9/14/12
From the desk of
Bill Ramey
HAVE WE OVERLOOKED SOMETHING?
Did our government shoot themselves in the foot when they decided that the Bible is irrelevant? Can prophecy be trusted as a reliable guide to the future?
One of the Old Testament prophets was a man named Daniel and his prophecy was to be sealed at the time of writing until the “time of the end”. See Daniel 12:4 and 9. Daniel chapter 11 is the longest running prophecy in the Bible and covers a time span from Daniel’s day (600 BC) to the end of the age when the kingdoms of this world will be turned over to the saints. When we study this very short book, of only 12 chapters, and compare it to history as it then unfolded, the accuracy is awesome. There has been a monumental effort mounted, especially in the last century, to discredit this “little book”. “Scholars” have alleged that it was written hundreds of years after the time Daniel is reported to have lived. We find the lie put to all their efforts in a book entitled “Cyropedia” by an author named Xenophon written in the 5th century BC that mentions “the prophet Daniel” by name. Also Christ is quoted in Matthew 24:15 alluding to “the prophet Daniel”. Was He endorsing a fraud?
The really unsettling part for a world steeped in idolatry, is that the prophecies of the book of Daniel are still unfolding today. The above mentioned 11th chapter of this book is an encapsulation of some two and one half millennia of events to transpire and it is contained in 45 verses. Now you don’t cram 2600 years of “history” into 45 verses of scripture --- so this is a very brief synopsis of history before it became history. If you care to compare it with history as it then unfolded, the Living Bible does a fair job, through footnotes, of identifying the players.
I would like to cover briefly the transition of the first to the second of the 4 empires that were to rule the world (see Daniel 2:38-39) from that day until the end of the age, because I believe it is significant for us today in America .
The reason it is significant for us is because America is the New Babylon that is to be destroyed in the near future (see Revelation 18). This destruction is covered in considerable detail in Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51 where he calls us the “daughter of Babylon”.
The transition, of course, is the fall of the first empire, which was Babylon , and it fell to an inferior empire which was the confederacy of the Medes and Persians. One aspect of the invasion is covered in the 5th chapter of Daniel and is showing a big party going on for a thousand of the top politicos of the empire of Babylon .
This chapter does not explain the simple ploy used by the Medo-Persian Army that allowed them to bypass the Babylonian military. We have to go to history for those details. In a nutshell, here is how they did it. A sizeable river ran under the walls and through the citadel of Babylon . What the Medo-Persian Army did was go upstream and divert the river into another channel and then marched into the city through the now dry river bed at night while Babylonian officials were engaged in partying. How beautifully simple --- huh?
Today, of course, there is no Babylonian Empire nor Medo-Persian Empire --- or is there? If America is the New Babylon --- and it is --- and Iran is the Persian Empire --- and it is --- are we playing with something that is about to blow up in our face? We have committed to assisting Israel in ensuring that Iran does not become a nuclear threat to the rest of the world. In order to get a better perspective on this unholy alliance, one needs to know that our nation was created with Vatican money (see “Rulers of Evil” by F Tupper Saussy) and that the Vatican and the Jews are a confederacy that dates back more than 2 millennia. This is covered in some detail in “The Image of the Beast” by this author but you can read the covenant between them in I Maccabees chapter 8. The covenant was with the Roman Empire and their response clearly indicated that they considered it to be forever. Now quasi-intellectuals will counter with, “But the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD so this nullifies that covenant”, but that is another lie we have been spoon fed by our educational institutions. See Byzantine Empire in any encyclopedia.
At this point I must digress to point out to the unwary news watcher that we have been educated into the myth that the little nation of Israel today is the Israel of old and that simply is not true. You can read for yourself in the books of I and II Kings and I and II Chronicles about the division of the tribes of Israel into two nations, both of which have impacted history dramatically. One kept the name of Israel and went into captivity 721-720 BC for idolatry. The other was named the nation of Judah (Jews) and they kept up a pretense of living according to the laws, statutes and precepts of the Creator for another 120 years before also going into captivity 604-586 BC for idolatry as well.
It is generally conceded that Jerusalem was deeded to the Jews by “G_d” Himself but when we begin to put that under the microscope of scripture we find it is more myth. (See “The Image of the Beast by this author.) And this is only part of the picture. While there are Jews living in “Israel”, those in charge are not Jews at all but are those Christ referred to in Revelation 3:9 as “… those who say they are Jews but do lie”. For a clearer understanding of this, I recommend the book “The Thirteenth Tribe” by Arthur Koestler. He does a great job of putting the Sephardic/Ashkenazic Jew in perspective and accurately showing their roots. Anyway, it appears that the Creator does refer to the real estate now named Israel as “Judah ”. Keeping this in mind, let’s move on into the prophecies directed to us today.
To set the stage, let’s go to Isaiah 17 and look at verse 1. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city and it shall be a ruinous heap.” Are you aware that this has never happened? Now as we watch prophecy unfold in the middle east, we see civil war in Syria and Damascus has become a battleground. Some have assumed that it would become a ruinous heap as a result of a nuke from Israel because of all the anti-Israel groups headquartered there --- but the prophecy doesn’t say that! Could it become a ruinous heap as a result of civil war? No doubt this is being fanned by the CIA/Mossad (a confederacy) as were the civil wars in Egypt and Libya . If you compare those with Daniel 11:42-43, I hope you can connect the dots.
But now, I said the destruction of Babylon was a simple yet effective ploy to bypass the Babylonian military --- could that happen again? Are we lining up again in these last days with the same powers that did battle some two and a half millennia ago? Is history about to repeat itself? Remember, I said that chapters 50 and 51 of Jeremiah are outlining the destruction of America ? Let’s look at the introduction to those chapters and it is in the 49th chapter of Jeremiah, verse 39. “But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam saith the LORD.” For a better understanding of this, it is recommended that you read this in different translations.
Verse 3 of chapter 50 says, “For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, (Babylon), which shall make her land desolate and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.”
Verse 13 goes on to say, “Because of the wrath of the LORD, it shall not be inhabited but it shall be wholly desolate.”
Verse 9 says, “I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country:” Who is north of America , across the pole? Russia ? China ? Iran ? India ?
Verse 41 says, “…many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.”
In verse 1 of chapter 51, it says, “I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me a destroying wind…” Are we seeing those destroying winds in America today?
Now let’s get down to where the rubber meets the road. Verse 28 of chapter 51 says, “Prepare against her (Babylon ) the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof and all the land of his dominion.”
Now let’s look at a verse that I think is highly significant and that is verse 42 of chapter 51. “The sea is come upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.” Need I point out that Old Babylon was more than 100 miles from the sea?
Now as ominous as this sounds, this is not the end of it. If we look in the book of Isaiah, chapter 22, we see the heading of the chapter says, “Invasion of Jewry by the Persians”. Verse 5 makes clear that it is a day of trouble. “Jacob’s Trouble”? Verse 6 shows that Elam (Persia ) is the aggressor and verse 8 shows that he, “… discovered the covering of Judah …” Again, this should be read in different translations to get the true perspective here.
Isaiah 28 tells us that scripture is written the way it is --- “… line upon line … precept upon precept … here a little and there a little” for a reason. That reason is found in verse 13: “…that they might go and fall backward and be broken, snared and taken.” You see scripture is not written to be understood by the masses nor by rulers. All the governments of this world belong to Satan (see Luke 4) and are to be destroyed totally, along with all their supporting institutions. You can see in Daniel 12:10 who it is that will understand prophecy in the end time. Notice also that the angel who gives Daniel this information is dividing the end time world into only two camps, the wicked and the wise. We all fall into one of those camps.
Just how big a deal will it be in the destruction of Babylon ? We can begin to get a clue in the 46th verse of Jeremiah 50. “At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.” Does this put it into proper perspective? The nation is to be evacuated without an inhabitant left. The earth is going to be moved! And it’s all going to take place in the space of one month (see Hosea 5:7). How can this be?
Perhaps we need to review how this could happen through the corrective lens of events of the past few months. If we have been watching the news that CNN doesn’t give, to supplement what they do give, we should know that the Japanese tsunami of the past year was generated by an underwater nuke. We should also know that the radiation from the reactor meltdown there is poisoning the northern hemisphere. What if we had a dozen reactor meltdowns in America ? Would that be cause for evacuating the nation? Of course, that couldn’t happen --- or could it?
Jeremiah says the New Babylon (is it co-incidental that New Yorkers call their city “Babylon on the Hudson ”?) will be taken out by being covered by waves of the sea (see Jeremiah 51:42). The very next verse shows that this Babylon is composed of more than one city.
Now I have shown you that Old Babylon was taken by a simple ploy which bypassed the military and they took it without a battle. Can the New Babylon be taken with just such a ploy? I don’t see a river that can be diverted giving Persia access to us. However, the verse quoted above that says the earth will be moved should give us a clue.
We know that there are several calderas situated around this world, such as Yellowstone , that are seething masses of molten earth. One of these that is listed as a “super-caldera” is located in the Canary Islands just off the west coast of northern Africa . Scientists that study these things tell us that if it blows in a fashion similar to the last time it blew, thousands of years ago, it will send a 100 feet plus tsunami to our east coast at the speed of a modern jet plane. Could a nuke in this caldera persuade it to blow? Think about that for a moment.
Jeremiah 51:42 says it’s going to happen! Is this why our military personnel and dependents are on standby to move inland? Could one of those groups vying for dominion of the planet (Jews, Catholics and Muslim) be planning to use this as a weapon and pass it off as a natural event or an “act of God”, as they did with the Japanese tsunami?
Now think of the consequences and how this dovetails nicely with prophecies of the crises at the close of this age (not the end of the world as Catholic myth would have us believe). It would put no less than a dozen nuclear re-actors on our east coast in meltdown mode. Can we now see why the land would become desolate --- “…without an inhabitant”? Can we see why evacuation would have to be carried out quickly? (Hosea 5:7) Can we now begin to see how the prophecies of Ezekiel 5 can become a reality and quickly? Can we begin to see how things are stacking up to bring about the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy to the letter? Even to the earth being “moved”.