Down through the
history of mankind
on this orbiting
sphere that we call
earth, mankind has
thought to elevate
himself above God,
instead of realizing
the Creator as God,
but making himself a
god to worship. Men
in their evil hearts
have tried to deny
God, to blaspheme
His name, and ignore
Him in their daily
lives. They have
said “I don’t need
God, because I will
elevate myself and
humanity as my god”.
This has been going
on since ancient
times and the Tower
of Babel when Nimrod
thought to make a
tower to heaven to
challenge God for
supreme position in
the hearts of mortal
man. It is the
greatest rebellion
patterned after the
father of rebellion,
Lucifer who became
Satan.
Beginning in this
ancient time period,
there have been men
who are Anti-God and
by extension
Anti-Christ. We see
many instances of
men arising to power
and denying the
power that enables
them to breath, to
move, and have their
being. But God is
sovereign and men’s
puny attempts to
deny Him, or
attempts to thwart
His supreme plan for
the redemption of
mankind will fail.
God is infinitely
stronger than even
the greatest of
confederacies, and
He will blow away
the most extensive
and vigorous efforts
to overthrow His
plans like so much
dust. He laughs at
man's puny attempts
to rule without
considering Him as
the source of their
very lives. Will He
who repulsed the
attacks of Satan's
mighty angelic host
be put in fear of
more limited men?
God says in Isaiah
14:
. . . I will break
the Assyrian in My
land, and on My
mountains tread him
underfoot. Then his
yoke shall be
removed from them,
and his burden
removed from their
shoulders. This is
the purpose that is
purposed against the
whole earth, and
this is the hand
that is stretched
out over all the
nations. For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is
stretched out, and
who will turn it
back?
But that does not
mean that men have
not attempted to
deny God and to rise
to power to commit
heinous acts against
other men according
to their own free
will and moral
choices. They
attempt to rule the
earth and forever
wish to be the
supreme force on
this earth. You can
see the results of
men who have been a
power of Anti-Christ
when you look at men
like Nero, Antiochus
Epiphanes, Stalin,
Hitler,
Pol Pot and
Mahmoud (I’m a total
nut job) the leader
of Iran,
just to name
a few from ancient
times into our more
modern times. God
has allowed these
men to come to power
and have toppled
them when His plan
is completed for
their time. Our
bible says that this
time is not
finished, as many
Anti-Christ have
come upon the scene
since John spoke of
them in 1st
John:
2:18 Little
children, it is the
last time: and as ye
have heard that
antichrist shall
come, even now are
there many
antichrists; whereby
we know that it is
the last time.
They have been many
recorded in our
history, but God
says there will be a
coming Anti-Christ
who will be the last
of a long line, but
will be more
powerful than all
the rest.
2:3 Let
no man deceive you
by any means: for
that day shall not
come, except there
come a falling away
first, and that man
of sin be revealed,
the son of
perdition;
2:4 Who
opposeth and
exalteth himself
above all that is
called God, or that
is worshipped; so
that he as God
sitteth in the
temple of God,
shewing himself that
he is God.
This is the man, who
will possess the
supreme embodiment
of the evil of Satan
indwelling a mortal
man. He will arise
and will subdue the
whole earth as is
plainly stated in
Revelation 13:
13:7 And
it was given unto
him to make war with
the saints, and to
overcome them: and
power was given him
over all kindreds,
and tongues, and
nations.
13:8 And
all that dwell upon
the earth shall
worship him, whose
names are not
written in the book
of life of the Lamb
slain from the
foundation of the
world.
We know that this man will arise, but where
will he come from?
Many have tried to
pinpoint his
location or his
arrival. It has been
spoken that the man
known as the
Anti-Christ will
come from the
Revised Roman
Empire, and that
would be Europe, or
possibly the Eastern
Leg located in the
middle east, but let
us explore a
possibility that
many overlook. I
will attempt to
hypothesize and mind
you, I may not be
right, but it is
worth looking at
this possibility, as
we are told to
watch, and a good
watchmen on the wall
takes what is about
him and warns the
people of WHAT MAY
be coming in short
order.
The bible is full of historical events that
have been proven to
be right by
discovery in
archeological digs
and is written down
in our history
books. Events in the
bible seem to go in
parallels, or in
circles, and keep
repeating
themselves, until
the final episode of
man’s rebellion is
put down in a final
battle the bible
calls Armegeddon.
The bible
speaks of Ancient
Babylon and goes
into describing her
again in Revelation
as the power that
will be destroyed in
the end of days.
14:8 And
there followed
another angel,
saying, Babylon is
fallen, is fallen,
that great city,
because she made all
nations drink of the
wine of the wrath of
her fornication.
We read about this
great city that will
arise and rule the
whole world in
commerce,
militarily, and
economically and
will cause all men
to bow to one
supreme ruler.
13:2 And
the beast which I
saw was like unto a
leopard, and his
feet were as the
feet of a bear, and
his mouth as the
mouth of a lion: and
the dragon gave him
his power, and his
seat, and great
authority.
13:3 And
I saw one of his
heads as it were
wounded to death;
and his deadly wound
was healed: and all
the world wondered
after the beast.
13:4 And
they worshipped the
dragon which gave
power unto the
beast: and they
worshipped the
beast, saying, Who
is like unto the
beast? who is able
to make war with
him?
13:5 And
there was given unto
him a mouth speaking
great things and
blasphemies; and
power was given unto
him to continue
forty and two
months.
13:6 And
he opened his mouth
in blasphemy against
God, to blaspheme
his name, and his
tabernacle, and them
that dwell in
heaven.
He will be supported
and promoted as the
supreme ruler of
this world, by
another man known as
the false prophet:
13:11 And
I beheld another
beast coming up out
of the earth; and he
had two horns like a
lamb, and he spake
as a dragon.
13:12 And
he exerciseth all
the power of the
first beast before
him, and causeth the
earth and them which
dwell therein to
worship the first
beast, whose deadly
wound was healed.
13:13 And
he doeth great
wonders, so that he
maketh fire come
down from heaven on
the earth in the
sight of men,
13:14 And
deceiveth them that
dwell on the earth
by the means of
those miracles which
he had power to do
in the sight of the
beast; saying to
them that dwell on
the earth, that they
should make an image
to the beast, which
had the wound by a
sword, and did live.
13:15 And
he had power to give
life unto the image
of the beast, that
the image of the
beast should both
speak, and cause
that as many as
would not worship
the image of the
beast should be
killed.
13:16 And
he causeth all, both
small and great,
rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive
a mark in their
right hand, or in
their foreheads:
13:17 And
that no man might
buy or sell, save he
that had the mark,
or the name of the
beast, or the number
of his name.
13:18 Here
is wisdom. Let him
that hath
understanding count
the number of the
beast: for it is the
number of a man; and
his number is Six
hundred threescore
and six.
LOCATION, LOCATION,
LOCATION
Where will these men be located and where will
their bases of
operation be? If we
look to the ancient
land of Babylon, now
known as Iraq, the
USA just completed,
(prematurely, in my
opinion) a war to
rid the country of
Saddam Hussein and
hopefully instill the spirit of
“democracy”
into the people of
the country. But
what has happened
just after we
crossed the border
with the last
soldier of our
military? The news
is awash with news
of new sectarian
violence and the
latest bomb blast to
kill innocent
bystanders. The
country is on the
verge of a civil war
and the Prime
Minister is inept to
enforce the rule of
law and prevent this
violence. It looks
like we spent much
blood and treasure
to no avail in this
godless country. But
our bible speaks of
Babylon the Great,
so does the bible
mean the ancient
site of Babylon?
Let’s see if we can
make any sense of
what we read in our
bible concerning
this city. Zechariah
chapter 5:
5:5
Then the angel who
spoke with me went
out and said to me,
"Lift up now your
eyes and see what
this goes forth."
5:6
I said, "What does
this signify?" And
he said, "This
represents the ephah
going forth." Again
he said, "This
signifies their
appearance in all
the land
5:7
(and behold, a lead
cover appeared
lifted up); and a
woman sits inside
the ephah."
5:8 Then
he said, "This
represents
Wickedness!" And he
threw her down into
the middle of the
ephah and cast the
lead weight on its
opening.
5:9 Then
I lifted up my eyes
and looked, and two
women came out with
the wind in their
wings; and they had
wings like the wings
of a stork, and they
lifted up the ephah
between the earth
and the heavens.
5:10
I said to the angel
who spoke with me,
"Where do they take
the ephah?"
5:11
Then he said to me,
"To build a temple
for her in the land
of Shinar; and when
we prepare it she
will stand there on
her own pedestal."
People look at these verses and say Babylon is
in the ancient land
noted in historical
records, so that
must be Babylon the
Great. Is it really?
Look to a land where
Ishmael created a
great nation, the
land of Saudi
Arabia. In the city
of Mecca, we find a
great cubicle known
as the Black Stone,
or the Kaaba. In it
you will find a
symbol of the female
parts of a woman.
Note this website:
http://www.reformation.org/black-stone-at-mecca.html
Is this basket, which is what this cubical
represents, is
sitting on a
pedestal with a
woman sitting
inside, (or a
representation of a
woman),
what
Zechariah was
speaking of? I
believe it is, but
this is in Mecca,
not Babylon.
Historically the
land of Shinar was
Mesopotamia, or the
southern end of Iraq
of modern days, but
the whole plain
might extend to the
land mass between
the seas of the
Caspian, the
Mediterranean, an
the Persian Gulf.
I wrote a sermon that is on my website called
“Modern Catholicism
and the One Word
Church” and in that
sermon I put forth
the belief that this
religion will be the
agent to bring all
religions into a one
world religious
order, including
Islam. They are now
trying to
incorporate all
religions to combine
into an ecumenical
belief that we all
serve the same God.
Do we all believe in
the same God? Not
when it comes to
Islam and any
religious order of
Far East Mysticism,
but they would have
you believe that we
can all be of one
religion and have as
our focus, one
mediator on earth
that will be the
enforcer of this one
world belief system.
Who is that
enforcer? Yes, the
False Prophet (who
may be the apostate
pope) who promotes
the Beast Power
headed by the
Anti-Christ. I think
it is safe to say
that this evil
embodiment of
apostasy
will include the Kaaba inside Mecca and make it a criminal act to not
follow the edicts of
the Anti-Christ, his
false prophet,
or/and his regime. I
speak of a regime
and where might that
regime be located?
The bible speaks of
a city that is the
center of commerce
and all of the world
has been made rich
by her fornication.
Where is that city?
Is it ancient
Babylon rebuilt?
If you are a
proponent of the
imminent return of
Jesus Chris, as I
am, do you see
Ancient Babylon
being rebuilt to
become a super power
of commerce, with a
port that is the
center of all
commerce in the near
future? I don’t.
There are two
reasons that I see
another city that is
the prophesied
Babylon the Great
and has been
transplanted to
another land, as in
this time, we are
not talking about a
region, but the
whole earth.
A LAND MOST BLESSED,
PASSES INTO IDOLATRY
Reason #1, Revelation
18:8 Therefore
shall her plagues
come in one day,
death, and mourning,
and famine; and she
shall be utterly
burned with fire:
for strong is the
Lord God who judgeth
her.
18:9 And
the kings of the
earth, who have
committed
fornication and
lived deliciously
with her, shall
bewail her, and
lament for her, when
they shall see the
smoke of her
burning,
18:10 Standing
afar off for the
fear of her torment,
saying, Alas, alas
that great city
Babylon, that mighty
city! for in one
hour is thy judgment
come.
18:11 And
the merchants of the
earth shall weep and
mourn over her; for
no man buyeth their
merchandise any
more:
In this modern era, there is only one city that
is the center of
commerce for all the
earth. The power
brokers have their
center in this city,
all currencies are
decided from her
treasury, and the
world standard for
trade is made or
destroyed in her
ability to control
the world’s
fortunes. That city
is New York. No
other center of
world power and
control of commerce
is more evident than
in this one city.
The world markets
are centered by and
at large on Wall
Street. If somehow
the influence and
the markets of New
York City were
destroyed, the world
markets would be in
a panic. The
economies of this
world would collapse
if God took out His
vengeance on this
city, who many claim
is a nation unto
itself and controls
the rest of the
world. Her
destruction would
fit the verses
quoted above.
As it was in ancient Israel and the time of
Solomon, Israel was
the most powerful
nation in the world,
until her kings
descended into
idolatry and
abominations that
caused God to pour
out His judgment on
her and she was cast
to the four winds.
Now the USA, which
started on
principles built on
the Ten
Commandments, and
the your bible, and
gave honor and glory
to our Creator, as
the source of life,
liberty and the
pursuit of happiness
has been much
blessed by God, as
was the nation of
Israel, but the
population has
wandered into the
darkness of idolatry
and lust of the
flesh.
No other city that has a port, which if Babylon
was to be rebuilt
would have no port,
and would not have a
history of
controlling the
world trade, as New
York has done for
200 years, and even
more so in the last
100 years. I submit
to you that the city
of Revelation that
is destroyed in one
day noted as Babylon
the Great, is but a
symbolism of
a great city so
wicked and perverse
in her actions, that
God punishes her in
one swift blow that
surpasses a nuclear
strike performed by
modern warfare. The
center of power of
her wealth and it’s
control is in this
city, but the center
of governing this
port of commerce is
in her neighboring
city, Washington,
D.C.
ISRAEL & THE LONE
SUPERPOWER OF THE
EARTH
Reason #2
We who watch for the signs of the coming of our
Messiah, point to an
obvious sign of the
revealing of the
Anti-Christ
beginning with a 7
year treaty given to
Israel by the leader
of a superpower
nation. Daniel
chapter 9,
9:25 Know
therefore and
understand, that
from the going forth
of the commandment
to restore and to
build Jerusalem unto
the Messiah the
Prince shall be
seven weeks, and
threescore and two
weeks: the street
shall be built
again, and the wall,
even in troublous
times.
9:26 And
after threescore and
two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off,
but not for himself:
and the people of
the prince that
shall come shall
destroy the city and
the sanctuary; and
the end thereof
shall be with a
flood, and unto the
end of the war
desolations are
determined.
9:27 And
he shall confirm the
covenant
with many for one
week: and in the
midst of the week he
shall cause the
sacrifice and the
oblation to cease,
and for the
overspreading of
abominations he
shall make it
desolate, even until
the consummation,
and that determined
shall be poured upon
the desolate.
This is a reference to a treaty that was
prophesied to Daniel
by Gabriel, that at
the end of days, a
70th week
will be completed or
the finishing of
Daniel’s 70 week
prophecy concerning
Israel and its
purification, this
treaty, or some call
it “a pact with the
devil”, will be
signed. We have
studied in numerous
sermons and articles
on this website and
my own website of
wars that will lead
up to this treaty
beginning with a war
prophesied in
Psalms 83
and into Ezekiel 38
and 39. What
superpower has a
leader that the
people of Israel
would think of
signing an agreement
with for their
protection and
safety and allow
them with
international
consent to build
their temple once
more? My take is
only one leader, the
President of the
United States with a
UN resolution to
prevent another war
that has so
decimated the area
and is evident that
something happened
that these men
cannot explain.
PROBLEMS AT HOME
The USA is the leader in the quartet to bring
“peace” to the
Middle East between
Israel and the
Palestinians. But
during this war, or
wars, the
Palestinians are no
more, but Israel now
owns most of the
Middle East
resources of oil and
gas. In the back of
their minds, THE
NATIONS know that
the results of those
wars were won by
something
supernatural and
Divine and the god
of this world will
not give credit
where credit is due,
nor will the men who
do his bidding. The
USA is now in the
middle of an
economic catastrophe
and it will only get
worse, not better as
the present
administration tries
to paint a face of
recovery on a
fragile situation.
Already the rights
and freedoms that
the USA has enjoyed
and prospered by are
in jeopardy of being
taken away, all in
the name of Homeland
Security.
I shudder to think that the land that I grew up
in, the land that I
pledge allegiance
to, and the land
that my forefathers
died to protect our
freedom will be
washed away by a
lawless individual
that embodies all
the evil that Satan
can bring about to
destroy mankind.
Right now, our land
is led by one man
who is our commander
in chief of the
armed forces and the
protector of our
liberty and not
doing a very good
job. Now the system
of government could
suddenly change and
we would have a
dictatorship, or a
defacto king
imposing martial
law, as some fear
may be coming, but
this leader would be
the opposite of what
the God in Heaven
stands for and
embraces the god of
forces.
Daniel
11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he
shall exalt himself,
and magnify himself
above every god, and
shall speak
marvellous things
against the God of
gods, and shall
prosper till the
indignation be
accomplished: for
that that is
determined shall be
done.
11:37 Neither
shall he regard the
God of his fathers,
nor the desire of
women, nor regard
any god: for he
shall magnify
himself above all.
These verses, I
believe give
reference to a king
who performed the
abomination of
desolation noted by
Jesus in Matthew 24.
and only happened
one other time in
history. That King
was Antiochus
Epiphanes who was a
Syrian king who
erected a statue of
Zeus in the Holy of
Holies with the
likeness of his own
face and defiled the
temple by
sacrificing pigs on
the altar of
God, leading to the
Maccabean Wars and
the Jewish revolt to
drive this madman
out of the Holy
Land. Another evil
man with the same
spirit as this king
will arise and will
have as his god, the
god of forces and
total superiority in
arms. Many people
think, and I’ve had
them tell me, that
Barack Hussein Obama
is the Anti-Christ.
Is he? I don’t
believe he is, at
least I have no
evidence of that
fact to say one way
or another, but he
does oppose
Christian principles
and promotes Islam
any chance he gets.
I’ve said it before
and I will say it
again, this side of
the church being
removed from this
planet, we will
not know for
sure who the man
called the
Anti-Christ will be,
but will have a
pretty good idea
before it actually
happens. Those who
are on this earth
when this treaty is
made with Israel, if
they know the bible,
or read anything on
prophecy websites,
will know that this
is the man. He will
do away with all
religions that
worship any god, and
proclaim himself to
be a god, as Satan
has entered into him
and wishes to be
worshiped through
him. He will allow
worship of a one
world religion, but
will destroy her
with fire in the
middle of the
Tribulation as he
desires worship of
himself alone:
Revelation,
17:16 And
the ten horns which
thou sawest upon the
beast, these shall
hate the whore, and
shall make her
desolate and naked,
and shall eat her
flesh, and burn her
with fire.
But remember, my friend, God is in control. If
this hypothesis
turns out to be
right and the City
of Babylon is the
city of New York,
the Anti-Christ
resides in the oval
office of the
president, and the
false prophet
is the pope
in
Rome that
embraces Islam mixed
with apostate
Christianity, then
we can do nothing
but vote our
conscience in any
election and pray
and repent
accordingly:
II Chronicles
7:14 If
my people, which are
called by my name,
shall humble
themselves, and
pray, and seek my
face, and turn from
their wicked ways;
then will I hear
from heaven, and
will forgive their
sin, and will heal
their land.
I fear that this
nation of immigrants
that were blessed
with God given
freedom are in for
some rough times. We
see it already
beginning. We, who
call on the name of
the Lord as our
Savior, may see the
beginning of some
rough times
economically, but it
will get
exponentially worse
when all hell on
earth breaks loose
and millions of
people suddenly
vanish from the face
of the earth.
Economically, the
nation will be
plunged into turmoil
and marshal law will
be most assuredly
enacted. Riots will
develop in the order
of Greece and Italy
that are now being
played on your
nightly news, but on
a larger scale
worldwide. Freedom
will vanish and a
police state will
emerge. The gulags
that we have heard
being built for
control of the
masses, and the
caskets for mass
graves will quickly
be put to use, as a
state of chaos will
develop and the
powers that be will
rush into to restore
order, at whatever
cost in human life.
In the meantime and
before this dire
scenario place out,
my friend, get your
own house in order.
If you’re playing
church, now is the
time to get serious
about this man,
Jesus Christ. If you
think that you can
skate in your
beliefs and live
like the devil, then
you may just join
him in his eternal
home after being
plunged headlong
into 7 years of
utter genocide of
mankind.
Time is growing
short. Economic
turmoil is here and
people will suffer
under a repressive
regime. Men, women
and children will
die in the short
term, but all will
be required to take
a mark to even live
when order is
restored: Revelation
,
13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in
their right hand, or
in their foreheads:
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the
mark, or the name of
the beast, or the
number of his name.
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count
the number of the
beast: for it is the
number of a man; and
his number is Six
hundred threescore
and six.
When that happens, you will take the mark, or
die. To take the
mark, you will live,
but only temporarily
as you will be
condemned for all
eternity and enter
into a place
reserved for the
devil and his
demons, the Lake of
Fire burning with
sulfur and brimstone
to be forever
destroyed.
The signs are about us. The return of the Lord
Jesus Christ is
imminent and will
come
WITHOUT
warning. Only the
wise and the humble
will submit to the
calling of the Holy
Spirit to receive
pardon from your
shortcomings,
failures, and sins
against God
Almighty.
Isaiah
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be
as scarlet, they
shall be as white as
snow; though they be
red like crimson,
they shall be as
wool.
John
14:6 Jesus
saith unto him, I am
the way, the truth,
and the life: no man
cometh unto the
Father, but by me.
He calls you now as you read. Will you listen
to that
still small
voice that speaks to
your spirit, or will
you enter into the
most horrifying
experience known to
mankind? The choice
is ultimately YOURS.
This is Pastor Mike Taylor praying God’s
salvation in your
life through His Son
Jesus Christ. If
there is anything I
can
help you
with, pray with you
about, counsel you
on, or just give a
listening ear, then
email me at
realteam1999@sbcglobal.net,
or visit me online at
www.churchofgod-usa.org.
God bless you
everyone, till we
meet at Jesus feet.
