Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen…
As anyone who has been monitoring the news or the value of their 401K’s has witnessed, shock waves have been going through the U.S. banking system and economy. Home loan crisis, investment banking collapse, and what next?
Now let me be the first to say that I don’t claim to be a Prophet of God. But, with a little understanding, the current crisis looks more and more like pages from the Bible’s book of last things – the book of Revelation:
“Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.” (from Rev 18:2-3, NIV)
When you consider the origins of the fractional banking system – the interest bearing system that gives out loans repaid with compounded interest, then current events become particularly interesting. Interest bearing loans where invented in ancient Babylon!
What comes in the following chapters of Revelation will either be alarming or encouraging – depending upon my relationship with God’s Son.
What can we do?
“Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen,and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man“,
and (if I belong to Christ)
“When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.“
