The Hypocrisy of Babylon

From the land of the great and the free comes the following article. Yes, in keeping with the spirit of Babylon, you can legally kill unborn children, make and export pornography, rip off fellow countrymen or other peoples to the tune of billions and license them with weapons that can kill. But try to get a number plate with the words “I Believe” printed on it, and you will invoke the wrath of authorities.

U.S. JUDGE BANS CHRISTIAN CAR PLATE

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GOD-IN-A-BOX

Haven’t had a lot of free time lately to post, but I found this site recently which I thought was very good. Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

I especially loved the buyers testimonies of how their lives were changed after receiving their very own GOD-IN-A-BOX.

“You won’t believe how much my life has changed after I got my own GOD-IN-A-BOX©.
Now, since my god has attributes that fit my lifestyle, I don’t have to worry about going
to hell anymore.” – Ed Jr.

my own GOD-IN-A-BOX©.

Link to site  :  GOD-IN-A-BOX

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The illusion of debt

For quite a few years I worked as an administration manager for a large manufacturing plant in Canberra. During that time we produced building materials for new homes, roof tiles, clay bricks and pavers.

Part of my responsibility entailed keeping an eye on our debtors, those who owed us money, to ensure that if there were a hint of insolvency we’d be in a position to act quickly and seek to recover any outstanding monies.

Sounds like a good theory but we were rarely if ever successful in achieving an advanced warning. The problem is that the banks are often the first ones to recognize there is a problem and by then it’s too late. You just have to join the queue with all the other debtors and cross your fingers that you’ll get paid.

I can recall on several occasions, some large and successful, well seemingly successful businesses, would be hard at work, building, buying, driving around in their company vehicles, doing business as normal and then bang. Overnight their creditors, the banks, would foreclose or freeze their accounts and we would be left standing with hands in pockets, somewhat surprised at the rapid transition from success to foreclosure.

I’m told that it was a little like this in the Days of the Weimar Republic when it came to hyperinflation. One day the supermarket shelves were full of food and the next they were empty.

I guess the thought that comes back to me is this. Debt allows a business or individual to present an outward appearance of affluence and prosperity, even success, yet behind the closed doors, where the truth lays, the reality is often quite different. You see, you could look at any one of those building companies and have no idea of the reality of their situation. It is part of the game that must be played, for as soon as the hand is shown, the game is up. A soon as people catch wind of reality, that all is not well with that particular builder, they will lose much needed sales and the game will be over anyway.

I’m not sure about Australia, it’s a little harder to get the facts, but as for the US, in my humble summation, she is trading whilst insolvent. Someone, somewhere in the not too distant future will make a decision, perhaps some of her creditor nations, the banks,  realizing that the game is up. Then their hand will be laid on on the table for all to see, it will be game over.

All of this when from the outside she looked successful, prosperous and a good investment. But that’s all part of the illusion which debt provides.

For now, let’s keep talking and hoping this thing up, let’s allow the illusion to continue lest anyone catch wind of the reality. It seems to me that we are going to wind this thing up so far,  that at the time that that bluff hand is shown, it will be like deflating of an overinflated balloon.

Bang !

John 6:27″Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”

 

Optimism Opium

There is a drug that our western culture is distributing and using today which I believe to be very dangerous. It is pushed by the media, politicians and sadly, part of the church.   In the video below, Gerald Celente calls it “Optimism Opium”. I’m not sure what I would call it, but it evokes a response in the user which manifests as DENIAL.

In keeping with the nature of other opiates it is designed with a specific purpose, to reduce the pain, to have a sedative effect, even putting the user to sleep. This use of this drug and the accompanying manifestation of DENIAL, is to be found in the the occupants of Western Christendom and pertains to the present economic circumstances that she faces, but can also be found amongst the Lukewarm church, who presumes that she is rich, clothed in righteousness and discerning. The very things Christ told her that she is not.

Clearly, clearly we are at the precipice of something BIG in Christendom, the West. But we the church, for what reason I do not know, except perhaps for our drug addiction, are so often of the opinion that everything is just rosy. We seem to have partaken of this optimism opium, fallen asleep, are untroubled, at peace, even supposing peace and safety, that God will just rapture us out of here any day now. Troubling days,  for when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes …and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Perhaps a good biblical example of the manifestation of using optimism opium is seen in the example of the Kingdom of the Harlot, Babylon the Great,  who indulges on the opiate of the masses and declares ” I sit as a queen, am no widow and will not see sorrow ” Rev 18:7.  Clearly the harlot had a big habit, for her DENIAL as to reality is quite profound. For the word says, in one hour her judgment came, in one hour the supposedly impenetrable kingdom will be brought to it’s knees. For in one hour she is made desolate Rev 18:19.

The word of God tells us that the occupants of this Harlot kingdom are in DENIAL. They are delusional, having partaken of the drug induced comatose opiate that is being fed to the masses by the media and it’s deluded politicians. And now they suppose themselves to be something they are not, secure, strong, untroubled, safe, protected, invulnerable, impregnable, they are altogether in DENIAL, BIG time.

When I started writing this post I just wanted to make a simple point, one which is made on the video below. Don’t be fooled Christian by the messages that are coming from our media and politicians. All is not as it seems, and though they would like you to see through their eyes of optimism, it is a foolish notion, based on failed reason and a lack of any Godly wisdom. Their optimistic words are designed to create a false sense of reality, of comfort, a stupor, even blindness to the truth of these most perilous days.

Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy [fn] to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Gerald Celente is not a Christian prophet, but a trend forecaster who uses current events to predict future trends. I find much of what he says to be at odds with what your politicians would prefer to tell you.

20 Attributes of Mystery Babylon

The following list of 20 attributes pertaining to the Kingdom of Babylon the great, mother of harlots, was taken from the website America, the Babylon.

The list is drawn from old and new testament scripture specifically relating to the End-Time Babylonian Kingdom that is destroyed at the commencement of the “Day of the Lord”.  It pretty much lays to rest those out dated and bizarre teachings that she is the catholic church or Israel or the re-emergence of a Middle East Nation.

1. It is the KEY Commercial Nation and Engine of Wealth for the World’s Economy.
2. The chief city of Mystery Babylon is a “DEEP WATER PORT CITY”!!!
3. Leading center of imports and consumption.
4. She is also a manufacturing nation
5. Center for Merchandising and Marketing
6. Known as the World’s “policeman”
7. Known for “showing the flag” or “gunboat diplomacy”
8. Sensual, Materialistic lifestyle
9. Intoxicating high-society lifestyle as a world example to emulate
10. Elegant, Sumptuous lifestyle
11. Noted for its bright gaudy-colored lights and nightlife with round the-clock partying.
12. Noted for its Drugs and Drug use
13. A land of immigrants
14. Land of Rebels in its birth
15. Land of Agriculture (when was the last time you saw wheat combines and corn-pickers harvesting crops in Vatican City? How about Hog farming? A cattle ranch?
16. Described as a “Land” of many waters. “Land” is a term designating a nation not a city and not an organization or church.
17. Where the world’s leaders “stream” to meet (Jer 51:44 — where they all come at once to get together on a regular basis… also Rev. 17:18)
18. Last of the Super powers
19. Defenses reach up to Outer Space
20. AND LAST BUT BY NO MEANS THE LEAST… THE MOST LITERAL OF ALL: –A populated city named Babylon with deepwater port facilities and the city is considered the “chief city” or most important city of the nation. This is how people of the first century AD referred to a nation, by its chief city.

Signs of judgement on Babylon

In such a very short a time there has been a significant change in one particular area of our western culture, family values and relationships.

I’m not talking about the decline of the traditional marriage, or the increase in family breakdown, but rather the introduction of same sex relationships by the media, into our culture,  particularly through television programming.  In what seems to be a few short months, not years or decades, but in a very short period of time many family orientated shows in Australia have introduced same sex couples into their storylines.

I know that our culture has been pushing these boundaries for years, but the change to traditional TV viewing  has been rapid, to say the least. We have stepped into new territory this past year with many producers pushing this value system into the lives of our families and children.

There is one positive aspect to this, well in my household anyway. The TV is getting less and less airtime. The idiot box which speaks an image of the world into the lives of my family may be coming to an end quicker than I had hoped.  Idiot box! That’s what my mum used to call  it 40 years ago. Maybe mum did have a prophetic gift after all!

Anyway the problem with all of this same sex relationship value system being imparted to our lives at warp speed is that it speaks of God’s judgement on this generation. Anyone who understands the scripture in Romans chapter 1, pertaining to the wrath of God, will know that God’s judgment on an unrighteous generation is to “hand us over”.

Rom 1:26   For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

The rampant increase in sexual immorality in this day is a clear sign that He, God, refuses to strive with men any longer, and the result of His wrath is to “hand us over”, or as the scripture above declares “God gave them up”. Then at the appointed time, when  iniquity has reached it’s fullness, shall come the straw which breaks the camels back. Though sadly, it may well be a rather pointed straw containing nuclear warheads. Rev 17:16

Now you and I Christian need to be quite clear, that God is in our day, allowing men in our culture to “go after strange flesh”. Pastors, leaders, men in the church ought not be ignorant  to this. Sexual immorality, lust of the flesh is like the prevailing spirit over much of our nation at this time. I’d liken it to spiritual swine flu, take precautions, or you might catch it.

But sadly it is I would say, a rather sobering sign as to where we are in the overall time span of God’s judgement on a kingdom. The western gentile nations are all in a similar position, all advancing the kingdom of unrighteousness with the same zeal. What we will shortly end up with is a kingdom that looks just like Sodom.

Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians’ pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. Isaiah 13:19

Yes, Babylon will be overthrown like Sodom. According to the highly regarded Scofield bible commentary, (read notes) the scripture above speaks of both Babylon of old, and prophetically of the future Babylon, Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17. Yes the very same Mystery Babylon of the Western gentile nations comprising apostate Christendom of our day.

No prizes for guessing why Isaiah likens it to the destruction of Sodom, for it will be a literal Sodom, in that day. Or should I say, in this day.

Even though with one hand God is allowing judgement to begin, at the very same time, with great mercy and long suffering He continues to reach out to an unrighteous generation, calling men out before the appointed day.

Come out of her My people?

Twenty Three (23) Judgement

Yeah I know, twenty three judgement is a weird title for a post.  It all started some time back when one of the youth in our youth group was telling us she would see the number 23 all of the time. For example she’d wake up and it would be 7.23 or whatever. It got a little weirder even as she was telling us the story cause we were holding a bible study in a house which is number 23 .

Some of the kids in our youth group are hearing from God, their just not real sure about it, and sometimes, neither am I. So I tucked this one away in my heart for later investigation.

Now there is a whole bunch of information out there on this number 23,  they made a movie about it, there is a theory about it called the  “23 enigma”. Some of the stats and facts about this number make for interesting reading, but in the back of my mind lurked the question as to whether there was any biblical support or significance for this number twenty three (23).

I didn’t set out to look for things, I didn’t seek to make the case so to speak, but things just kept showing up, and each time I saw them I made a note.

Being a man who’s mind is so often engrossed in thoughts concerning the end of all things pertaining to this present age, and being mindful that Christ’s desire is to see men flee from the wrath of God, the judgement to come, I found it interesting to note that the number twenty three (23), from a biblical perspective, is often associated with judgement.

In 1 Corinthians 10:8, Paul shows us an example in which this number is used  when explaining the judgement which came upon the Hebrews who sought to satisfy their evil and carnal desires.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

And again in Numbers 26:62 we see  a number of Hebrews, some 23,000 excluded from being counted amongst the Israelites because their fathers and relatives had offered “strange and unholy fire before the Lord”.

Now those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and above; for they were not numbered among the other children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the children of Israel.

Now I don’t know about you but there is very little in this bible of mine which is there by some random chance. Everything is placed by design or with some specific purpose in mind. Perhaps it simply testifies to the glory of God, perhaps He intends us to recognise the pattern and pay attention to it’s significance, perhaps it is prophetic, either way this twenty three (23) seems to be significant.

In the book of Daniel chapter 8, Daniel is given a vision of a period of time in which an abomination which makes desolate, would be granted authority over Gods people as a result of their ireverance, godliness and lack of piety.

How long shall this go on for ? the question is asked

And he said to me, “For two thousand three hundred days; [fn] then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.”

There are other relevant uses of twenty three in the biblical context pertaining to judgement, like the 23 year period period of time between the death of Josiah and the destruction of Judah. Or Isaiah which happens to be the 23rd book of the bible, and chapter 23 deals solely with the judgement of Tyre, a kingdom not unlike Western Christendom, Mystery Babylon.

Twenty three (23), what does it all mean, well according to my reckoning it’s like a signature, a mark of Gods hand, and in seeing it we shall know that He is the author thereof.

Recently I happened to watch a testimony video of a Christian man who believes that he was taken to hell, in order to bring a message of warning back to humanity and to the church. The video was called 23 minutes in hell. When I saw that number Twenty Three (23), immediately my ears, eyes, whatever,  sparked up and I took the time to watch the testimony.

I don’t like talking about hell very much, I don’t even like thinking about it too much to be honest, but I found the video and the testimony of this man to be profoundly moving.

If indeed hell is to be found as this man has found it, and there is good scriptural evidence to support his vision. Then we as Christians ought to be laying our lives down for this gospel, knowing the fearful end of those who are presently condemned to this awful place.

It was 3am on twenty three (23) November 1998 that Bill Weise was taken into a horrifying vision of hell which lasted for twenty three (23) minutes. I’ll let him tell you his testimony.

The word for the day

The word for the day is “Hyperinflation”. Now I know that you were expecting a biblical word weren’t you. Well it is, and it isn’t, I’ll explain.

As Christians we are often less familiar with some of the economic terms thrown around these days.  Sadly there is a good possibility that we’ll get to  experience exactly what this word means in the near future, so I thought it might be good to write about it.

When a nation undertakes the printing of paper money on a massive scale and introduces newly printed money into the existing money supply, it effectively reduces the value of the existing money which is circulating in the economy. That means that your dollar is no longer worth a dollar, or put it another way, your dollar no longer holds the purchasing power it previously held. The result is that prices seem to be going up,  in reality the prices are not going up, the value of your dollar is going down.

This is called inflation, every economy suffers from it. Now when governments introduce massive amounts of new paper dollars into the economy, then they risk causing inflation which is out of control, this is called hyperinflation. Prices climb rapidly due to the devaluing of the currency.

Before we move on lets read a quote from someone who experienced hyperinflation:

“It was horrible. Horrible! Like lightning it struck. No one was prepared. The shelves in the grocery stores were empty. You could buy nothing with your paper money.” – Harvard University law professor Friedrich Kessler on the Weimar Republic hyperinflation (1993 interview)

When the Black horse of Revelation is unleashed upon the earth, one of the results is Hyperinflation. A good biblical example of hyperinflation is found in Revelation 6:6. In this day a man will have to labor all day, in order to purchase a loaf of bread.  This is basically what the scripture in Revelation is saying ;

Rev 6:6  And a voice from among the four living beings said, “A loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley for a day’s pay.[fn1] And don’t waste[fn2] the olive oil and wine.”

In the midst of the present economic crisis one of the things that many western nations have done in order free up the credit markets is to print more money. If we are wise and use this money for infra structure initiatives then that will bode well, but if we simply throw it into the black hole of propping up banks and institutions that are “too big to fail” then we risk a climate of hyperinflation. Sadly it seems to me that it’s the big black hole that we are more concerned about fixing, and this type of action will invariably lead to out of control inflation, Hyperinflation.

When hyperinflation runs rampant it is terribly destructive to the culture and may well lead to civil unrest, as those who have little income can scarcely afford to buy a loaf of bread and will resort to whatever means at hand to survive.

Now sometimes I’m a little reluctant to suggest how we should consider surviving such a crisis. One part of me says that we should not put our trust in wealth, nor hoard wealth, but another part of me that knows full well that God has in times past, forewarned His people of a coming famine, and as a result of being forewarned, they were able to take appropriate action and care for and provide for each other.

These things should be brought before the Lord in prayer.

Come out of her My people

I imagine that in the last days the Lord is aware that there are a whole bunch of His people caught up in a way of life that is abhorrent to Him. Of course it must be so, for He Himself has to call them out Rev 18:4.

Let us suppose for a moment that He can see that these people have been caught in a snare, perhaps unaware of the perilous nature of their predicament. They being  lukewarm in their faith, as a result of living in times of prosperity, and having need of little, are spiritually blind, lacking discernment and altogether unaware of their position. Just like the Loadicean church Rev3:17.

Now God in His mercy, who abounds in grace and relents from doing harm,  desires to call His people out of that place in which they find themselves. To awaken them from their slumber, before the judgement comes. He stands at the door of their hearts knocking , but few respond, most are enamored with their abundant lifestyle, even supposing that it is God who is blessing them with all material wealth, because they are righteous. But sadly, in the eyes of the Lord, they are blind, naked and poor.

Therefore I imagine that He is going to have to call them out with great signs and wonders.  “COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE LEST YOU SHARE IN HER SINS, AND RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES”  Come out! Comeout! With great signs and wonders the Lord calls them out, even bringing plagues upon the land. But the people say, “Come out of where? Come out of what? Where is this Mystery Babylon and why should I care, for I myself am righteous amongst men. Babylon is of old, is of ages past. I am no fool nor blind that I cannot see. Can you not see for yourself that God has blessed me with every good thing because I am righteous”

This people have grown dull of hearing, for there ears are heavy and thy have shut their eyes ; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.” Isaiah 6:10

With great signs and wonders the Lord calls them,  with great mercy He extends His hand toward them. See, look, be astounded at the work I do in your day. Here is Babylon He says, a mystery to all, she is of old and yet is. By My strong hand I have shown you where she dwells, I have marked her out and appointed her to judgement. She is of Babel of old, and yet is, will you not see?

Knowing full well that He speaks to a generation who find their pleasure in the buying and selling of goods, in the materialism of the culture, He asks them to come buy from Him instead. 3:18 I counsel thee – who art poor, and blind, and naked. To buy of me – Without money or price. Gold purified in the fire – True, living faith, which is purified in the furnace of affliction. And white raiment – True holiness. And eyesalve – Spiritual illumination; the unction of the Holy One, which teacheth all things.

Christian, whilst ever we live in the world and love the things of the world, the love of the father is not in us. 1John 2:15.  We will never have eyes to see nor ears to hear, nor the ability to discern the mysteries of God through these carnal eyes unless we forsake the love of the world. We will not be able to grasp the mystery of lawlesness, which is the falling away, and Mystery Babylon, in whom these fallen ones dwell.

Fall of Babylon – a vision – June 1st 2009

The following prophecy was distributed by Andrew Strom of revivalschool.com

I know nothing of Darren Smith, but I would say everything he has written in this prophecy is biblically sound and rings true with my understanding of the very close at hand, judgement of Mystery Babylon of the end times. FTW

NOTE:  Darren Smith is one of the soundest preachers that I know
in America – which is why I think we should give close attention to
this word. He runs a ministry to the homeless in Texas. The only
question I have is the “timing” for some of it – because I know the
“urgency” and sense of ‘imminence’ that often comes with these
kinds of prophecies. Darren says he feels that some things begin
“this summer”. Either way, it is a very important word from a very
credible source. -One to be noted and heeded concerning what
lies ahead-

FALL OF BABYLON – a VISION
-by Darren Smith. (1 Jun 09).

The Lord kept me up most of the night bringing a word for me to
share and to share now. Many times I wait until I have prayed over
what I hear in my spirit, but I can’t wait to send this word out.

Last night while praying before I went to bed, The Lord gave me a
vision that really rattled me. In the vision I saw this land split into
four parts with each one under its own flag. Each region had terrible
destruction and many people were dead. As I looked over the
destruction I was crying and the Lord asked me, “Why are you
crying over the fall of Babylon? As a matter of fact, why have you
been praying for the healing of Babylon?”

In this vision I didn’t have an answer and the Lord opened a scroll
and started reading off the indictments against our country, but
before each one he clearly called the USA Babylon.

The list was long and to the point, with such points as the killing
of several generations of unborn children. Beside this charge He
added that these babies had been sacrificed to the god of self. The
list also included greed, idolatry, pride, fornication, and many others,
so many I could not even read them all.

As I looked at the list of charges I was overwhelmed and broken
by the fact that we live every day in a nation that is so far removed
from God and in total opposition to the Kingdom of God, yet we are
comfortable here. We have become just like Lot living in Sodom,
the prosperity that the nation offers us has blinded us from the evil
that rules this land. We complain about how bad it is but still stay
attached to it with every ounce of strength we have.

The Lord told me to look at the nation as He sees it, not through
my eyes but through His. I could not look too long before I had to
agree and repent of loving Babylon. Once I repented the Lord told
me to prepare for the fall as time is running out. I must preach the
Gospel of The Kingdom not the Gospel of America.  America is
already judged, the time of shaking is now and will increase rapidly
this summer. Water shortages and food shortages will become
common this summer, as well as fuel shortages. Civil unrest will
become common place in large cities first but will spill over into
the rural areas as well.

Natural disasters will stretch the resources of the nation to the
breaking point and the government will use this to take freedom
away. Brothers up north take note, you will see this start to happen
quickly. Please seek the Lord for direction as you are out of time.
The west coast will see this soon as well, please prepare.

In this vision there was a great wasteland that appeared to be in
the center of the nation where everything was wiped out and I saw
masses of people wandering without direction. They were dirty and
ragged, almost dead and there was no relief in sight.  Most of you
reading this think I’m crazy I’m sure, but I must be faithful to share
what I’m given to share.

The Lord told me to cry from the mountain tops to repent and seek
the Lord now!! We don’t have any more time to seek after the things
of this world. He has also given me teaching to prepare people to
pass through this time of shaking into the Kingdom and I must be
faithful to preach this word anywhere I have an open door.

If you want to hear this word please contact me to set up times
and places, but again I must warn you, we are running out of time.
We must stop living like we have all the time in the world.  We
must stop crying over the fall of Babylon and press into the Kingdom.

-Darren Smith – EMAIL -
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