(Continued from prior post)
Some people feel that the symbolic harlot "Babylon" (Revelation chapters 17-18) represents only the U.S. (or only the RCC, or only Rome, or only Moscow, or only Russia). But, while the corrupt aspects of the U.S. (or of the RCC, or of Rome, or of Moscow, or of Russia, or of other countries and churches) are certainly included in what "Babylon" represents, she represents much more than just the corrupt aspects of the U.S. (or just the corrupt aspects of the RCC, or just the corrupt aspects of Rome, or just the corrupt aspects of Moscow, or just the corrupt aspects of Russia). For the U.S. just by itself (or the RCC just by itself, or Rome just by itself, or Moscow just by itself, or Russia just by itself) doesn't reign over the kings of the earth (Revelation 17:18). Nor is the U.S. the only place (or the RCC the only place, or Rome the only place, or Moscow the only place, or Russia the only place) on the earth where people buy merchandise (Revelation 18:11). Nor is the U.S. the place (or the RCC the place, or Rome the place, or Moscow the place, or Russia the place) where all martyrs have been killed (Revelation 18:24). Nor has the U.S. just by itself (or the RCC just by itself, or Rome just by itself, or Moscow just by itself, or Russia just by itself) corrupted the entire world (Revelation 18:3). Nor has the U.S. (or the RCC, or Rome, or Moscow, or Russia) been continuously supported by the empires of fallen man throughout history (Revelation 17:7,9-10).
Nonetheless, the corrupt world-system represented by the "Babylon" in Revelation may currently be headquartered in Washington DC and New York City, insofar as Washington DC may currently be "the crowning city" (cf. Isaiah 23:8) of mankind's corrupt politics, the first leg of the corrupt world-system represented by "Babylon" (Revelation 17:18). And New York City may currently be "the crowning city" of mankind's corrupt economics, the second leg of the corrupt world-system represented by "Babylon" (Revelation 18:11). "The crowning city" of mankind's corrupt religions, the third leg of the corrupt world-system represented by "Babylon" (Revelation 18:24), may currently be Jerusalem, as it was back in the first century (Matthew 23:35-38).
Ultimately, all three legs of the corrupt world-system represented by "Babylon" could become headquartered in the literal rebuilt city of Babylon (in Iraq), which the Antichrist could make the capital of the world during his 3.5-year worldwide reign (Revelation 13:5,7). He could build a central temple to himself (and Lucifer/Satan) there, for a temple will be built to wickedness in Shinar (Babylonia) (Zechariah 5:8,11), and the Antichrist is called "that Wicked" (2 Thessalonians 2:8).
Tyre was "the crowning city" of mankind's corrupt economics at one point in ancient times (Isaiah 23:8). God allowed the destruction of ancient Tyre as a lesson, an example, "to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth" (Isaiah 23:9). In the same way, would God allow the destruction of New York City and Washington DC by terrorist nuclear bombs, as a lesson, an example, "to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth"?
Also, the Bible teaches that, without repentance, what's sown is reaped (Galatians 6:7), and two nuclear bombs were sown by the U.S. against two major cities in Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in order to terrorize Japan into surrender during World War II. So could the U.S. at some point in the future reap two terrorist nuclear bombs against two of its own major cities? Could the U.S. avoid this fate by publicly repenting before God and asking God and Japan for forgiveness for the U.S. intentionally targeting and murdering 150,000 innocent civilian men, women and children living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Could the 9/11 terrorists being allowed by God to intentionally target and murder 3,000 innocent civilian men, women and children in New York's Twin Towers and elsewhere in the U.S. have been just a warning to the U.S., a mere shot across its bow, to try to get the U.S. to repent for what it did to the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? But could the U.S. continue to refuse to repent for its nuclear terrorism against Japan, leaving the way open for nuclear terrorism against the U.S.?
New York City and Washington DC could be destroyed by terrorist nuclear bombs before the Antichrist even arises on the world stage. For there's someone currently keeping the Antichrist from taking over the world; it's only when this "restrainer" is taken out of the way that the Antichrist will be able to take over the world (2 Thessalonians 2:6-8a, Revelation 13:7). This restrainer could be a powerful angel like the one who will restrain Satan at the second coming of Jesus Christ (Revelation 20:1-3). The powerful angel restraining the Antichrist could be Michael the archangel, the angelic prince over Israel (Daniel 12:1, Daniel 10:21,13). At the same time, Michael could also currently be the angelic prince over the U.S., making sure that the U.S. supports Israel.
Part of Michael's being taken out of the way, just enough so as to allow the Antichrist to take over the world, could be God removing Michael's protection of the U.S., just enough to allow both New York City and Washington DC to be nuked by terrorists. This could happen shortly before or after the war of Revelation 6:4-8, and could weaken the U.S. not only by the destruction of its financial and political capitals, but also by the subsequent run on the U.S. dollar which could occur, rendering the U.S. dollar close to worthless in world markets. The U.S. government could then finally go bankrupt, unable to finance any longer its huge debt, economy and military. Its days as a superpower will be over, opening the way for the Antichrist to arise on the world stage and begin his takeover of the world (Revelation 13:7).
If New York City and Washington DC are attacked with nukes, will this really be the work of terrorists, such as Islamic jihadists? Or could the nuke-attack on the U.S. be merely a "false flag" operation, one presented to the world as an Islamic-jihadist attack, when in fact it will have been carefully stage-managed from behind the scenes by a powerful cabal, a worldwide secret society of Gnostic Luciferians, as part of their careful, step-by-step plan to prepare the way for the Antichrist (who is a Gnostic Luciferian: 1 John 4:3, Revelation 13:4) to arise and take over the world?
Could the Gnostic Luciferian cabal secretly train and equip some Islamic-jihadist group in Pakistan with two nukes and the means to get them into the U.S. and detonate them in New York City and Washington DC? For example, could the two nukes be secretly built in North Korea, secretly sold to Iran, secretly delivered to Iran via a plane crossing China, secretly handed off by Iran to the cabal's Islamic-jihadist group in Pakistan, secretly boated over to Thailand, and then secretly brought into the U.S. via two shipping containers from Thailand into the Port Newark, New Jersey Container Terminal?
Could the two shipping containers have been lined with enough lead so as to thwart any radiation-detectors at the Terminal? And could these shipping containers have been filled mostly with tile, kitty litter, or bananas, which give off a natural radiation, so that if the containers are opened up and checked by hand for radiation it will be thought that the radiation is just from the tile, kitty litter, or bananas, and not from nuclear bombs packed inside lead sarcophagi hidden in the center of the containers?
Could both containers in this way get past U.S. inspection? (And could the cabal also be careful to have its own hand-picked and extremely-well bribed and blackmailed inspectors on duty when the containers are passing through U.S. inspection, to make sure that the containers aren't among the relatively few which get scanned by x-rays?)
After passing inspection, could one of the containers then be trucked to a New Jersey warehouse, where the nuke will be extracted and placed into a smaller, lead-lined, tile-filled delivery truck, which will then be driven into the very heart of Manhattan, where the nuke will be detonated? And could the other container be trucked to an Alexandria, Virginia warehouse, where the nuke will be extracted and placed into a large SUV? Could the SUV then drive to a small, local airport in northern Virginia, where the nuke will be loaded in the dead of night onto a small, private jet? Could the jet then fly in the dead of night over the very heart of Washington DC, where the nuke will be detonated?
(And even besides this, could a third nuke-containing shipping container from Thailand end up in a vast shipping-container lot in the Port of Long Beach, California, right next to Los Angeles? And could the cabal not even bother to have the nuke extracted and driven into or flown over downtown L.A., but simply have the nuke detonated right there in Long Beach harbor, so that it completely destroys the major west coast port of the U.S., and wipes out much of hugely-populated Los Angeles and Orange Counties? And could the "Islamic terrorists" claim that they nuked L.A. because it contains Hollywood, and contains the San Fernando Valley, a center for pornographic video production, so that L.A. has contributed greatly to the corrupt entertainment culture that dominates the world today, even in Islamic countries behind closed doors?)
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Regarding Jerusalem getting destroyed, it may not be until the very end of the coming tribulation of Matthew 24/Revelation chapters 6-18, and at the second coming of Jesus, that the entire city of Jerusalem will be destroyed (Luke 19:44). For at the very end of the coming tribulation the Antichrist (Daniel 11:45) and the armies of the world will attack and pillage Jerusalem, right before the second coming (Zechariah 14:2-21), and at the second coming there will be tremendous earth changes which will occur in the immediate vicinity of Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:4-5). These events could result in all the man-made structures in Jerusalem, including the third Jewish temple (which will be built), and the Western Wall (also called the Wailing Wall), being completely broken down so that not one stone will be left upon another throughout Jerusalem (Luke 19:44).
Then the returned Jesus (Zechariah 14:4, Acts 1:11-12) will rebuild Jerusalem in righteousness and make it the capital of the world (Zechariah 14:8-19, Micah 4:1-4) during his 1,000-year physical reign on the earth with the just-resurrected church (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29).
