“Keep Looking Up”
Doug Woodward's new book, The Final Babylon, could seriously alter your traditional interpretation of some long-held prophetic traditions! As we wait impatiently for Europe to rise to power and produce the long-awaited Antichrist, the EU flounders in debt, restructurings, and the threat of total insolvency. Nations like Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain are sinking into the Mediterranean with no hope in sight, while the rest of the EU isn't far behind. Europe's chances of birthing the Antichrist get slimmer every day.
The nation that continues to rule the world with a giant sledgehammer is the good old U.S.A. America is the world's richest and most powerful nation and we have a military that dwarfs the rest of the world in every imaginable way. Financially, thanks to new fracking technology, we may soon tell Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab states to keep their oil as we pay off our massive national debt! According to Woodward and friends, America could soon become a financial boomtown! But here's Doug's flip side—America could also easily be identified as the Babylon of the Bible and may very well produce the Antichrist and be destined for complete destruction! And boy does he paint a convincing picture.
The collective efforts of authors Woodward, Douglas Krieger and Dene McGriff have The Final Babylon: America and the Coming of Antichrist on its way to the best-seller list. It challenges the old prophetic guard, a dangerous undertaking if it's done in the wrong spirit. It would be worth your time to consider their observations and draw your own conclusions.
I see pieces of Gary Stearman's work on Mystery Babylon scattered throughout the book. J. R. Church was obviously a great influence on Doug's work through Guardians of the Grail and Daniel Reveals the Bloodline of the Antichrist. Then there's Tom Horn's Apollyon 2012 book; the ground-breaking genius of David Flynn; and Chris Pinto's studious research on the occult roots of America—all a part of Doug's startling conclusions. America has not always been, nor is it at present the shining city on a hill, lighting the way for the rest of the world. The inside story of our Founding Fathers, and the esoteric plans of Francis Bacon to make America the "new Atlantis" shed a dark light on our country's jaded and deceitful past.
As you might imagine, The Final Babylon is stirring up controversy. Is America Babylon or perhaps the Daughter of Babylon? Will America provide the Antichrist with his platform of power? Is a financial collapse imminent, or is America too powerful to ride off into the Chinese sunset? Will we be destroyed in a nuclear confrontation with Russia or Iran? And is New York City the ultimate target—that great financial powerhouse that sits on many waters and reigns over the kings of the Earth?
Doug's book is drawing rave reviews from some of the old-time Bible scholars who are looking at it and saying, "You know Doug, you might just be on to something here." Woodward's book took me down some forgotten paths previously traveled, jogging my memory banks to recall that J. R. Church made a suggestion 24 years ago in his book, Guardians of the Grail, that AMERICA fit the description of the biblical Babylon. J. R. was not alone in that thinking. Noah Hutchings of Southwest Radio Church wrote a book some years ago, The U. S. in Prophecy, where he detailed sixteen characteristics of the nation that fits the profile of Babylon, described in detail in Jeremiah 50 and 51, Isaiah 47, and Revelation 17-19. Woodward examines these attributes that all seem to chant USA!
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Mystery Babylon Is Fallen, Is Fallen
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. ~ Revelation 18:1-6
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