, and (2) He fulfilled the prophetic
implications of the ceremonial aspects of the Torah. For example, the Torah

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required that blood be shed in animal sacrifices for the sins of the people. The
shedding of Jesus blood on the cross to atone for the sins of the world fulfilled,
once and for all, the prophetic significance of all those animal sacrifices
throughout Israels history. But, as Jesus stated, the Torah has not been done away
with, because its commandments (especially the Ten Commandments) and
instructions are still being fulfilled in the lives of Christs Body of People on Earth.
So, if the Old Covenant, which is the promise of God to bless those who keep
the commandments of His Torah, is still in effect, what is the New Covenant? The
Bible tells us exactly what the New Covenant is:
But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, "This is the covenant that I
will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in
their minds I will write them," then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no
more."
(Hebrews 10:15-17)

In other words, according to the New Covenant that God has made with His
People the Followers of Jesus, we are not only no longer required to continually
make bloody sacrifices for our own sins (the once-for-all sacrifice of His Son on
the cross has taken care of that), but He has put his Torahhis instructions for
living a happy and successful life in Christinto our hearts and written them on
our minds, so that, with the enabling of His indwelling Spirit, we can keep His
commandments from our hearts in the Spirit of Gods wonderful love rather than
just going through the religious motions, keeping the commandments of the Lord
out of duty or in a perfunctory, legalistic way. That is why Jesus said,
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me
will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. (John 14:21)

And that is why it is so important for Christians to embrace their Hebrew roots,
which is basically keeping the Torah of the Lord God from our hearts and in His
love. When we do that, we discover that, rather than being a burdensome exercise,
keeping the Law of the Lord is a wonderful way to live our religious livesjoyfully
keeping the commandments of our God out of pure love for Him and others, not
because we are afraid of what will happen if we dont obey Him! Thank God for
His wonderful New Covenant!

The Apostate American Church

Sadly, the vast majority of American Christians have neglected the Lords
eternal Torah, which is the foundation of life in Christ. And in attempting to
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kept by His enabling Spirit, they have fallen out of love with their heavenly Father
and forfeited His presence and blessings in their lives. It is as the apostle Paul
predicted,
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if
from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day
will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of
perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he
sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4)

"That day" is the "Day of the Christ" (the Day of the Lord). And the "falling away"
(Greek: apostasia), which must occur before the son of perdition (Antichrist) is
revealed, is what is called the Apostasy of the Community of Believers in Jesus
falling away from true Christian faith and practicejust going through the
religious motions.
So, is American "Christianity" True Christianity? If we take a realistic, honest
look at the Church in America, it is blatantly obvious that it bears little
resemblance to the first century apostolic Church of the Lord Jesus the Christ.
In fact, American "Christianity" is thoroughly permeated with the sinthe pride,
the covetousness, and the hypocrisydescribed in this essay.

The Reason for it All

Now, you may be asking yourself, why is Bob writing all this stuff? Does he
have an ax to grindsomething against Americans or members of the Church?
Or is he trying to cover up his own inadequacies as a Christian by judging us?
Believe me, my friend, I have done a lot of praying and soul-searching regarding
my own motives for putting together this essay and this book. But I believe that
God does want me to publish it, and this is why: As a chief offender, I have tasted
the sweet relief and joy of Gods forgiveness and His grace in grafting me, a wild
branch, into the cultivated olive tree (cf. Romans 11:24), and I want to share that
with others! As I have mentioned throughout this essay, no one has been more
arrogant, self-centered, and hypocritical than I have been. But God, through His
wonderful grace and mercy, has shown me the way out of that bondage into the
exhilarating freedom of His pure, unselfish love. And I believe that He wants me
to share that way out of selfishness, pride, and hypocrisy with you, just in case you
too want to be freegloriously, joyfully FREEto love others unconditionally
and to serve and glorify your Lord in everything you do. And what He has shown
me is that I first need to fall on my face daily and continuallyevery time I have a
proud or selfish thoughtconfessing that to God, repenting of it, and begging
Him to replace that sinful impulse with gratitude to Him and His special God-kind
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of love for Him and others. And as He enables me to do that more and more, I
am finding that, more and more, I am being liberated to enjoy His wonderful
presence in my lifeHis special, spiritual joy, peace, hope, and love. Have you
ever done anythingcompeted in an athletic event, cleaned your house, done your
job, helped another person, or anything elseout of pure love for others and the
desire to glorify God, with no thought of what attention or profit (even just a
Thank you) that you were going to get out of it? If you have, then youve had a
little taste of the unsurpassed joy that comes from being free from the bondage of
selfishness and pride and free to love with the God-kind of love. And that, my
friend, is why Im writing this bookfor, He who is free in the Son (Jesus said) is free
indeed! (John 8:36) And I want that freedom and that joy for you. I dont want
anyone to miss out on the joy of the Lords salvation.
Meanwhile, I pray that you will take all the things you have read in this chapter
and will read in the following chapters to heart, because The End is near, and Jesus
said to His Disciples whom He sent out to share the good news of the Kingdom
of Heaven,
. . . if the people of a town will not welcome you or listen to you, leave it and shake its dust from your
feet! Yes, I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for the people of Sodom and
Gomorrah than for that town! (Matthew 10:1)

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Chapter 5

The True Spiritual Roots of America

Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father
and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the
Son has the Father also. (1 John 2:22-23)

e American Christians have been taught all our lives that the United
States of America is a Christian nation founded by Christians on
Christian principles. But how many of us have really verified the
historical validity of those claims? According to Wikipedia the Founding
Fathers of the U.S.A. were political leaders and statesmen who participated in
the American Revolution by signing the United States Declaration of
Independence, taking part in the American Revolutionary War, and establishing
the United States Constitution. 1 Wikipedia lists John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George
Washington as the key Founding Fathers. Let us, in this chapter, take a close
look at the Christianity of those seven notable and highly honored Founding
Fathers of the U.S.A. plus other national leaders, and the principles and
philosophies upon which they founded and have continued to lead the nation. But
first, let us briefly summarize two of the basic tenets of True Christianity.

What is True Christianity?

God Incarnate

True Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the only human being in history
who could truthfully claim to be, in His basic nature, both human and divinethe
only begotten (without a biological human father) Son of God.
Matthew, the writer of the first book of the New Testament, testified to that
incredible fact from the witness of Old Testament prophetic Scripture and his own
testimony of what an angel told Jesus human father Joseph, when Joseph was
thinking about putting away Mary, to whom he was betrothed, because she was
found to be pregnant before their marriage was consummated:
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,
before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband,
being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away
secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a
dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which

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is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His
name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins. So all this was done that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: "Behold, the virgin shall be with
child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with
us." (Matthew 1:18-23)

Then Jesus, although He never directly stated it, many times clearly implied that
He was God in human flesh. For example, He told the religious leaders that
whoever kept His Word would not die. Then, when those religious leaders asked
Jesus, Whom do you make yourself out to be? He told them, Before Abraham was I
AM. Then they immediately picked up stones to kill Him, because I AM was the
name the Lord had given to Moses when Moses asked Him what His name was,
and claiming to be God was considered blasphemy, punishable by death, by the
Jews. (cf. Exodus 3:14; John 8:51-59)
There are also hundreds of other passages of Scripture in both the Old and
New Testaments that prophesy, state directly, or imply that Jesus Christ and God
are identical.2
Jesus many amazing miracles, some of which had never been performed
before (e.g., healing a man born blindJohn 9:32-33) were also evidences of His
divine, supernatural powers.

Total Human Depravity Apart from Jesus Christ

As was explained in the last chapter, True Christians understand that, apart
from the indwelling Spirit of God, no one is good but God (Luke 18:19).
When, in the beginning, Adam and Eve gave in to the temptation of the devil
and rejected their Creator, sin entered them and broke the spiritual unity between
them and the Lord. That was spiritual death, which eventually resulted in their
physical death. And that sin that entered Gods creation through Adam and Eve
has infected the entire human race, resulting in the spiritual death (separation from
God) and eventual physical death of every one of us (Romans 5:12).
Although, in our limited, self-centered human perception, some are good
people, not a single one of us is righteous or does any good thing apart from the
indwelling Spirit of Jesus, who is God. (John 15:5; Romans 3:10-12). Apart from
Jesus, our so-called good deeds and acts of unselfish love are really pretenses,
and actually have a selfish motive, whether it is hope of reciprocal kindness,
recognition, self-esteem, or some other benefit in this life or the next one.
Therefore, the true motive for everything we do, unless we do it in the Spirit of
the pure unselfish love of God, is pride (which is directly opposed to faith in
God), selfishness, or lust (cf. 1 John 2:16).
So now, with the spiritual criteria for True Christianity more clearly in mind, let
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the founding and development of United States of America during the past 240 or
so years since the nations founding.

The Pervasive Influences of Deism, Unitarianism and

Freemasonry in the Founding, the Government, and the
Spiritual Life of the U.S.A.
American Christian Deism (a contradiction in terms)
Deism is the belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to
determine the existence of God, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and
authority as a source of religious knowledge. Deism gained prominence in the 17th
and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenmentespecially in Britain, France,
Germany, and in the United Statesamong intellectuals raised as Christians who
believed in one god, but found fault with organized religion and did not believe in
supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity. . . .
Deistic ideas influenced several leaders of the American and French Revolutions.1

Did you get all that? Deism was a prominent religion during the 1700s
during the Age of Enlightenment when human reason was elevated above
superstition and religious faith as the basis of human conduct and progress. The
American Revolution occurred during this time. Deists are monotheisticthey
believe in the existence of a god who may, in a general sense, maintain order in the
world he created. But that god is not personally involved in the lives of people. In
fact, the Deist god is a universal godHe does not have a particular group,
church, or nation of people with whom He identifies. Nor does he reveal himself
through visions, miracles, his inspired written word, or certainly not through his
incarnation as a human being. So, Deism is basically humanistican attempt to
elevate human beings to the level of God in managing their own affairs
independent of Him. Yet, numerous Founding Fathers of the U.S.A., including
four of the seven key founding fathersThomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin,
Alexander Hamilton, and James Madisonwho claimed to be Christians, were
actually Deists.
Thomas Jefferson4, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence
and the third President of the United States, claimed to be a Christian because he
was a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus5 who he considered a great moral person
and teacher. But Jefferson did not believe the parts of the Bible that tell us that
Jesus was the Messiah and the Son of God. He believed in neither the deity nor
the miracles of Jesus, nor in the divine inspiration of the Bible. Jefferson even
wrote a book entitled The Life and Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in which he omitted
any mention of Jesus miracles or the supernatural aspects of Jesus life (e.g., His

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virgin birth and His resurrection). In fact, Jefferson stated that he was a
materialist rather than a spiritualist like Jesus. On the other hand and
somewhat paradoxically, Jefferson believed in a Supreme Being and did not
question the faith in God of others, which makes him a Deist rather than strictly a
materialist (one who does not believe in the supernatural). He was also a regular
church attender and a supporter of various churches, which makes one wonder
about the soundness of the Christian doctrines being taught in those churches.6
Thomas Jefferson was also a racist. He was strongly opposed to the
enslavement of anyone, black or white, but he considered blacks an inferior race
who, like wild animals who could not really be tamed, should be freed only so they
could be removed from the United States and deported to Africa or the West
Indies.7
Benjamin Franklin8 is called The First American because of his tireless
efforts to unify the colonies and lobby on their behalf in England, in helping draft
the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and in negotiating the
Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War. Franklin was self-educated,
multi-talented, and highly accomplished in many pursuits, including: author, editor
and printer of newspapers and books; civic activist, statesman and diplomat;
political theorist, politician, Governor of Pennsylvania and Ambassador to France
and to Sweden; United States Postmaster General; musician, scientist and inventor.
Biographer Walter Isaacson wrote that Benjamin Franklin, because of his many
accomplishments, writings, and involvement in the formation and founding of the
U.S.A., was the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential
in inventing the type of society America would become.9
Ben Franklin was born into a Puritan family in Boston, Massachusetts, and
received infant baptism at the old South Church in Boston, the congregation his
family attended. He embraced the moral precepts of his familys faith, but, like the
Unitarians, who split off from the Puritan church, he rejected the doctrine of the
Trinity (the doctrine that God is three beingsGod the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spiritin one, supreme being). He also embraced the doctrines of
Deism, including the belief that God is revealed only through nature and reason,
rather than through direct, inspired revelation. He even wrote a treatise (a
Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain) advocating determinism (the
belief that what will be, will bea denial that God is involved in human
affairs).10 And, in his 1771 autobiography, Franklin admitted that he was a Deist,
although he still considered himself a Christian.
Alexander Hamilton11 was a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army and
General George Washingtons chief of staff during the Revolutionary War. He
was later a representative from New York in the Continental Congress, a delegate
to the Constitutional Convention, and the primary author of the Federalist Papers,
the primary document on which interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is based.
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Then, he served as the first Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S. in the cabinet of
President George Washington.
Alexander Hamilton was raised in the Presbyterian Church and was quite
devouteven wrote two Christian hymns. But, like numerous other Founding
Fathers of the U.S., he later (during the Revolutionary War) rejected belief in a god
involved in the personal affairs of humans and embraced Deism, including faith in
reason rather than revelation. After the Revolutionary War, he joined the
Episcopal Church and remained a nominal Christian until he died, even having
received communion on his death bed. But his Christianity, rather than being
practiced in sincere devotion to the God of the Bible, was used by him to achieve
political ends. Further evidence that the form of Christianity that Hamilton
practiced was just a spiritually impotent faade was his insistence that Christianity
and democracy were incompatible.12
James Madison13, due to his leading role in drafting the United States Bill of
rights and the U.S. Constitution, was known as the Father of the Constitution.
He then served as a leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Secretary of State
in President Thomas Jeffersons cabinet, and as the fourth President of the United
States.
Although James Madison was educated by Presbyterian clergymen, nothing of
the Christian religion stuck with him. He was an avid reader of English Deist
writings, and although he wrote and spoke little of religion, some scholars state
that he was a Deist.

Unitarianism: the Theological Basis of Deistic Churches

Unitarianism14 is a church-establishing theological movement that came out of

Europe and the Age of Enlightenment during the 1700s. Although there are
many variations of specific beliefs among Unitarians, their theology is derived
from Deism and, in general, rejects the doctrines of the Trinity and the deity of
Jesus Christ. They also reject the doctrine of human depravity (original sin),
believing that people are capable, in their basic nature, of both good and evil.
Unitarians also elevate human reason and science as sources of truth to a level
equal to Scripture. Christian Unitarians are so-called because they consider
themselves followers of Jesus Christ who, they believe, was a great man or a
prophet, although he was not God incarnate.
John Adams15, a prominent Boston attorney and a delegate from
Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, had written extensively concerning his
theories about a strong, central, republican form of government. Then, he assisted
Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence and was the
Declarations leading proponent in Congress until it was ratified in 1776. He then
served as Vice President of the U.S. during George Washingtons presidency, then,

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following Washingtons two terms, was himself elected the second President of the
United States of America.
John Adams ancestors were Puritans who split off from the Church of
England (Anglican) and came to the colonies in the early 1600s to establish their
own congregations free of the domination of the Church of England. They settled
mainly in the Massachusetts Bay area and established independent Christian
assemblies under the umbrella term Congregationalist. So, Adams was raised a
Congregationalist in Boston. But, this was during the Age of Enlightenment
when Christian faith in the personal, triune God was being eroded by Deism and
its Christian counterpart Unitarianism. And Harvard University in Boston,
where John Adams received his higher education, was a hotbed of Deistic
philosophy and Unitarian religion. Also, during the mid-1700s, Congregationalist
and other Christian churches, especially in Boston, were being heavily influenced
by Unitarian theology. His whole life John Adams was a member of the First
Parish Church of Braintree (a suburb of Boston) which, although nominally a
Congregationalist assembly, beginning in 1750 (the same year Adams matriculated
at Harvard) had a Unitarian minister.16
Although Adams, for the rest of his life, continued to be a church-going,
devout Christian, never openly denying the miracles and the redemptive role of
Jesus, his writings and actions revealed his true humanistic, Deistic, and Unitarian
convictions. For example, in an 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson, he wrote, "The
human Understanding is a revelation from its Maker which can never be disputed
or doubted No Prophecies, no Miracles are necessary to prove this celestial
communication.17 And, as President, in 1791, he supported and signed the Treaty
of Peace and Friendship with Tripoli, which states in Article XI:
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded
on the Christian Religionas it has in itself no character of enmity against the
laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims]and as the said States never
have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is
declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever
produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.18

Satanic Roots of America

Freemasonry19 was started as a formal organization (with the founding of

lodges in England) also during the 1700s Age of Enlightenment and also has its
roots in Deism. Freemasonry falsely presents itself as a beneficent civic
organization, but, in reality it is a covert, secretive, insidious religion that
undermines true Christianity and is actually, like Unitarianism, an anti-Christian
religion in disguise. One of Freemasonrys primary exponents, Albert Pike, wrote,

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The doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion
is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay (Jesus); but Lucifer, God of Light
and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of
darkness and evil.
This seemingly paradoxical statement is typical Masonic double-talk. Freemasons
keep their initiates deceived into thinking they are seeking the light (intellectual
enlightenment) of the one, true God, without identifying who that god is until
they reach the 19th Degree. Then, their understanding is illuminated by the deeper,
esoteric secret that there are two, equal godsLucifer and Adonay (Jesus). And
Lucifer (who the Masons falsely teach is not Satan) is the god of light and good,
but Adonay is the god of darkness and evil.
Hopefully, you can see that this is just the opposite of what Jesus, who was not
an angel, taught. He said, I am the way the truth and the light. No one comes
to the Father [God] except through me (John 14:6). And the apostle Paul taught,
Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). The
prophet Isaiah identifies this angel of light (Satan) as Lucifer, who aspires to
ascend into Heaven and exalt his throne above the stars of God (Isaiah 14:12-14).
Antichrist, the incarnation of Satan, will, at the end of the age (Matthew 24:3),
not appear as a sinister, evil character, but indeed as an angel of light masquerading
as the true Messiah, and the whole world will follow after him in wonder and awe
and worship him (cf. Revelation 13:3, 8).
Numerous Founding Fathers of the U.S.A., including George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen, John Hancock, John Paul
Jones, Paul Revere, Robert Livingston, and 35 other lesser known men who were
signers of the Declaration of Independence and/or the Constitution were
Freemasons.20
George Washington21, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and
Revolutionary War hero, presided over the Constitutional Convention that
established the office of President of the United States of America. Then, by
unanimous choice of the electors, in 1788, he became the first President of the
U.S.A. What were the religious beliefs of the father of his country?
Washington, a member of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church, was perceived as a
devout Christian. He was frequently seen with his Bible, praying, when he was
commanding general of the Continental Army. A few of his typical statements
were,
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to dothen do it with all
your strength.

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 What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of
Jesus Christ.22
But, was George Washington a true Christian? Did He acknowledge belief in
the basic tenets of the Christian faith (the depravity of human beings apart from
the indwelling Holy Spirit and the deity of Jesus Christ)? A survey of his writings
reveals that he did not. Jesus told His disciples, If you ask anything in My name
[implying that He is God], I will do it (John 14:14). But there is no evidence that
Washington ever prayed any of his prayers in the name of Jesus. There is one of
his alleged prayers displayed in St. Pauls Chapel in New York City, where
Washington worshiped the first two years of his Presidency, in which he prayed in
the name of Jesus Christ. But, research has revealed, that prayer was derived (and
modified) from a letter Washington wrote to the states governors in which he did
not mention the name of Jesus Christ:
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the state over
which you preside, in His holy protection; that He would incline the hearts of
the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government;
to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellowcitizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who
have served in the field; and finally, that He would most graciously be pleased
to dispose us all to justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that
charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of
the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of
whose examples in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
In fact, Washington very seldom mentioned the name of Jesus (the above quote
about the religion of Jesus Christ is an exception), much less that He was the
Son of God, the Savior, or the Messiah.22
So, what was George Washingtons true religion? The fact that he was a high
ranking, highly dedicated, and highly honored Freemason might give us a clue. In
fact, we might say that he was the prototypical Mason. He joined the
Fredericksburg, Virginia, Masonic lodge in 1752, at the age of 20. After just nine
months he was given the title Master Mason. During the War for Independence,
he was very active in Freemasonry, attending Masonic celebrations and
religious24 observances in several states, and supporting the formation of
Masonic lodges in army regiments.
During the war, Washington was
recommended to be Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, but he
declined because he had not yet served as Master of a local lodge. At his
inauguration as President of the United States, he took the oath of office with his
hand on a Bible from the St. Johns Lodge in New York. During his two terms as
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President, Washington remained a very active Mason and visited lodges in several
states. After he retired from public service, he became Charter Master of
Alexandria (Virginia) Lodge Number 22. And when he died in 1799, Washington
was buried with Masonic rites conducted by the Alexandria lodge. And on
Shuters Hill, on property owned by the Alexandria-Washington lodge, the
multimillion-dollar George Washington Masonic National Memorial, a lighthouse
to Washington, was constructed. It was located there because ancient religious
temples were located on hilltops or mountaintops. On the Memorials website,
George Washington is referred to as the cornerstone of American civilization
and Freemasonrys perfect ashlar [building stone] upon which countless Master
Masons gauge their labors in their own lodges and in their own communities.25

The Exception

John Jay, a New York City attorney, was elected to the Continental Congress
and served as its president. He was a key figure in getting the new U.S.
Constitution ratified and wrote five of the Federalist Papers on which its
interpretation was based. Both during and after the Revolutionary War, Jay was an
ambassador to Spain and France, and he served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Together with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, he was a signer of the Treaty
of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War. He then served as the first Chief
Justice of the United States from 1789-95. Following that, he was Governor of
New York for six years.26
Of the seven key Founding Fathers of the United States of America, John
Jay came the closest to espousing a true understanding and practice of Christianity
that was uncompromised by Deism, humanism, Unitarianism, or Masonic
Luciferianism.
Jays paternal grandfather Augustus was a French Huguenot. The Huguenots
were a sect of Protestant Christians who were severely persecuted by the Roman
Catholic Church. So, Augustus fled France and settled in New York City in the
early 1700s. And, as Huguenots who migrated to the British colonies frequently
did, Augustus joined the Church of England (Anglican Church).
John Jay was profoundly influenced by the faith of his grandfather and stories
of the persecution of the Jay family in France. And while he was growing up on a
farm owned by his father Peter, also a devout Anglican, he was educated at what is
now called a Christian schoolthe school run by the pastor of the Anglican
congregation in nearby New Rochelle, New York. And Jay shared the orthodox,
Protestant faith of his father and grandfather his whole life and was a devout
member of the Episcopal Church (called the Anglican Church in Britain) until the
day he died.
John Jays religious convictions, which shaped his philosophies of government
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true religion consists basically of a personal relationship with God rather than
church liturgy, rejection of Roman Catholicism as Biblical religion, belief that
slavery was morally wrong, and strong opposition to Deism as a valid philosophy
or religion. His views frequently resulted in conflicts with other Founding Fathers,
especially Benjamin Franklin with whom he had some heated exchanges over the
differences between Deism and true Christianity. But Jay was so strong in his
convictions and influence that he was able, almost single-handedly, to get some
strongly opposed enactments passed. For example, because of the persecution of
his French ancestors, Jay was keenly aware of the dangers of mixing religion and
politics. And when he served as a member of the New York Constitutional
Convention, he was concerned about the separation of church and state
especially that the Catholic Church would not interfere with government
functions. And he got the Convention to pass a requirement
barring Catholics from State citizenship and government service unless they pledged
to abjure and renounce all allegiance and subjection to all and every foreign king,
prince, potentate, and state in all matters, ecclesiastical as well as civil.27

Was The United States of America Founded on Christian

Principles?
A frequent claim by American Christians is that the U.S. was founded on
Christian principles. But was it? To examine the truth of that assertion, let us see,
in the light of Scripture, how it stacks up against reality.
Jesus was not a pacifist. When the merchants and moneychangers were making
the Temple a place of doing business rather than the center of worship, He
furiously overturned their tables and drove them out with a whip (John 2:14-16).
Nor was He against self-defense or defending others against aggressors. He never
told his disciple Peter not to carry his sword (cf. John 18:10). And He told His
disciples that if any of them did not have a sword, he should sell his garment and
purchase one (Luke 22:36). To Jesus, it was that important in a hostile world to
have a weapon.
What He taught against was retaliation, revenge, and rebellion against authority.
In Israel, it was the role of the government to try criminals and exact justice, not
individuals. In fact, Jesus, in keeping with the God-ordained principles of
tolerance, mercy, and love, counseled his disciples to show far more restraint in
retaliating against those who damaged their persons, their property, or their liberty
than was normally humanly possible (e.g., Matthew 5:39-44).
And He was strictly against rebelling against those in authority. When Peter
chopped off the ear of one of the troops sent to arrest Jesus, He rebuked Peter,
not because he had used his sword to defend his Master, but because he was

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rebelling against the Jewish authorities and, consequently, against God (John
18:10-11). And it was a transformed Peter who later clarified what he had learned
from Jesus about not rebelling against either government or non-government
authorities (even slave masters), even if those authorities were abusive (1 Peter
2:13-20).
But how did the United States of America gain its independence? Was it
through, in the Spirit of Christ, patient endurance of the oppression of Great
Britain, peaceful negotiations, and praying for the Lords deliverance? Or was it
through ungodly, violent rebellion? What does the National Anthem glorify? Is it
the wonderful providence of God, or is it the bloody fruits of violence and
rebellion (the bombs bursting in air what a glorious sight!).
And were the concepts and principles on which the new nation was based, as
expressed in its foundational documents, truly Scriptural? Consider the most
quoted statement of those principles, from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

This foundational statement is totally contrary to Scripture. Where does the Bible
tell us that all men are created equal, with certain unalienable Rights? The
Bible states that we belong to our Creator, were created to serve and to glorify
Him, and to love others unselfishlynot to insist on our own rights (Romans
14:7-8; 1 Corinthians 10:31, 33; 13:4-5). And where does Scripture tell us that
these Rights (which are really God-given privileges which he gives or removes
according to His perfect will) include Life, Liberty and [especially] the pursuit of
Happiness? Jesus said, Whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life
for My sake will find it (Matthew 16:25). Then, regarding personal liberty, He
stated, Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two (Matthew 5:41).
Finally, the Bible has nothing positive to say about the pursuit of Happiness.
Does it not make exactly antithetical statements like, He who loves pleasure will be a
poor man (Proverbs 21:17) and, She who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives (1
Timothy 5:6). Jesus was the perfect example of sacrificing His Rights for the
good of others. And He tells those of us who want to be His disciples (true
Christians) to follow His example (Luke 9:23), trusting the Lord to meet all our
needs if we are more concerned about pleasing Him and meeting the needs of
others than we are about insisting on our own rights.
Therefore, it is clear that the founders of the United States of America had no
real understanding of the fundamental principles of true Christianity, which
include trusting our Heavenly Father to take perfect care of us, in this life and in
the World to Come, if we will submit to His commandments and seek His

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kingdom and His righteousness, rather than seeking, in arrogance and selfcenteredness, to establish our own kingdom on Earth. The old saying that God
helps those who help themselves is not found in the Bible. What Jesus says is,
Apart from Me, you can do nothing (John 15:5). Yet, how many of the founders of
the U.S.A. even acknowledged our Saviors involvement in human affairs, much
less submitted to His ways of doing things, the faith in Him and His Heavenly
Father that He told His followers to have, and applied those principles to the
founding of the nation?

The Declension of Christianity in America

Have whatever traces of true Christianity that existed in the formation and
founding of the United States of America developed into a more substantial
national religion? Hardly. Of the forty-four U.S. Presidents, most have been
nominal Christians when they took office, but very few have been active in their
churches after taking office, other than attending Sunday services. Five have been
Deists, as indicated by their stated religious beliefs if not their church affiliations.
Four have been Unitarians and three others explicitly have not believed in the
Trinity (the deity of Jesus Christ). Seven have indicated no religious affiliation. 28
Fourteen have been Freemasons. Many Members of Congress have been
Freemasons. Seven of those have been 33rd Degree (the highest level)
Freemasons.29
Also, the past 200 years have seen the rise of many quasi-Christian and even
explicitly anti-Christian religious cults in America, some with significant cultural
and political impact, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
(Mormonism), Christian Science, Islam, Jehovahs Witnesses, Theosophy, Unity,
The Way International, the First Church of Satan, and the Neo-Luciferian Church.
All of these religious organizations and numerous others deny the key doctrine
upon which true Christianity is based: Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of
God (1 John 4:9). In fact, He is the one, true GodGod manifested in human
flesh (John 1:1-3, 14; 8:58; et al.)the only human being in history who could
truthfully make that claim. According to the Bible, any person who denies this
fundamental Truth is not only a liar but is manifesting the anti-Christian spirit (1
John 4:1-3).
Third, numerous non-religious and explicitly anti-religious organizations and
movements, which deny or minimize spiritual reality, have proliferated in America,
including the American Humanist Association which has as its subtitle Good
Without a God, the Secular Coalition of America, the Naturalism Philosophy
Forum, Rationalist International, and American Atheist.

The Results
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So, what are the net effects of the seeds of apostasy that were sown in the
Christianity of The United States of America when it was founded plus all the
quasi-Christian, pseudo-Christian and anti-Christian influences that have been
injected into the spiritual bloodstream of the nations religion during the past 200+
years? The results are tragic. Even the superficial faade that was Christian
America in the beginning is but a perverse caricature of itself.
Look again at American religion. We claim to be a Christian nation, but are
we not awfully tolerant of all the other religions and cults of the world, just like
ancient Babylon? Just as America is the melting pot of the races of the world, she
is also the melting pot of all the worlds religions. And the distinctions between
the religions in the USA are getting very blurry. Many groups are being formed for
dialogue, action, and even common worship among various religionsProtestants
and Catholics Together, Promise Keepers, Buddhism and Christianity, Islam and
Christianity, New Age ideas and practices in the Church, Yoga in the Church,
Eastern mysticism in the Church, Masonic Luciferianism in the Church ad
infinitum. True Christians believe that there is only one way to God, and that is
through Jesus Christ, who is the only human being in history who could truthfully
claim to be God. But more and more nominal Christians believe that there are
many paths to "God" and that all the different religions worship, ultimately, the
same god. (That is what George Bush said about other religions and Christianity
when he was President and what Barack Obama says about other religions and
Christianity now that he is President.) True Christians believe that there are
basically two gods impacting this world. One is the false god, Satan or Lucifer,
and the other is the one, true God, the God of the (true) followers of Jesus Christ,
and that all the other religions of the world are, whether they realize it or not,
following Satan. So, to the extent that the American Christian Church is uniting
with other religions, philosophies, and practices of the world, she is not truly
Christian, is she? She is really a false (anti-) Christian church, following the false
god of this world.
In the next chapter, the true, Biblical identity and destiny of the religious and
secular United States of America will be explained. Then, the implications of the
Tenth Harbinger that was found in the rubble of the collapsed World Trade
Center towers will be clearly and fully understood.

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Chapter 6

The Identity and Destiny of America in Bible

Prophecy
The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her
torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine
linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! For in one hour
such great riches came to nothing. Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many
as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning,
saying, What is like this great city? They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and
wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became
rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate. (Revelation 18:15-19)

ost expositors see very little if any mention of the United States of
America in Bible prophecy. But this chapter will prove, beyond a
shadow of doubt, based on historical and Biblical evidence plus current
events, that New York City is the great city of Revelation 18. And America
(especially after she is taken over by Islamists) and the many countries she controls
economically and politically comprise the city-state/empire called Babylon the
Great that, until she is destroyed, will dominate all the nations of the earth,
setting the world stage for the takeover of Antichrist.

Two Babylons
The Bible goes to great lengths to clearly tell us about two different (but
similar), literal Babylons: ancient, historical Babylon and modern, prophetic
Babylon. There are more verses of Scripture (over 250) that speak of the two
Babylons than of any other city or nation on Earth, except for Jerusalem and
Israel. Entire chapters of the Bible devoted to Babylon include: Isaiah 13, 14, 47,
48; Jeremiah 50, 51 and Revelation 17, 18. Each Babylon is not only identified by
a great city, but by other nations or territories it dominates politically,
economically, militarily, and religiously; and by its treachery against Israel. Two
entire chapters plus other passages of the book of Revelation are devoted to
modern Babylon. The great exultation of the Redeemed of the Lord before He
returns to establish His kingdom on Earth is because of the final (third)
destruction of modern Babylon (Revelation 18:21-19:2). If you are interested in
really understanding the events, players, and plot of the book of Revelation, realize
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and destiny of modern, prophetic, mystery Babylon. So, brace yourself, put on
your face-up-to-reality hat and let us first take a look at ancient, historical Babylon
to see what clues about modern Babylon we can gather.

Ancient Babylon1

Actually, there were three ancient Babylons: Babylon the religious center of the
Akkadian Empire, Babylon the capitol of the first Babylonian Empire, and
Babylon the capitol of the neo-Babylonian Empire. Aspects of all three ancient
Babylons are reflected in Bible prophecies concerning modern Babylon.
The Bible tells us that, after the Great Flood, Noah's great-grandson Nimrod
founded the world's first multi-national, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural empire (cf.
Genesis 10:10-12). Coincidentally, thousands of cuneiform (clay) tablets from that
same time period (about 2300 BC) tell us that, in the same location (the "land of
Shinar"Mesopotamia) the Akkadian Empire, which most secular historians
acknowledge as the world's first empire, was founded by Sargon. Close
examination of Biblical, Akkadian and Summerian records reveal that Nimrod and
Sargon are the same person. Nimrod was his given name and Sargon (which
means "True King" or "Legitimate King") in Akkadian was his royal title.
According to both the Biblical (Genesis 10:10) and secular records, the Kingdom
of Akkadia included the religious center that was later named Babylon and the
cities of Erich (Uruk) and Accad (Akkad). Also, according to both records, this
king invaded and conquered what was then the relatively small, insignificant
kingdom of Assyria, built several cities there including Nineveh and Calah, and
incorporated it into his growing empire. Thirdly, both the Bible and Akkadian
records call this king a "mighty hunter" (Genesis 10:9). All Akkadian kings were
celebrated as mighty hunters and warriors and were worshiped as deified humans.
To establish himself as a god in the public's perception, Sargon ceremonially
married the principal deity of the Summerians and Akkadians, the "Queen of
Heaven" Innana (later named Ishtar in Babylon). Scripture states that Nimrod
"began to be a mighty one on the earth" (Genesis 10:8), which may indicate that he was
not only the first empire-building ruler or king, but that he had supernatural
satanic powers. His powers certainly were not from the one true God God,
because he practiced a totally idolatrous religious system and attempted to build a
tower to heaventhe infamous "Tower of Babel"reminding us of Satans
enticing statement to Adam and Eve, You will be like God (Genesis 3:5), and the
boast of Lucifer, the (spiritual) king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4), I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God (Isaiah 14:13). The title mighty
hunter, spiritually speaking, may mean one who hunts for and destroys the souls
of men.
So, virtually all translations (from Hebrew) of the Genesis 10 and 11 account
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based on those translations are incorrect. Nimrod/Sargon was the founder of the
Akkadian Empire, not the Babylonian Empire. And the city of Akkad was the
capitol of the empire, not Babylon. Nimrod/Sargon conquered the Sumerians,
who ruled southern Mesopotamia before he arrived, and, to include the Sumerians
seamlessly into his empire, although he was a direct descendant of Noah who
believed unwavering in the one, true God, he adopted the Sumerian religion which
included the worship of their gods, especially Innana, the "Queen of Heaven." He
then built a city which later came to be called Babylon because the ziggurats
(towers) built there to honor and worship the Sumerian/Akkadian deities were
called, in Akkadian, babylons. (Actually, babylon is a Greek variation of the Akkadian
word babilum).
Another error based on mistranslations of the original Hebrew Scriptures,
which greatly distorts and diminishes our understanding of how Nimrod's Babylon
is reflected in prophecies regarding modern Babylon, is the notion that, at the time
of the building of the "Tower of Babel," the whole world spoke one language.
Archaeological discoveries of the thousands of Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform
tablets and linguistic studies have proven that, by the time Nimrod arrived on the
scene, about 500 years after the Flood, many languages were spoken in the world.
In Mesopotamia several languages were spoken, including Sumerian, and, after
Nimrod arrived, Akkadian was spoken there. Then, Babylonian and Assyrian
(dialects that developed from Akkadian) were spoken. The error that the whole
world spoke a single language arose from a mistranslation of Genesis 11:1 which
states in virtually all versions of the Bible, "Now the whole earth had one language and
one speech." There are three words in that statement that have been mistranslated
down through the centuries. The Hebrew text literally states, "And the whole earth
was of one lip and of one word." The Hebrew term for "earth" (erets) may also mean
"land," as in the "land of Israel." And in the context of Genesis 10 and 11, that is
apparently how erets should be translated, because it is all about the Mesopotamian
empire of Nimrod, which certainly did not cover the whole earth. Also, in the
ancient Akkadian and Sumerian cultures "one lip" was an idiom that meant "one
government," and "one word" was an idiom that meant "one command" as in,
"Just say the word and it will be done." So, Genesis 11:1 should be correctly
translated, "And the whole land [of Mesopotamia/the Akkadian Empire] was of one
government and one commander [ruler]." In other words, what Nimrod did, in total
rebellion against the Lord God, Whose original intention for human beings was
that they would "have dominion over all the earth" and Who told Adam and Eve,
"Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it" (Genesis 1:26, 28), was to attempt
to bring all languages, cultures and nations together under his rule as the deified
sargon ("true king") of the world. Notice that the Lord nowhere told humans to
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human king, was because of their hardness of heart in refusing to submit to Him
alone.
Another grievous error in translation that has reinforced the error that the
"whole earth" spoke one language is naming the ziggurat that the Akkadians were
attempting to build to Heaven (probably for worship of their principal deity
Innana/Ishtar) the "Tower of Babel." There are only two places in Scripture
(Genesis 10:10 and 11:9the text we are clarifying) where, in translations from
the Hebrew, "Babel" is identified as a city the Akkadians, under Nimrod, were
building. However, there is no such term "Babel" in Hebrew. In every other place
in Scripture (280 times) where the Hebrew term translated "Babel" in Genesis
10:10 and 11:9 is used, it is translated "Babylon." The original translators of the
Hebrew might have thought the Hebrew term was balal which means "confusion,"
and that mistaken translation supported their belief that the Lord stopped the
building of the tower and scattered the people of "Babylon" by confusing their
language.
Until recently, the sudden collapse of the Akkadian empire in 2154 BC, within
180 years of its founding, was a mystery to historians. Many Akkadian writings told
of the gods raining disasters from the heavens, but historians could not put two
and two together. However, archaeological and geological discoveries, especially,
in 2001, of the two-mile wide Umm al Binni lake crater in the Amarah region of
southern Iraq, only about 125 miles from ancient Akkad and nearby Babylon, plus
Akkadian writings like "The Curse of Akkad," have proven that the Akkadian
civilization was destroyed suddenly by a comet impacting the earth and exploding
with the force of thousands of Hiroshima-size atomic bombs (190 to 750
megatons of TNT). That impact must have totally destroyed "by fire" everything
within over 100 miles from the impact. It also rendered the land of much of the
empire uninhabitable for a number of years and scattered survivors far and wide.
This scientifically, historically correct explanation of what happened to
Nimrod's empire and the city of Babylon throws brilliant light on the Revelation's
prophecy of what will happen to modern Babylon. In the same way that Nimrod
set himself up as the deified ruler of the world's first empire, the ultimate antiChrist will declare himself to be "god" (2 Thessalonians 2:4) and will establish a
(true) global kingdom (cf. Revelation 13:8; 17:17). Nimrod was the first type and
foreshadow of the "beast" of Revelation (13:4; 17:12). Also, Nimrod/Sargon's
Akkadian Empire was the original type of Antichrist's global empire which will be
destroyed in the same way but on a much larger scale than the Akkadian Empire
was destroyed.
Also, the annihilation of Babylon will not be an isolated event. There are
strong scientific, historical and Biblical indications that every one of the trumpet
and bowl judgments of the Wrath of God will involve the impact of comets, God's
"weapons of indignation" from the "storehouse" of those weapons (the Oort Cloud of
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billions of comets) located at the "farthest border" (surrounding our solar system) (cf.
Jeremiah 50:25, 26).
Incidentally, it was about 200 years after the fall of the Akkadian Empire,
about 1900 BCE, that Abram (renamed Abraham) left Ur, the ancient capital of
Sumer, located in southern Mesopotamia, and moved to Haran, a city in the north.
Later, Abraham left Haran and migrated into the land of Canaan (modern-day
Israel) under God's promise that he would become the father of a great nation (cf.
Genesis 12).
The second phase of Babylon, when it became a great city-state/kingdom,
was ruled by the Amorite dynasty. The most famous Amorite King over Babylonia
was Hammurapi (sometimes spelled Hammurabi), who ruled from approximately
1792-1750 BCE. Hammurapi is most famous for his legal judgments, which
evolved into the Code of Hammurapi, from which many of our modern,
western laws are derived. The Babylonians had numerous gods which were
assimilated from the earlier Sumerian/Akkadian culture which the Babylonians and
Assyrians displaced. In fact, basically the same Sumerian religious system with the
same gods was in place in Hammurapis Babylon as during Nimrods rule
hundreds of years earlier. Their chief male god was Marduk the sun god or the
god of life and death (whose earlier name was Tammuz). But in Babylon, males
and females were seen as equals, and, in fact, the main Babylonian deity, and the
god most pertinent to our study, was still the "Queen of Heaven," Ishtar (the
Sumerian goddess Inanna, the daughter of the moon god and goddess), the
goddess of temple prostitutes (the "Mother of Whores), also called the Goddess
of Liberty. (Make a note of Ishtars names; they will be important when we
discuss the religion of modern, mystery Babylon.) In fact, Sumerian/Babylonian
religion may be traced through all the false religions of the world, especially those
that impacted Israel. The gods (particularly the goddess Inanna/Ishtar) of Canaan,
Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Rome, and, yes, modern Babylon are the same as those of
ancient Babylon, just with different names. About 1270 BCE, the brutal, merciless
Assyrians (the worlds first terrorists) overpowered Babylonia. The Assyrian
takeover of the Babylonian Empire also has clear prophetic implications for
modern Babylon, as will be explained below. For the next 700 years, the Assyrians
dominated the ancient world.
In 626 BCE, a leader named Nabopolassar led Babylonia to regain its
independence from Assyria. Under him and his son, Nebuchanezzar, who took
over as King in 604 BCE, the neo-Babylonian empire became one of the greatest
city-state-empires in world history. And it is this third phase of Babylon with
which Scripture is most concerned, because it was the Babylon of
Nebuchadnezzar, starting even before he officially became king, that took the
Israelites (the descendants of Abraham), primarily of the tribes of Judah and
Benjamin, into 70 years of captivity, beginning in 605 BCE when Daniel,
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Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah and other members of the royal family of Judah and
other children of Israel's southern kingdom (the other ten tribes having been
dispersed and many taken captive by the Assyrians about 120 years earlier) were
taken to Babylon.
So, to help us understand the many Biblical prophecies concerning both
ancient and modern Babylon, let us take a closer look at some of the features of
ancient Babylon.

Government and Religion

The Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar and its few other kings who reigned from
626-539 BCE, when it fell to Cyrus, King of Persia, was an absolute monarchy.
Although Babylon worshiped the same gods as always (Marduk, Ishtar, and
others), its religion became very eclectic as it added Sumerian gods and gods from
other parts of the world to its pantheon. Various forms of the occultwitchcraft,
divination, sorcery, necromancy, and so forthas well as eastern mysticism were
practiced. And Nebuchadnezzar was a ruthless tyrant who demanded that he also
be worshiped. Remember the story of Daniels three friends, Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego, who refused to worship Babylons gods or bow down to an image
of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 3)? Although they were three of Nebuchadnezzars
favorite administrators, he was infuriated and had them thrown into the royal
incinerator. So, we might say that Babylons government was a religious
dictatorship in which religion was inextricably intertwined with government. One
could be executed either for not submitting to the laws of the land or for not
practicing the national religion. We will see that in modern, prophetic, mystery
Babylon, religion is also in bed with the government.

Economy, Culture, and Citizenry

Babylon was the trade and cultural center of the world. It was called the
Golden City. It had the highest standard of living of any nation on the earth.
By the standards of the rest of the world, Babylons citizens lived in great wealth
and luxury. It was the world center for education, the arts, and religion. It was the
location of the famous Hanging Gardens, which, from a distance looked like a
lush, green, tropical paradise. It was dotted by temples and ziggurats (religious
towers) built for the worship of Babylons many gods, especially for its main gods,
Marduk and Ishtar. Babylon was located on the mighty Euphrates River in
southern Mesopotamia, which was not an arid, desert area like it is today. In fact,
Babylon was located on the alluvial plain drained by the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers, watered by an amazing system of canals built by the Babyloniansboasting
probably the most fertile soil in the world, covered by rich crops and other
vegetation. It was called the beautiful land. Babylon was the crossroads of trade
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north, east, south and west. Boats sailed up and down the Euphrates, which
passed right through the middle of the city of Babylon, from the Persian Gulf in
the south into Assyria (modern-day Syria and Turkey) in the north. Because
Babylon had been occupied by so many peoples down through the centuries, and
because people from so many places passed through Babylon, the citizenry of
Babylon was very diverse; it was a real melting pot. Just like ancient Babylon,
modern, prophetic Babylon is the economic, trade, and cultural center of the
modern world and also the melting pot of the world. Sound familiar?

Morality
Babylon was an extremely licentious, immoral city. As was mentioned above,
sex outside of marriage was not only acceptable, but was considered the highest
form of religious and spiritual practice. All forms of sexual perversion
homosexuality, bestiality, incest, pedophilia, etc.were widely practiced. Drunken
orgies were common entertainment. Modern Babylon is also very libertarian in its
morality.

Defense
Babylon was considered the invincible city. Built in a square pattern,
approximately 15 miles on each side, with wide boulevards running at right angles
to each other, north to south and east to west, she was a very large city, but
carefully designed for rapid access to all parts of the city. As was mentioned
above, the Euphrates River flowed right through the middle of Babylon. And a
system of canals from the river provided plenty of water to the whole city for
gardens, drinking water, cleaning, and other purposes. So, if under siege, the city
could be sustained with water and food indefinitely. Along the river banks on
both sides of the city and surrounding the city were two huge walls, 100 feet high
and 50 to 60 feet wide (wide enough on top for a chariot pulled by a team of four
horses to make a U-turn), with intermittent watch towers and huge, copper-plated
gates. Then, other parts of the city, like the Kings palace, were also partitioned
off by similar walls. So, with soldiers constantly manning the watch towers and
patrolling the tops of the walls, Babylon was the most impregnable city in history.
Unfortunately, the Babylonians got complacent in their invincibility and liked to
party. So, one night in 539 BCE, when the Babylonians were in drunken revelry,
the army of Cyrus, King of Persia, having dammed up the Euphrates River,
stealthily entered the city from the river bed, sneaked into the palace, killed the
King, and took over the city without a struggle. The next morning, the citizens of
Babylon awoke to find themselves conquered! The Bible says that in the same
way, modern Babylon, who thinks she is invincible, will be destroyed by a sudden,
sneak attack in just one hour. Actually, as we continue, we will see how this
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(like the fall of Hammurapi's Babylon to the Assyrians and the fall of
Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon to the Persians) and the total annihilation of Babylon
"by fire" (like the burning of the Babylon of Nimrod).

Imperialism
Babylon, under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, was the most economically,
politically, and militarily dominant city-state (nation/empire) in the world. She
controlled every nation from Egypt to the Persian Gulf in the South to the Black
and Caspian Seas in the north. In the same way, modern Babylon will, and to a
large extent already does, rule the world.

Modern, Prophetic, Mystery Babylon

Of course, modern, prophetic Babylon is not named in the Bible because she
was not in existence when the Bible was written. But you probably already know
who she is, if you read the commentary on Revelation Chapters 17 and 18, dont
you? And, if you have read through this page, you are probably starting to get a
gnawing feeling that it is obvious, arent you? When confronted with plain
evidence from history, current events, and the Bible, the identity of modern
Babylon is crystal clear, undeniable, and irrefutable. Then, why do very few
Americans acknowledge that Babylon is the United States of America? This
commentator has often asked himself that question. Citizens of other nations do
not seem so blinded to that reality. I think it is because it is just very, very difficult
for us to be objective about something in which we have a very high personal
stake, especially if our whole lives we have been taught something different. What
do you think?
So please, let me beg you, if you love the Truth and are one of those rare few
who are really willing to face up to reality, especially if your eternal destiny and the
eternal destiny of your loved ones depends on it (and in this case, it certainly
might), please suspend any automatic negative reaction that you might have to the
idea that the U.S.A. is indeed Babylon long enough to read the rest of this essay.
Then, if you want to crucify this watchman for his horrible, unpatriotic lies, that is
okay, because he has done his best to share with you what he believes the Lord has
shown him, before it is too late and, if he is right, you perish with the rest of the
Babylonians.

Historical Evidence
Remember, Bible history repeats itself. Modern Babylon must be very similar
to ancient Babylon. Think about all the characteristics of ancient Babylon listed
above: totalitarian, dictatorial government led by a self-deified ruler; eclectic,
idolatrous religion blended with the government; strong sense of national pride
and patriotism; luxury and wealthdominates world economy and trade; by far

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the most powerful military in the world; powerful defenseseemingly

invincible; world cultural center; center for world government; the melting pot
of the world; a very immoral nation, tolerating all kinds of sexual immorality and
perversion; a party nation, centered on entertainment and revelry; imperialistic
dominating the governments of other nations of the world.
Some may take issue with a few of these characteristics. For example, is the
USA a totalitarian government ruled by a self-deified ruler? Please allow me to
suggest that the U.S.A. is quickly moving in that direction. President George W.
Bush garnered more powers for the top executive than any other President in
history. While he was in college, President Bush (as did his father, George H.W.
Bush) became a member of Skull and Bonesan organization based on the belief
that its members have been "born again" into a state of superhuman spirituality
(their own spirit, not the Spirit of the Lord God). And President Barack Obama,
with widespread and intrusive enforcement of the Patriot Act, has continued that
trend. In the event of another national emergency of the magnitude of 9/11 or
greatera terrorist attack, an economic crisis, or World War IIIthe President
could declare national martial law overnight, just as Adolf Hitler did in Germany
on November 9, 1938, the date he started having Jews and others who opposed
his government killed and millions of them shipped off to concentration camps.
President Obama also practices self-worship, believing that the way one rises
above the common and mundane is to develop the god-person within.2 Plus, in
her final form, just before her total destruction "by fire," modern Babylon will be
ruled by a totalitarian government with a mandated religion, exactly like ancient
Babylon, as will be explained below.
Or, you might object to the suggestion that America is imperialistic. It would
probably boggle your mind to know how many nations of the world, including
Honduras, Uruguay, Afghanistan, Iraq, several African nations, and many others
around the world are just client states of the USA; their economies would
immediately collapse if Americas multi-national corporations pulled out or
stopped importing their goods. Therefore, the USA calls the shots in how those
countries are run: Their elected leaders are virtual puppet governors controlled
by the USA.3

The Evidence of American Religion

But, the greatest similarity of all between ancient and modern Babylon is
religion. Now many, especially American Christians, will flatly deny that assertion.
But, please consider the evidence of current events in the light of the history of
American religion as to how American Christianity compares with Babylonian
religion.
As was thoroughly explained and documented in chapters 4 and 5, American
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Enlightenment of the 1700s. And, according to the Deists, human beings still
have the Creators (the universal, impersonal God) nature; all humans are still
basically good and have the knowledge, wisdom and power, somewhere in their
beings, to regain dominion of the world. We just needed a god-man, a perfect,
sinless man, a messiah and savior, to show us the way back to our natural
godliness. And, according to the Bible, that Messiah and Savior is Jesus Christ. So,
all that Christians need to do is to believe in Jesus as a great god-man, teacher
and prophet (albeit not the incarnation of the one, true God), follow his teachings,
and by the wisdom and power of Gods (whoever that is) spirit, which He put in
them in The Beginning, bringing them back in touch with their basic, natural
goodness, bring the rest of the citizens of the world into actualization of their
godliness, and reestablish Paradise on Earth and their dominion over it.
Sounds (to the undiscerning) true to Scripture, right? So, what is wrong with
American Christianity according to the above analysis? Do you see the subtle
deceitthe Lie of the devilin it (cf. Genesis 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 11)? If
you do not, then you are probably a part of America-Babylons false religious
system. But please, do not stop reading yet. In the next section, many evidences
from the Bible for exactly which city-state (nation/empire) is modern, prophetic,
mystery Babylon will be given. If you can honestly face reality, please keep
asking yourself which nation, other than the USA, in the present-day world can
come anywhere close to manifesting the characteristics of historical ancient
Babylon and the biblical identification of modern Babylon.

Scriptural Evidence
Revelation 17 and 18 are devoted to describing modern Babylon and her
destiny. Revelation 17 presents religious Babylon and Revelation 18 presents
secular Babylon. (See Appendix A for commentaries on Revelation 17 and 18.)
Many insist that modern mystery Babylon is the Vatican or Rome. And yes,
the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church were the original political and
religious prototypes of modern Babylon. The harlot who rides the beast
(religious, "mystery" Babylon) of Revelation 17, with her robes of purple and
scarlet, does bear a remarkable resemblance to the Roman Catholic Church, whose
colors are purple and scarlet, and she sits on seven mountains (Rome is called
the City of Seven Hills). But a close examination of the text shows that the
conclusion that modern religious Babylon is limited to or consists of the RCC or
to Rome is fallaciousshe is much, much more than that. The Greek word that is
translated mountains or, in some translations, hills in Revelation 17:9 is oros,
which means mountains or large land masses (like continents or large areas of
imperialistic rule), rather than hills. The Greek word (basically a Latin word
borrowed from the Romans that commonly referred to Rome) that is translated
hills or mounds (as in Luke 23:30) is buonos, which is not used in Revelation

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17:9. And when we look at the context of Revelation 17:9, we see that it is talking
about world-dominating kingdoms or empires, which hardly describes the city of
Rome. The Roman Catholic Church does have worldwide influence, but it can
hardly be said to rule the kingdoms of the world. Also, the religion of ancient
Babylon was very eclectica mixture of all religions and cults. The Roman
Catholic Church has made overtures to other religions, but only to bring them
under the influence, and ultimately the control, of the RCC. The RCC is not about
to give up its autonomy and belief that it is the one, true Church, and that
ultimately all the worlds religions will be part of the Catholic Church.
Others believe that modern Babylon will be a revived ancient Babylon, located
where Iraq is today. Common sense, looking at the sad state of affairs in Iraq at
the present time, should immediately dispel that absurd notion. Besides, which
nation is in control, behind the scenes, of Iraq at the present time? Is the USA
really interested in helping Iraq rebuild Babylon and regain the world dominance
Babylon once had?4
Since Iraq, the site of ancient Babylon, does not fit the Scriptural description
of modern Babylon, some attempt to shift the location of modern Babylon to
Saudi Arabia, stating that Mecca, Islams main holy city, is the modern city of
Babylon, the nobility of Saudi Arabia live in lavish luxury, immorality in Saudi
Arabia is rife, the anti-messiah will arise out of Middle Eastern Islam, the oil
wealth of Saudi Arabia controls the nations of the world including the USA, and
so forth. Indeed, there are many characteristics Saudi Arabia has in common with
modern Babylon and may be a precursor to Babylon the Great. But the argument
that Saudi Arabia is, in fact, the final modern Babylon the Great is specious,
because many of the over 60 identifying characteristics in the Bible of modern
Babylon cannot possibly pertain to Saudi Arabia. But, far more than with any other
nation on Earth, those characteristics fit the USA perfectly. For example, Babylon
is called the "hammer [oppressor] of the world" (Jeremiah 50:23). That description
does not remotely fit Saudi Arabia, but, with its military, political and economic
dominance of the other nations of the world, America fulfills the prophecy
perfectly. Also, just as ancient Babylon was a very idolatrous nation, adopting the
gods of the nations over which it held sway, and modern Babylon is prophesied to
be very idolatrous (Jeremiah 50:2, 38), the U.S.A., with its "freedom of religion"
mantra, is the melting pot of the religions of the world, just as it is the melting pot
of the ethnic groups of the world. However, Saudi Arabia is fanatically
monotheistic, tolerating no other gods but Allah. And as to oil wealth, at the
present time, Russia is the world's number one oil exporter and Saudi Arabia is
second. But, with shale oil deposits that are being developed in North Dakota,
Texas and other locations, the USA is projected to be the world's number one oil
exporter by 2015.

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Others insist that modern Babylon, the kingdom of Satan (cf. Isaiah 14:4), will
be a revived Roman empireprobably a confederation of European nations
that will rule the religious and secular world as ancient Rome did. Well, that is
somewhat confused and limited thinking; ancient Babylon fell long before the
Roman Empire was in existence. Also, modern Babylon will be the worlddominating nation/empire at the End of the Age only until she is destroyed, then
replaced by the global kingdom of Antichristthe ultimate revived Roman
Empire which will probably have its headquarters in Turkeythe location of the
capital of the Roman Empire under Constantine, a type of the false messiah (see
the commentary on Revelation Chapters 17 and 18 for details).
So, let us see if we can discern who the latter days Babylon the Great is by
correctly interpreting Scripture. And as you will see, that is not difficult once we
realize and accept the possibility that the USA is indeed modern, prophetic
Babylon.
Recall the Chapter 5 description of the present status of American religion:
We claim to be a Christian nation, but are really a melting pot of the races of the
world, and are also the melting pot of all the worlds religions.
And that brings us back to the above analysis of American Christianity.
Under which god and under in what spirit was America really founded? The
Deistic founders of the USA believed that Americans are basically good people,
ordained by "God" to establish His kingdom on Earthby violence if necessary.
And that is why we rebelled against Britain and fought the Revolutionary War
not because of some little disagreement over taxation without representation.
And that is why our National Anthem glorifies violent revolution. The real reason
we fought the Revolutionary War was for freedom, is that not correct? But
freedom from what?freedom from anyone else telling us what to do or how to
spend our money. In other words, we wanted to set up our own little Christian
kingdom where we could do whatever we please without having to be subservient
to anyone else. And there is a lot of evidence that the ultimate goal of the real
movers and shakers behind the American Revolution was (and still is) to bring the
rest of the world into the American-led New World Order. (Remember President
George H.W. Bush talking about the New World Order in a famous speech to
Congress in 1991?)5
So, what is wrong with that? What is wrong with fighting for our freedom
from unjust treatment by those who rule over us? It is totally UNBIBLICAL and
UNCHRISTIAN, that is what. Where did Jesus tell us to rise up in rebellion to
violently fight against those who rule over us, even if they mistreat us? Did He not
tell us that if someone forces us to go with him one mile, to go two (Matthew
5:41)? Did not the apostle Peter tell us to do just the opposite of resisting or
rebelling against those in authority over us, even if they mistreat us (cf. 1 Peter
2:13-19)? Yet, America was founded on violent rebellion, was it not? And the
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basic assumption was that we are good, Christian people who do not deserve that
kind of treatment and who deserve to be free to take our place as "Gods" chosen
people in dominion over the earth. The next step in that kind of logic is to
"preemptively" invade a small, weak nation like Iraq, who had done nothing to us
(except for her president, Saddam Hussein, bad-mouthing America), virtually
destroying the whole nation and killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of its
citizensold men, women, and children, besides military personnel. And this was
all done, according to President Bush, in the name of Christianity, in the war of
good against evil. Again, what is wrong with that kind of atrocious thinking and
behavior? It is totally UNBIBLICAL and UNCHRISTIAN, that is what. Where
did Jesus tell us that we Christians are good people who deserve to rebel against
those in authority over us and to impose our will on the rest of the world, killing
them if they, or even just their leaders, threaten us (but show no signs of attacking
us)? No, He did not, because that, my friend, is the Lie of the devil. Did Jesus not
say just the opposite? Did He not say, No one is good but God alone (Luke
18:19). Where did He tell us, because we are Christians (or a Christian nation), to
attack and destroy and conquer and lord it over others, even if they threaten us?
Did He not say that is what the nonbelievers do (cf. Matthew 20:25)? (Again, as
was explained in Chapter 5, Jesus was not a pacifistagainst defending oneself
and others against attackersbut He was against retaliation, rebellion against
authority, and especially attacking others for personal gain.)
Did Jesus not tell us that if we wish to be true Christians, to be everyones
servant (cf. Mark 9:35)? I submit to you that the whole idea that Americans
(including Christians who are involved in Americas agenda) are basically good
(god-like) people who deserve to have dominion over the earth before the Lord
returns in person to establish His kingdom (a religious manifestation of the
doctrines of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny) is a nationalistic
version of the great Lie of the devil (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:11). And it is that kind
of satanically-deluded thinking that resulted in ancient Babylons downfall, that
resulted in Adolf Hitlers and Nazi Germanys downfall, and will result in the total
annihilation of modern Babylon in one hour (Revelation 18:10, 19).
The Lie of the devil has always been the same from the beginning, when he
told Adam and Eve, You shall be as gods (Genesis 3:5). Did Jesus not tell us just
the opposite: Apart from me, you can do nothing (John 15:5)? Apart from Jesus, we
fallible human beings are totally powerless against the spiritual forces that control
this world. If Jesus dwells in us, we have some, limited power over those forces,
but the book of Revelation tells us very clearly that the Kingdom of Godtotal
peace and orderwill not be established on Earth until the true Messiahthe
Lord Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of Lordsreturns in person to do that (cf.
Revelation 19:11-20:4). So, if anyone tells you that the USA"God's" Redeemer
Nationor the Manifested Sons of "God" or anyone else is going take dominion
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and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth before the return, in person, of
the Messiah, do not be a fool and believe it! That is the Lie of the devil! Or, if
anyone tells you, Thats the Messiah, follow him, do not believe it! That is the
anti-Christ (false messiah), and that is the Lie of the devil. When the true Messiah
returns, no one will have to point Him out; it will be obvious (cf. Matthew 24:27).
And then, it will be too late to become His disciple.
So, here is a quick, self-test question to help you see if you are a false
Christian or a True Christiana spiritual citizen of Babylon the Great or of the
Kingdom of Heaven: Do you think that you are basically a good person? If you
believe in your heart that you or anyone else is, by nature, basically good, then you
have believed the Lie and are not a True Christian.
So, American religion is much more like Babylonian religion than it is True
Christianity. It was founded and still operates more on a spirit of pride and selfsufficiency than true dependence on and faith in God. And, rather than being just
one religion, i.e., True Christianity, modern American-Babylonian religion is an
amalgamation of religions serving, often unwittingly, the false god, Satan. That is
why Lucifer is called the (true, spiritual) King of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4). Like
Babylon was, the USA is the most religious nation on Earththe headquarters, as
it were, of Satans false, global, religious system. No other nation has as much
worldwide religious influencesending out missionaries, "apostles," and
"prophets" all over the world. No other nation is as hospitable to or tolerant of all
forms of religion. Like in Babylon, American religion is extremely nationalistic
to be Christian is to be patriotic. Christians in America, contrary to the teachings
of Scripture (cf. 2 Peter 2:20) are very involved in politics. Consider the Religious
Rights symbiotic relationship with the Republican Party, for example. Like in
Babylon, American religion is very materialistic, sensual, and self-indulgentthe
churches are centers for social interaction, good food, fun and games, and
entertainment rather than self-sacrificial service to others and God. They have it
backwards: Most church members give a very small part of their income to the
ministry and keep the rest for themselves. But did Jesus not say, If anyone wants to
follow Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me (Luke 9:23)?
Then He said, Sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasures in
heaven: and come and follow Me (Matthew 19:21). To me that sounds like, Keep
only what is absolutely necessary for yourself and give the rest for ministry of the
Gospel and meeting the needs of othersjust the opposite of what is happening
in American Christianity. In 2011, the United Nations reported that over 17,000
children (not counting adults) were dying from starvation daily around the
worldover 6 million per year! Another report states that 99% of the people of
the east African nation of Somalia are Muslims, and those of all other religions,
especially Christianity, are being aggressively sought out and killed. Yet, what are
most Christians most concerned about here in Americawhat we are going to
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have for dinner, what TV shows we are going to watch, what we are going to do
for recreation on the weekend? How utterly disgusted God must be with
American (Laodicean) "Christianity" (Revelation 3:17-19).
Hopefully, you are beginning to see the truth about American religion. Let me
mention another item to drive the point home. What is the main symbol of
American Freedom? What do the passengers on all ships that sail into New York
Harbor see? What welcomes all the peoples of the world to America? What
makes Americans hearts swell with pride when they see it? That is correct; it is
the Statue of Liberty.
Do you know who designed and built the Statue of Liberty?the French,
specifically a French Freemason, sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who wanted
to honor a Masonic doctrine that dates back to the time of Nimrod, the builder of
Babylon! Bartholdi intentionally clothed Liberty as a classical Roman deity, the
goddess Libertas. She wears a palla, a cloak that is fastened on her left shoulder by
a clasp. Underneath is a stola, which falls in many folds to her feet. Around her
feet is a broken chain, symbolizing freedom from all restraintreligious, political,
moral, or otherwise. Libertas, also called the Queen of Heaven, is a Roman
version of Ishtar. By the way, there is a city just up the coast of Long Island from
New York City named Babylon. People on ships sailing into New York Harbor
from the northeast can see its sign: Welcome to Babylon. Ironic, is it not?
Babylon, New York, was founded and named by poor Jewish immigrants who,
because of their circumstances, identified with the Jews of ancient Babylon.
Speaking of Freemasonry, as was explained in Chapter 5, several of the
founders, fourteen presidents and many other high government officials
throughout the history of the United States of America have been Freemasons
many of them Masons of the highest order (33rd degree). Do you know what the
spiritual roots of Freemasonry are? They are basically derived from Babylonian
religion and involve the worship of Lucifer. One of the Masonic deities is Isis, the
Egyptian name of Ishtar.

More Scriptural Evidence

Still not convinced that America is Babylon the Great? Well, that is OK,
because we have just scratched the surface of Biblical evidences for the
identification of modern, prophetic Babylon. Please keep reading.
Revelation 18 tells us about modern, prophetic, secular Babylon. But the
Babylon of Revelation 18 is the same Babylon as the religious Babylon of
Revelation 17 because she has exactly the same name, Babylon the Great, in
both chapters (cf. Revelation 17:5 and 18:2) and she suffers the same fate,
destruction by fire, in both chapters (cf. Revelation 17:16 and 18:8).
Actually, there are over 250 verses of Scripture that identify modern, prophetic
Babylon the Great and the great city that is her head. When all of those
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Scriptures are studied, it is astonishingly clear who modern, prophetic Babylon is.
The following quiz is borrowed and slightly modified from the 2-volume, 613-page
work, America the BabylonAmericas Destiny Foretold in Biblical Prophecy, by R. A.
Coombes, who did many years of research and study on the identification and
destiny of modern, prophetic Babylon.6

The Babylon QuizName that City-State/Nation/Empire

The following is a fun quiz to test your knowledge concerning the identifying
characteristics of modern, prophetic Babylon. Each question refers to an
identification characteristic of mystery Babylon, with Scripture references given
for each. The answers may surprise you.
What City-State/Nation/Empire . . .
Q: Is the location where all the worlds leaders come to meet - the headquarters of
world government (Revelation 17:18; Jeremiah 51:44)?
A: New York City, USA, is the location for the only world-governing body, i.e.,
the United Nations, which is dominated (behind the scenes) by the USA.
Q: Is called the Queen of Kingdoms - controls the other kingdoms/nations of
the world (Revelation 17:2; Isaiah 47:5)?
A: The USA rules the nations of the world through her trade with them in sensual
and material goods and services. It is projected that by 2015, America will be the
number one oil exporter in the world, making the nations of the world "drunk
with the wine of her fornication."
Q: Is the leading center of world commerce - the engine of wealth of the
worlds economy (Revelation 18:11, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23; Isaiah 47:15)?
A: NYC, the home of the World Trade Center, the NY Stock Exchange, the
American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, the New York Commodities and
Mercantile Exchanges, the Federal Reserve Bank - the largest bank in the world
as well as the most powerful concentration of American banks. Also correct with
this answer is the United States of America, with its numerous great cities of
international commerce - Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago,
Dallas, New York, et al. If the economy of the U.S. collapses, virtually all the
economies of the world will collapse.
Q: Is the leading center of imports and exports (Revelation 18:11-13?
A: The ports of New York/Jersey make NYC the leading deep water port city in
the Western Hemisphere, especially as the marketplace center and gateway to
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America, where world prices are most often correlated to NYC/USA prices. The
NYC port, together with all the other deep water ports surrounding the nation,
make the USA by far the leading import/export nation of the world.
Q: Is a leading center of manufacturing (Revelation 18:22)?
A: NYC has been the leading center of corporate headquarters for manufacturing
in the world. Certainly, the USA is the worlds industrial giant.
Q: Is the center for world trade in gold, silver, copper, oil, precious gems,
cloth/clothing/fashions, lumber, containers, household items, furniture, iron,
marble, ivory, spices, cosmetics, health products, wine, grains/foods, livestock,
transportation, and services (Revelation 18:11-13)?
A: NYC is the worlds foremost city of commodities trading, with these
commodities exchanges trading daily: Coffee, Sugar, Tea & Cocoa Exchange; New
York Cotton Exchange (also trades orange juice); New York Mercantile Exchange:
crude oil, gasoline, natural gas, heating oil, platinum, palladium; New York
Mercantile Comex Division: gold, silver, copper. Chicago is also a world leader in
commodities trading with the following exchanges: Chicago Board of Trade:
wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, soybean oil, soybean meal, also U. S. Treasury notes,
and stock indexes; Chicago Mercantile Exchange: cattle, hogs, bacon, woodlumber, and all major world currencies. World prices for the following cash
commodities are also set or keyed from the USA. (Source: Wall Street Journal):
barley, bran, burlap, butter, broiler chickens, eggs, coconut oil, cottonseed oil,
palm oil, lard, tallow, wool, aluminum, lead, mercury, steel, tin, zinc, rubber. Also,
Chicago is where the worlds currencies are traded and is the location for trading
all U. S. Federal Treasury Securities on a futures basis, though initial offerings are
derived from the NYC Fed Reserve. Also, Chicago holds futures trading on the
Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Major Market Index, plus stock options
trading as well as commodity options trading. New York City is also a leader in the
marketing of: diamonds, precious gems, iron, ivory, marble, spices, cosmetics, legal
pharmaceutical drugs, professional services especially related to media and the arts.
NYC is also the main import city for fine foreign wines from around the world.
Q: Is the center for expertise in marketing, merchandising, public relations,
advertising & sales (Revelation 17:2; 18:3, 23; 19:2)?
A: New Yorks Madison Avenue is the nerve center and informal world
headquarters for the worlds best and most prestigious advertising, marketing &
merchandising companies. Madison Ave. is home to the worlds best salesmen
those from advertising and the public relations fields, where the whole world
learns and follows the latest techniques of how to move or sell goods and
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Q: Is noted for its culture and aesthetics (music, art, dance, theater, etc.)
(Revelation 18:22)?
A: New York is the key cultural city of the world: Carnegie Hall, Madison Square
Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, Broadway theaters, Greenwich
Village, Manhattans world class restaurants, TV networks, newspapers (NY
Times, etc.), magazine and book publishers, Rockefeller Center, world-famous
museums & art galleries, Times Square, Manhattan, and the whole City of New
York, immortalized in songs and movies. It is also the location of more book
publishers, plays, and movies than any other city in the world.
Q: Is noted for its intoxicating High Society, elegant, and sumptuous lifestyle
(Revelation 17:2; 18:3, 14; Isaiah 47:1, 8; Jeremiah 51:13)?
A: Park Avenue, penthouse lifestyles of the rich and famous, Trump Towers, the
noted lifestyle of New York is glamorous, glitzy, and sumptuous.
Q: Is noted for its bright, gaudy, colored lights and nightlife (Revelation 18:14)?
A: NYC is called the city that never sleeps as Sinatras song says about New
York, I wanna wake up in the city that never sleeps to find Im king of the
hill, top of the heap these little town blues keep melting away New York
offers the glitter of Manhattan, Broadways lights, and the lights of Times Square,
plus the entire nighttime skyline of NYC. Another U. S. city world-famous for its
lights and nightlife is Las Vegas, Nevada.
Q: Is noted for its drug consumption and importation (especially illegal)
(Revelation 18:23 - Note that the primary meaning of the Greek word pharmakeia,
translated sorceries in Revelation 18:23, is the use or administering of drugs.)?
A: NYC is the largest center of legal and illicit drug consumption in the world,
especially hard-core drugs, like heroin and cocaine. The USAs lengthy sea coast
borders and borders with Canada and Mexico make it especially vulnerable to illicit
drug traffic.
Q: Is noted for its architecture, buildings and skyline (Isaiah 13:22)?
A: New Yorks architecture - its super-tall or mega-story skyscrapers like the
World Trade Center (the worlds tallest building before it was destroyed), the
Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the UN building, reach into the sky,
similar to the Tower of Babel and the ziggurats of ancient Babylon.
Q: Is noted for being a city/nation of immigrants from all over the world - an
international city (Jeremiah 50:37; 51:44)?
A: NYC is a city of immigrants, and always has been. It has been the historic
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Liberty: Give me your huddled masses yearning to be free. NYC is host to

the UN. It has China Town, Little Italy, Little Moscow, Little Bombay,
Little Tokyo, Little Mexico, Little Havana, etc. Unlike any other city in the
world, every single ethnic group has its own little community in NYC. The USA in
general is known as the melting pot of the world.
Q: Is a cosmopolitan and urban nation (Jeremiah 50:32)?
A: America started as a rural, agricultural nation, but the life of the nation revolves
around the cities now.
Q: Is noted for being both hated and envied by the world (Revelation 17:16; 18:9,
11,15, 17, 19)?
A: The city that seems to inspire the most animosity, disgust, and even hatred is
New York City. The most denounced country in the world is the United States.
Yankee go Home has been a popular slogan in many countries around the world
for the last generation. Yet, at the same time, the U. S. is the most admired nation
for its accomplishments and affluent lifestyle.
Q: Is noted for its waste and wasteful extravagance - overconsumption (Revelation
18:3, 7, 9, 16)?
A: NYC is like no other in consumption - noted for its extravagance. The waste
by-product volume is so enormous as to be mind-boggling, practically bringing the
city to a stand-still at times. One of the first impressions a visitor gets is the
dirtiness of the streets and the city as a whole.
Q: Is noted for spiritual and moral dirtiness and impurity (by implication:
wantonness, reveling, involvement in the occult, etc.) (Revelation 17:1-6; 18:2, 4-9,
23; Isaiah 47:8, 9, 12)?
A: NYC is morally and spiritually impure in its sensual, hedonistic lifestyle,
pandering to sexual interests - prostitution, pornography, and so forth - drug use,
wild partying, and its occult connections. NYC is the largest occult
merchandising center in the world. Besides the immense number of fortune tellers,
psychics, and occult shops, there are mail order houses for occult items. There is
also an aspect of the occult exemplified by the Amityville Horror (Amityville is a
town in the NYC metropolitan area, next to Babylon, NY), where there are
reportedly doorways to Hell.
Q: Could be said to worship materialism or things (Revelation 18:6-7)?
A: NYC, like no other city on the earth, epitomizes the worship of materialism.
NYC newspapers abound with gossip and news about the wealthy, like the
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of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and Broadway, along with movie stars and other
famous celebrities and artists. Wall Street is where some of the temples of
materialism (called capitalism) abound. Manhattan is crammed with temples to
capitalism of every kind.
Q: Reflects the image of hyper-selfishness and pride (Revelation 18:7)?
A: NYC carries an image of hyper-selfishness and rudeness, not only the rich with
their extravagant lifestyles, but the common people convey it through everyday
rudeness, as exemplified by cab drivers and subway passengers. Also, scenes from
sporting events of sports fans pushing and shoving, and arguing, and insulting
each other, along with their fickleness toward even the hometown teams and stars.
Q: Promotes itself - is extremely proud and arrogantto the point of selfdeification (Revelation 18:7; Isaiah 47:8, 10; Jeremiah 50:31, 32)?
A: NYC - the Big Apple . . . again, through songs like Sinatras New York, New
York, but also through its media, through its publications, through Wall Street,
and its show biz. Its leaders worship their own accomplishments in the city, and
the city itself, especially the Statue of Liberty, giving a religious-like homage to the
statue, to capitalism, and to liberty that the city gave birth to.
Q: Promulgates and exports Idolatries - is insanely idolatrous (Revelation 18:3-7;
Isaiah 21:9; Jeremiah 50:38)?
A: The leaders of NYC and the U.S.A., through the media - the networks,
newspapers, and magazines - and through Madison Avenue and Wall Street,
promulgate the religion of capitalism-materialism (i.e., worship of material riches)
more blatantly than does any other city/nation on the earth. Worship of sports
heroes and celebrities is also pure idolatry. (Why do you think one of the most
popular TV shows is called American Idol?)
Q: Is treacherous and deceit-filled in its political and business dealings (Revelation
18:23; Isaiah 21:2)?
A: Wall Street and American business in general is cut-throat. The U.S.
government has a long history of deceiving its own people, including but certainly
not limited to the effects of scientific experiments involving nuclear radiation upon
innocent civilians, the reasons for invading Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, etc., scandals
like Watergate, sexual affairs in the White House, hiding information about UFOs,
detention (torture) facilities for political prisoners, tax loopholes for the wealthy
elite, dealing treacherously with other nations (like Israel) ... ad nauseum.
Q: Shares a similar distinction with ancient Babylon as being the host country for
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was taken into captivity, until 400 CE, Babylon had the worlds largest Jewish
population) (Revelation 18:4; also Jeremiah 50:8, 28; 51: 6, 45; Isaiah 48:20)?
A: NYC has the largest population of Jews in America, and the U. S. is home to
more Jewish people than anywhere in the world, except perhaps Israel, most of
whose ancestors came to America during the Russian pogroms against the Jews
between 1821 and 1905.
Q: Has been a persecutor of Jews and is treacherous in her dealings with the Jews
(Jeremiah 50:11)?
A: When Hitler offered to let the Jews leave Germany just before World War II,
the USA refused to accept them, in fact, sent a shipload back, where they probably
died in the Nazi death camps. There is strong evidence that the American
government is dealing treacherously with Israel today - claiming to be her ally, but
really using her as a pawn to keep us involved in the Mideast, while setting her up
to be destroyed by the surrounding, hostile Muslim nations.
Q: Is the daughter of another great superpower nation (Jeremiah 50:12)?
A: The USA was founded by citizens of England, the worlds greatest superpower
nation at the time - until the 1920s. America is the only superpower nation in
history that has been produced by another superpower nation.
Q: What city/state/nation is the lone and last (hindermost) superpower in the
world (Revelation 17:18; 18:7; Isaiah 47:5, 8, 10; Jeremiah 50:12)?
A: Since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1989, the USA has been the only, and
probably the last, superpower nation in the world.
Q: Is considered to be the worlds policeman - the hammer of the world
(Jeremiah 50:23)?
A: The USA has over 7,000 military installations and/or bases all over the world,
in 63 nations, especially in the worlds hotspots. For example, Iran is completely
surrounded by ten U. S. air bases, located in countries bordering Iran. Just stop
and consider all the incidents in which the U. S. has used military power to
intervene and stop conflict: Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Kuwait, Panama, Grenada,
Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq come to mind.
Q: Has no fear and little reason to fear invasion of its home soil by foreign armies
(Isaiah 18:1-2; 47:7-8)?
A: The USA has, including its Star Wars technology and massive air defense, its
stealth technology and black ops project, by far the most powerful, seemingly
impenetrable national defense in the world. Protected by two oceans and a gulf,
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America by any or all nations combined. The worlds combined naval strength
could not transport enough armed units to successfully invade America. With the
demise of the Soviet Union, the main concern at the present time is the possibility
of terrorist action (by which Scripture indicates America will be destroyed).
Q: Has carried over and incorporated many aspects of the old Babylonian religion,
particularly in regard to art symbols and figures (Jeremiah 50:2, 38)?
A: NYC is the worlds only city whose image is so closely linked to Babylonian
religion. The Statue of Liberty and NYC are inseparably linked, and such a union is
unprecedented in world history. Not even in Rome or Greece could a city boast of
such an identification with such a profound or dominant figure as that of
Liberty. No other city has had such an imposing statue of a woman with an ideal
or philosophy to uphold or to offer to the world. Meanwhile, Revelation 17:5
refers to the woman as The Mother of Harlots (practitioners of false religion).
The Statue of Liberty may very well be said to be the main American idol. Other
examples of Babylonian-type symbols used in America include the statue of
freedom on the Capitol Dome in Washington D. C., the symbols on the currency,
such as the pyramid with the eye at its top, the Apollo (the Greek name of an
ancient Babylonian god) space program, many of the Masonic symbols spread
throughout the land, including those at the Denver Airport.
Q: Is noted for the natural created beauty of its land (Isaiah 13:19)?
A: America the Beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for
purple mountains majesty, from sea to shining sea The Shenandoah Valley, The
Mississippi River, the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, Old Faithful,
Redwood Forests, the Great Lakes, etc.
Q: Is noted for being highly and overly optimistic, confident of its success, with a
can-do attitude, especially about its future (Isaiah 47:7-10)?
A: America has always been the nation of optimism - a John Wayne type of cando attitude.
Q: Is considered by the world to have had a unique and remarkable beginning,
different from all the other nations before it, has been awe-inspiring since its birth
with regards to its ingenuity, resourcefulness, and power, and is still awe-inspiring considered powerful and oppressive - to the world today (Isaiah 18:2)?
A: No nation other than America has had such a unique beginning, overcoming,
against all odds, her own parent nation (Great Britain), the most powerful nation
on the earth at the time; then quickly establishing herself as a mighty nation with a
unique, representative form of government.

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Q: Is noted as a land of rebels, not only in its birth, but now in its judgment for
rebellion against Yahuah (Jeremiah 50:24; 51:1)?
A: The U. S. started out as a land of rebels. There was the rebellion for
independence, and the rebellion of the South against the North, causing the Civil
War, the student rebellion against the Vietnam War, etc. Indeed, stubbornness and
rebellion are practically considered virtues in America.
Q: Is noted for its cultural insanity (Jeremiah 50:38)?
A: The U. S. and NYC, Hollywood, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and much more.
You pick the topic: abortion, movies, TV, music, pornography, child abuse,
cloning, drugs, murders, gangs, divorce, celebrity and hero worship . . . ad
infinitum - a culture gone crazy.
Q: Is noted for its being a land of many fresh waters, with a broad river in its
middle and divided by many rivers (i.e., abundant, clean, fresh water for drinking,
which is unique in that most nations have poor water supplies) (Jeremiah 51:13,
36)?
A: The USA is blessed with the far more fresh water sources than any other nation
on the earth - tremendous numbers of rivers, including the Mississippi, which
divides the country as did the Euphrates in Babylon, and other large rivers, which
divide the rest of the country; hundreds of fresh water lakes, including the Great
Lakes, plus abundant underground aquifers for most of the nation.
The above quiz is not exhaustivethere are other identification characteristics
of modern Babylon listed in Scripture (over 60 in all). But hopefully you can tell
that when the time arrives for modern, prophetic, mystery Babylon to play her
part on the world stage, God does not want anyone who studies and believes His
Word to have any doubt about who she is; Scripture is crystal clear about that.
Dont you agree? Babylon, claiming to be a good, Christian nation, is actually the
ultimate false (anti-) Christian nationthe most evil, beast nation in the history
of the world, whose true ruler is Satan himself. And can there be any doubt at all
in anyones mind who has even a tenuous grip on reality that modern Babylonia is
indeed the United States of America, with her great city, New York City? If you
cannot accept that clear, Biblical Truth by now, then you might as well stop
reading this book and go on about your business, because it is doing you no good.
The only question is not whether Bob is right or wrong; the question is whether or
not you believe the Bible. Right?
But, if you can now see that America is Babylon, and you want to know the
destiny (in the very near future) of America-Babylon, please keep reading.

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The Assyrian Connection

Besides direct comparisons with Ancient Babylon, the identification of the

USA as modern Babylon the Great can be proven another way.
It can be argued that pride (blind patriotism) has been the root cause of the fall
of every nation and empire throughout history ("Pride goes before destruction, and a
haughty spirit before a fall."Proverbs 16:18). Even Gods own nation of people
Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BCE because of her disobedience of the Lord's
command to repent of her idolatry, especially self-idolatry (pride). As Jonathan
Cahn has vividly explained in The Harbinger (reviewed in Chapter 1), after an initial
"warning" attack on Israel by the Assyrians, the Lord gave His People a series of
nine signs (harbingers) that, if not heeded, would result in total destruction of the
northern kingdom of Israel. And, ten years later, because those warning signs not
only were not heeded but were arrogantly defied, Israel was attacked, demolished
and replaced by those same cruel, merciless Assyrians (the original terrorists).
In The Harbinger, in a gripping, eye-opening way, Cahn explains how that same
prophecy (Isaiah 9:10) applies in exactly the same way to the USA! Exactly the
same nine signs of Israel's coming destruction apply to the soon-coming
destruction of America. In the same way that in Assyria's first attack on Israel the
wall around Samaria, the capital, was breached, the USA's seemingly impenetrable
"wall" of air defense was breached by terrorists from the same part of the world
(the Near East) and the World Trade Center towers were destroyed on 9-11-2001.
And in the same way the leaders of Israel, rather than repenting and turning to the
Lord for help, responded to the attack by defiantly proclaiming, "We will rebuild,
and we will rebuild stronger!" America's leaders replied to the 9-11 attack by
arrogantly proclaiming, with exactly the same words, "We will rebuild, and we will
rebuild stronger!" And, if the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy is followed to its conclusion, in
the same way that the government, the economy and the military of the northern
kingdom of Israel were totally destroyed and replaced by the harsh control of the
Assyrians, the USA will be taken over and replaced by a confederation of terrorists
and nations from the same part of the worldthe location of the ancient Assyrian
Empire.
Cahn also points out that the USA's first capital was its "great city," New York
City. And immediately after his inauguration as the first President of the United
States of America, George Washington went with some leaders of Congress to
pray to their Deistic god (not in the name of Jesus) for the newly-formed nation at
St. Paul's Chapel in New York City. St. Paul's Chapel, the oldest active church
facility in New York City, is, ironically, across the street from the fallen and
currently being rebuilt World Trade Center towersAmerica's greatest monument
to her ungodly spirit of pride and arrogance.
Then, James Fitzgerald, in his book The 9/11 Prophecy, takes Jonathan Cahns
application of the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy to the destiny of the U.S.A. a step further
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in identifying the U.S.A. as a type of the Babylon the Great of Revelation and in
stating that America will definitely be taken over by the same descendants of the
Assyrians who destroyed the World Trade Center.
So, are you connecting the dots? You do see that the Assyrian terrorists who
attacked, destroyed and replaced Israel were predecessors of exactly the same
terrorists who attacked the USA on 9/11/2001, do you not? But now, to correctly
comprehend the whole picture, make this connection: Exactly the same terrorists
from exactly the same part of the world (modern Turkey and Iran) are prophesied
to attack, utterly destroy, and replace modern Babylon, as will be documented in
detail in the next chapter and is augured by the Tenth Harbinger.

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The Tenth Harbinger

Now the whole land had one [government] and one [commander]. And they said, Come, let
us build a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we
be scattered abroad over the face of the whole [land]. But the Lord came down to see the city and
the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, Indeed, the people are one and
they all have one [government], and this is what they begin to do; and nothing that they propose to
do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there [confound] their [government],
that they may not understand [their commander]. So the LORD scattered them abroad from
there over the face of all the [land], and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called
[Babylon], because there the LORD [confounded] the [government] of all the [land]; and from
there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the [land]. (Genesis 11:1, 4-9
Extrapolated Version)

n January 31, 2002, four months after the 9/11 attack on the World
Trade Center, a remarkable discovery was made. The official 9/11
photographer for the New York Fire Department, Gary Marlon Suson
the only photographer allowed unlimited access to Ground Zero by the FDNY
spotted some wet, charred pages in the rubble of the collapsed North Tower. Not
really paying close attention to the contents of the pages, Suson nevertheless
photographed them. But when he received the developed photos from the lab, he
was astonished by one of them. It was the photo of a page from a Bible that
contained the verses from Genesis 11 quoted above concerning the destruction of
the Tower of Babel (Babylon) and the scattering of the residents of Babylon.1
And verse 7, Come, let Us go down and there disrupt their [government], that they may not
understand [their commander], was highlighted in yellow. Suson states that the
Genesis 11 photo is the most memorable for me of the thousands of photos he
took at Ground Zero.
As was explained in the last chapter, the translators of Genesis 11 from
Hebrew into other languages did not clearly understand what those verses stated.
They thought that the Lord destroyed the empire by confusing its single language,
so they translated the terms of the passage accordingly. But, as Dr. Jeffrey
Goodman has thoroughly clarified and documented in his book The Comets of God
2
, the original Hebrew term that should be translated one government was
mistakenly translated one language; the term that should have been translated one
word (cause or command) was mistakenly translated one speech; and the term
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Akkadian word (babilum) that means gate of god, not confusion (cf. Genesis
11:1). And, as was also explained in the last chapter, babylons were what the
pagan ziggurats (towers) or temples where they met with and worshiped their
deities were called. And the citythe religious centerthat was built at the
location of the tower of Genesis 11 (probably a ziggurat for the worship of
Ishtar), and ziggurats/temples built for the worship of other Summerian/Akkadian
gods, came to be called Babylonthe city of the gate of god.3
So, it was the government of the worlds first empire (the Akkadian Empire),
ruled over by one commander (Sargon/Nimrod), practicing, in defiance of the
Lord, a false religion (primarily the worship of Ishtar) that God determined to
destroy, not merely the language of the people (actually, several languages were
spoken there). And He did that by sending a heavenly messenger of His
wratha cometthat impacted the earth (at the site of the recently discovered
Amarah crater) about 100 miles from the capital city Akkad and nearby Babylon.
The shock waves, the heat, and the fallout from that exploding comet no doubt
destroyed everything within over 100 miles from its point of impactincluding,
probably, the tower of Genesis 11and scattered the surviving citizens of the
empire far and wide.4

The Exact Identity and Destiny of the United States of

America Foretold
The Harbinger opened Americas eyes to the astonishingly precise accuracy of
the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy in predicting the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center,
the Pentagon, and the failed attempt to strike apparently some building in the
nations capitol city. And it suggested the possible future fall of the U.S.A. to
brethren of the same descendants of the Assyrians who carried out the 9/11
attack. Then, The 9/11 Prophecy correctly made the connection between the Isaiah
9:10 prophecy and the Revelation 18 prophecy to the extent that it identified
America as a type of Babylon the Great who will definitely be taken over by the
Antichrista Middle Eastern Muslimand his forces. However, neither
Jonathan Cahn nor James Fitzgerald have recognized the importance of the Tenth
Harbinger (the page from Genesis 11) in confirming the exact identity and triple
destruction of the U.S.A., as foretold in Bible prophecy. That oversight by Cahn
and Fitzgerald is probably neither intentional nor subconscious; they both seem to
be very honest and diligent watchmen and expositors of Scripture. Their failure to
recognize the significance of the Tenth Harbinger is probably because of two
factors: (1) like the vast majority of Americans, they do not fully understand the
true spiritual roots of the United States of America (which were anti-Christian
rather than truly Christian) and the present spiritual bankruptcy of Christianity
in America; and (2) like virtually all Bible translators and expositors, they do not

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understand how ancient Babylon was destroyed, perfectly foreshadowing the

destruction of modern Babylon the Great.
This book, The Tenth Harbinger, is an attempt to correct those two
misconceptions, for anyone who has eyes that see and ears that hear the truth
of Gods prophetic Word.

How will the destruction of America-Babylon occur?

Now that we understand what really happened to Nimrod's empire and the
Akkadian city of Babylon, as well as how the first Babylonian empire of
Hammurapi and the neo-Babylonian empire of Nebuchadnezzar fell, and if we
believe that the fall of those three empires were precursors to the fall of modern
Babylon the Great, the answer is obvious, is it not? According to Bible prophecy
the destruction of Babylon the Great will occur in three phases.
In the same way that the first Babylonian Empire, ruled by Hammurapi, was
conquered by the Assyrians and the neo-Babylonian Empire, ruled by
Nebuchadnezzar, was conquered very quickly without resistance by the MedoPersians, Scripture indicates that modern Babylon will first fall to her enemies
terrorists and a confederation of nations led by Turkey and Iran (descendants of
the ancient Assyrians, Medes and Persians) (cf. Jeremiah 50:29-30; 51:2-5; 27-31).
The attack will come from within and without the borders of the U.S.A. Since
Muslims have, for many years, been allowed relatively free entry into the U.S.,
especially during the administration of the current President (who is a supporter of
the largest anti-American, terrorist-supporting Islamic groupthe Muslim
Brotherhood), it is easy to see that hundreds of terrorist cells might be festering
within America's borders. And if hundredsor thousandsof bombs, including
suitcase-size nuclear devices, are simultaneously detonated in major population
centers of the U.S.A., including New York City and Washington D.C., and
organized, fanatical Muslims also attack police stations, National Guard facilities,
and military bases all over the nation, the resulting chaos and carnage will be
unimaginable. U.S. police departments are not prepared to cope with that kind of
chaos and organized attacks, National Guard units will not have time to muster
and respond, and virtually all of America's national defense is focused on
preventing attacks from outside the nation. So, Americans who resist the
terrorists will be sitting ducks for armed, trained and coordinated terrorists to mow
them down. Millions of Americans, especially college students, who have been
indoctrinated to favor the Islamists, will offer no resistance to the terrorists when
given the choice to join them or die. Also, since there will be no clear direction
from a paralyzed and chaotic Washington in the case of such an attack (which may
even be facilitated by the President), America's foreign military installations will be
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well be overthrown by descendants of the same people who conquered both

ancient Babylonian Empires! If that happens, the USA will truly become in every
way (politically and religiously, as well as spiritually) modern Babylon the Great.
Also, this may be the event that begins the Final Seven Years (the tribulation
period), because the whole world, which is dependent on America's economy, will
also be thrown into chaos, giving rise to Antichrist going forth to conquer the
world.5
But also, as is noted in the description of the destruction of Nimrod's empire,
Scripture indicates that all life in Babylon-America will suddenly, in "one hour" of
"one day" be "utterly burned with fire" (Revelation 18:8,10). R. A. Coombes, noted in
Chapter 6 as the author of America the Babylon, believed the destruction of Babylon
in one hour by fire may come directly from God, in the same way He destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah. In fact, both the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah compare
the destruction of Babylon to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah
13:19; Jeremiah 49:18; 50:40). Coombes notes numerous Scriptures (Isaiah 13:3, 5;
Jeremiah 51:48, 53; et al.) that may refer to the attack against Babylon as being
carried out by "angels" from "heaven."6 However, the same Greek word (aggelos)
that is translated "angels" is also translated "messengers" in Scripture. And Jeffrey
Goodman, in his eye-opening book The Comets of God notes that the ancient
Akkadians considered comets, comet fragments, meteorites and asteroids that
impacted the earth "messengers" from "heaven" (far outer space). 7 And,
extrapolating from the damage caused by the comet fragment that exploded over
Siberia in 1908, a comet less than a mile in diameter exploding in the atmosphere
above an area the size of the U.S.A. will immediately annihilate by fire all living
plants, animals and humans in America.8 But, regardless of how it happens,
according to both the Old and New Testaments, Babylon-America will be
annihilated suddenly and quickly by fire. Incidentally, Psalm 78:47 in the
Amplified version of the Bible states, He destroyed their vines with hail and their
sycamore trees [recall the sixth harbinger] with great chunks of ice (comets are
great chunks of ice with a rocky crust).9
When will this happen? Again, there are differing opinions. As stated above,
this commentator believes that the political, economic and military fall of America
will be the event that precipitates global chaos at the beginning of the Final Seven
Years when the anti-Christ goes forth to conquer the world (see the explanation of
the probable identification of the anti-Christ in Appendix 1, Footnote 9 of the
commentary on Revelation 17). Then, the total annihilation of all life in BabylonAmerica by fire will occur at the midpoint of the seven years, just before the
"beast" (Antichrist) declares himself to be god and is given his global "kingdom"
(singular), the Revived Roman Empire (cf. the commentary on Revelation 17:1617).

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Then, finally, Babylon the Great, the headquarters of Satan's horde of evil
spirit-beings, will, at the end of the Final Seven Years, be totally physically
annihilated by a giant object from space (probably also a comet), never to rise
again (Revelation 18:21).

What choice are you making?

But, regardless of exactly when the three destructions of America-Babylon
occur, the events of world history and current global events, in the light of Bible
prophecy, seem to be pointing to the reality that they are very nearright at the
door. Are you ready? The most appropriate question for Americans (as well as
the rest of the world) is not, "How can I survive the coming holocaust?" or How
can America be saved? but, "Am I prepared leave this present life and enter the
World to Come?" Yes, that is reality. We are all going to die, very soon.
Therefore, realistically, we have only two choices: (1) deny ourselves, take up our
crosses daily, seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness with all our hearts,
help every person who will listen to us to do the same and follow Jesus to
Paradise, or (2) continue to lay up our treasures on Earth, seek worldly pleasures,
comfort and security and perish in Hell with those who do the same. What is
your choice?

Whats next?
When will all this occur, and how does the Muslim takeover of the U.S.A., the
annihilation of all life in America by fire, and the final, physical destruction of
Babylon the Greatthe headquarters of Satans global empire (Isaiah 14:4)fit
into the Lords plan for this world at the end of the age (Matthew 24:3)? In the
next chapter we will explore what the Bible states about that apocalyptic scenario.

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Chapter 8

The Final Seven Years

For then [at the end of the age] there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the
beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. (Matthew 24:3, 21)

The Tribulation
Since the beginning of Creation, when Adam and Eve were deceived into
forfeiting their dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:28) to Satan (the devil), he has
held sway over the people of this world, except for the ones chosen by the Lord to
be redeemed from the devils power (Psalm 107:2). But, the Bible prophesies that,
at the end of the age, there will be a seven-year period of time (cf. Daniel 9:27)1
what many call the tribulationwhen Satan will be given the power to, first,
conquer the whole world, including the parts of it presently controlled by the
people of God2, then, at the midpoint of the seven years, establish his global
kingdom, ruled by Satans incarnation the prince who is to come, the one who makes
desolate, the man of sin, the son of perdition, the lawless one, the beast, or
Antichrist (Daniel 9:26, 27; 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 8; 1 John 4:3; Revelation 13:45).
The first half of the seven years, during which time Satan will be gaining
complete control of the world, is called the beginning of sorrows by Jesus (Matthew
24:8)3. Then, at the midpoint of the seven years, Antichrist will set up what both
Daniel and Jesus called the abomination of desolation in the Temple in Jerusalem
(Daniel 9:27; Matthew 24:15). This abomination was foreshadowed when, in ca.
167 B.C., the evil Seleucid ruler Antiochus Epiphanes defiled the Temple by
sacrificing a pig and setting up a statue of the Greek god Zeus in it. 4 The ultimate
abomination will occur when Antichrist sits as God in the temple of God, showing
himself that he is God (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
Then, all hell will break forth on Earth. This will be the time when the great
wrath of the devil is poured out on the earth. During the last half (42 months) of
the seven years, Antichrist will be given unlimited power over the people of the
world, except for a remnant of Israel who will receive special provision and
protection from the Lord during that time. It will be a time of unprecedented
persecution and martyrdom of true Christians and others who refuse to take the
mark of the beast. The last 42 months of the Final Seven Years will be the
period of time that both Jesus and the elder in Heaven speaking to John called the
great tribulation which, if not shortened, will be so terrible that even the global

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kingdom of Antichrist will be destroyed and no flesh will be saved (cf. Matthew
24:21-22; Revelation 7:14; 12:12).
But, that time will be cut shortby the coming of the King of Kings and Lord
of Lords and the armies of Heaven to destroy the forces of the world that oppose
the Lord, cast the beast and his false religious leader into the lake of fire, cast the
would-be ruler of this world (the devil) out and lock him away in the bottomless
pit, and restore the earth to its original, wonderful, Edenic beauty (John 12:31;
Revelation 19:11-20:4).5

Babylon the Great During the Final Seven Years

How does Babylon the Great, formerly known as the United States of America,
fit into the end-times scenario of the Final Seven Years? This watchman will not
be dogmatic, but, as a result of his years of prayerful study of current events in the
light of Bible prophecy, he believes that the Lord has led him to the following
understanding:
The U.S.A. is, at the present time, the latent Babylon the Great. But, once
America is taken over by Islamists, she will become (with her great city New
York Citythe perfect antitype of ancient Babylon) Babylon the Great de facto.
So, the takeover of the U.S.A. by Islamists may be the event that sets the stage for
Antichrist (who will initially be a Muslim; see Appendix 3Who is Antichrist?)
to go forth and conquer the world (Revelation 6:2). And Babylon the Great will
dominate the Islamic global empire (Revelation 17:15).
However, Scripture (Revelation 17:16-17) clearly prophesies that all human life
in Babylon the Great will be annihilated very quickly by fire (to end her
domination of the nations of the world), so that the ten kings of the world
(spiritual entities?) can give their kingdom (singular) to the beast, which the Lord
has instilled in their hearts to do, to fulfill prophecy. As R.A. Coombes, in his
monumental work America the Babylon, has explained, all the translations of
Revelation 17:16 from the original Greek are mistaken and misleading.6 The
subject of the statement is fire, not kings. Yes, the kings hate Babylon, but it is
the fire that destroys her, not the kings. In other words, Babylon the Great will be
destroyed by the Lord with fire (an exploding comet?)an appropriate judgment
on the command center of Satanjust as the destruction of Nimrods empire
by fire (an exploding comet) was an appropriate judgment. And, as the nations of
the world look with horror at the destruction of Babylonthe sustainer of their
economies (Revelation 18:3, 9-19)the world stage is set for the entrance of
Antichrist, offering himself as the solution to the chaos. So, the annihilation of
Babylon the Great, formerly the United States of America, must occur just prior to
the midpoint of the Final Seven Years, at which time Antichrist declares himself to
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problems. And, at that time, he will establish his global kingdom and global
religion, which will synthesize all the religions of the world.7
But, even after the destruction of all natural life in Babylon by fire, she will still
be the spiritual command center of Satanthe habitation of his hordes of evil
spirit beings (cf. Jeremiah 50:39; 51:37; Revelation 18:2). So, her final, total,
physical destruction will be the event that prompts the celebration in Heaven just
before the Marriage Supper of the Lamb and His return to Earth as King of Kings
and Lord of Lords (Revelation 18:21; 19:1-16).
For more details and Scriptural support for the above explanation of the
role and destiny of Babylon the Great during the Final Seven Years, read
the commentary on Revelation 17 and 18 in Appendix 1 or visit the
commentary website at www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com.

A Narrative of the Final Seven Years

This watchman has come to realize that many have trouble digesting detailed
study, but prefer parables and narratives. And that is fine, because that is the way
Jesus taught. So he prays that the following story will heighten your interest so
that you will really want to get into the Word to see for yourself if these things are
true. This narrative is based on a common-sense, face-value, literal interpretation
of Scripture, which I believe is the way our Heavenly Father wants His Word to be
understood. I, Watchman Bob, do not claim to be a prophet or that all the events
are in exactly the correct sequence or that their timing is precisely accurate.
Although I have been studying current events in the light of Bible prophecy many
years, I am simply a teacher who presents my understanding of what Scripture says
is happening at the present time and will happen in the near future the best I can.
And the identification of future characters, dates and circumstances in the
following scenario should be evaluated by Scripture references given to determine
if they are reasonably possible. If any of those future characters, dates and events
turn out to be inaccurate, they will be changed in revisions to this narrative as the
Lord gives further insight. On the other hand, the following narrative is not just a
figment of my imagination. It is based on over 20 years of study of current events
in the light of Bible prophecy. And I do believe that the interpretations on which
it is based are as solidly based on Scripture as any out there. The current events
portrayed (as of 2013) are actual. And please note especially that every future
character, place and event that is included in the following narrative does occur in
Scripture and could happen very much as portrayed. Again, the reader is
encouraged to verify the feasibility of the following narrative by studying the
Scriptures referenced and especially the commentary on the Scriptures in the book
of the Revelation referenced. Also, three recently published, eye-opening books
referred to frequently throughout this bookThe Comets of God by scientist Jeffrey

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Goodman, the New York Times Bestseller The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn, and
The 9/11 Prophecy by James Fitzgeraldhave provided additional, powerful
support for The Final Seven Years. For more details and documentation, the
reader is encouraged to read those three books.

The Final Seven Years

A Quasi-Fictional End-of-the-Age Scenario

The Kingdom of Heaven

Jesus is, at the present time, establishing the Kingdom of God in Heaven (I go
to prepare a place for you John 14:2), in the hearts of His regenerated People,
His Disciples (Luke 17:21), and in its various spiritual manifestations on Earth
(Matthew 12:28). But His People (His Bride) will not physically dwell there until
He comes to change them into glorified, heavenly beings, gather them to Himself,
and take them there (that where I am, there you may be alsoJohn 14:3). Then, later,
after the wedding ceremony and feast in Heaven (Revelation 19:7-9), He will
return with His heavenly armies (glorified Saints and angelsRevelation 17:14;
19:8, 14; Matthew 16:27; 2 Thessalonians 1:7) to defeat his enemies on Earth and
set up His millennial kingdom here (Revelation 19:11-20:4; Luke 13:29).
Meanwhile, while the Bride (the Church) is in her new home in Heaven
(specifically, New Jerusalem), what is happening on Earth? Well, all Heaven is
breaking forth, that is what. The final execution of the Wrath of the Lord is being
poured out on Earth, big time (Revelation 16:16-21). But, to get the whole
picture, let us back up a few years.

The SetupThe First Three and One-Half Years

For years, the United States of Americathe worlds only remaining
superpower nation after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989had been gaining
more and more global hegemony through subverting one government after
another and converting them into client states with puppet leaders. In 2009 her
only serious rival for dominance of the worlds economy was the European
Union. But then, in 2010, several of the EUs member nationsPortugal, Italy,
Ireland, Greece, and Spainhaving greatly overextended their credit and having
accrued tremendous deficits that they could not service, got into serious financial
trouble. Greece was on the verge of collapse; riots were breaking out. So, other
EU member states bit the bullet and bailed her out, further weakening the stability
of the whole Union. But then, by October 2011, Greeces bailout had failed,
causing massive protests and rioting, threatening bankruptcy of the nation and a
calamitous domino effect in other European nations. And the United States,
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having accrued more that sixteen trillion dollars in debt, which was owed at home
and abroad and was growing rapidly because of having to fund natural disaster
recovery efforts in the homeland and constant involvement in foreign wars, was in
no position to help the ailing nations although they were dependent on her as by
far the largest consumer of their commodities and services. If the economy of the
USA collapsed, the economies of the whole world would collapse. In fact, in spite
of assurances of the government through the mainline media to the contrary, the
stability of the US economy was quite precarious. One major national catastrophe
could cause it to collapse. Then, in 2014, reality overtook America's worst fears.
First, because of the economic stress caused by full implementation of the national
health care plan ("Obamacare") and increased taxation resulting from the
unsustainable national debt ceiling, nations around the world, beginning with
China, France and Russia, began to abandon the U.S. dollar as their medium of
exchange and it was devalued and replaced as the global reserve currency. This
caused widespread panic, riots and looting in the U.S. Martial law was declared
and a police state was established, making the President a virtual dictator.
Then, the following year, 2015, exactly as prophesied (Isaiah 9:10; Jeremiah
51:8, 27-28), there was a massive terrorist attack on America from within and
outside her borders. For many years, Muslims had been freely allowed into the
USA, and thousands of them had been clandestinely developing hundreds of Jihad
terrorist cells around the country. A confederation of Muslim nations led by Iran
and Turkey had been funding, training and coordinating the terrorist cells and was
also planning to attack US military installations and ships abroad. The attack was
meticulously planned and coordinated because the aggressors knew that if the US
military, with its awesome fighting capabilities, was allowed to respond in a
cohesive way they would not succeed. And the attack went exactly as planned!
Simultaneously, all over the nation, thousands of bombs, including suitcase nuclear
devices, were detonatedmainly in large population centers including Washington
D.C. and New York City. And, because there was no plan to counter such a
devastating and widespread attack from within the nation (the US Defense
establishment was almost totally set up to respond to attacks from outside the
borders of the US), the whole nation was thrown into total chaos. National Guard
units could not be called up and activated instantly and police departments were
not logistically prepared to counter the multi-faceted, massive attack. There were
some joint police-military anti-terrorist units and plans in place, but strangely, no
orders came from the President to activate them. So, Americans, in their panic,
were sitting ducks for the armed, trained and coordinated terrorists, and all who
resisted were mowed down in the streets and in their homes. The terrorists also
took over all National Guard and police units around the country and bombed and
forced the surrender of military installions, which were totally unprepared for such
an attack, especially with no directions coming from Washington. Meanwhile,
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simultaneously, air, ground and missile attacks were being carried out on U.S.
military installations, troops and ships all over the worldespecially in the Near
East. And also, having no directions from Washington, which was totally
occupied with the attack at home, those installations, troops and ships could
mount no coordinated response, were either destroyed or immobilized, and were
taken over by the Muslim forces. In fact, the attacks at home and abroad were so
effective that, within just a few hours, the government of the United States of
America was in the hands of radical Islamists.
Then, the confederation of anti-Israel, anti-America nations from the Near
East and North Africa (Jeremiah 51:27-28; Psalm 83:2-8; Ezekiel 38:2-6) that had
caused the downfall of America, with the USA out of the way, immediately turned
their attention to Israelto invade and annihilate that tiny nation. Mobilizing
rapidly, they set up support facilities all around Israel and came like a vast,
menacing pack of wolves through the mountains of northern Israel. Surrounded
by the anti-aircraft and anti-missile weaponry of her enemies and without the
support of the USA, there was virtually nothing the Israelis could do to retaliate.
But then, an amazing thing happened: All kinds of natural calamities began to
occur in and around Israel, focused, incredibly, on the invading armies of her
enemies: Comet fragments rained from the sky on them. The impact of a large
fragment caused a tremendous earthquake, like the world had never seen, and
collapsed the cliffs of the mountains on those armies; torrential rains flooded their
camps; ten-pound comet fragments destroyed their equipment and killed large
numbers of personnel; and even volcanic eruptions caused by comet fragments
penetrating the earths crust burned camps and covered them with lava. Then, in
total panic and confusion, what was left of Israels enemy forces attacked and
destroyed one another (Ezekiel 38:20-22)!
Of course, in the aftermath of the attacks on the US and Israel, the economies
of all nations had immediately collapsed and the whole world was in chaos.
But there was a man, Kurtarici Mesih, the new head of the Turkish branch of
PNB Paribas, the largest global banking organization in the world, who had been
rapidly garnering a reputation as being an incredibly persuasive, charismatic leader,
and many said that he was a financial genius. In his first few months as head of
PNB Paribas Turkey, Mesih had been able to develop powerful financial ties with
some of the wealthiest investors from all points east and west of Turkeyfrom
China to Paris (the location of the main bank and headquarters of PNB Paribas).
The leaders of the EuroMed Partnership (a consortium of 44 European, North
African, Middle Eastern, and Balkan nations formed in 1995 to promote mutual
economic support and development) had started to tout Mesih as the potential
leader of the EMP because Turkey was a key, centrally-located member with
strong political and economic ties to both Europe and the Mediterranean Basin
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EuroMed area. Also, Turkey (together with Iran) had led the Islamist nations in
their attacks on the US and Israel, and Mesih emerged as the primary leader of
those who were already executing plans to re-establish the (former) USA (but now
under Islamist control) as the anchor and stabilizer of the global economy. So
when, in an emergency meeting in Barcelona, the leaders of the EMP frantically
stormed their brains for a solution to their dilemma (economic chaos), one name
dominated their thoughtsKurtarici Mesih. They called him and asked him to
meet with them. Much to their relief, he agreed. And the next day, in Barcelona,
Kurtarici Mesih, by consensus acclamation, was named President of the EuroMed
Partnership.
Then, the EMP, with Mesih as its President, working closely with other Muslim
leaders who had been involved in the attack on the USA, took over all the USAs
domestic and foreign political, industrial, commercial and economic institutions
and her military installations, quickly (re-) establishing that nation as the
superpower of the world. Also, in recognition of her new, Near Eastern rulers
and of the many characteristics she uncannily had in common with ancient
Babylon, the former United States of America was re-named New Babylon. And
with New Babylon now established as the main sustainer of the economies of
virtually all of the worlds nations, and either by persuasion, political intrigue,
violent force or economic coercionto even greater an extent than the USA had
accomplished before her fallall the nations of the world were made client
states of New Babylon.
Meanwhile, although most of her own people had survived the destruction of
the armies of her enemies, the land of Israel was devastated. She was left without
the wherewithal to sustain or to protect herself if her enemies should regroup and
attack her again or if another enemy (e.g., Russia or China) should attack her. So,
Israels leaders were very happy when the EuroMed Partnership (of which Israel
was also a member), although many of their forces had been destroyed in "the War
of Gog and Magog" (cf. Ezekiel 38), offered to come to her aid. Representing the
EMP as its leader, Kurtarici Mesih signed a military peace treaty with Israel,
agreeing to protect her from further invasion or attack (cf. Isaiah 28:18; Daniel
9:27a). Mesih and the EMP also agreed to restore total sovereignty over her land
to Israel, to help her clean up the mess left by the destruction of her enemies, and
to allow her to re-establish all the religious practices of ancient Israel. And after
Mesihs peace treaty with the leaders of Israel was signed, making Israel an
(apparent) safe harbor for Jews, millions of other Jews from around the world (the
vast majority of the worlds Jews), with the assistance of the EMP, immediately
migrated to the land of Israel. So, although the fall of the USA and the economies
of all the other nations caused global desperation, chaos and violence, there was
peace in Israel, allowing the Jews to start rebuilding their nation and their
Temple.
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and death continued all over the world, resulting in about a quarter of the worlds
population dying during the next few years (Revelation 6:3-8).
But, with his charismatic personality, dynamic persuasive powers, and amazing
organizational skills, Mesih was being more and more recognized as the de facto
leader of the world and the solver of the worlds problems. Conformity in
government, commerce, and religion were mandated. All the worlds religions
were brought under the banner of Islam. Dissidents were persecuted, even
martyred. (Strangely, the Israelis, who were allowed to practice their own religion,
were the exception.) And some semblance of world order was maintained.
But then, approximately three years after the peace treaty with Israel had been
signed, the greatest catastrophe in history, since the Great Flood, occurred. A
large comet exploded in the atmosphere above North America totally annihilating
all life in New Babylon and in much of the neighboring nations Canada and
Mexico, in exactly the same way ancient Sodom and Gomorrah had been
destroyed (cf. Isaiah 13:19, 20; Jeremiah 49:18; 50:40; Revelation 17:16; 18:8). And
again, the whole world was thrown into chaos as the nations looked on in horror
as the smoke of New Babylon and its great city, New York City, that had
sustained their economies, rose into the sky (Revelation 18:9-19).
But Kurturaci Mesih rose to the occasion. He immediately mobilized the
EMPs worldwide military forces and economic institutions and, over the next six
months, again restored order to a devastated world. And he expanded and
established his headquarters in Istanbul as the headquarters of the New World
Order. Having so quickly restored order to the world after the annihilation of all
life in New Babylon, and now as leader of, by far, the most powerful global empire
in world history, Mesih garnered the wonder of the whole world. Many were even
suggesting that he was the true Messiahthe god-man anticipated by all the
worlds religions.

The Takeover and the Great Tribulation

And Mesih seized the moment. He stood in the Most Holy Place of the
Temple and, filled with the spirit of His spiritual father, Satan, declared himself to
be the messiahgod incarnate (Daniel 7:25; 8:23-25; 11:36-37; 2 Thessalonians
2:4; Revelation 13:6-8). And virtually all the people of the world pledged their
allegiance to him and worshiped him (Revelation 13:3-4). Then Mesih immediately
brought in his top aides, military commanders and 100,000 elite military forces
from Turkey and, with the full cooperation of the Israelis, who also accepted him
as the long-anticipated messiah who would establish his throne in Jerusalem from
where he would rule all the nations of the world (cf. Isaiah 9:6, 7), he took over the
Knesset building and other Israeli government facilities as well as all of Israels
military installations, making Jerusalem his new global headquarters. And all the
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leaders of the world, as though they were mesmerized, rallied around him and
quickly formed a ten-region global government and economic system under
martial law (Revelation 17:12, 17).
The man who had been the head of religion of the EMP now took center stage
as Mesihs Chief of Religion and World Order. He was also empowered by Satan,
working all kinds of supernatural signs and wonders to deceive the world into
worshiping Mesih. He even somehow developed a lifelike image of Mesih that
could be made to appear all over the earth. And he set up a system in which every
person, in order to participate in the global economy, had to take an oath of
allegiance to worship the Messiah Mesih as Lord of the World and receive an
identification chip under the skin of their hand or forehead. Immediate execution
was the consequence of failure to take Mesihs mark or to worship his image.
(Revelation 13:15-16)
But prior to the fall of the USA to the Muslims, 144,000 Jewish men, including
12,000 orthodox Jews (Revelation 7:4), and their families had left the USA and
migrated to Israel, being convinced that somehow the Lords command, Come
out of her, my people (Jeremiah 51:45), applied to them. And when they saw
Mesih standing in the Temple proclaiming himself to be god, the 144,000
remembered the words of Daniel and what he had spoken about the diabolical
prince who is to come, the abominations and desolation the evil prince would
cause (Daniel 9:26, 27), plus the prophecies about the coming time of Jacobs
trouble (Jeremiah 30:7; Daniel 12:1), and they refused to take the mark or to
worship Mesih. And the 144,000 and the Messianic Believers in Jerusalem and
throughout Israel who remembered the words of Jesus (Matthew 24:15-21)
immediately fled to hiding places in the mountains of Israel and the wilderness
area east of the Dead Sea, where they were led by the Lord to places of safe refuge
and sustenance (cf. Isaiah 16:3-4; Revelation 12:6). Also, about one-third of the
Jews in Jerusalem and Israel who did not flee refused to take Messihs mark and to
worship him. But, rather than have them executed, Mesih stripped all Jews who
refused to take his mark of ownership of their property, gave them bare,
subsistence provisions, and subjected them to the harshest of slave labor
conditions. Many of them died daily under those conditions.
Then, as if to add more aggravation to the escape of the Jews and Messianic
Believers, an angel was seen streaking through the sky proclaiming,
Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who
made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water. (Revelation 14:7)

And another angel followed, saying,

Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication. (Revelation 14:8)

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Then, a third angel followed, saying with a loud voice,

If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he
himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the
cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy
angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever;
and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the
mark of his name. (Revelation 14:9-11)

Finally, something else was happening that was a continual annoyance and
distraction to Mesih. There were two men with appearances like ancient prophets,
dressed in sackcloth (the Jews said they were Moses and Elijah), who appeared and
were warning everyone in Jerusalem and the surrounding area not to accept Mesih
as Lord of the World and were proclaiming that they needed to repent and
accept Jesus, whom they crucified, as their true Messiah. Mesih sent some of his
commandos to kill them, but the two witnesses (Revelation 11:3) seemed to
have supernatural powers that created all kinds of disasters and havoc, and they
were not able to succeed.
Mesih, being enraged by all these events, made a terrible and treacherous
proclamation that no Jew would be allowed to take the mark and participate in the
global economy. Just as in Hitlers Third Reich, all Jews in Israel were required to
wear special identification badges. Those who resisted were to be executed. The
Israeli Jews were then given a bare subsistence allotment of food, clothing and
shelter and were subjected to excruciatingly hard labor in maintenance, support
and production work in the land and government facilities of Israel. The elderly
Jews and others in failing health or who were disabled, unable to serve some useful
purpose in Israel, were executed. Mesih also ordered his followers worldwide to
report any they spotted who had not taken the mark and bowed to his image,
especially Jews and Followers of Jesus, and that they be killed on the spot
(Revelation 12:17; 13:15-17).
This was a time of great tribulation (Matthew 24:21; Revelation 7:14) and
carnage for Jews who had not migrated to Israel and Believers in the true Messiah
Jesus. During the next 42 months, almost all of them, except the ones who had
escaped into the wilderness, were killed. And the millions of Jews in Jerusalem
and Israel who had been subjected to virtual slavery by Mesih were also under
great tribulation and hardship, thousands of them dying daily from the terrible
conditions to which they were subjected.
As he tightened his grip on the global control that his father Satan had given
him (Revelation 13:4, 7), Mesih was totally convinced that he was indeed Lord of
the World. Because of advanced surveillance technology, his eyes all over the
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despicable Jews and Disciples of Jesus, would not be able for long to escape their
inevitable end.

The Day of the Lord Begins

But then, about a year into the Great Tribulation, all Heaven broke forth
what the prophets had frequently referred to as the Day of the Lord (cf. Joel 2:1,
et al.). Exactly as foretold (Joel 2:10, 11; 3:4; Matthew 24:29; Revelation 6:12-13),
fragments of comets showered the earth with the force of thousands of nuclear
bombs, the sun and moon were darkened because of clouds of smoke and debri
produced by the commentary impacts; the stars disappeared; the sky looked like it
was being rolled up like a scroll as the atmosphere was largely evaporated by heat
from the explosions; and there was a violent, world-wide earthquake, moving every
mountain and island out of its place. It was like the whole cosmos was being
shaken. People everywhere were crying out in terror to be hidden from or even to
be killed to escape the Wrath of the One who was doing this, because it was
obvious that an awesome supernatural power was in control. Then, as suddenly as
it had begun, it ended. The sun, moon, and stars once again gave their light,
though dimly through the dense haze. The whole earth was in disarray and
traumatized; millions had lost their lives. But compared to the awesome events
that had just transpired, it was eerily quiet, like a spooky calm in the midst of a
great storm. The wind was not even blowing (Revelation 7:1).
Mesih was trying to gather his wits and his lieutenants to deal with the
situation. Then, the 144,000 who had fled into the wilderness a year earlier were
seen marching into Jerusalem from the direction of Petra! They all had a peculiar
seal on their foreheads. And they were being led by the true Messiah Jesus!
They marched right up to the top of Mount Zion, the highest peak in Jerusalem,
and they were standing there with Jesus, singing a serenely beautiful song that
apparently only they could understand (Revelation 14:1-3). Mesih was told about
the 144,000, but just as he was attempting to marshal his forces against them,
terrifying, surreal noises, like those who had been murdered crying out for
vengeance (Revelation 6:10), were heard; deafening claps of thunder and blinding
flashes of lightning came out of the darkened sky! Then, another great earthquake
shook the whole earth, causing many buildings to tumble (Revelation 8:5). Mesih
forgot about the 144,000 as reports of great damage poured in from all over the
world. He blamed the disasters on the two witnesses who were still walking the
streets of Jerusalem boldly proclaiming gloom and doom on those who took the
mark of the false messiah and destroying, with amazing personal powers and
control of the forces of nature, all those who opposed them.
For the next two and one-half years, the same cycle of events continued, but
with increasing intensity. Mesih continued to seek out and kill any he could find
who had not taken his mark or who failed to worship his image, and to attempt to
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kill Moses and Elijah. But, as time went on, he was more and more preoccupied
with disaster management. And the two witnesses continued to prophesy while
God sent a series of plagues of increasing intensity on the world in the following
order: giant, burning hailstones (comet fragments) exploded in the atmosphere
causing a third of the trees and all green grass to be burned and released toxic
substances which caused great, foul-smelling, pus-filled, oozing sores to appear on
the humans (although, amazingly, those who had not accepted the mark of the
beast were not affected) (cf. Revelation 8:7; 16:2); a great, burning mountain (a
large comet) thrown into the sea causing a third of the ships to be destroyed and
a third of the worlds salt water to turn blood red from the reactions of the
comets toxic chemical radicals with the sea water, which in turn caused a third of
all living creatures in the sea to die (cf. Revelation 8:8-9; 16:3); fragments from a
large, disintegrated, toxic comet contaminated a band of rivers and lakes around
the earths northern hemisphere, including the Great Lakes of North America and
Lake Baikal in Siberian Russiansources of over one-third of the earths fresh
watercausing close to a third of the worlds remaining human population to die
(cf. Revelation 8:10-11; 16:4); then, the light and heat from the sun, moon and
stars were affected by all the cometary explosions so that one-third less light
reached the earth and temperatures plummeted around the globe an average of 40
degrees Farenheit, but also much of the ozone layer protecting the earth from
ultraviolet radiation was destroyed, so at the same time people were chilled by the
cold, their skin was being scorched by the ultraviolet radiation (cf. Revelation 8:12;
16:8-9).
But, as terrible as the first four plagues of the Wrath of God were, the last three
(woes) were much more dreadful. First, another giant star (comet) fell from
heaven (outer spacethe Oort Cloud of billions of comets that surround the
earths solar system), causing a bottomless crater (one that penetrates the earths
crust) and releasing a huge plume of deadly bacteria-filled smoke that darkened the
sky. (When magnified, these bacteria exactly resembled bizarre-looking locusts
with horse-like heads and tails like those of scorpions.) This plague, with these
bacteria which caused horrible, unbearable sores and skin diseases, lasted an
agonizing five months. (cf. Revelation 9:1-10; 16:10-11). Next, four large comet
fragments impacted the Euphrates River, drying it up, while simultaneously
spraying millions of small comet fragments high into the atmosphere from where
they were scattered all over the earth, killing all people (about one-third of the
remaining worlds human population) with whom the intense heat of the burning
sulfur in the fragments came in contact (cf. Revelation 9:14-19; 16:6-12).
From the time the Day of the Wrath of the Lord began until the end of the
seven years, all of Earths inhabitants (except for about one-third of the Jews in
Israel [cf. Zechariah 13:8] and several million Gentiles who had helped the Jews
and who had not taken the mark of the beast during the Great Tribulation of
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the previous 42 months) suffered tremendously from the first six sets of plagues of
the Wrath of the Lord. And more than five and one-half billion or two-thirds of
Earths inhabitants had died violent, painful deaths. During these plagues of the
Wrath of God, the people who dwelt on Earth would cry out in terror for mercy,
but as soon as the destruction stopped, they would refuse to repent and would
blaspheme God (Revelation 9:20-21; 16:11).
At the end of the seven years and six sets of plagues of the Wrath of the Lord,
Mesihs global kingdom was greatly decimated and devastated and, for all practical
purposes, was at an end. However, God had another exercise in humiliation in
store for him.
Moses and Elijah had openly walked the streets of Jerusalem every day since
Mesih had stood in the Most Holy Place of the Temple and declared himself to be
god. They constantly spoke out against him, proclaiming that he was the false
messiah, telling people not to take his mark or to worship his image, but to
worship the true Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. And they performed all kinds of
signs and wonders, exactly as had Moses and Elijah of ancient Israel, and
destroyed all who attempted to attack them. But then, three and one-half years
after Mesih had stood in the Most Holy Place of the Temple and declared himself
to be Lord of the World, it seemed that the two witnesses had lost their
supernatural powers! Fire no longer came from their mouths to consume those
who got in their way. They were no longer calling forth the plagues that
tormented their enemies. A glimmer of hope that the tide of death and
destruction caused by his two nemeses was about to turn rose in Mesihs evil
heart. And he, at the head of all that was left of the armies of the kings of the
earth who ruled under him, came into Jerusalem and personally shot the two
witnesses dead. Then, as they lay in the streets of Jerusalem for all the world to
see and gloat over, and to demonstrate Mesihs power and sovereignty, the armies
of the kings of the earth ransacked Jerusalem, ravished the women, and took half
of the residents captive (Zechariah 14:2). But then, to the total amazement and
consternation of everyone and the dismay of Mesih, three and one-half days after
they had been killed, Moses and Elijah revived and ascended into Heaven!
Immediately, there was an earthquake in Jerusalem, the city was divided into three
parts, and 7,000 of the enemies of the Jews were killed. Mesih and his followers
were terrified, but the Jews in Jerusalem recognized the hand of the Lord and
glorified Him. (Revelation 11:3-13)
Then, suddenly, there was a brilliant flash of light, like lightning flashing from
horizon to horizon, and the glorified Messiah, Jesus, appeared in totally white,
luminous clouds, descending out of Heaven (Matthew 24:27, 30)! And there was
the overwhelmingly loud sound of a great shofar (Jewish trumpet), and gleaming
white angelic beings appeared and flew to every part of the sky all around the
earth; and other glorified beings from all over the earth, under the earth, and even
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from within the seas flew up to meet them, from where they were instantly taken
to meet the Messiah in the air (Matthew 24:31; 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17). Then,
the Messiah, the angels, and the raptured ones all vanished into Heaven.
And that seventh and final trumpet sounding also announced the third
woethe final set of plagues of the Wrath of God. And because the reign of
Antichrist on Earth had ended, a loud chorus of voices was heard shouting from
Heaven, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and
of His [Messiah], and He shall reign forever and ever! (Revelation 11:15)
Then, all Heaven broke forth in a series of catastrophes that, for the next ten
days, demolished the whole planet: A great, global earthquake caused every island
to disappear and every mountain (except the mountains in and near Jerusalem
Mount Zion, Mount Moriah and the Mount of Olives) to collapse. The
earthquake shook the earth so violently that it also caused all the buildings of all
the worlds cities to collapse (except Jerusalem which, although it was split into
three sections, remained standing). Then, a giant comet fell on the now lifeless,
barren former USA and New Babylon (which was now inhabited only by evil spirit
beingsRevelation 18:2), sinking that land and much of North America beneath
the waves of the sea. Finally, hundreds of millions of 100-pound, flaming
hailstones (comet fragments) rained down on the earth, killing virtually all of
the planets remaining inhabitants (except those supernaturally protected by the
Lord and the remaining armies of the kings of the earth in and around Jerusalem).
(cf. Revelation 11:15-10; 16:17-21; 18:20-21).

The Final Showdown

After that, a great multitude in Heaven was heard proclaiming with a loud
voice,
Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God. For true and
righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her
fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her. Again they said,
Allelujah! Her smoke rises up forever and ever! And the twenty-four elders and the four living
creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, Amen! Allelujah! Then a
voice came from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you His servants and those who fear Him,
both small and great! And it was heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of
many waters and as the sound of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia! for the Lord God
Omnipotent reigns! (Revelation 19:1-6)

Finally, the Messiah Jesusthe King of Kings and Lord of Lordswas seen
streaking through the heavens from the east, riding a great and powerful, gleaming
white horse and wearing a crimson garment, followed by a great host of angels and
glorified saints wearing pure white linen garments and also riding white horses.
The Lord Jesus then stood at the peak of the Mount of Olives, which split from
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the west to the east forming a valley that ran all the way to the north end of the
Dead Sea. All the Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem who remained in the city and
who had not taken the mark of the beast then fled through the valley to the east.
Mesih sent his army (what was left of it after all the plagues of the Wrath of the
Lord) after them like a flood, but, incredibly, the earth opened up, forming a huge
crevasse that swallowed his army. Then a white light like a great laser sword came
from the mouth of the Messiah, slaying all the armies of the kings of the earth who
had gathered against Jerusalem (cf. Revelation 16:13-14). The Messiah then took
Kurturaci Mesih and his Chief of Religion and cast them alive into the Dead Sea
which had filled with blazing bitumen from the great rift in the earth that had
swallowed Mesihs army. (cf. Zechariah 14:3-5; Revelation 19:11-21).

The Beginning
Of course, that is not the end of the story, which, for those who understand
and believe it and who believe in the One who authored it all, is thrilling indeed.
Revelation goes on to describe the binding of Satan for 1,000 years; the millennial
Kingdom of God; the new heavens, new earth, and New Jerusalem: who will be
there, who will not, and what will happen there; the final war of Gog and Magog;
the Final Judgment; and a peek at eternity in the glorious presence of the Lord
God. But, hopefully, this has given you a taste of what the Revelation is all about.
And, hopefully, this narrative has whetted your appetite to get into the
Scripture for yourself to get all the details and to find out what God's plan is for
"the End of the Age."
To help you do that, the Lord has given us a detailed, crystal-clear
commentary on the book of Revelation, the entire contents of which are
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Scriptural support for everything written in this book, The Tenth Harbinger, and
much more concerning the events prophesied in the Revelation.
But meanwhile, if you are interested in knowing the role and the destiny of
Christians during the soon-coming Final Seven Years, keep reading.

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Chapter 9

Will Christians Escape, Survive, or Take Dominion

of the Earth During the Final Seven Years?
"Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up
against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name's
sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in this
city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel
before the Son of Man comes. (Matthew 10:21-23)

his watchman is now going to write about a subject concerning which he is

passionate. And that is the role and the destiny of Christians during the
soon-coming Final Seven Years. And he wants to confront the above
question head-on with a resounding NONE OF THE ABOVE! Christians will,
with perhaps very few exceptions, neither escape nor survive (physically) nor take
dominion over the earth during the Final Seven Years. And he is going to explain
exactly why, according to Gods infallible Word, he unequivocally proclaims that
answer.

Three Erroneous Views

There are three repugnant, very dangerous teachings in the Christian Church
especially the American Christian Churchconcerning the end of the age that
contradict and undermine the clear exhortations of our Lord concerning what the
attitude and the behavior of His disciples should be during the Final Seven Years.
And those are the pretribulation rapture, the survivalist, and the dominionist
fallacies. All three are insipid doctrines that totally nullify what Jesus clearly told
His disciples about the terrible times that were coming and what they needed to do
about it (and what, by extension, the Christians today need to do about it). Those
three doctrines of demons set those who espouse them up for the destruction, not
only of their bodies, but very possibly their souls. And that is why this watchman
is so urgent about tearing down those strongholds of the enemy (2 Corinthians
10:4), before it is too late for those who take refuge in them, and he prays that
those of you who read this will pay close attention, lest you perish in the coming
holocaust.

The Pretribulation Rapture Pie-in-the-Sky Fantasy

The pretribulation rapture is the name given to the erroneous doctrine that
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commencement of the Final Seven Years to catch the redeemed saints up to meet
Him in the sky and take them to Heaven. The pretrib eschatological doctrine was
popularized by the Left Behind series of best-selling novels and films by Tim
LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins that were published between 1995 and 2007. 1 A large
proportion of Christians who believe in the coming Final Seven Years (which they
call the tribulation), espouse the pretrib rapture teaching. That is probably
because that doctrine has great appealwho would not like to escape the terrible
times coming at the end of the age?
However, there is a problem with the pre-trib rapture notion: It is a fantasy, no
more rooted in reality than the Left Behind fiction novels based on it. There is
absolutely no Scriptural support for that doctrine. But, worst of all, it is a
deception of the devil that will destroy the faith and perhaps even the souls of its
adherents.
The Christian ministers, scholars, and teachers that promulgate the pretrib
rapture delusion base that doctrine on a few verses of Scripture taken out of
context, misinterpreted, and misapplied. For example, to allegedly prove the
pretrib rapture, they connect three passages of Scripture written by the apostle
Paul:
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does
corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changedin a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must
put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Corinthians 15:50-53)
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in
Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the
coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And
the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. (1
Thessalonians 4:14-17)
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who
died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. (1 Thessalonians
5:9-10)

This is the pretrib rapture proponents reasoning: At the time of the

resurrection of the dead, both the redeemed who are resurrected and those who
are still alive will be instantly given new, glorified, incorruptible, immortal bodies
(1 Corinthians 15:50-53). Both the resurrected redeemed and those who are still
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to Heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:14-17). The rapture must occur prior to the start of
the tribulation, because that is when the Lords wrath will be poured out on
earth-dwellers, but the redeemed are not appointed to wrath (1 Thessalonians 5:910).
Sounds logical, does it not? Yes, the Bible does clearly teach the resurrection
and rapture of the redeemed saints of the Lord. And it clearly teaches that the
Church will not be subject to the Wrath of the Lord that will come on the rest of
the world. However, there are at least four problems with the pretribulation
rapture conjecture: (1) The teachers of that doctrine do not distinguish between
the wrath of Satan and the Wrath of the Lord; (2) they do not correctly ascertain
when the wrath of Satan (the Great Tribulation) will be begin and when the
Wrath of the Lord will be poured out on the earth-dwellers; (3) they do not
correctly identify when the resurrection and the rapture will occur; and (4) they
ignore the clear teachings and exhortations of Jesus and the writers of the New
Testament concerning role the Lord has given Christians to play in the Lords endtimes redemption drama.
As has already been explained in this book, the first half of the Final Seven
Years will be the beginning of sorrowsthe period of time during which Antichrist
will be gaining control of the world. It will not be the time during which either the
wrath of Satan or the Wrath of God will be poured out on Earth. The Great
Tribulation (the wrath of Satan) will begin at the midpoint of the Final Seven
Years. The Wrath of the Lord will not start to be poured out on Earth until the
second half of the seven years (cf. Revelation 6:15-17). The resurrection and
rapture will not occur until the last day of the Final Seven Years, when the seventh
and final trumpet sounds (Matthew 24:31; 1 Corinthians 15:52; Revelation 11:15).
The Great Tribulation will be cut short at the end of the seven years (cf.
Revelation 13:5) by the return of the Lord Jesus to gather His elect (the redeemed
saints) and the last plagues of the Wrath of God (the bowls of wrath) being
poured out on the earth (Matthew 24:21-22; 29-31; Revelation 11:18; 15:1; 16:1).2
Please notice that at no time does Jesus or any of the writers of the New
Testament promise the Church exemption or escape from tribulations,
persecutions, or even martyrdom, including during the Final Seven Years. In fact,
He assures us of just the opposite, if we are His true disciples. He exhorts us to
endure to the end (Matthew 24:13), not to look for an easy, quick escape. And
every one of the seven congregations to whom the Revelation of the Lord was
written was exhorted to overcome whatever tribulations or death they faced, not to
expect an escape (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21). Overcoming the
suffering we face by remaining faithful to the Lordto the death, if necessaryis
one of the main ways that we witness to the world and encourage fellow believers
with the reality of His presence and power in our lives, and the hope that we have
of eternal life, is it not? (cf. Philippians 1:20-25; Revelation 2:10) Did not the
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apostles rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer because of their faith in
Jesus Christ? (Acts 5:41; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; Colossians 1:24)
So, how dare the charlatans in the Church contradict Gods Word and hold
out to the children of God that lie of the devil, that false hope, that pretribulation
rapture fantasy! When they do not get the quick and easy escape that they have
been promised, the faith of those poor, misguided souls will be shipwrecked when
it runs aground on the terrible times soon to come. Surely, the Lords warning to
the watchman applies to those false teachers and shepherds of the Lords flock:
If the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned,
and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but
his blood I will require at the watchman's hand. (Ezekiel 33:6)

The Suicidal Survivalist Mentality

Just as many in the Church entertain an escapist fantasy, others think they can
hunker down in bunkers or caves, or disappear into the woods or remote
locations, and survive whatever comes. So, they gather guns, buy water filters,
generators and other equipment, and store non-perishable food and other supplies
to make themselves feel safe and secure. But, that survivalist mentality is just as
delusional and non-Scriptural as is the pretribulation rapture fantasy.
Think about it: If the economy collapses or is shut down by a totalitarian
government and the masses are without means of purchasing food, fuel and
utilities, what will immediately ensue? Riots, chaos, killing and looting. Correct?
Do the survivalists really think they can fight off or hide from the desperate
hordes? Yes, they may but not for long. And consider this: Antichrist, his
religious leader, and probably their police forces will have supernatural powers (1
Thessalonians 2:9; Revelation 13:14-15) and the most sophisticated surveillance
and tracking technology at their disposal, not to mention most of the masses
serving as their informantseven close relatives ratting on one another (cf. Luke
12:53). And, most important, Scripture states clearly that Antichrist will be given
complete power and authority over all the people of the world, including the
saints (the Christians), during the last half of the Final Seven Years (Revelation
13:7).
So, will anyone survive the Great Tribulation? Yes, there will be some, but
very few (true) Christians. The Bible states that those of the nation of Israel who
are saved but have not yet recognized that Jesus is the Messiah (cf. Romans 11:26)
will flee from the wrath of the dragon (Satan) into the wilderness of the world and
be supernaturally sustained and protected there during the last half of the seven
years (Revelation 12:6, 14). The prophet Zechariah also foretold that on the day of
the Lord, when all the nations are gathered against Jerusalem, and the Lord, in
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person, does battle against those nations (apparently Armageddon), the Lords
people in Jerusalem will flee out of the city to the east. These are apparently also
Jews who look forward in faith to the coming Messiah but have not yet recognized
that He is Jesus, not Christians, because these verses also speak of the Lord
returning with all the saints (redeemed, glorified Christians) at that time
(Zechariah 14:1-5; Revelation 19:8, 14). There will also be some unredeemed
Gentiles among the nations who will not perish during the Great Tribulation and
the Day of the Lord (because they will not take the mark of the beast nor come up
against Jerusalem at the battle of Armageddon). These Gentiles, whose lives are
spared by the merciful providence of the Lord, will be brought physically, with the
saved of Israel, into the millennial Kingdom of God. And their descendants will
make up the Gentile nations (Hebrew: goyim) who will go up to Jerusalem every
year during the Millennium to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. (Zechariah
14:16; Revelation 14:9-10; 20:8)
So, the only ones who the Bible indicates will survive the Final Seven Years and
be brought into His millennial Kingdom in their physical bodies are those who He
will personally protect and sustain during that terrible time. Those who arrogantly
think they can survive by relying on their own wits and resources are as deluded as
the pretribulation rapture adherents, and they will just as surely perish during the
Final Seven Years.

The Domininist Apostasy

In over-reaction to the above trends, the rise of pseudo-spiritual, worldly,

politically correct super churches has occurred. Espousing a dominionist,
Kingdom-now doctrine with over-emphases on positive thinking, spiritual gifts,
signs, wonders and miracles, the smooth-talking, charismatic leaders of these
congregations, promising professional, social and personal successhealth,
wealth, and prosperityare attracting adherents faster than any other religious
movement or organization in Americaresulting in numerous mega-churches
with many thousands of members.
But, an honest study and interpretation of Scripture reveals that this trend, with
its denial of the coming Great Tribulation, the Wrath of God, and even the future
millennial Kingdom of God, is totally contrary to the teachings and life-styles of
Jesus and His disciples, and actually plays into the evil hands of the coming world
rulerAntichrist. Jesus clearly stated, My kingdom is not of this world. Then,
He clarified that His kingdom is not of this (present) world by stating that if it was
His followers would fight for it (John 18:36). And He warned His disciples that
they would, in fact, not be socially accepted, financially prosperous, or emotionally
or physically comfortable in this present world, but that they would, like Him and
the true, faithful people of God before Him, be despised, betrayed, persecuted,
impoverished and killed (Matthew 10:25-28; 24:9-10; Hebrews 11:36-38).

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Jesus also warned His disciples that charlatans (false prophets, messiahs,
apostles, teachers, and ministers) would come, in a spirit of covetousness,
exercising supernatural powers and deceiving many (Mark 13:22 and cf. 1
Corinthians 11:13, 15; 2 Peter 2:1). And this false, materialistic, worldly form of
Christianity will set the stage for the ultimate imposter who will deceive, with his
supernatural powers, the whole world into following and worshiping him (2
Thessalonians 2:9-10; Revelation 13:3, 8).
And, sure enough, Jesus prophecies are being exactly fulfilled. All of His
twelve apostles suffered persecution and eleven of them died as martyrs. And
down through the centuries, many millions of true followers of Jesus have suffered
and died at the hands of both infidels and false (anti-) Christians (e.g., the
Inquisitions). Today, although it is not (yet) apparent in Christian America,
more Christians are being martyred, especially in Communist and Islamist nations,
than at any point of time in history. In fact, statistical studies indicate that as many
as two-thirds of all Christian martyrs in history died during the twentieth century.3
And, as has been thoroughly explained in this book, current events in the light of
Bible prophecy indicate that the holocaust is coming soon to the U.S.A. Yet, the
positive confession, Kingdom Now preachers, blinded by their own arrogance,
continue to insipidly misapply the promises of the spiritual and physical benefits of
the coming Kingdom of Heaven (cf. Luke 6:38: 18:29, 30) to this present, corrupt,
rapidly-deteriorating world, when Scripture clearly tells us that the Kingdom of
God on Earth will be fully established only when the King of Kings returns in
person to reclaim His creation from the one who usurped it from Him in the
beginning (Acts 3:21; Revelation 19:11-20:6).

How should we then live?

Telling Christians that they will be raptured before the tribulation begins is as
helpful as telling the passengers on the Titanic to relax and not worry because, at
any moment, a giant blimp would pass over and take them all away before the ship
sank. Telling Christians to store up provisions and protection so they can survive
the coming holocaust is as effective as telling the passengers on the Titanic to grab
food and guns, then to find spots on the ship where they can hole up and feed and
protect themselves until the danger passes. Telling Christians that they are
children of the King, so they should take dominion over their own lives, their
country and this world, is like telling the passengers on the Titanic to take control
of that ship in the name of Jesus and trust Him to keep it afloat while they
continued enjoying the pleasures of their well-deserved, luxurious cruise.
Hopefully, by now, you can see the ridiculousness of American Christianity in
the face of the rapidly approaching perfect storm of Satans fury and the Lords
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After Jesus, in no uncertain terms, told His disciples what was coming on this
world, until they saw Him coming in the clouds with the overwhelming sound of a
great trumpet and a flash of brilliant light from horizon to horizon (there will be
no mistaking him for the false messiah) (Matthew 24:27-30), He did not tell them
to get on with life as usual, waiting patiently and not worrying because He would
return and whisk them away before the really bad stuff starts; nor did He tell them
to store up provisions, to arm themselves to the teeth, and to go into hiding so
that they could survive the coming great tribulation (Matthew 24:21); nor did He
tell them that they were (in the flesh, on this earth) more than conquerors
(Romans 8:29) and no [physical] weapon formed against [them would] prosper
(Isaiah 54:7) (favorite misapplied Scriptures of the dominionist preachers).
What did the Lord tell His disciples (including us)? He told us that His
kingdom is NOT of this world (John 18:36). Then, Jesus clarified that declaration
by stating that the earth-dwellers couldnt go where He was going (John 8:21). He
gave another clue as to where He was going by stating,
In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself;
that where I am, there you may be also. (John 14:2-3)

Then, finally, Gods Word states that the believers true, ultimate home is in New
Jerusalem (which will come down out of Heaven after the conclusion of the Final
Seven Years) from which we will reign with the King of Kings for a thousand
years, and in which we will dwell with Him forever (Revelation 20:6; 21:2-3).4
So, with what lies ahead of the redeemed people of God following the Final
Seven Years in mind, does it not seem absurdly petty, self-centered, short-sighted
and delusional for any to focus their attention on either escape from or survival or
worldly success in this miserable (by comparison), rapidly deteriorating, puff-ofsmoke life on earth? And that is the exact message of Jesus Christ to His
disciples.
Jesus was constantly trying to get His listeners minds off the things of this
world and onto the World to Come. The Masters core message during His
ministry on Earth was, Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
(Matthew 4:17) In fact, John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus, preached exactly
the same message: Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! (Matthew
3:2) Yet, how often do we hear the positive-confession, Kingdom-now preachers
of today preaching repentance in preparation for the coming Kingdom of Heaven?
seldom, if ever. And Jesus told his disciples not to lay up their treasures on
earth, but in Heaven (Matthew 6:19), and not to be concerned even about saving
their lives, because if they lost their (physical) lives because of their faithfulness to
Him, they would save their (eternal) lives (Luke 9:24). Does it really seem like our

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Savior was concerned about whether or not we survive the tribulations of this
world? Did He tell His disciples to be concerned about surviving or prospering on
this earth? No, He told them exactly the opposite: that He was sending them out
like sheep among wolves, and that they would meet the same fatesuffering,
persecution and martyrdomas He did (Matthew 10:16-24). Then, after Jesus
warned his disciples of the terrible times to come at the end of the age, did He tell
them either to go into hiding or to fight and overcome the pagans or their
oppressors and establish His kingdom on earth? No, He told them,
Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell, and, If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would
fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.
(Matthew 10:28; John 18:36)

Or, did Jesus tell his disciples to keep living their lives as usualworking, playing,
taking vacations, saving up for retirement, and so forthpatiently waiting for His
deliverance from whatever trials and tribulations might be coming? No, He told
them that their lives must change radically if they wanted to be His disciplesthat
they needed to dedicate everything, no matter what it cost them (time, money,
and so forth), to spreading the Gospel (Good News) of the Kingdom. He told
them that they must always be alert, watching and waiting for His return, and to
get to work going to the whole world spreading the same Good News of the
coming Kingdom of Heaven that He had given them. (Luke 9:23; 12:33; Matthew
24:44-46; Mark 16:15).
So again, how dare any so-called Christian minister, teacher, apostle, or
prophet contradict and undermine the clear teachings and examples of Jesus and
the writers of the New Testament by telling us that Christians will not be affected
by the terrible events of the Final Seven Years because we will be raptured out of
here before they begin; or that, if we will just gather guns and ammunition, store
up provisions and go into hiding, the Lord will protect us and we will survive that
time; or that the (human) army of the Lord is going to fight and overcome the
anti-Christ and his evil forces before the King of Kings returns with the armies of
Heaven to do that (Revelation 19:11-16); or, most deceptive of all, that there will
be no future Final Seven Years because the Church is going to establish the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth through the supernatural power of Christ that is
already in it. (That is the strong delusion, the lie, that the Lord will allow those
who choose to follow the false messiah rather than the true Messiah to believe2
Thessalonians 2:11).
And again, it is not those who escape or survive the tribulations of this life or
achieve dominion over the earth who will enter the (eternal) Kingdom of Heaven.
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will be saved (Matthew 24:13). Not one of the writers of the New Testament
spoke of escaping from, hiding from, or fighting those who persecuted them, or of
being exempt from trials, tribulations and suffering. In fact, the apostle Paul said
that he rejoiced in the sufferings that were involved in his ministry to the
Christians (Colossians 1:24). And Paul considered the patience and faith of the
believers when they endured persecutions and tribulations for the sake of the
Kingdom of God a glorious thing and evidence of their worthiness to inherit the
Kingdom (cf. 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5).
So, we must beware of those who attempt to steal our inheritance in the
wonderful World to Come following the Final Seven Years by deceiving us into
thinking the Church will not even enter that time of testing and tribulation, or into
thinking that the Church will be able to hide from and not be affected by it, or into
thinking that time will not even come, because it will be the Church who will
establish the Kingdom of God on Earth before Christ returns in person to rule
over it.
The Churchs true mission on Earth is to keep the light of the Good News of
the coming Kingdom of Heaven shining as brightly as we canto the death, if
necessaryno matter who or what tries to extinguish it. Then, when the King of
Kings does come, with the armies of Heaven, to vanquish His foes and establish
His millennial Kingdom on Earth, He will consider those of us who have faithfully
kept the commission He gave us to the end worthy to take our places as royalty in
His Kingdom (Revelation 19:11-20:6).
To get a little preview of how incomparably more wonderful dwelling with the
Lord in His Kingdom will be, when it is established in its fullness on Earth, than
residing in any kingdom or paradise in this present world, read the next
chapterIn The End, there is GOOD NEWS!

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In The End, there is GOOD NEWS!

"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God
has prepared for those who love Him."
(1 Corinthians 2:9)

o far, much of the content that has been shared in this book has been pretty
negative, hasnt it?mankind wallowing in sin, phony Christianity, the
annihilation of America-Babylon, horrible times to come on the whole
world. But, we have to understand what is really happening in the world before
we can fully appreciate what I am going to share with you now. And I am really
glad that you have come to this page, because now I get to tell you the end of the
story. And it is fantastic!far beyond what you or I have ever imagined. It is
even more wonderful than any fantasy-world movie we have ever seen, book we
have ever read, or story we have ever heard or imagined, because, according Gods
sure word of prophecy (2 Peter 1:19), the Bible, it is absolutely true!

In The Beginning
As I trust is clear by now, to fully understand the present and the future, we
must first understand the past. So, let us go back to the beginningto Gods
original plan for his creation, particularly man (the Bibles generic term for human
beings).
In the beginning (of creation) God created the world (the whole cosmos
universe), all that is in it, and man in His own image (Genesis 1:27). Now, what do
you think that meanscreated in the image of God? How does that make man
different from the rest of Gods creationplants, animals, and inanimate matter?
The Bible gives us some clues. It states, God is spirit (John 4:24). It also states,
God is love (1 John 4:8). And Jesus said that God is good (Mark 10:18). So, man
was created a good, loving, spiritual being, in the image of God. Well, how does
that make man any different from my pet doga good, loving, spirited animal?
someone might ask. The difference is that, in the core of his beinghis spirit
man was created to commune with and, indeed, to be united with the Spirit of
God forever. The Bible says that, He who is united with the Lord is one spirit with
Him. (1 Corinthians 6:17) One spirit with Godthats an amazing reality to try
to comprehend, isnt it? But, thats the way it was in the Garden of Eden: Adam
and Eve walked with God and talked with God, in perfect spiritual union with
Him. But, they blew it by sinning against God and thus separating themselves
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from Gods life-giving Spirit, bringing immediate spiritual death and eventual
physical death on themselves and physical death on every other living thing (cf.
Genesis 3:22). Death is simply separation from God, who is the source of all life.
So, although our physical bodies die and decay (cease to exist), our souls (including
our spirits) will continue to exist forever (either united with God in eternal life,
or separate from Him in eternal death), after the rest of creation, including the
plants and animals of this present world (which are not spiritual beings), have
ceased to exist altogether (cf. Revelation 20:11; 21:1). Also, the goodness and love
of God, which, in union with Him, man was created to manifest, are drastically
and categorically different from the goodness and love of animals. Pet dogs,
for example, just act out of instinct in natural affection for and loyalty to their
owners. But, we probably wont see a dog voluntarily giving its life to save
someone who has abused it or someone it perceives as a threat or an enemy, will
we? Yet, isnt that what Jesus did? Isnt that what we would do if we were united
with God in His love? Wouldnt we, if we had Gods special goodness and
unselfish love in our hearts, be kind to someone we saw in need and hurting, even
if they had been hateful and cruel to us? See the difference between the totally
unselfish God-kind of love and the love and goodness of those who are not
one with God, which are no different from the goodness and the natural
affection of animals?
So, in the beginning, God created man in His own imagecategorically
different from and transcending the rest of His creation. He also placed man in a
position of benevolent dominion over His creation. Man was given the job of
naming all the animals and taking care of the creation (cf. Genesis 1:28)! Now
imagine that, if you can: what knowledge! what intelligence! what wisdom! what
skill! what power! man must have had to be assigned a perfect, beautiful,
wonderful creation to care for! What a fantastic life!
But, tragically, Adam and Eve believed the Lie of the Devil, who told them,
You shall be as gods (Genesis 3:6). In other words, Satan was implying that Adam
and Eve could do on their own, apart from Gods Spirit in union with theirs, as
gods themselves, the superhuman job that God had given them to do. They
also believed that they could get away with doing as they pleased (eat the forbidden
fruit), regardless of what God had said. But what a terrible mistake, because it
allowed Satan to get a foothold in Gods creation and immediately take Adams
place as the prince (ruler) of this World (John 12:31)! And it has been downhill for
all of Gods creation, including man, since that time; the whole creation has been
subject to futility, corruption, and decay (cf. Ecclesiates 2:17); which will continue
until God destroys the present deteriorating world and its inhabitants who oppose
Him. And, so far, thats what most of this book has been about.

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But, thats not the end of the story; theres incredible Good News! Gods
original plan for man has not changed, except that it is even more fantastic now
than it was in the beginning! Grasp, if you can, what Gods Word tells us:

Paradise Restored!
Acts 3:19-21 states that God will send Jesus Christ when it comes time (after
the seven years of tribulation and the Wrath of God) to restore all things to their
Edenic state. The period of time when conditions on Earth will again be
wonderful beyond our comprehension was foretold numerous times by Old
Testament prophets (Isaiah 65, Jeremiah 23, Joel 2, et al.). It will begin when the
Lord returns with the armies of Heaven to destroy the armies of Antichrist
(Revelation 19:11-21). He will then establish His kingdom on the renewed Earth,
and will rule over the nations of people who are on Earth at that time (Revelation
19:15), maintaining perfect peace as the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45) during
His millennial reign (Revelation 20).
But, thats just the beginning of the Good News! All those who belong to the
Lord Jesuswho have trusted Him as their Savior and God and are united in
spirit with Himwill get to reign with Him, not just on Earth, but over His entire
earthly and heavenly creation, including the angels! The Lord Jesus said, speaking
of His faithful Followers,
To him who wins the victory and does what I want until the goal is reached, I will give him authority
over the nations . . . just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the
morning star (meaning Himselfcf. Revelation 22:16). (Revelation 2:26-27)

And the apostle Paul asked his fellow Believers, Dont you know that we are to judge
angels? (1 Corinthians 6:3) To me, that sounds like we Believers in the Lord Jesus
the Messiah are going to be totally indwelled by Him, one with Him, having
exactly the same power and authority He has to reign with Him, in Him, and He in
us over His creationwith even more power and authority than the first Adam
had (over just the Earth) in the beginning. Try to wrap your mind around that!
To more fully appreciate how wonderful it will be to be a child of God in His
Millennial Kingdom, read the following astonishing statement from His Word
(paraphrased):
It was in keeping with His pleasure and purpose, for His own praise and glory, that God determined
before the creation of the universe that through His Son, Jesus Christ, we would be His spiritual
children. In Christ, God our Father chose us in love in advance to be spiritually pure, without
defect, in His presence. In union with Christ through His sacrifice on the cross, we are set freeour
sins are forgiven. And in union with Him, commensurate with His grace which the Lord has
lavished on us, we were given an inheritance: the Lord has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in

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Heaven. His ultimate plan, which was a secret until it was revealed by and in Christ, is to place
everything in Heaven and on Earth under Christs headship. And we, the children of God, are to
reign with our Lord and Christ over all creation for a thousand years! This is the Lords will,
purpose, and pleasure for our lives. (Ephesians 1:3-14; Revelation 20:4)

So, there it is, my friendGods ultimate purpose for your life.

Incomprehensibly wonderful, isnt it? Please, please, please, dont miss out by
believing Satans Lie (You shall be as gods.), by putting any stock in the things of
this world, by following a false messiah, or by denying your Lord and Savior
before His return. Stay faithful until The End and you will receive your awesome,
glorious, eternal inheritance in The World to Come! I hope to see you there.
For complete documentation or Scriptural support for
anything you have read in this book, visit
RevelationUnderstoodCommentary.com
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Appendix 1

Scriptural Evidence that America is

Modern Babylon the Great

his watchman realizes that probably the most difficult part of this book for
most American Christians to swallow is the assertion that The United
States of America is prophesied modern Babylon the Great. However,
there are over 200 verses of Scripture and over 60 indicators in the Bible of who
modern Babylon the Great is. And, when all those verses of Scripture and all
those indicators are taken into consideration, it is crystal clear that no other nation
than the U.S.A., with its great city New York City, especially after it is taken over
by the Middle Eastern Islamists, could possibly fit the description. As partial
evidence of this fact, please read the following commentary on Revelation 17 and
18 and ask yourself honestly, Which other modern city-state/empire could
possibly be Babylon the Great? Also, remember that Jonathan Cahns The
Harbinger and James Fitzgeralds The 9/11 Prophecy state that the World Trade
Center towers were destroyed in the same way that Babylon the Great is
prophesied to be destroyed in these two chapters, and James Fitzgerald asserts that
the 9/11 destruction was a foreshadowing of the destruction of the entire nation
(although, in overlooking the Tenth Harbinger, he does not understand the full
extent of that destruction).
Revelation Chapters 17 and 18 are parenthetical chapters inserted to give more
details about the destruction of modern, prophetic Babylonthe kingdom of
Satan on Earth (cf. Isaiah 14:4)immediately before and during the Final Seven
Years of world history. Chapter 17 focuses on spiritual, religious Babylon and
Chapter 18 focuses on material, secular Babylon. But, as we will clearly see, the
two are inextricably intertwined in one, great, modern city-state (nation). In the
original Greek, there were not two separate chapters describing Babylon; the
description was of two different aspects of the same city-state/nation/empire.
And understanding the identity and destiny of Babylon the Great is a major key to
understanding the sequence of events of the Revelation. But Chapters 17 and 18
are highly symbolicin the form of a riddle. Let us see if we, by the
enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, can solve the riddle.

Chapter 17Spiritual, Religious Babylon

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17:1-5 Then (a) one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me,
saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of (b) the great harlot (c) who sits on many
waters, (d) with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the
earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication." So he carried me away in the Spirit
into (e) the wilderness. And I saw a woman (f) sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names
of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was (g) arrayed in purple and
scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup
full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was
written: (h) MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
a. This angel is probably the seventh, as it was during the pouring out of his bowl
that Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of
His wrath (16:19). In this chapter and in Chapter 18, he is giving John more
details about the identity, characteristics, and destiny of modern, prophetic
Babylon.
b. In both Chapters 17 and 18 (18:3), Babylon is described as a harlotone who
gives herself to others, not because she loves them or is interested in their
welfare, but to gain their favors, which ultimately results in their destruction as
well as hers. In this chapter the emphasis is on her spiritual/religious harlotry;
in Chapter 18 the emphasis is on her political/commercial harlotry.
c. She sits on (dominates and controls) the earth dwellers (cf. verse 15).
d. Her seductive enticements entangle all classes of earth dwellers, nobility as well
as the masses.
e. The wilderness in this verse is a symbol of the unsaved world.
f. The harlot is supported by and empowered by Satan. She is his spiritual
kingdom on earth (cf. Isaiah 14:4, 12; Revelation 12:3).
g. Her attractionsriches, beauty, and intoxicating drinkappeal to the flesh,
not to the spirit.
h. And, she is Babylon. The fact that, in this chapter, her identification is a
mysterynot obviousand her real power over the earth dwellers is
spiritualnot physicalindicates that this is Babylonian spirituality or religion.
The religion of ancient Babylon was centered on sex rites involving thousands
of temple prostitutes. It was the religious duty of every Babylonian woman to
serve as a temple prostitute at least once in her life. Ishtar was called the
mother of [temple] prostitutes. When Israel was worshiping pagan gods, she
was referred to as a harlot (e.g., Hosea 4:15). Some say that the whore of
Revelation 17 is the apostate Christian Church or the Roman Catholic Church,
but she is much more than that. Babylonian religion was very eclectic,
consolidating the worship of many gods, not only Babylonian but of the
surrounding nations. The eclectic religion of modern, prophetic Babylon will
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be centered in Babylon, the city-state/nation/empire, but it will ultimately

consolidate all the religions of the world into a global religion led by the False
Prophet (cf. 13:11-15; 19:20). It may resemble Christianity because it will
consist of the worship of the false Christ and his father, Satan (13:4), but it
will also resemble Islam and other religions of the world which also anticipate a
coming god-man or messiah.
17:6-11 I saw (a) the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, (b) I marveled with great amazement. But (c) the angel
said to me, "Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that
carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast that you saw was, and is not,
and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And (d) those who dwell on the
earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the
world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. Here is the mind which has
wisdom: (e) The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also (f)
seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. (g) And when he comes, he
must continue a short time. (h) And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth,
and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.
a. The religion of Babylon, which is energized and controlled by the spirit of the
devil, is responsible for the death of the saints and martyrs of Jesus.
b. John is amazed by the incongruity of the religion of Babylon being responsible
for the death of members of the true Community of believers in Jesus.
c. The angel explains that the religious spirit of Babylon gets her power from
Satan and his incarnation, Antichrist. Notice that both Satan and Antichrist
have seven heads and ten horns, but here they are not distinguished by the
crowns being on their heads or their horns as they are in 12:3 and 13:1. So, the
scarlet beast, Satan, and the beast that was, and is not, and will ascend out of the
bottomless pit and go to perdition, Antichrist, are spiritually one, just as God the
Father and God the Son are One.
d. The earth dwellers marvel at Antichrist because of his head (kingdom) that
was destroyed but then revived and the signs and wonders performed in his
name (cf. 13:3, 13).
e. Some have reasoned, because of her garments of purple and red (the colors of
the Roman Catholic Church) and the seven mountains (Rome is the city of
seven hills), that the woman, Babylon, is the Roman Catholic Church or
Rome. However, the Greek word (oros) translated mountains here really
means, just as it is translated, mountains or large land masses, not hills. The
Greek word (buonos) for hills (actually a Latin word, borrowed by the Greeks,
which commonly referred to Rome) is not used here. (See Luke 3:5 where
both terms are used.) In Scripture, mountains also symbolize large areas of
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political power and dominion. So, the harlot Babylon holds religious/spiritual
sway over large realms of the earthperhaps continents or large administrative
areas. It would seem that Rome and its dominating religion, the Roman
Catholic Church, is a prototype of modern Babylon, but Rome does not come
close in her religious influence (or, as in Chapter 18, in political or economic
influence) to the total global dominance of the eclectic, pseudo-messianic,
Babylonian religion described in this chapter.
f. The seven kings that manifest the spirit of Satan and Antichrist on Earth
apparently represent rulers of the seven empires that ruled over and persecuted
Gods people Israel and the rulers that will persecute Gods People the
Christians during the Great Tribulation period of the Final Seven Years. Those
seven kingdoms or empires were: Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Medo-Persia, and
Greece (the five that have fallen), Rome (the one that is at the time
Revelation was written), and modern, prophetic Babylon (the one that has not
yet come). Modern religious and secular Babylon will be annihilated by fire, as
we will see in 17:16 and 18:8, but will then be replaced by the global kingdom
of Antichrist (17:17), the Revived Roman/Ottoman Empire (cf. Daniel 7:7,
23).1
g. The seventh kingthe ruler or president of modern Babylon will rule a
short time.
h. Antichrist, the ultimate counterfeit of the true Messiah, is of the seven previous
kings (embodies the spirit of all seven) and is the eighth and final worldly king.
An intriguing possible interpretation of this description, when it is combined
with the prophecy of 13:3 and the rather curious prophecy that the seventh
king will rule a short time, is that, before it is destroyed by fire, the kingdom
over which he rules (modern religious and secular Babylon) will be destroyed
by war, but will then be miraculously revived, and he will become the eighth
king after whom the whole world will follow in wonder and awe.
17:12-15 (a) The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet,
but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they
will give their power and authority to the beast. (b) These will make war with the Lamb, and
the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with
Him are called, chosen, and faithful." Then he said to me, (c) "The waters which you saw,
where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.
a. After Antichrist takes over at the midpoint of the Final Seven Years, for the
short time (signified by one hour) that he is in control, the world will be ruled
by ten kings under him, who yield their authority and power to rule to him.
Verses 3, 7 and 9 indicate that Earth will be divided up into seven kingdoms
or administrative areas (heads or mountains) that will be ruled by ten kings
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under the beast or Antichrist. This is exactly the same scenario prophesied by
Daniel, except that he provides the additional detail that three of the ten kings
will be subdued (brought down) by the anti-Christ (Daniel 7:24).
b. This is a reference to 16:14-16 and 19:11-21, when the King of Kings and Lord
of Lords returns with the armies of Heaven at Armageddon to defeat and
destroy the kings of the earth and of the whole world . . . who are gathered . . . to the battle
of that great day of God Almighty.
c. The waters where Babylon sits (17:1) are explained as peoples (Greek: laos
tribes or nations), multitudes, nations (Greek: ethnosethnic groups), and tongues
(people who speak various languages)in other words, all the earth dwellers of
the world.
17:16-18 (a) "And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make
her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn
her with fire. (b) For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind,
and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. (c) And the woman
whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth." (d)
a.

Verse 16 may be one of the most poorly translated and misleading verses in the
Bible. Virtually every translation, following the lead of the KJV, states that the
ten kings are the ones who burn Babylon. But the structure of the Greek is
somewhat ambiguous. When correctly translated, it indicates that fire is the
subject of the sentence rather than the ten kings, who may be passive. In other
words, it is the fire that does the burning of Babylon, not the ten kings, who
may be just passive onlookers.2 That they hate the harlot does not
necessarily mean that they are involved in her destruction. To this
commentator, that makes more sense than the way this verse is commonly
translated, because it is difficult to conceptualize how the ten kings, who will
not even receive their kingdoms until after Babylon is destroyed, could destroy
in one hour (cf. 18:10, 17, 19) the most powerful, world-dominating kingdom
(nation or empire) in the history of the world. Also, Old Testament prophecy
indicates that Babylon will be destroyed in the same way that Sodom and
Gomorrah were destroyedby fire from Heavenafter which no human will
dwell there, only demons and unclean spirits, which seems to fit the scenario of
Chapters 17 and 18 (cf. Jeremiah 50:32, 39, 40; 51:25, 30, 58; Revelation 18:2,
8). Most Bible expositors, because of the confusion caused by the mistranslation
of this verse, state that the harlot of Chapter 17 (religious Babylon) is destroyed
at a different point in time than is secular Babylon of Chapter 18. But that
is a false distinction and a forced interpretation that over-allegorizes and
mutilates the meaning of the text. It is impossible to conceive how spiritual,
religious Babylon could be separated from the secular state and destroyed
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c.

d.

without destroying the government with whom she is inextricably intertwined

and supports (cf. 13:11-18).
And here is another indication that the annihilation of all natural life in Babylon
will be caused by the Lord rather than by her human enemies: The reason for
the burning of Babylon is because God has put it in the hearts of the ten kings
to give their kingdom (singular), which they have not yet received (verse 12), to
Antichrist. The ten kings may indeed hate Babylon because she, under her
present ruler (the seventh king) and system of government, is dominating the
world, making it impossible for them to receive and consolidate their
domains into the global kingdom of Antichrist. But they are powerless to do
anything about it until the Lord intervenes and destroys her by fire.
So, the woman who rides the beast is that great city which reigns over the
kings of the earth. This great city is Babylon, because the great city Jerusalem
(11:8) has never reigned over the kings of the earth. Notice that here she is not
just the harlotreligious, spiritual Babylonbut a physical placea city
the same Babylon as in Chapter 18.
Again, notice that the ten kings and Antichrist will not receive their kingdom
until after all natural life in Babylon is destroyed by fire. That means that,
although Babylon is the spiritual "headquarters" of Satan, she is not the
ultimate global kingdom ruled by Antichristthe "Revived Roman Empire."
It also means that Babylon must be burned before the midpoint of the Final
Seven Years because that is when Antichrist takes over as world ruler. But that
presents a problem because the details of Babylons destruction are placed here,
in Chapter 17, and in 18, just before the celebration of her destruction in
Chapter 19, which appears to be at the end of the seven years, just before the
Lord returns with the armies of Heaven to defeat and destroy His enemies at
Armageddon. However, as will be seen as we continue through Chapter 18,
that apparent dilemma is easily and clearly resolved. Remember that the details
of Chapters 17 and 18 are parentheticalnot in strict chronological sequence.

Chapter 18Material, Secular Babylon

18:1-3 (a) After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great
authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice,
saying, (b) "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become (c) a dwelling place of demons,
a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For (d) all the nations
have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed
fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of
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a. After these things I saw indicates a change in perspective, but not in time. As
we will clearly see, the Babylon of Chapter 18 is exactly the same as the
Babylon of Chapter 17. The only difference is that Chapter 18 focuses on the
material, secular aspect of Babylon whereas Chapter 17 focuses on the spiritual,
religious aspect of Babylon. But, in actuality, although Babylonian spirituality is
universal, religious and secular Babylon cannot be separated; they are
indissolubly married, just as was religion and state in ancient Babylon. In fact,
modern physical Babylon (the city-state/nation/empire) is the main purveyor
of Babylonian spirituality/religion throughout the world.
b. Exactly the same name, Babylon the Great, is used here as in 17:5. Chapter 18
just takes up where Chapter 17 left off, with the fall (burning) of that great city,
Babylon the Great.
c. This is total annihilation of all natural life!3 After Babylon is destroyed by fire
(her first destruction), resulting in desolate desert conditions, no human can
dwell there, only demons and evil spirits (cf. the commentary on 17:16; also
Isaiah 13:19-21). After she is burned, Babylon is uninhabited by natural living
things, but is still the kingdom and base of operations, so to speak, of Satan
and his evil spiritual horde.
d. As in Chapter 17, Babylon is the whore of Earth, but Chapter 18 focuses on
her political whoredom with the rulers of the earth and her material whoredom
with the merchants of the earth.
18:4-8 And I heard (a) another voice from heaven saying, (b) "Come out of her, my people, lest
you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and
(c) God has remembered her iniquities. (d) Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay
her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the
measure that (e) she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment
and sorrow; for she says in her heart, (f) `I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see
sorrow.' Therefore her plagues (g) will come in one daydeath and mourning and famine. And
she will be utterly burned with fire, for (h) strong is the Lord God who judges her.
a. The voice of the Lord
b. As the Revelation is written to both the Jews and to the Followers of Jesus,
come out of her would seem to apply in a literal sense to Gods physical People
the Jews who have not yet accepted Jesus as their Redeemer and who remain
on the earth throughout the Final Seven Years and into the Millennium, and in
a spiritual sense to His People the Community of Believers in Jesus who are
taken to Heaven at the sounding of the Last Trump (1 Corinthians 15:52) on
Yom Teruah at the end of the seven years, because the believers in Jesus are
promised that,as long as they remain faithful, they will not have to endure the
last plaguesthe plagues of the Wrath of God (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:9;
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d.
e.
f.
g.

Revelation 15:1) or be subjected to His judgment (cf. John 5:24). But those
"last plagues," as well as the preceding "Great Tribulation" (Matthew 24:21;
Revelation 7:14)the wrath of Satan (12:12)will the time of "Jacob's trouble"
(Jeremiah 30:7) for those of Gods People who have not yet recognized that
Jesus is their Messiah, separating the "sheep" from the "goats""true Israel" (cf.
Romans 9:6) from those who do not really believe in God or in the coming
Messiah Jesus. For proof that this command is directed to both Gods Old
Testament people the Jews and His New Testament people the Christians, see
the parallel commands in Jeremiah 50:8; 51:6, 45 and 2 Corinthians 6:17.
Cf. 16:19
Babylon will reap what she has soweddouble: two separate judgmentsthe
judgment by fire (destroying all natural life) and total physical annihilation
(destroying Satans spiritual base of operationsverse 21).
She sees herself as a queen of those nations to whom she is illicitly married.
A title of Ishtar, chief goddess of Babylon, was Queen of Heaven.
She is a proud, wealthy, luxurious nation. She will be utterly destroyed by fire in
a very short period of time, indicated by one day in this verse and by one hour
in verses 10, 17 and 19.
Confirming that it is because of the judgment of the Lord and by His power,
not by the power of the ten kings, that Babylon is destroyed.

18:9-17a [The prophecy of the voice from Heaven continues:] (a) "The kings of the
earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her,
when they see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying,
`Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'
And (b) the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their
merchandise anymore: merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and
purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of
object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil
and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and
bodies and souls of men. The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the things
which are rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all. The
merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment,
weeping and wailing, and saying, `Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen,
purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! (c) For in one hour
such great riches came to nothing.'
a. This confirms that Babylon is the political center of Earth: The kings of Earth
weep and lament when their wealth is destroyed when Babylon is destroyed.
Apparently, all the nations of Earth are actually client-states of Babylon and
their rulers are kept in luxurious power by Babylon.
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b. Babylon is also the commercial center of the world; she is the main importer of
the worlds commodities, making the merchants of the earth wealthy.
c. But the source of their wealth is destroyed in one hour.
18:17b-19 [The prophecy is fulfilled in Johns vision:] (a) Every shipmaster, all who
travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when
they saw (b) the smoke of her burning, saying, What is like this great city? They threw dust on
their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which
all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in (c) one hour she is made
desolate.
a. Babylon is a land of major seaports.
b. The sailors see, from a distance, the smoke of Babylon burning. This confirms
that Babylons destruction by fire is a literal event.
c. This is the third time in this chapter that one hour is mentioned. Apparently,
the Lord is making a point: The destruction of Babylon occurs in literally one
hour.
18:20-24 (a) "Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has
avenged you on her!" (b) Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it
into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall
not be found anymore. The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be
heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound
of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. The light of a lamp shall not shine in you
anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your
merchants were the great men of the earth, for (c) by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
And (d) in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the
earth."
a. Let the celebration over the annihilation of all living things including the
human inhabitants of Babylon begin!
b. But now, there is a second destruction! And the dilemma (cf. the commentary
on 17:18) as to how Babylon can be destroyed both prior to the midpoint of
the Final Seven Years and at the end of the seven years is solved: There are
two destructions: (1) the destruction by fire of all natural life in Babylon prior
to the midpoint of the seven years, which sets the stage for the ten kings and
Antichrist to take over the world, and (2) the physical destruction of Babylon
by a giant millstone-like object, sinking her beneath the waves of the sea, never
to be found anymore (cf. Jeremiah 51: 42, 55, 64), here at the end of the seven
years. This apparently also alludes to the fact that revived Babylon (the
Revived Roman Empire), the global kingdom of Antichrist, of which the
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modern nation Babylon the Great is the precursor and prototype, is totally
destroyed at the end of the Final Seven Years.
c. Satanic spiritual power, as in sorcery (witchcraft), is the reason for Babylons
success, as the headquarters of Satans horde of evil spirit-beings, in dominating
the world religiously, politically, and commercially, even after her destruction
by fire. It is revealing that the Greek word translated sorcery in this verse is
pharmakeia, from which the English word pharmacy is derived. The occult is
heavily involved in drug use. Prescribed drugs, drugs in vaccinations, drugs in
our food, and illegal drugs are perhaps the main means for opening the doors
of our souls to evil Babylonian spiritual influences.
d. Of course, Babylon herself did not literally kill all the prophets, saints, and
others murdered on Earth. But, figuratively speaking, as the throne of Satan,
the same spirit of the devil (specifically, Ishtar) who animates and energizes
Babylon, even before and after her destruction by fire, has been responsible for
their deaths throughout history.

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Appendix 2

Be Saved from the Wrath of God

ost Bible expositors variously teach that Christians will be caught up

(raptured) to Heaven before the events of the Great Tribulation and
the Day and the Wrath of the Lord commence, or that they will be
supernaturally protected from those events, or that those events have already
occurred in the past and the Church is, at the present time, establishing the
Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. But, an honest exposition of the Biblical text
reveals that none of those views is correct.
The Great Tribulation, the Day of the Lord and the Wrath of God are not
synonymous terms. Many Bible expositors and teachers label the entire Final
Seven Years as the tribulation and make no distinction between that period of
time and its events and the Day (and the Wrath) of the Lord. But an honest
examination of the text reveals that The Great Tribulation (cf. Matthew 24:21;
Revelation 7:14) is totally different from the Day (and the Wrath) of the Lord.
The Great Tribulation is the wrath of Satan (Revelation 12:12) being poured out
on all who oppose him and begins at the midpoint of the Final Seven Years when
his incarnation Antichrist declares himself to be god (2 Thessalonians 2:4;
Revelation 13:5). However, the Day of the Lord occurs later, on the last day of the
Final Seven Years, when the last plagues of the Wrath of the Lord are poured out
on the followers of the anti-messiah (Revelation 6:15-17; 15:1).
Nowhere in Scripture are the Followers of Jesus (the Church) promised
exemption from any of the physical suffering, tribulations, persecutions and death
that are the lot of all human beings as long as we are in our corrupt, human flesh
and subject to sin. Our complete exemption from suffering will occur only when
we are in our new, glorified bodies in the presence of our Redeemer in His
millennial kingdom. Jesus Himself told his disciples that they would suffer
persecution and tribulation (cf. Matthew 24:21; Mark 10:30). And the apostle Paul
frequently spoke of his infirmities, reproaches, needs, persecutions, distresses and
so forth (e.g., 2 Corinthians 12:10).
There are two extremes in interpreting what the Bible states about suffering.
One is the word of faith, health, wealth and prosperity, name it and claim it,
believe it and receive it doctrine that no suffering in this life is necessary for the
Believer whose faith is intact. The other is that true Believers in the Messiah will
escape to Heaven in the Rapture before the real suffering of the Great Tribulation
and the Wrath of the Lord begin. Both views are flawed, unscriptural and

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potentially tragic, resulting in the destruction of the faith of those who cling to
either doctrine when they find themselves in the midst of the wrath of either Satan
(the Great Tribulation) or the Lord (the Wrath of God).
So, let us look briefly at what it really means to be saved from the Wrath of
God.

What is the Day of the Lord?

In the Bible, the Day of the Lord is a very prominent and important prophetic
theme. The explicit term, Day of the Lord, occurs over 20 times in Scripture. It is
used in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. It is described by eight
Old Testament prophets, mentioned by three New Testament writers, and alluded
to many other times as that day, the Day of Christ, and by other terms. Here is
the prophet Zephaniahs description of that Day:
The great Day the LORD is near, near and coming very quickly. Hear the sound of the Day of
the LORD! When its here, even a warrior will cry bitterly. That Day is a Day of fury, a Day of
trouble and distress, a Day of waste and desolation, a Day of darkness and gloom, a Day of clouds
and thick fog, a Day of the trumpet and battle-cry against the fortified cities and against the high
towers [on the city walls].
I will bring such distress on people that they will grope their way like the blind, because they have
sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their bowels like dung.
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them. On the Day of the LORDs fury, the
whole land will be destroyed in the fire of His jealously, for He will make an end, a horrible end, of
all those living in the land. (Zephaniah 1:14-18)

As prophesied in the Revelation (6:12-14), the Day of the Lord will be

announced by the most awesome catastrophes in world history, including
cataclysmic worldwide natural and/or human-caused disasters. Then it will include
the period of time of a few years during which the initial plagues of Gods
judgments announced by the seven trumpets is poured out on those who have
rejected and rebelled against Him. Then, at the blast of the seventh and last
trumpet on Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets) at the end of the Final Seven
Years, the resurrection of the righteous will occur and Christ Jesus will return and
catch away the redeemed of God to Heaven (Mark 13:26-27; 1 Corinthians 15:52;
1 Thessalonians 4:14-17). Next, while the marriage and wedding feast of the Lamb
and His Bride are being celebrated in Heaven (Revelation 19:7-9), the last plagues
of the judgments of God (cf. Revelation 11:18; 15:1) will be poured out on Earth
(Revelation 16:1). Then, on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the newlycrowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords (the Messiah Jesus) will descend with
the armies of Heaven (the glorified saints and angels) to destroy His enemies at the
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Fire, and cleanse the earth of all unregenerate earth dwellers (19:11-21). Then,
after binding and imprisoning Satan, the Messiah will bring His People Israel out
of the wilderness into which they have fled from the persecution of the antimessiah and establish the glorious millennial Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (Isaiah
11:12; Zechariah 14:1-11; Revelation 12:6, 14). At this time, the heavens and earth
will be renewed and New Jerusalem will descend from Heaven (cf. Isaiah 65:17,
18; Revelation 21:1) , the tribes of Israel will occupy the Land (Ezekiel 40-48), and
the surrounding nations will be formed by Gentiles on whom the Lord had mercy
and allowed to enter His millennial kingdom (Zechariah 14:16). Finally, the Day
of the Lord will end with the Final Judgment when the redeemed of God will be
ushered into eternity in His glorious presence and the damned (including Satan)
will be cast into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:11-15).1
So basically, the Day of the Lord will begin with the biggest showdown in
world historya period of time (not a literal 24-hour day) during which the Lord
will take back the wonderful, perfect Creation that Satan usurped from Him 6,000
years ago. The Lord will first set Satan upgiving his incarnation, Antichrist, a
short time after proclaiming himself to be god to (in his deluded mind) establish
his dominion on Earth. But then, through a series of ever-intensifying,
supernatural disasters, culminating in the bowls of Gods Wrath being poured out
at the end of the seven years, Antichrists global kingdom will be totally
demolished.
But, the point is, we dont want to be on Earth during the time when the last
plagues of Gods Wrath are being poured out here! It is going to be a wonderful,
glorious time from the perspective of those who are already in Heaven, as we
celebrate with all the heavenly hosts the destruction of the Lords enemies and the
redemption of His Creation, but a horrible, horrible time, like the world has never
before seen, for those still on Earth. The Remnant of Gods physical people the
Jews, who have not given in to the incredible deception or agonizing oppression of
that time, and some God-fearing Gentiles, who have not taken the mark of the
beast, will be supernaturally protected and saved, but all others who have been
suckered or pressured into following Antimessiah as their (false) messiah will find
themselves in unimaginably horrible, hopeless straits.

When will the Day of the Lord occur?

As with other future End-Times events, the timing and sequence of the Day
the Lord is a matter of great debate among Bible scholars and prophecy
teachers. A few things are clear in Scripture: (1) there will be a seven-year period of
time in the near futurea time called in the Bible the Birth Pains of the Messiah or
the Time of Jacobs Troublewhen the history of the world, as you and I have
known it all our lives, will be brought to a terrifyingly tumultuous close, (2) the last
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great tribulationa time when the wrath of Satan (Revelation 12:12) will be
poured out on all who oppose him, especially believers in Jesus as the true Messiah
who are on Earth at that time. Gods people the Jews who are looking forward in
faith to the coming Messiah but have not yet recognized that He is Jesus will be
hidden and protected in the wilderness during the Great TribulationRevelation
12:14), and (3) the last part of that seven years will be progressively overshadowed
by the judgments and the Wrath of God (cf. Revelation 6:17) being poured out on
all who oppose Him, including Antichrist.
Virtually all scholars and teachers who believe in the literal seven-year scenario
agree about the Great Tribulation (the wrath of Satan), the Day of the Lord, and
the Wrath of God being part of it. The disagreement is over the timing and
sequence of events within the seven years. Joseph Good (www.hatikva.org), for
example, believes that the Day of the Lord, the Great Tribulation, and the Wrath
of God all run concurrently throughout the seven years. The prewrath rapture
peopleRobert Van Kampen [deceased], Marvin Rosenthal, Charles Cooper, et al.
(cf. www.prewrath rapture.com)believe that the Great Tribulation comprises a
short period of time immediately following the midpoint of the seven years, after
which the Day of the Lord, which includes the Wrath of God, will occur
during the last year or two of the seven.
S. R. Shearer
(www.antipasministries.com) believes that the tribulation comprises the entire
seven years, with the Day of the Lord being a literal 24-hour day that occurs on
the last day of the seven years.
This commentator has been studying the Scripture and all these teachings for
many years, and tends, to an extent, to go along with the prewrath view because it
seems to be the most natural, literal, common-sense interpretation which best
harmonizes all the prophetic Scripture. However, if one holds to a literal
prophetic fulfillment of the Spring and Fall feasts of the Lord, then, just as the
Messiahs first coming, death and resurrection, and the pouring out of His Spirit
were exactly, to the day and hour, foreshadowed by the Spring Feasts, His second
coming, the resurrection and rapture of His Bride (the Church), the pouring out of
the last plagues of the Wrath of the Lord (the plagues of the bowls of wrath
following the sounding of the seventh and final trumpet), the sheep and goat
judgment (Matthew 25:32-33), and the establishment of His millennial kingdom
must all occur within the 15-day period of the Fall Feasts following the sounding
of the final trumpet blast on Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets).
But, guess what?when it comes down to where the rubber meets the
roadto how I need to be living my life in the present momentI do not know
and I do not care about the exact timing and sequence of these events. All that I
know and care about is that they will occur, and I need to be doing my best to be
warning everyone I can to be prepared, regardless of when in the sequence of
events, they occur. There also will be other specific events during the seven years
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that people need to be warned about or prepared for, whether they occur at the
beginning, middle, or end of the seven years. The timing of some events (e.g.,
Antimessiah standing in the Temple declaring himself to be god at the midpoint
of the seven years) are clearly specified. So, I believe that God has made clear, at
least to those who study prophetic Scripture diligently and sincerely want to know
the Truth, the sequence and timing of certain events. The sequence and timing of
other eventsthe annihilation of Babylon the Great, the beginning point of the
Day of the Lord, and so forthare not so clear. And all that the endless debate
over controversial times and sequences accomplish is to distract us from living
each day in total self-denial for the good of others and the glory of God, and so, I
believe, are nothing more than devices of Satan to distract us from the work of
God on Earth at the present time. I doubt that the untold millions around the
world who are in agonizing suffering, starving to death, freezing to death, being
oppressed or persecuted, or being killed every day are very concerned about when
the rapture will occur or when their oppressors (and Gods enemies) will be
destroyed, do you? They just need to know that it will happen, and that it will
happen soon, and what they need to do about it. They need salvation and hope,
not debatable details.
And there are several indications that the implications of the events of the Final
Seven Years pertain just as much to the Jews as to the Followers of Jesus. For
example, the seven years are called the Time of Jacobs [Israels] Trouble (Jeremiah
30:7). And this will be especially true during the Great Tribulation. Because
Revelation gives the details of how the Tanakh prophecies will be fulfilled, when
these things do occur just as was prophesied by Israel's prophets and by Jesus to
His disciples and in the Revelation, their eyes will be opened to see that He is the
Messiah for whom they have been looking. And that is why it is just as important
to preach the Gospel according to the Revelation to the Jews as to the Gentiles:
They may not immediately accept it, but when these events unfold, their eyes will
be opened to the Truth, and they will be saved (Romans 11:26)!
But meanwhile, are you ready for all these wonderful or terrifying (depending
on your point of view) . . . things which must shortly [in rapid succession] come to
pass (Revelation 1:1)?

Where will you be on the Day of the Lord?

The Bible indicates that the Christians, whether or not they enter the seven
years, will not have to endure at least the last plagues of the Wrath of God. Also,
there are some indications that only the unsaved earth dwellers who have taken the
mark of the beast will be affected by the trumpet and bowl plagues (cf. Revelation
9:4, 20). It tells us that the redeemed will be caught up (from the Latin, rapio) in
our newly-acquired, glorified bodies, to meet the Messiah in the sky, then taken to
a place he has prepared for us (in Heaven) (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1

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Thessalonians 4:17; John 14:2-3) before the Lords wrath is poured out (cf. 1
Thessalonians 5:9).
Nevertheless, it is difficult to see, if believers are present on Earth at all during
the last half of the Final Seven Years, how they can avoid being affected by the
plagues of the Lord that affect virtually the whole earth. One possible explanation
is that the believers (those who survive the Great Tribulation) will be present on
Earth during the entire Final Seven Years, but will be raptured on the last day,
before the last plagues of the wrath of God are poured out. Another possible
solution is that the wrath of the Lord to which 1 Thessalonians 5:9 refers is His
wrath that destroys everyone and everything opposed to Him on the final Day of
Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). So this commentator will not be dogmatic about
when, in the sequence of events, the Rapture will occur, except that it will not
occur prior to the Final Seven Years.
But, regardless of whether or not the Saints are present during the Day of the
Lord, they will have to patiently endure the Great Tribulation if they are present
during that time (cf. the commentary on 12:7-17g; 13:6-10b; 14:6-13d; and 16:15).
And if they endure whatever trials and tribulations come their way (cf. 2 Timothy
2:12), overcome whatever obstacles Satan places in their path, and keep doing
what God has given them to do until The End, they will be saved (cf. Revelation
2:26).
Of course, I am not teaching a work-your-way-to-Heaven salvation here.
Good works and grace are not mutually exclusive (contrary to what many
Christians believe and teach). I acknowledge that it is only by Gods grace and
Spirit that we can do anything right and keep the commandments of the Lord.
But I just wanted to point out that endurance and good works (by Gods enabling
Spirit) are necessary confirmations of a saving faith (cf. James 2:17). In other
words, if the Holy Spirit does not dwell in us, enabling us to live a good life and do
good works, then our faith is phony and will not get us to Heaven. Just because
we believe in our heads that Jesus is the Lord does not make us eligible for
citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven. Only if God the Holy Spirit dwells in us,
enabling us to . . . deny [ourselves], take up [our] cross[es] daily, and follow [Him]
with our whole heart, soul, strength, time, and all of our possessions, can we be
sure of escaping the Wrath of God, and ultimately, eternity in Hell.
As Ive mentioned on other pages of this book, most American Christians
are deceived. They have a strong tendency to think that they are okay with the
Lord when they are not. How about you? Have you really surrendered your life
lock, stock, and barrelto the Lord, in the name of Jesus the true Messiah, and
do you know that the Holy Spirit is in you, enabling you to do everything that you
do (cf. Romans 8:9)? If you are not sure, youd better make sure, before you find
yourself right in the midst of the worst nightmare (but real) that you have ever
conceivedthe awesome, terrible Wrath of God.
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If you have any doubt about where you stand with the Lord, please let me
encourage you to go back and read Chapter 4Is the United States of America a
True Christian Nation.
Meanwhile, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about
anything youve read in The Tenth Harbinger, if you want someone to pray with or
for you, if you just want to discuss these things, or if you would like to get
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Introduction
1. Jonathan Cahn, The Harbinger (Lake Mary, FL: FrontLine, 2011).
2. Israels prophesied response to the first attack by the Assyrians (732 B.C.)
and defiantly proclaimed by Americas leaders after the 9/11 attack on the World
Trade Center, http://www.politijim.com/2011/09/monday-freak-out-tomdaschle-and-john.html (accessed September 11, 2013).
3. Watchman Bob, The Revelation of Yahushua the Messiah (self published, 2010),
available through http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com or
Amazon.com.
4. Revelation Understood! Commentary,
http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com
5. Prophecy Being Fulfilled in Current Events,
http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com/revelation-commentaryblog.html
6. James F. Fitzgerald, The 9/11 Prophecy (Washington, D.C.: WND Books,
2013).

Chapter 1The Harbinger: Insightful but Incomplete

1. Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary on the Whole
Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1961), 503.
2. Details and dates of the history of Israel (other than those recorded in the
Bible) are based on Yohanan Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah, The MacMillan Bible
Atlas, 3rd ed. (Jerusalem: Carta, 1993), 90-113.
3. Research has shown that Pul, identified as the king of Assyria in 2 Kings
15:19, was Tiglath-pilezer III, http://www.biblehistory.com/archaeology/assyria/Tiglath-Pileser-III.html (accessed September 16,
2013).
4. Numerous articles and books, e.g., NORAD Standdown,
http://911research.wtc7.net/ planes/analysis/norad (accessed September 16,
2013), have documented how inexplicable it is that each of four commercial
airliners were allowed to fly off-course for from 16 to 52 minutes, especially in the
area of the nations largest city and its capital, without being intercepted by North
American Air Defense (NORAD) fighter jets, when standard operating procedure
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communication has been lost with an aircraft or radar indicates that it is offcourse. This would seem, however, to be just another example of the inevitability
of the occurrence of an event prophesied in the Bible.
5. Kenneth W. Michael Wills, Assyrian Empire Military Tactics,
http://www.ehow.com/ info_8709839_ assyrian-empire-military-tactics.html
(accessed September 18, 2013).
6. Kim Benzel, Sarah B. Graff, Yelena Rakic and Edith W. Watts, Art of the
Ancient Near East,
http://www.metmuseum.org/~/media/Files/Learn/For%20Educators/Publicati
ons
%20for%20Educators/Art%20of%20the%20Ancient%20Near%20East.pdf
(accessed September 18, 2013), 48.
7. Alan Boyle, Ancient wall in Israel matches up with Bibles tale of Assyrian
attack, http://www.nbcnews.com/science/ancient-wall-israel-matches-biblestale-assyrian-attack-6C10953508 (accessed September 18, 2013).
8. The sources of all quotations in the preceding two paragraphs are cited in The
Harbinger, pages 62-63.
9. CT Forum, How Christian Leaders Have Changed Since 9/11,
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/september/howleaderschanged.html?
start=2 (accessed September 20, 2013).
10. hewn stones <01496> (from Strongs Concordance), cited in BibleWorks for
Windows, Version 8.0.005s.1 (Norfolk, VA: Bibleworks LLC, 2009).
11. Remarks, Governor George E. Pataki, Laying of the Cornerstone for
Freedom Tower, July 4, 2004,
http://renewnyc.com/content/speeches/Gov_speech_Freedom_Tower.pdf.
12. Zacchaeus: Up a (Sycamore) Tree (Luke 19:4),
http://trivialdevotion.blogspot.com/ 2013/02/zacchaeus-up-sycamore-tree-luke194.html (accessed September 22, 2013).
13. The Cedars of God, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedars_of_God
(accessed September 22, 2013).
14. Randy Kennedy, Uprooted in the Attacks, Now Planted in Bronze, The
New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/arts/design/06chur.html?pagewanted=all
(accessed September 22, 2013).
15. Elliott Nesch, Prophetic Word in 9/11,
http://www.holybibleprophecy.org/ 2011/09/11/911-10th-anniversary-the-lordsword-in-september-11th-by-elliott-nesch (accessed Septermber 22, 2013).
16. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, John Edwards: Remarks to the
Congressional Black Caucus Prayer Breakfast, September 11, 2004,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/
index.php?pid=84922#axzz1M02bgo9D (accessed September 24, 2013).
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17. Washington File, Senate Majority Leader Daschle Expresses Sorrow,

Resolve, September 12, 2001, http://wfile.ait.org.tw/wfarchive/2001/010913/epf407.htm (accessed September 25, 2013).
18. In The Harbinger (page 155), Jonathan Cahn explains that the Hebrew term
Schemitah means the release, the remission, the letting rest.
19. Donna Danna, How Close are Stock Market Crashes to Jewish Feast or
Fast Days, http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2012/donnad927-1.htm
(accessed September 26, 2013).
20. WhiteHouse.gov, Remarks of President Obamaas Prepared for
Delivery, Address to Joint Session of Congress, Tuesday, February 24, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ Remarks-of-President-BarackObama-Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress (accessed September 26, 2013).

Chapter 2A Second Witness: The 9/11 Prophecy

1. Unless otherwise noted, all descriptions of James F. Fitzgeralds experiences
in this chapter are based on his account in The 9/11 Prophecy (Washington, DC:
World Net Daily, 2013).
2. James F. Fitzgerald, The WatchWORD Bible (video book), distributed by
World Net Daily, www.wnd.com.
3. The 9/11 Prophecy, page 22.
4. The 9/11 Prophecy, page 24.
5. The 9/11 Prophecy, pages 24-28.
6. For the identity of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, read the
commentary on Revelation 6:2 at http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com/beginning-of-sorrows.html (accessed November 21, 2013).
7. For identification of the one who restrains, see Alan Kurschner, Antichrist,
Before the Day of the Lord (Pompton Lakes, NJ: Eschatos Publishing, 2013), 36-39.
8. The 9/11 Prophecy, page 157.
9. The Harbinger, pages 221-223.
10. The 9/11 Prophecy, page 187.

Chapter 3A Third Witness is Called

1. Watchman Bob, Who are the People of Yahuah (God)?
http://www.revelationunderstood commentary.com/people-of-Yahuah.html
(accessed October 9, 2013).

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2. American Exceptionalism,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism (accessed October 9,
2013).
3. Dave Gifford, Eight interesting facts about Revelations use of the Old
Testament, Gifmexs Bog of Apoca-Lists, http://www.revelation.giffmex.org/?p=17
(accessed October 10, 2013).
4. Watchman Bob, The Revelation of Yahushua the Messiah (self-published, 2010),
printed by CreateSpace, http://www.createspace. com, and distributed through
http://www.revelationunderstood commentary.com and
http://www.amazon.com.

Chapter 4Is the United States of America a

True Christian Nation?
1. Pride also motivates anti-Semitism. Even though Christians may say that they
are pro-Israel and even that the Jews are the people of God, they usually
consider Jews second-class citizens in the Kingdom of God, or not really the
people of God at all. The apostle Paul wrote the entire eleventh chapter of
Romans to refute and warn against that view, explaining that the Jews are the
original People of God who have been temporarily put on holdblinded to the
fact that Jesus is their Messiahso that the Gentiles who are branches of the
wild olive tree who come to faith in Jesus, could be grafted into the natural
olive tree (Israel). So, the grafted-in believers in Jesus should certainly not look
down their noses at the Jews, because if the natural branches could be cut off but
later grafted back in, how much easier would it be to cut off arrogant, antiSemitic, anti-Zionist grafted-in branches? (cf. Romans 11:1, 13-25) Paul further
explains the relationship between the Jews and the grafted-in believers by calling
them fellow citizens in the commonwealth of Israel (Ephesians 2:12, 19). So,
it is actually more correct to say that Gentiles who have come to faith in Jesus are
Israelites than it is to say that Jews who have come to faith in Jesus are Christians.
2. Matthew Mead, The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and
Cast, http://www.jesuseveryday.com/free_christian_books/Matthew_MeadThe_Almost_Christian_ Discovered.pdf (accessed October 11, 2013).

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1. Founding Fathers of the United States of America,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Founding_ Fathers_of_the_United_States
(accessed October 11, 2013).
2. For a few of the many Scriptures that state or imply that Jesus is God, see
Some Bible verses that say, Jesus is God,
http://www.bugman123.com/Bible/JesusIsGod.html (accessed October 12,
2013).
3. Deism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism (accessed October 14, 2013).
4. Unless otherwise indicated, the information in this section on Thomas
Jefferson is derived from Thomas Jefferson,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson (accessed October 14, 2013).
5. Jeffersons Religious Beliefs, http://www.monticello.org/site/researchand-collections/jeffersons-religious-beliefs (accessed October 14, 2013).
6. Jeffersons Religious Beliefs
7. Thomas Jefferson and Slavery,
http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-andslavery (accessed October 15, 2013).
8. Unless otherwise indicated, the information in this section on Benjamin
Franklin is derived from Benjamin Franklin,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin (accessed October 15, 2013).
9. Walter Isaacson, editor, A Benjamin Franklin Reader (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2003), 492.
10. Darren Staloff, Deism and the Founding of the United States,
http://nationalhumanities center.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/deism.htm
(accessed October 17, 2013).
11. Unless otherwise indicated, information in this section on Alexander
Hamilton is derived from Alexander Hamilton,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton (accessed October 20, 2013).
12. Douglas Adair & Marvin Harvey (1955). "Was Alexander Hamilton a
Christian Statesman?". William and Mary Quarterly 12 (2): 308329, as referenced
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Alexander_Hamilton (accessed October 20,
2013).
13. Information in this section on James Madison is derived from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ James_Madison (accessed October 20, 2013).
14. Information in this section on Unitarianism is derived from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Unitarianism (accessed October 20, 2013).
15. Unless otherwise indicated, information in this section on John Adams is
derived from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ John_Adams (accessed on October
20, 2013).

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16. United First Parish Church,

http://www.ufpc.org/historyvisitorprogram/history.html (accessed October 21,
2013).
17. John Adams,
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/johnadams.html (accessed October
21, 2013).
18. Charles I. Bevans, editor, Treaties and Other International Agreements of the
United States of America 1776-1949, Vol. 11: Philippines-United Arab Republic
(Washington D.C.: Department of State Publications, 1974), 1072.
19. Unless otherwise indicated, information in this section is derived from
Cutting Edge Ministries, Masonry Proven Conclusively to be Worship of Lucifer,
Satan! http://www.cuttingedge. org/free11.html (accessed October 21, 2013).
20. Masons (Freemasonry), Christian or Anti-Christian?
http://www.rapidnet.com/~ jbeard/bdm/Cults/masons.htm (accessed October
21, 2013).
21. Unless otherwise indicated, information from this section on George
Washington is derived from George Washington,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington (accessed October 22, 2013).
22. The Ignorant Fisherman Blog, Christian Quotes from President George
Washington, http://www.theignorantfishermen.com/2009/06/few-quotes-fromgeorge-washington.html (accessed October 22, 2013).
23. Bad News about the Washington Prayer,
http://www.redstate.com/qbart/2011/04/28/ bad-news-about-the-washingtonprayer/ (accessed October 22, 2013).
24. The term religious in referring to Masonic observances is quoted from
the George Washington Masonic National Memorial website at
http://gwmemorial.org/Washington TheMason.php (accessed October 22, 2013).
25. The information in this paragraph is derived from the George Washington
Masonic National Memorial website.
26. Information on John Jay, the public servant, derived from John Jay,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay (accessed October 22, 2013).
27. Information and quotes on John Jay, the Christian, derived from The Jays
and Religion,
http://www.johnjayhomestead.org/images/The_Jays_and_Religion_for_website.
pdf (accessed October 23, 2013).
28. Religious affiliations of Presidents of the United States,
http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States (accessed
October 26, 2013).
29. Famous Freemasons, http://whale.to/b/33.html (accessed October 26,
2013).
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Chapter 6The Identity and Destiny of America

in Bible Prophecy
1. Unless otherwise indicated, the information on ancient Babylon is derived
from two sources: Ancient Babylonia History of Babylonia,
http://www.bible-history.com/babylonia/Babylonia History_of_Babylonia.htm
(accessed October 30, 2013) and Jeffrey Goodman, The Comets of God (Tucson,
Arizona: Archaeological Research Books, 2011).
2. Barack Obama: The Man Who Would Be God?
http://www.conservativecrusader.com/ articles/barack-obama-the-man-whowould-be-god (accessed October 30, 2013).
3. The American Empire and the U.S. System of Client States,
http://www.antipasministries. com/html/file0000133.htm (accessed October 30,
2013).
4. In spite of the USAs deadline to withdraw military forces from there by the
end of 2011, she still maintains a very powerful training, advisory, support, and
mercenary presence in Iraq. Obviously, the USA intends to maintain controlling
influence in that part of the world, because she has just completed and moved into
her new, fantastic, sprawling embassy in Iraqthe largest in the worldlocated
just 50 miles from the site of the ancient city of Babylon! Ironic, isnt it? U.S.
Embassy
in
Iraq
Largest,
Most
Expensive
Ever,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/01/05/us-embassy-in-iraq-largest-mostexpensive-ever (accessed October 30, 2013).
5. New World OrderPresident Bushs Speech to Congress, http://www.albab.com/arab/ docs/pal/pal10.htm (accessed October 30, 2013).
6. R.A. Coombes, America, the BabylonAmericas Destiny Foretold in Biblical
Prophecy, on CD Rom at http://americathebabylon.com (last accessed October 4,
2013). However, Coombes passed away in 2013 and the americathebabylon.com
site was removed from the Internet. America, the Babylon is now available as a
condensed book through Amazon.

Chapter 7The Tenth Harbinger

1. The photo of the Genesis 11 page and Susons description of his discovery
may be viewed at september11.net,
http://www.septembereleven.net/page141.htm (accessed October 4, 2013).
2. The Comets of God, 298-302.
3. The Comets of God, 299.
4. The Comets of God, 289-291, 308-309.

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5. See the commentary on Revelation 6:2 in The Revelation of Yahushua the

Messiah, 91-92.
6. America the Babylon.
7. The Comets of God, 184.
8. The comet fragment just 100 meters in diameter that exploded over the
Tunguska River Basin in Siberia in 1908 flattened more than a half million acres of
forest, The Comets of God, 161.
9. The Comets of God, 77.

Chapter 8The Final Seven Years

1. The term one week in Daniel 9:27 is translated from a Hebrew term
(shabuwa) which can mean seven days or years, depending on the context. In the
context of other Scriptures (e.g., Daniel 12:11), it is clear that the one week of
Daniel 9:27 is one week of years (seven years), as is clarified in the Complete Jewish
Bible and the New International Version of the Bible.
2. See the commentary on Revelation 6:2 at
http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary. com/beginning-of-sorrows.html
(accessed November 6, 2013).
3. Notice that the events of Matthew 24:4-8 (the beginning of sorrows) perfectly
parallel the events of Revelation 6:2-8 (the conquering of the world by Satan).
4. Abomination of Desolation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination_of_desolation (accessed November 6,
2013).
5. For thorough, detailed, Scriptural support for this watchmans understanding
of the Final Seven Years, read his commentary, especially on Revelation 6-19, at
http://www.revelation understoodcommentary.com/commentary-onrevelation.html (accessed November 6, 2013).
6. For Coombes excellent analysis of Revelation 17:16, see America the Babylon.
7. Daniel 11:36-37 prophesies that the coming king (Antichrist) shall exalt and
magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall
prosper till the wrath has been accomplished. [and] He shall regard neither the God of his
fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.
This means that, if Antichrist is a Muslim (as this commentator believes), when he
declares himself to be god, he will have no more regard for the God of his fathers
(Allah) and will establish his own global religion in which he will be worshiped as
god. (According to the Quran, it is blasphemy for anyone to consider himself
equal with Allah or even to be Allahs son.)

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Chapter 9Will Christians Escape, Survive, or Take Dominion

of the Earth During The Final Seven Years?
1. Left Behind, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind (accessed
November 9, 2013).
2. For a detailed explanation of the sequence of events of the Final Seven
Years, see the commentary on Revelation 6-19 beginning at
http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com/ beginning-of-sorrows.html
(accessed November 12, 2013).
3. Martyrs Today, http://www.fatherpius.littleway.ca/ref46.html (accessed
October 29, 2013).
4. For complete details and Scriptural support of this interpretation, see the
commentary on Revelation Chapters 20 and 21 beginning at
http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com/millennial-kingdom.html
(accessed November 11, 2013).

Appendix 1Scriptural Evidence that America is

Babylon the Great
1. Current events are rapidly confirming the fulfillment of the prophecies
concerning the rise of the revived Roman/Ottoman Empire and its ruler, the antimessiah.
The capital of the ancient Roman Empire under Constantine (a type of the
anti-messiah) was Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). The Roman Empire
was then divided into the Western Empire with Rome as its capital and the
Eastern Empire with its capital still Constantinople. After the destruction of the
Western Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire,
which later became the Islamic Ottoman Empire in 1299 CE. The Ottoman
Empire had a long history, finally falling in 1923 CE. However, Islam, with its
goal of establishing a new Caliphate (empire ruled by ShariaIslamiclaw) is, by
far, the worlds fastest-growing religion and Muslims are, by far, the fastestgrowing religious population group world-wide, literally invading the nations of the
world, particularly the Western nations. And Turkey, a Muslim-dominated nation,
is considered a Eurasian nation because of its location as a land-bridge between
Europe and Asia and its strong economic and political ties with both Eastern and
Western nations. So, it is not too difficult to see that Turkey, which is also the
primary location of the peoples who will come against Israel in the Last Days (cf.
Ezekiel 38), may very well be the location of the capital of the Revived Roman
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it not interesting that Turkey recently cut off diplomatic ties with Israel and has
sided with other Arabic nations in their determination to destroy Israel?
Also, it seems clear from Obadiahs prophecies (e.g., Obadiah 4) vis--vis other
Bible prophecies (e.g., Isaiah 14:13; Daniel 8:10; 11:37) that the anti-messiah will
be an Arabic Muslimspecifically a descendant of Jacobs twin brother Esau.
The descendants of Abrahams son and Isaacs outcast half-brother Ishmael
(the Arabs) mirror Israel in many ways, including being descendants of twelve
patriarchs (the sons of Ishmael), their belief in one god (Allah), and looking
forward to a messiah (the Mahdi). And they have always been the rivals of Israel,
coveting Israels inheritance from God through Abraham (the Promised Land, its
capital Jerusalem, and dominion over the world).
When Edom, the nation formed by the descendants of Esau (Ishmaels
nephew)Judeas treacherous kinsman-neighbor to the southwas conquered by
Nebuchadnezzar, although she remained an identifiable province of Babylon,
many of her inhabitants migrated into the surrounding areas, including what is
now Saudi Arabia and into Israel. In the absence of the Judeans, who had been
carried away into captivity into Babylon, the Edomites were permitted to occupy
Jerusalem. But then, the Jews were permitted to return to their homeland by
Cyrus, King of Persia, in 536 BCE. And, in 130 BCE, when Jerusalem and Judea
were again occupied and controlled by the Jews, the ruler of Judea at that time,
John Hyrcanus, forced the Edomites to convert to Judaism. Nominally, they
complied, but maintained a treacherous presence in Jerusalem and Judea. The
Jews remained suspicious of them, calling them half-Jews. Then, when the
Romans subjugated Judea, they made Herod I (the Great), an Edomite (Latin:
Idumean) Jew, King of the Jews. And it was Herod the Great who, in his
maniacal determination to get rid of the newborn Messiah Jesus, had all baby boys
under the age of two in and around Bethlehem killed.
Get the picture: the King of the Jews, a descendant of Israels displaced twin
brother Esau, in a diabolical frenzy trying to kill the true King of the Jews. What
clearer type of the false messiah could there be?
Then, exactly as prophesied (Jeremiah 49:10 and numerous other passages),
the Edomites seem to have disappeared after the destruction of the Temple by the
Romans in 70 CE. Apparently, they were absorbed into the surrounding, now
Arabic/Muslim nations, especially into what is now Turkey.
But, at the End of the Age, one of their descendants will again ascend to the
throne of David, and, having no regard for the god of his fathers (Allah) (Daniel
11:37), he shall claim to be not only King of the Jews, but Lord of the World.
2. For an excellent technical analysis of 17:16 (which is beyond the competency
of this commentator), see the America the Babylon: Americas Destiny Foretold in
Biblical Prophecy, available through Amazon.

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3. As scientist and scholar Jeffrey Goodman has pointed out in his well
researched and thoroughly documented book The Comets of God, it would be
impossible for even thousands of simultaneously detonated nuclear bombs to
annihilate all natural life in an area the size of the U.S.A. But a comet less than a
mile in diameter exploding in the atmosphere above a 10,000 square mile area
would very quickly incincerate all living plants, animals and humans in that area,
rendering it uninhabitable. Scientific studies of the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah
have proven that those cities were destroyed by a comet fragment exploding in the
atmosphere above them. Likewise, on June 30, 1908, at 7:15 a.m., a relatively
small comet fragment approximately 100 meters (the length of a football field) in
diameter exploded in the atmosphere above the Tunguska River Basin in Siberia,
incinerating a 1,000 square mile forested area and several herds of reindeer below,
and scorched the skin of eye witnesses 40 miles away (The Comets of God, pages 5457 and 143-152). Also, computer simulations have shown that a comet just two
miles in diameter exploding in Earths atmosphere will engulf the entire planet in
flames. So, it is easy to see, is it not, how a comet exploding above modern
Babylon the Great will very quickly annihilate all living plants and animals in that
city-state/nation?

Appendix 2Be Saved from the Wrath of God

1. For an overview of the Feasts of the Lord and their relevance to the events
of the Day and the Wrath of the Lord see the commentary on Revelation 19 at
http://www.revelationunderstood commentary.com/armageddon-prophecy.html
(accessed on November 14, 2013).

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