“When He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come” (John 16:13).
And one way He will disclose to you what is to come is by using Israel’s past as recorded in Scripture, for Scripture says that history repeats itself:
“That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So, there is nothing new under the sun”
(Ecclesiastes 1:9).
We have applied the premise of Scriptural history repeating itself to the two Babylon’s spoken of in Scripture because we believe that God’s judgment of the Babylon of Daniel’s day will be duplicated in the Babylon spoken of in the book of Revelation and that the United States of America is Revelation’s Babylon. “Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come” (Revelation 18:10).
Why do we believe the USA is Babylon, and what is the basis and significance of this declaration?
The United States of America at the present time is the only nation upon the earth that fulfills Babylon’s description found in the book of Revelation. And if the United States of America is Babylon, then to understand the judgment that is to befall Babylon is to understand the judgment that is to befall us in the USA.
In order to aid the reader in judging our assertion that the USA is Babylon, we will list Babylon’s more revealing characteristics, which will illustrate to the reader that the USA at the present time is the only nation upon the earth that fulfills Babylon’s description:
Babylon is a harlot! (Revelation 17:5)
Scripture defines a harlot as a person who directs their pathway according to their heart (what seems right) and according to their eyes (what seems reasonable) rather than according to God’s Word (Numbers 15:39). In other words, a harlot reasons according to her fleshly desires, rather than according to the Word of God (Judges 21:25).
We in the USA have directed our nation’s pathway according to our selfish desires, completely disregarding God’s Word. Because of us, our nation has become a harlot, just like Babylon!
Babylon reigns over the kings of the earth. (Revelation 17:18)
And so does the USA. The USA is the world’s only remaining superpower, reigning over the kings of the earth by her military and economic dominance, by the influence of her great wealth, and by her widespread leadership in almost every field of human endeavor.
Babylon exists upon the earth at the end of this age. (Revelation 17:16-18)
The signs of the times disclosed in Scripture reveal that we living on earth today are also living at the end of this age. Therefore Babylon, whose characteristics are graphically described in the book of Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51, and also in the book of Revelation chapters 17 and 18, is now present upon the earth for all to see and recognize. Only the United States of America matches Babylon’s many characteristics!
Babylon is depicted as being the wealthiest nation upon the earth. (Revelation 18:3, 11)
So is the USA! All the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality (Revelation 18:3) because the USA is the greatest consumer of the world’s goods. In recent times, America’s borders have been opened to all of the world’s goods through the elimination of her protective tariff barriers, enabling this prophecy to be fulfilled. Today, only the USA matches this description of Babylon!
“Every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance, and were crying out … `Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships at sea became rich by her wealth, for in one hour she has been laid waste!’” (Revelation 18:17-19)
For this to be true, Babylon would need to have many ports of entry upon many waters. The USA has ocean accessibility on three sides, navigable rivers, extensive railway and highway networks, as well as many of the world’s busiest airports, thereby fulfilling this important characteristic of Babylon.
Babylon “says in her heart, I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.” (Revelation 18:7)
The heart of the USA is her Christian church system which claims Jesus as their king and believes that as long as the USA supports today’s mostly agnostic state of Israel, she will never see mourning.
Babylon shall be filled with a population like locusts.
(Jeremiah 51:14; Revelation 18:2-5)
Today, the USA is filled with a population like locusts (citizens and illegal aliens alike); a people hungry to consume all of our nation’s wealth upon themselves through the many entitlement programs offered them. This has been accomplished through socialism’s policy of redistribution of our nation’s wealth, by forcibly taxing wealth from those who earned it and then giving it to those who didn’t.
Babylon is the praise of the whole earth. (Jeremiah 51:41)
Today, the USA, although hated and envied by many, is also the praise of the whole earth.
“Babylon should ascend to the heavens, and though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, from Me destroyers will come to her,’ declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 51:53)
This is an eerie description of the USA, for she has ascended to the heavens; she has landed on the moon; she has investigated our solar system and beyond; she has launched many satellites for commercial, research, and military purposes.
A most telling characteristic of Babylon: “She has become arrogant against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.” (Jeremiah 50:29)
Is not this a perfect description of the policies of our nation today? We won’t even allow the teaching of the God of the Bible or the mention of Him in our public school systems and many other public venues. Instead, we have for many years been subjecting our children to the ungodly teachings of secular humanism which is based solely on the intellect of mere men (Jeremiah 10:8, 14, 21), condemning both our children and our nation to suffer under the curses which come upon any nation that no longer fears the Living God.
The United States of America is the only nation existing upon the earth today that fulfills all of the above characteristics of Babylon.
Moreover, we have as America’s leadership, kings who each behave as a lad without sense, just as was King Belshazzar when the first Babylon was judged some 2,500 years ago. Today, America’s political and spiritual leaders have allowed state and church discipline to decay by neglect. And we the people have become lovers of pleasure and idleness rather than lovers of wisdom and fear of the Lord. Our leaders have actually elevated money above wisdom as the answer to all of our problems. We are a nation rushing to self-destruction!
In Daniel’s day, Babylon began to experience her first Woe, the day she chose foolish leadership to rule over her (foolish leaders do not act upon the Word of God or fear God). This same Woe also befell Jerusalem and Judah when their speech and their deeds were against the Lord. Therefore, both received evil from God as their reward (Isaiah 3:1-4, 8-9). In our day, in America, many of our leaders are openly against God in both speech and deed: they obviously do not fear God’s wrath. Therefore, we see the USA experiencing this same first Woe!
In the Book of Daniel, we read of King Belshazzar, king of Babylon, son of Nebuchadnezzar, whose father was severely punished by God for ruling arrogantly without fear of God (Daniel 4:1-37). Yet, King Belshazzar, despite knowing this, likewise exalted himself before the Lord of heaven during a great feast he held for a thousand of his nobles when Belshazzar, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines began drinking from the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, and by praising the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the true God in whose hand was King Belshazzar’s life-breath and his ways, Belshazzar did not glorify. Then suddenly, during the feast, the fingers of a man’s hand emerged and began writing on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. This is the interpretation of the inscription written out:
“God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it. You have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. Your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” … “That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. So Darius the Mede received the kingdom” (Daniel 5:1-31).
Now, some 2,500 years later, Babylon’s arrogance towards God is repeating itself in Revelation’s Babylon, the United States of America.
If we are correct concerning Babylon’s history repeating itself, then these same Two Woes which befell the Babylon of old will befall the United States of America, which presently is reigning over the kings of the earth (Revelation 17:18).
Scripture gives us a picture of a country that is ruled by foolish leaders. Having foolish leaders is the first Woe to befall the USA:
Ecclesiastes 10:16, 18-19 NASB
16 Woe to you, O land, whose king is a lad and whose princes [political & spiritual leaders] feast in the morning [for pleasure and not for strength].
18 Through indolence [a lack of diligence] the rafters [both state and church affairs] sag, and through slackness [the people being spiritually asleep] the house leaks [the nation loses her knowledge of justice, wisdom, good counsel, strength, and fear of the Lord].
19 Men [her political & spiritual leaders] prepare a meal for enjoyment [and laughter, instead of applying discipline and wisdom to solve her many problems], and wine makes life merry [through words that tell the people that everything will be okay], and money is the answer to everything [obtained through higher taxes, more debt, and the debasing of our currency].
[Brackets contain the author’s emphasis.]
The United States of America has already chosen her exceedingly foolish leaders (the first Woe) who have proven themselves to rule like children who have no sense! Therefore, the time is very near when God will judge the USA who has been corrupting the earth with her immorality
(Revelation 19:2).
God will execute his purpose against our nation by using two entities cryptically named the ten horns, which are ten kings, and the beast:
Revelation 17:12-13, 16-18 NASB
12 The ten horns which you saw are ten kings [the kings of the earth] who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast [Antichrist] for one hour. 13 These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast [Antichrist].
16 And the ten horns [the kings of the earth] which you saw, and the beast [Antichrist], these will hate the harlot [USA] and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.
17 For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom [all of the kingdoms of the earth] to the beast [Antichrist], until the words of God will be fulfilled [to the end of this age].
18 The woman whom you saw is the great city [USA], which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
[Brackets contain the author’s emphasis.]
Because the United States of America has already chosen her foolish leaders, very soon now a second hand sent from God will inscribe the following message for the leaders of our nation: God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it. You have been weighed on the scales, and found deficient. Your kingdom has been divided and given over to all the nations of the earth and to the beast (Revelation 17:16-18).
In one hour, on the day of Babylon’s judgment, the USA, her leaders, and her people will be destroyed. And so, the beast/Antichrist will have become the sixth king that reigns over all the kings of the earth.
What happens when the USA is given over to all the nations and to the beast?
Scripture says that the USA will be destroyed by the beast (Antichrist) and the ten horns (The Second Woe):
Revelation 17:16-17 NASB
16 And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.
17 For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.
Revelation 18:16-17, 21 NASB
16 saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls;
17 for in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!’ And every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance…
21 Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.
Who are the ten horns?
Many have defined the ten horns as the revived Roman Empire, but Scripture defines these ten horns as representing all the kings of the earth.
Revelation 17:12-14 NASB
12 The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
13 These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
14 These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.”
Therefore, once we see who it is that will wage war against the Lamb, then we learn the identity of the ten horns.
The identity of the ten horns (the ten kings) is exposed in the following verse which describes an event that takes place some seven years after the USA has been destroyed. It occurs at the climax of the battle of Armageddon:
“And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him(the Lamb) who sat upon the horse, and against His army” (Revelation 19:19).
As you have just seen, Scripture defines the ten horns (the ten kings) of Revelation 17:12-14, 16-18 as being the kings of the earth who will unite to transfer their allegiance, power, and authority to the beast (Antichrist) to execute God’s purpose by having a common purpose (the destruction of the USA), and by giving their kingdom to the beast.
When will this destruction of the USA take place?
If our premise is correct, God’s same words of judgment against the Babylon that existed upon the earth some 2,500 years ago will also apply to Revelation’s Babylon, and the time of our judgment is upon us: The kings of the earth will unite to transfer their allegiance, power and authority to the beast (Antichrist) to execute God’s purpose by having a common purpose (the destruction of Babylon), and by giving their kingdom to the beast.
And so, the USA will be no more.
Why will this happen?
We will let the Scriptures speak or themselves:
Jeremiah 50:22-24 NASB
22 “The noise of battle is in the land,
And great destruction.
23 “How the hammer of the whole earth
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!
24 “I set a snare for you and you were also caught, O Babylon,
While you yourself were not aware;
You have been found and also seized
Because you have engaged in conflict with the Lord.”
Jeremiah 51:47-50 NASB
47 Therefore behold, days are coming
When I will punish the idols of Babylon;
And her whole land will be put to shame
And all her slain will fall in her midst.
48 “Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
Will shout for joy over Babylon,
For the destroyers will come to her from the north,”
Declares the Lord.
49 Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,
As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.
50 You who have escaped the sword,
Depart! Do not stay!
Remember the Lord from afar,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
There will be no warning! America will be caught completely unawares (Revelation 18:10). America’s destruction will mark the beginning of the seven years of Tribulation upon the earth in the last days, and it will also unveil the identity of the Antichrist to the saints, but not to the world, because the world does not believe the Prophetic word of God. The world will not become convinced of the identity of the beast until some 1260 days after the USA is destroyed.
The following Scriptures indicate that America will be destroyed just before the Tribulation begins [brackets contain author’s emphasis].
Revelation 17:9-13 NASB
9 Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,
10 and they are seven kings [all of which presently exist upon the earth]; one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.
11 The beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction.
12 The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
13 These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Five have fallen [Babylon/USA, who is the 5th king, will reign over all the kings of the earth until the day the kings of the earth suddenly transfer their allegiance, power and authority from Babylon/USA to the beast/antichrist. That very day Babylon/USA and its people will be destroyed! Her destruction marks the beginning of the seven years of tribulation which occurs at the end of this age], one is [this is the 6th king, the beast/Antichrist, who rules over all of the kings of the earth, whose rule began the day he destroyed the 5th king (Babylon/USA), and his rule will continue for approximately 1260 days until the time the beast/Antichrist is killed by the Two Olive Trees (Revelation 11:4-5) and he descends into the abyss], the other has not yet come [this is the 7th king]; and when he comes, he must remain a little while [the 7th king is the beast/Antichrist’s temporary replacement after the beast/Antichrist is killed, and this 7th king will rule until the beast/Antichrist is resurrected from the dead]. The beast [Antichrist] which was and is not, is himself also an eighth [The Antichrist as the 8th king is now called (after his resurrection) the beast that comes up out of the abyss (Revelation 17:8; 11:7).]
The Antichrist is now believed by all mankind, those who do not understand and obey God’s Word, to be the promised Jewish Messiah sent from God, who is spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12. The Antichrist then begins a second 1260 days of rule over all mankind, but this time he will portray himself as being God (2 Thessalonians 2:4). When the Antichrist is believed by the deceived church and the world to be the promised Messiah sent from God, then Christ Jesus and Christianity will be rejected by mankind (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8)] and is one of the seven [being also the 6th king], and he goes to destruction [the Antichrist is thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone, after having been defeated by Christ Jesus and His army in the battle of Armageddon, which occurs after the seven years of Tribulation, at the end of this age-Revelation 19:19-20]” (Revelation 17:9-11).
Today, in the USA, the majority of Christian church congregations are much more interested in defending their denominational beliefs than in learning and understanding what God’s Spirit is speaking to the churches.
God, through His written Word, has warned His people over and over again against being willfully ignorant, without understanding (Hosea 4:6, 14). We have refused to listen!
Deuteronomy 8:19-20 NASB
19 It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
20 Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.[Brackets contain the author’s emphasis].
God has called each of us to judge ourselves rightly and to be disciplined by His Word, so that we may share His holiness and not be condemned along with the world (1 Corinthians 11:29-31; Hebrews 12:1-10).
In the following verses, God describes His displeasure with our nation whose sin is bringing forth His wrath:
Revelation 18:1-8 NASB
Babylon Is Fallen
1 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory.
2 And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. [Babylon’s people have become demonized, having believed doctrines of demons.]
3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her [because the kings of the earth revere her sensuality and thereby imitate her example], and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.” [Resulting from Babylon being the greatest consumer of the world’s goods.]
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people [God’s holy remnant], so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues [which will befall her];
5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds [resulting from her doing deeds that follow after her own heart and her own eyes (Numbers 15:39)]; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.
7 To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’
8 For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.
[Brackets contain the author’s emphasis.]
Revelation 18:21-24 NASB
21 Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.
22 And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters will not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft will be found in you any longer; and the sound of a mill will not be heard in you any longer;
23 and the light of a lamp [Word of God-Psalm 119:105] will not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom [Christ Jesus] and bride [the holy remnant in Christ Jesus-Galatians 5:24] will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth.”
[Brackets contain the author’s emphasis.]
What am I to do?
Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you whether or not what has been said is true.
Download the article Who Belongs To The Israel of God? -with Epilogue, which answers the above question.
Be diligent to study the Word, as a workman who desires to be approved of God, who accurately handles the Word of truth (2 Timothy 3:15).
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.