SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
- Jeremiah 50-51
- Isaiah 13-14, 18, 21, 47-48
- Revelation 17-18
DOES BABYLON HAVE A MOTHER?
Jeremiah 50:8-13
(8) “Flee from the midst of Bab'el, come out of the land of the Chaldeans. And be as rams before a flock.
(9) “For look, I am stirring up and bringing up against Bab'el an assembly of great nations [peoples] from a land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be captured – their arrows are like those of a mighty skilled man, not returning empty-handed.
(10) “And Chaldea shall become plunder, all who plunder her shall satisfy themselves,” declares יהוהl.
(11) “Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, you who plunder My inheritance, because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and you neigh like stallions,
(12) your mother shall be greatly ashamed. She who bore you shall be humiliated. Look, the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
(13) “Because of the wrath of יהוה she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be deserted – all of it. Everyone passing by Bab'el shall be astonished and whistle [hiss] at all her plagues.
There are skeptics who will say the prophecies of Babylon's destruction were fulfilled in antiquity. They would be right, but only in part. Lands of Ancient Babylonia have continued to be inhabited. The Persians and Medes assimilated the chief city (Babylon) into their empire and didn't destroy it. Also, earlier in the above passage, it is said that Israel and Judah will have returned 'at that time' together, yet the records of Ezra and Nehemiah indicate only the children of Judah (the Jews) returned to Zion, not to mention rabbis living 500 years later still debating 10-Israel's return (Mishnah Sanhedrin 110b), which further confirms the children of Israel haven't come weeping with the children of Judah to the Land of Israel YET.
No, Jeremiah was ultimately prophesying about a future event, a future Daughter Babylon (Jeremiah 50:12; 50:42). In the book of Revelation, John describes a mystery, the Great "mother" of harlots (Revelation 17:5). The Prophet Isaiah reinforced the reality of "Daughter of Babylon" (Isaiah 47:1,5), and thus the reality: there must be a mother.
How is it that Babylon is destroyed by an army from the North in Jeremiah 50, but later the Beast and Babylon are destroyed by Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) at the very End (Revelation 18:2)? This is a great mystery to most and likely part of the reason there is a reference such as "MYSTERY Babylon". When we begin to unravel the reality that there are two Babylons, one a Mother and one a Daughter, things start to make more sense when comparing current events and realities that exist in the world today. For example: What or who are the wings which are plucked from the Lion in Daniel 7:4? What is the national symbol of the USA? Does the Bald Eagle ring any bells?
CHARACTERISTICS OF END-TIME BABYLON(S)
See main article: Traits of End-Time Babylon.
WHO IS THE MOTHER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
Anyone who knows the history of Colonial America knows the mother of the USA is predominantly Europa/Europe, now known as the European Union (EU)! She is the mother of the USA on many levels: religiously, ancestrally, and governmentally. The blood and belief systems of America largely descend from lands and peoples once ruled by the Roman Empire, centered in southern Europe, but stretching as far north as Britannia and Germania.
Look how the vast majority of citizens of the United States report European ancestry. The ones reporting "American", simply did not know for sure who or where their ancestors were from or they had such a large European mixture that "American" was the simplest answer to report.
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Torah is important without it we cannot begin to understand prophecy because of the symbolism and the typology employed. "Sola Scriptura" let the scriptures speek.
Matt 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matt 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Luk 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Rev 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
The truth is that Rome is Babylon and is unclean and therefor a dead body, and where the body is there will the eagle be, also an unclean image in Tora.
Rome can not be Babylon exclusively to itself because it in itself is not a nation, nor is it involved in major commerce that the entire economic world would be hurt by if it were destroyed.
Rome is one main center of the "religion" of Mother Babylon (Britain and the entire EU) and Daughter Babylon (the USA), but it is just one of the cogs in the whole wheel or picture so to speak. With this particular topic, I don't argue one view at the exclusion of another, but generally combine all the bickering views into the bigger system we find ourselves enslaved to. Religiously, Economically, Governmentally, Militarily, Culturally, etc... are all connected and provide important facets of who Mother and Daughter Babylon are in our modern world. The Vatican is just a tree in the forest (although a BIG tree) and we should not be so distracted by that tree that we miss the rest of the forest.