I was watching a Christian prophesy series on CTN discussing the end times and why they didn't believe that the United States of America could possibly be Biblical Babylon, Babylon the Great, or Mystery Babylon. Here is why I think their categorical rejection is flawed. They seem fixated on 2 minor points. That Babylon is a distinct city and that Babylon has historic ties to the tower of Babel.
What was the tower of Babel anyway? Briefly, at that time everybody spoke one language. They built a great tower to the heavens, which arguably some claim had some reference to a religious structure and perhaps to gaze at the stars. But don't we do that now? Aside from NASA and all the things that come to us via satellite communications from the low heavens don't we even constantly ponder traveling to other planets? Also, I just posted a CNET reference about 2,500 languages in danger of being extinct very soon. And English is the scientific and diplomatic language of our day.
And as for it mentioning Babylon anything having to pertain to a city I wonder if there is any people group in the whole world that has not heard of Washington, which dispenses many of the laws and sets our foreign policy. Also you might even make the argument that the UN is still located in NY and that too could fit as a type of Babel, and that the passage that says Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen does seem to fit pretty well with the Twin Towers and Port Authority.
Again I am making no dogmatic claims on these issues. But I do have to laugh at how quickly some dismiss the
possibilities out of hand as though they believe the USA is somehow so blessed that it could never be connected to the base of power for the Antichrist - AKA the Beast of the Sea, which it would be from the perspective of someone writing 2,000+ years ago from the other side of the ocean.
Many of the Bible prophesies have already come to pass, such as have been referenced in commentaries about Daniel 11 and the king of the north/ king of the south passages. But some so-called scholars are still not even convinced of that! Even in my lifetime there were many who still thought those were future events yet to come.
It is my feeling that what many scholars believe has been a quiet period in Biblical prophesy has in reality been anything but silent and that we have been living through it all along. Maybe it's because they have been promoting these charts of events for so long that they don't wish to abandon them because it means that they really don't know everything after all and may haven gotten it wrong, as many before them had. Even this war with Muslim factions against the West was predicted, although it is getting so that any such discussion is considered religious prejudice and forbidden as a topic on many discussion boards. Funny how there is generally no such prohibition on anti-Christian discussions short of espoused criminal intent.
One other thing of note I just wanted to toss out there is have you really considered some of the architecture in Washington, DC? Have you looked into the historical significance of some of the statues and structures? Some interesting secularly produced programs have caught my eye of late discussing them. I guess I'll have to start achieving some of them for future reference purposes, though granted some are a bit too conspiracy minded for me to much buy into such as in particular one segment on Free Masons having a vastly overstated role in the building of this country and their possible ultimate grand agenda of some type. But why does this matter? Everyone agrees that the US is a melting pot, perhaps a babel if you will, for the world. Along with that melting pot comes all the various beliefs and religions as well. In and of themselves Greek or Roman or whatever architecture is no big deal I suppose. That is, at least up to the point where we attempt to emulate those past cultures in certain ways and incorporate their morality and ideals into our own. I say at that point we at least need to question what the builders were trying to truly convey with these expressions.
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