“Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.”1 These are terrible words, but they are directed towards a civilisation that committed unthinkable atrocities such as the murder of millions of unborn children in their mother’s womb. This civilisation, this ‘whore, ‘this ‘prostitute’ says in her heart: “I am not a ‘widow’ (I have ten lovers at every tip of my finger) and I shall certainly not mourn. Long live fun and games, sex and pleasures.” This is how she puts herself at ease. The ‘daughter of the Chaldeans’ (of the Babylonians) says: “I am forever—the eternal queen! … I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.”2 I’ll say to myself, “you have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” But God said of the man who announced this, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?”3 “Oh, my master will surely stay away for a long time,4 I have plenty of time, after me comes the Deluge.” Unbroken, reprobate, apostate Christianity says: “I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing”.5 This nominally outwardly ‘Christian’ is complacent, self-assured, and self- glorifying – in contrast to a humble, praying person, who knows that everything is by grace and who wants to live humbly from God’s hand. God intervenes at the climax of the ‘whore’s megalomania. She, who believes she is the eternal city, is so temporary that her downfall comes very quickly—with death and mourning and famine. The latter, particularly, indicates that it will span a period of time however. The blow hits hard, quickly and pitilessly, inflicted by the ten kings, into whose hearts God has put the idea6, but the consequences are stretching out over a period of time. Shortly the kings of the earth will say: “You mighty city of Babylon,”7 but it is clear who is really mighty here, ‘for the Lord God, Who has judged her, is mighty.’ Death, mourning and hunger, and whatever remains after that, will go up in flames and be burnt up. Lamentations will go up afterwards, just as they did for Tyre, the great trading city of antiquity,8 lamentations for Babylon’s downfall, for her who said she would never mourn or lament. ‘Lamentations’ like those that Jeremiah once uttered because of the terrible fate of Jerusalem, in his ‘Book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah’ in the Bible. “Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells”9—in spite of your occult powers, in spite of your potent demonic sources of supernatural but demonic inspiration. Just as ‘Babylon’ is destroyed in one day, Israel is born in one day. “Hear that uproar from the city; hear that noise from the Temple! For it is from Jerusalem that the Lord is to wreak revenge on His enemies! Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like these? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her!10 ‘Babylon’ will fall and ‘Jerusalem’ will live, as a City, and as a principle of faith. A sword against the Babylonians!11 Israel’s Redeemer is strong.12
• Thus ends the ‘judgment of Babylon’, in which her ‘spiritual principles’ in particular takes centre stage—the incredible narrowing of consciousness when man makes himself to be God and, in his self-inflicted blindness, believes himself to be invulnerable and invincible.
• The power of an ideology with enticing slogans in orchestrated mass-events led thousands upon thousands to cheer the great Führer Adolf Hitler in big stadiums. And even made people who were sceptical in the beginning to ‘sweep them off their feet’ and to raise their arms and to bring the ‘Hitler salute’ – ‘Heil Hitler!’ ‘Sieg Heil’ – completely voluntarily at that moment. Totally ‘bewitched’ and ‘enchanted’ by the well-orchestrated events.
• But now, the ‘spell’ of ‘Babylon’ finally will be broken, once and for all.
Bible References:
1.Psalm 137:8–9 NIV 2.Isaiah 47:7–8 3.Luke 12:19–20 NIV 4.Matthew 24:49 5.Revelation 3:17 6.Revelation 17:16–17 7.Revelation 18:10 8.Isaiah 23; Ezekiel 26 and 27 9.Isaiah 47:9 10.Isaiah 66:6–16 11.Jeremiah 50:35 12.Jeremiah 50:34
