You've got to pick a portion of Scripture
to dive into on this topic, and there's
probably none better than Revelation 17.
And in Revelation 17, there's 18 verses of
that great chapter.
And if you're taking notes, mark this down.
Revelation 17 speaks about a religious or spiritual
Babylon.
Revelation 18 speaks about a commercial Babylon.
In the last days, they will not be
separate from one another.
They're going to use one another to their
own purposes.
And we're going to see just how so.
Now listen, I understand that what we're going
to be looking at may be very foreign
to many of you, if you're not familiar
with your Old Testament.
The book of Revelation is amazing, because everything
mentioned in the book of Revelation is first
mentioned in the Old Testament.
That's why you need to know your Old
Testament to understand that book.
Revelation will be an absolute loss for you
if you have not read your Old Testament.
Revelation 17, verse 1.
Then one of the seven angels, John is
speaking, who had the seven bulls, came and
talked with me, saying, Come and I will
show you the judgment of the great harlot
who sits on many waters and whom the
kings of the earth have committed fornication.
And the inhabitants of the earth were, excuse
me, who sits on many waters whom the
kings of the earth have committed fornication, and
the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk
with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit
into the wilderness, and I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast which was full
of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and
ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones
and pearls and having in her hand a
golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness
of her fornication.
And on her forehead was written names, and
here are the names.
First, mystery, Babylon the great, that's her second
title or name.
Third, the mother of harlots and the abominations
of the earth.
I saw the woman drunk with the blood
of the saints and of the martyrs of
Jesus, and when I saw her, John says,
that he marveled with great amazement.
But the angel said to me, Why do
you marvel?
I will tell you the mystery of the
woman and of the beast that carries her,
which has the seven heads and the ten
horns.
The beast that you saw was and is
and is not, and will ascend out of
the bottomless pit and go to perdition.
And those who dwell on the earth will
marvel, whose names are not written in the
book of life from the foundation of the
world when they see the beast that was
and is not and yet is.
Here is the mind which has wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains on which
the woman sits.
There are also seven kings.
Five have fallen.
One is and the other has not yet
come.
And when he comes, he must continue a
short time.
The beast that was and is not is
himself also the eighth and is the of
the seven and is going to perdition.
The ten horns which you saw, listen to
this church, are ten kings who have received
no kingdom as of yet, but they receive
authority for one hour as kings with the
beast.
These are of one mind, and they will
give their power and the authority to the
beast.
These will make war with the lamb, and
the lamb will overcome them, for he is
the Lord of lords and the king of
kings, and those who are with him are
called chosen and faithful.
Verse 15.
Then he said to me, The waters which
you saw where the harlot sits are peoples,
multitudes, nations and tongues.
And the ten horns which you saw on
the beast, these will hate the harlot, make
her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and
burn her with fire.
But God has put it in their hearts
to fulfill his purposes, to be of one
mind and to give their kingdom to the
beast until the words of God are fulfilled.
And the woman whom you saw, verse 18
says, is that great city which reigns over
the kings of the earth.
You say, Jack, what in the world is
going on?
The symbolism?
Absolutely.
But it's more than that.
First of all, you're John the apostle.
Put your yarmulke on and your robe on
and your sandals on.
You are now old.
In fact, you're the only apostle that is
going to die of natural means.
They've tried to kill John, by the way.
Many of you already know about that.
Church history tells us that they took John
to eradicate him from the earth, to get
rid of him.
They took John, they heated up a great
pot of boiling oil and water and heated
it up till it was boiling and took
John and threw him in it to kill
him.
That didn't kill him.
So they took him out and they sent
him, banished him to the island of Patmos.
I've been to that island and it's quite
a banishment.
It is a rock in the middle of
the Mediterranean.
They left him there to die and to
work the mines until they worked him to
death under Roman imprisonment.
But the Roman Empire began to lose its
grip in some areas and John was taken
from Patmos and he was brought back to
Ephesus and he died of old age there.
Timothy was a pastor of that church there.
John was a pastor of that church there.
By the way, it's where Mary died and
there's a place mentioned there in Ephesus.
John is now writing, given this great vision,
keeping this in mind by way of background,
yet the future.
There are things mentioned to John that are
very familiar to him, things that he knows.
There are things that are mentioned to John
that are futuristic.
There are things mentioned to John that though
it's symbolism to us and to John, it's
explained.
John marvels, but he doesn't marvel in the
way that you would think.
Maybe you and I would marvel over the
horns and over the this or the that
of the vision.
John literally marvels over something that catches him
off guard to the point where it could
have almost taken the wind out of him.
He's marveling at the fact that this woman
has become or is what she is.
What is this thing?
This mystery?
Babylon the Great?
The mother of harlots?
He's completely befuddled as to what it's become.
How can these things be?
And so listen, this morning church, because of
that, we're going to have a great deal
of introduction and then we'll end this message
with many points quickly.
There's no sense for me to give you
the points because it won't explain anything.
Let me first give the background.
It's very important.
First of all, mark it down if you're
taking notes.
When we talk about Babylon, just what in
the world are we speaking about?
How broad and vast is it?
Do we talk about Iraq today, Babylon, ancient
Babylon?
Is it Iraq?
Could be.
Do we talk about a religious system, a
spiritual base?
Could be.
Could we talk about a political dynamic or
an economic dynamic?
It could be.
What we are talking about is something that
is so ancient, something that has so infiltrated
the world, in economics, in religion, in all
areas of human existence, that in a sense
it has tried to compete against God in
His gospel and His word from the very
beginning.
It is in a sense something that runs
parallel to the truth of God.
It's very dangerous.
Now I'm going to encourage the ushers to
just lock the door and don't even try
to leave until you get to the end
of the story, okay?
Because there's something I think in here to
offend everybody.
So just hang on.
Number one is this.
First of all, the name Babylon appears 290
times in the Bible, second only to Jerusalem,
Babylon.
Secondly, all cults and occultic practices and beliefs
come out from and can be traced back
to ancient Babylon and the Babylonian worship system.
Thirdly, the Bible teaches that the name or
term Babylon will make a great comeback on
the world scene prior to, this is critical,
prior to the second coming of Jesus Christ
when He comes to establish His kingdom.
And fourthly, in the last 2,000 years,
the ancient Babylonian worship system that dates back
thousands and thousands of years ago is clearly
being resurrected and has been on an increasingly
dramatic scale over the last 2,000 years
and some say never more powerfully in the
last 2,000 years than the last 500
years.
And we're going to look as to see
why.
Mark it down by way of beginning.
First thing to consider as we look at
is Genesis chapter 10.
What is mystery Babylon?
Great, the mother of harlots.
The answer to the question begins in Genesis
chapter 10, verses 8 through 10, where there
it is listed that Cush begat Nimrod and
he began to be a mighty one on
the earth.
It says that Nimrod was a mighty hunter
before the Lord God, therefore it is said,
and it's in quotes, like Nimrod the mighty
hunter before the Lord, and the beginning of
his kingdom was Babel.
The tower of Babel.
The gateway to God.
The wording of that, Bab-el, is gateway
to God or gateway to heaven.
Who is this guy Nimrod?
Why does the Bible stop in its genealogy
to tell us that something's different about this
guy Nimrod?
That number one, he's a mighty hunter before
the Lord.
Who cares?
What do we care about that for?
Unless it means something different than what we
see on the surface.
Why is Nimrod centered out as one who's
a really good hunter?
That he could shoot a duck in mid
-flight.
Who cares?
He was known as an archer.
So what?
Many ancient Hebrew scholars believe that what the
meaning is when it says that he was
a hunter before the Lord is that he's
a hunter in competition with the Lord.
That he's one who builds a tower of
Bab-el to get to the top, as
some have declared, to shoot God out of
heaven above, that he might be one who
would rule the earth.
That Nimrod had an aspiration to rule the
world, to establish a kingdom.
And so he builds this great, great tower.
And what does the Bible say?
The Lord says, let us go down and
let's visit.
And what is the judgment?
That God sends that project great confusion by
language being given in that moment.
It seems as though, according to God, that
when language is working so perfectly like that,
instead of us using it for good, we
wind up using it for evil.
And he sends all the languages, and they
began to be dispersed throughout all the world
as they went to the different locations of
the world from the very cradle...
Cradle!
I must be hungry.
I'm thinking about a griddle and then cradle.
From the cradle of civilization, the people flee.
Nimrod.
What about Nimrod?
To know more about Nimrod, we need to
get into things that surround his existence.
Things that are outside of the Bible.
The Babylonian worship system.
What went on there?
Why did it ever start in the first
place?
What was that all about?
Nimrod is synonymous with being a bad guy.
Ancient scholars also view him as an anti
-God person.
We would say today in Christianity, in the
New Testament, that he's an anti-Christ type.
That he could very well be a picture
or a forerunner of the coming anti-Christ
that's yet to come.
But what's with this Babylonian system?
It's interesting to note, keeping this in mind,
that the very Bab-El, gateway to God,
in its very name, has a threatening connotation
to it.
But Nimrod, he had a wife.
And his wife's name was Semiramis.
And you can read about her in libraries
all around the world.
And you may be more familiar with Semiramis.
She goes by different names and by icons
and idols that are quite challenging to us.
Semiramis.
Nimrod and Semiramis, they had a son.
And his name was Tammuz.
And Tammuz is an interesting guy.
Somewhere they tell us in Babylonian antiquity that
he was somewhere around the age of 30.
Interesting, huh?
Age.
He was somewhere around the age of 30
when he was out hunting in the footsteps
of his father as a hunter.
And that he was gored to death by
a wild boar.
And he was laid to rest in Semiramis,
according to ancient Babylonianism.
You say, Jack, I don't care about that.
Well, you will care in a moment.
In ancient Babylonianism, she so lamented the death
of her son that she began to pray
to the gods that the ancient Babylonian system
believed in.
All of these various gods that in our
culture today have new names, by the way.
She cries out to the gods of the
underworld.
She cries out to the gods of nature.
The gods of the ocean.
The gods of trees.
She cries out to the gods of the
heavens.
She cries out in all of these incredible
lamentations unto these underworld gods.
And listen to this.
I'm making it very short for you.
In fact, hold that screen right there, would
you?
In all of her lamentation, weeping that she
could have her son back.
According to Babylonianism, those gods were so impressed
with her intercession that they heeded her cry
and they submitted to her request.
And she got, again, this is according to
Babylonianism, she got her son back.
He was resurrected from the dead.
Anybody remember how long her lamentation was to
get that boy back?
40 days.
The word used today for her lamentation, by
the way, of 40 days of lamentation of
Semiramis.
This is going back nearly 5,000 years
ago, was a lamentation that is now today
observed and called Lent.
It is the lamentation of Semiramis.
She interceded and got her son back.
And this is dating back some nearly 5
,000 years ago.
Sound a little familiar?
Listen.
This is very, very critical.
Because of her achievement, a priesthood was established
encompassing all of the various gods that the
ancient Babylonians worshipped.
She became the chief intercessor over all the
other gods.
And she had a priesthood.
She had both a male priesthood and a
female priesthood under her leadership.
And her son was worshipped as a godlike
son.
And there are archaeological discoveries in antiquity around
the world, even in areas of China that
have unearthed images of a woman holding a
child that predates the Catholic Church by about
1,300 years.
You and I, when we think of a
statue of what we would say Mary holding
a child, you automatically think that it's Mary
and baby Jesus.
The Catholic Church has put that label upon
that statue.
I want you to know, before the Catholic
Church ever existed, that statue existed.
You've got to stop...
Look, you may say, I don't like you,
Pastor.
That's not the point.
You've got to stop before you run out
of the building and ask yourself, why is
that true?
Just ask yourself, why is that?
That's interesting.
What is that?
What a coincidence.
No, no, no, listen carefully.
Her lamentation, so impressive.
Her priests were granted the power to intercede
on behalf of others.
It was a hierarchy that was established so
much so that the Roman Empire practiced it
and adopted it under the worship of the
great emperors of Rome.
The worship of the emperors are what is
called as emperor worship.
In fact, listen, one of the names, as
you shall hear in a moment, one of
the names that Semiramis goes by is Eshtar.
By the way, you can go to the
Museum of History in London, but the best
one of all is in Berlin, Germany.
You'll hear more about that in a moment.
In Berlin, Germany, there's the Eshtar Gate that
came out of Babylon out of Iraq today.
It is beautiful.
And that Eshtar Gate, you say, Eshtar, what's
with Eshtar?
Listen to this.
It's in your Bible.
It's in Acts chapter 12, verse 4.
And when Herod had apprehended Peter, he put
him in prison and delivered him to the
four quarters of the guards to keep him,
intending that after Eshtar to bring him forth
to the people.
Eshtar is our modern day wording of the
word, what?
Easter.
You know, with the bunnies and the eggs.
You know how old the bunnies and the
eggs go back?
5,000 years ago.
Why?
After the lamentation and Semiramis got her boy
back, they had an absolute drop crazy dead
party and they went nuts on each other
and grand orgies and all this stuff about
the Easter egg.
The Easter egg.
They took an Easter egg.
You would take.
I mean, you wouldn't.
I wouldn't.
Somebody else would.
They would take an Easter egg, Eshtar egg,
and they would place it at the door
of the house of a virgin.
And she would come out of that house
and when she came out of that house,
she was commanded, she had to pick up
that egg.
And if it was your egg, you got
to go be with that girl.
And the whole thing about the bunnies and
all of that stuff goes back to ancient
Babylonians about sexual practices and fertility rights.
Interesting.
Bizarre.
Strange.
For sure.
Revelation 2, verse 15.
Revelation 2, 15.
Jesus speaks about that type of priesthood that
made it into the Roman Empire.
It's ancient.
God knew that.
In Revelation 2, 15, Jesus said to the
church at Pergamos, Jesus says to them, thus
you have those who hold the doctrine of
the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
Nicolaitans.
Nicolords of laity.
People.
Lords over the people.
Where do the Nicolaitans come from?
The ancient practices of Babylonianism.
The rule over people rather than people being
able to go directly to God.
They said, oh no, no, no.
You go to us and we'll tell you
what God's all about.
That happens in cultures all around the world.
And this ancient Babylonian worship system began to
propagate throughout the world.
Very, very interesting.
And powerful.
And so the worship and the intrigue of
Semiramis and Temus grew on and developed more
and made its way to the world.
Jesus will make mention of it in further
references in our study this morning.
My friend, predating what you might think is
of a Roman Catholic belief or some other
belief system, I want you to realize everything
spiritual either goes back to Yahweh God of
the Bible in truth, or it goes back
to the ancient Babylonian system.
The ancient Babylonian system has all kinds of
freakish inroads into the lives of people taking
on and assimilating all kinds of manifestations and
appearances in cults, in religions, in doctrines, in
beliefs, in worldviews, in astrology.
Strange things all linking back to what was
practiced in ancient Babylon.
Now, this morning, we've got some things to
show you.
And I haven't been looking at the screens.
I may have missed them.
We have some images of icons and things
like that coming up next.
Do we have it?
Do you?
Not sure?
Maybe not.
But most people are assuming.
This is an interesting building.
This is in Jerusalem of all things.
And I took that picture from the street.
You see right here, everybody?
Can you see that?
This is a huge statue.
It's about 25 feet high, by the way.
And there's a closer one of that, which
we saw earlier.
Notice it's the 12 stars.
You and I would say, gosh, you know,
standing in Israel, it would be Israel and
12 stars referred to in scripture as the
12 stars of Jacob, of the tribes of
Israel.
No problem there, right?
The only thing is, this very image appears
around the world in other cultures.
If we have more slides, go for it,
because I'm not sure what exactly you've got
over there now.
So, look at this ancient, ancient artifact of
a woman holding a child.
And I believe this is the one that
came out of China, predating the Catholic Church.
What is this all about?
You say, well, it's just a mom holding
a child.
Well, I would say, OK, but keep going,
you guys.
Next slide, if we have one.
Look at.
OK, this is very obvious.
It's like, OK, but the whole concept predates
the Catholic Church.
Semiramis and Temus.
This is amazing.
This is nearly, what is it, 4,800
years old, this image.
You have this Egyptian mother.
She's about ready to nurse this child.
And you might say, well, that's normal.
I mean, mommies nurse their babies.
This is a god in Egypt.
This is worshipped in Egypt with the sun
over the horns or the crest here.
This is an ancient Egyptian idol.
Very important.
Keep going, you guys.
I don't know if we have more or
not.
I'm not sure what we have.
Well, that's kind of obvious.
There you have a woman riding a beast
there.
But let's advance to this, you guys.
In a moment, I'm going to show you
something that's very, very interesting.
Babylon is labeled in the Bible as a
whore.
And this doesn't mean that she was a
bad girl that got around.
When the Bible speaks about this, this is
spiritual context.
The Bible makes it clear that when we
worship something other than the Lord, it is
spiritual harlotry.
Idolatry is spiritual fornication or idolatry, adultery, spiritually.
Being involved in something you ought not to
be involved in.
There's four things I want you to consider
as we go through this, that whoever and
whatever Babylon is, the mystery Babylon, is this,
that she's easily accessible to the world.
All roads would lead to her.
She's easy.
Thus the Bible says she's a whore.
She's a harlot.
Number two, she's deceptive.
She takes on the cultures in which she
goes into.
We know this to be a fact as
you study history.
Babylonianism, when it came into the various cultures
of the world and empires, it kept enough
of its foundation, but acquiesced to its culture.
Rome adopted it.
And even still today, where it goes, it
blends in enough with its culture.
If it's Oriental, or if it's European, or
if it's Western, it just blends in.
And then also this, it's not only accessible
and deceptive, but it's polluting.
She is spiritually polluted.
Her doctrines lead to hell itself, the Bible
warns us, over and over again.
If ancient Babylon is going to make its
way back into the times in which you
and I live in, just before the second
coming of Christ, then that means it is
on a march.
It is on its way.
And what does it look like?
It's going to be something that offers you
spiritually a polluted message.
And this, are you guys listening?
This is so terrifying if you don't have
the Bible hidden in your heart.
Because somebody can come on a stage, a
platform, a pulpit, and be really cool, and
dazzle you with this or that, and give
what you might think is the gospel, if
you don't know what the gospel is.
They might mention Jesus, God, and Heaven.
But they will leave out things like repent
of your sins and be converted.
It is a Christless message that will make
its way out.
It will be a crossless message.
It will be something other than.
It will be a road that leads to
spirituality that costs you nothing.
Now I'm not saying you have to earn
your way to Heaven.
That's impossible.
But you don't have to give anything up.
It's a gospel that you just staple on
or put your membership card in your wallet
just like anything else in life, like Walmart
or Costco or whatever.
It's just an add-on.
It's a simple thing that's all-encompassing.
People will ask things like do you believe
in God?
I believe in God.
Oh, we all believe in God.
Isn't that great to believe in God?
God who?
God what?
The Bible warns us that there's even other
gospels and other Jesuses that are preached out
there when people knock on your door.
If you take the time to research their
creation, their message, where they came from, their
leaders, leader, leader, leader came from, you will
eventually get back to the founding of all
cult and occultic practices in Babylon.
And she's of that.
And she will be the personification of it
in the last days.
And then she's dangerous.
She's spiritually dangerous.
The souls that she tampers with leads people
into eternity.
To say to you just enough to appease
you but not to get you to go
any further.
Not to find out.
Not to know.
For example, the Bible says listen, these things
have been written that you might know you
have eternal life.
That's the Bible.
Do you know that you have eternal life?
Well, I don't know.
Maybe.
What?
You are to know.
Who says?
The Bible says you are to know.
Well, I'll know after I die.
After you die?
It's too late after you die.
The Bible says these things are written that
you might know that you have eternal life.
That's before you die.
There's no second chance.
That was invented.
There's no another opportunity to hear the Bible.
That's invented.
This is a very critical thing.
So the Bible speaks about and antiquity speaks
about a woman of great prominence.
Here in your Bible speaks about a woman
riding a beast.
This is 2,000 years old.
And in association with world rule.
Now look at this.
This is amazing.
You say, well, you know, a lot of
you are from Chino.
You recognize exactly what that is.
That's a lot of bull right there.
But what's interesting about this?
This is a woman.
She got all the nations of the world
right here.
Or of Europe.
I'm sorry.
All the nations of Europe.
Here's the European Union flag.
Isn't that funny?
It's just like our our first flag.
America.
Remember we had the circle.
Thirteen.
They got 12.
We had more one more than they did.
This is the European Union flag.
Next slide.
I love this picture.
I took it all by myself.
This is out in front of a pharmacy.
It's just on one of the old buildings
in Germany.
Twelve stars.
Look at the ocean.
See that word right here?
That's Zeus.
And this is Europa.
She's naked, but she's got scarlet robes on.
Do you see her?
See this big bull right there?
This is normal thinking in the European mind.
This is this is called Greek mythology.
Listen, Greek mythology.
You need to find out where the Greeks
got it from.
They I don't tell them.
The Europeans tell me and I have this
in print that this is Zeus or Jupiter.
Goes by the same name.
It's the same guy taking Europa captive across
the seas of the world signifying world dominance
that it's Zeus's desire to take her around
the world to conquer the world to rule
the world.
This is what this is what Europeans know.
It's in their ancient history.
But it's mythology.
It's not.
It's just a myth.
Come on.
Next slide.
If it's such a myth.
Here's the European euro 19.
This is the ECU.
This is 1996.
This is a five dollar euro.
Here's see the ocean.
See the beast.
Multiple horns.
See this woman.
She's naked.
She's wearing robes.
See what's with that.
OK.
You got to stop right there.
I didn't make this up.
This is not like Photoshop or something here.
This is real.
This is your Bible.
You guys.
This is your Bible.
Say that.
Watch out.
A woman's going to come riding the beast.
OK.
And does it not talk about waters?
The waters that she rides are nations.
Hello.
Now, come on.
Are you guys.
You're so quiet.
Are you with me here?
You say you made up that.
You made that picture up.
I didn't make it up.
This is what it looks like.
This is a Greek euro.
This is in circulation right now.
I got a couple in my office.
That's where we take the picture.
This is a Greek euro.
See the woman.
I mean, see the beast.
See the naked lady with the scarlet robes
on her.
Well, I mean, there's supposed to be.
Bible says they're purple and red.
See that.
Europa.
This is Zeus.
OK.
And she's holding a goblet.
She's holding a goblet.
Next slide.
This is that Greek coin.
Here's the.
Here's the European Union.
Part of it.
And there she is again.
Next slide.
This is just an ancient, ancient Roman coin.
But you see that the thought process of
an animal being on there.
Although this is a lion with an eagle's
head.
I believe kind of hard to make out.
Next one.
Again, keep going.
Oh, this is great.
Here's that five dollar euro.
There's the flip side of it.
Backside.
And these are two stamps from Europe.
First of all, this is Poseidon.
We have pictures of this, by the way,
this image right here.
We don't have them right now, but we
I've got them in my my library when
we went to a Minoan temple, one of
the infected.
It's at the same existence, same time as
King David in Israel.
A Minoan temple in Greece with paintings of
Poseidon, Zeus and Europa all around the walls.
Listen, Europa all around the walls in the
time of David.
This is a woman who's kind of naked,
but kind of veiled in clothing at the
same time.
She's got robes and she's got a son
or a child in her right hand.
She's hanging on to the the head of
the beast and see the ocean, Poseidon, the
god of the seas underneath her.
This is another stamp.
It is a bridge around the world over
the seas.
And what does it say?
Europe, Europa.
This is the concept in the mind thing.
He said, where are you going with this?
Well, hang on.
There is a day coming when Europe will
be resurrected to this thinking that's not so
foreign to them, that there will be a
time.
And what I'm suggesting to you this morning
is this, that the Babylonian system is much
broader than pointing the finger at a group
or at a church or at a this
or a that.
What's dangerous if you don't know what's coming,
you could fall into one of these things.
You are going to see the rise of
Europe, the European Union, become a world-dominating
economic power.
It already has a gross national product greater
than the United States.
You see, Jack, are you not aware that
they have great many financial problems?
In fact, look at the inflation rate in
Germany, the unemployment in Germany.
France has just fallen apart.
I understand that.
Hello, it's probably going to get worse there
before it gets better because it needs an
answer.
Antichrist.
The book of Daniel tells us this guy
is going to come in and deceive many
with prosperity and peace.
What's Europe crying for at this hour based
upon the Middle East crisis?
Peace.
Now, peace.
Is this world not crying out for peace?
The Bible says there's not going to be
any peace.
Listen, we often say there won't be any
peace until the Prince of Peace comes.
That's true ultimately.
There will be a pseudo mock peace that's
brought by the Antichrist.
It would be a three and a half
year time of deceptive peace.
You're going to see a rise of Europe.
Let me ask you, is Europe rising?
Oh, yeah.
Are they unified?
Yeah.
Do they have a currency?
Yes.
I predict it's not going to last long
as a tangible currency.
I predict, like I know what I'm talking
about.
I'm sneaking this from the Bible.
Revelation 13.
They're going to go electronic.
You're going to have a mark or a
chip in your hand.
I mean, you better not.
Nobody at this church better not.
But those days are coming.
You've got a spiritual entity called Babylon, the
harlot.
You've got something rising spiritually that is going
to deceive the world that is ancient.
And yet John says it's in the future
and it completely freaked him out.
John is telling us if we read carefully
that this wicked thing of the past is
going to infiltrate and become a church.
A church.
It is going to become a church system
that will look to the world and say,
do you wear this when you worship?
That's good with us.
Do you pray to what?
That's good with us.
You believe in what?
That's good with us.
As long as we are united and as
long as we are tolerant, it's good with
us.
And that's what's going to happen.
And somehow this system in connection with the
rise of Europe and its economic prowess is
they're going to make together.
You've got the woman who represents a false
church riding on the back of an economic
political engine.
The beast called the Antichrist.
He is going to command it.
Those of you who take notes, jot this
down.
Many of you have Calvary Chapel.
You already know this.
This is fun stuff.
I want you to go and research the
W.E.U. It's not like some wrestling
league.
It's Western European Union.
You're going to go to their government website.
It's not a Christian site.
It is a European government website.
W.E.U. It is preeminent and presides
over the E.U. The W.E.U.
was founded first.
The E.U. came out of it.
There are something like 25 or so members
of the European Union right now.
And it fluctuates.
That's not important, honestly.
What is important is what you're going to
read on the W.E.U.'s website.
That they are...
I kid you not.
Are you ready?
They are 10 leaders, it says, of 10
countries of Europe out of the European Union
which hold the governing powers, the drafting powers
of documents, and they have a leader.
Now, I don't know who this guy is
in the future, but right now he's Javier
Solano.
He's the guy that's head over both, and
he's their military leader.
I'm not saying he's the Antichrist.
What I am saying is there's going to
be a guy like that.
And isn't it interesting it's the number 10.
There's 10 of them.
The W.E.U. Look at it later.
We are seeing precursors to the 10 horns.
What does the Bible talk about 10 horns?
Horns in the Scripture are always kings.
And then he goes on to tell you
the 10 horns that you saw are 10
kings that will rise.
Rise out of what?
The ancient European or Roman Empire.
It's very clear in the Scripture.
No one's ever conquered the Roman Empire.
It's the only empire that didn't get conquered.
Theoretically, it's still in existence today.
Did you know that?
It was never beaten.
It just fell apart.
That's interesting.
And so, we've got two things growing side
by side.
Now, change gears for a moment.
I raised all this stuff about Semiramis.
I raised all this stuff about Tammuz.
And the weirdness of that.
What is all that?
Babylonianism.
Okay?
Where is that in the Bible?
Get it?
Ready.
Jeremiah 44, beginning at verse 15.
Jeremiah 44, 15.
While you're turning there, by the way, every
time Israel backslid away from the Lord, they
backslid into idolatry.
And they were very guilty for doing nasty
things.
You've read your Bible where they sacrifice children
in the arms of Moloch or Rimfan.
Remember Dagon?
I love that.
Remember when they brought the ark in?
They captured the ark.
Israel's enemies, they brought in the ark and
they put the ark before Dagon, this freaky
looking thing.
It's part fish with arms on it.
It's kind of like a man with a
fish head.
And it's standing there and they're going, Oh,
Dagon rocks.
Dagon's great.
He's the best.
We love Dagon.
Yes, we do.
We love Dagon.
How about you?
And they bring the ark in and they
set the ark of the Lord before and
they close the warehouse door and they go
home.
And the next time they come back in
the morning and Dagon has fallen down in
front of the ark.
And you could just see the janitor.
Oh, that's really weird.
Pluck that thing back up.
And he goes back and the next day
he comes back and the idol has fallen
down again in front of the ark of
the Lord and its hands and its head
are broken off.
And they know they've got trouble.
Something's going on here.
This is like an X-file happening here.
That image was a man-like creature with
a fish head with his mouth like this,
open.
When you look at the priest, the artifacts
that have been unearthed of the priest and
their gowns and their robes, the priest of
Dagon in Babylonian worship, thousands and thousands and
thousands of years ago.
Guess what?
They normally wore red or purple, but not
always.
Alexander Hislop points out that they could wear
green robes.
They had fish scale robes.
The robes look like scales on a fish
because they worship.
In fact, that was the worship system going
on in Nineveh when a prophet showed up
who came out of a what?
Fish.
Jonah shows up and says, you guys, you
are going to fry.
You guys are going to die.
He didn't even give them any hope.
Forty days and Nineveh perishes.
How many days?
Forty.
What did they do when they heard the
news?
Let's intercede and pray the call for the
king of Nineveh.
Wonder what he was thinking about.
Maybe in the tradition of Semiramis and her
lamentation based upon his culture and based upon
his worship.
Jonah could care less.
And I mean, I mean care less.
He shows up 40 days.
Nineveh perishes.
He hated him.
Get a revelation study to find out or
the Jonah study to find out why is
amazing.
He goes up and sits down to watch
it to blow up.
They're crying.
But you know what?
Why did they listen to him?
He's a Jew.
Nineveh ate Jews alive.
Because you know what?
It wasn't that he was a Jew.
And it certainly wasn't as a great message
of hope.
You know what it was?
It was that he came out of a
fish.
They believe that the message came from God.
Because the priests of Dagon, they wore green
scale like robes with a fish hat on
that looks like the face of a or
the head of a fish.
Ancient artifacts reveal this to be so predating
the Catholic Church.
Have you ever seen the miter hat?
It's the shape of a fish hat when
you turn sideways.
It's the ancient exact replica of the hats
of Dagon.
Did you get that?
Doggone it.
Did you get it?
Go look this stuff up.
You're looking at me like, no way.
Hey, my job's on the line here.
I got to be accurate.
Okay, listen.
And cultures, this worship, the Assyrian Empire, they
named Semiramis and Temus different names.
Ishtar, Temus, watch this, and Phoenicia, Ashtarte, and
Baal.
Does that ring a bell?
You ever hear that before?
By the way, did you hear Baal in
the news this week when there was a
missile attack at Baal back?
Did anybody get that?
B-A-A-L-B-E-K.
It was in the news this week.
Solomon said, there's nothing new under the sun.
Interesting.
Oh, by the way, when you see Hezbollah,
it's not Hezbollah.
It's Hezba Allah.
Look at it.
Look at the proper spelling of it.
It's not B-O-L-L-A-H.
It's B-A-L-L-A-H.
Allah.
There's a reason for that.
God's army.
I was on a phone call this morning
before service.
And as I told you earlier, Israel understands
that Allah's war has just begun.
That's what the enemy of Israel is saying.
This is just the beginning.
We're not backing off.
We're not stopping.
This is our time.
And then, you know what?
They think it's their time.
They've got 9-11.
They've got all this stuff behind them.
The world is terrified.
The momentum is on their side.
It's amazing.
Egypt called Semiramis and Temus Isis and Horus.
Greece called them Aphrodite, that's Semiramis, and Eros.
Now, from here on, you've got to be
careful with researching it because it gets kinky
weird.
It gets Jerry Springer weird when you study
this.
Because you've got Semiramis having sex with her
son, and then the things that come out
from that will make you sick.
And you don't even want to find out
what Semiramis wound up doing to Nimrod regarding
fertility.
Now that I've said that, you'll probably go
read it.
But Rome called her Venus, that's Semiramis to
the Romans, and Cupid was Temus.
Now listen, you say, what is this?
Jeremiah 44, beginning at verse 15, Then all
the women present and all the men who
knew that their wives had burned incense to
the idols, a great crowd of all of
them, Judeans living in Pathros, in the southern
region of Egypt, answered Jeremiah and said, Jeremiah
44, 16, We will not listen to your
message from the Lord.
We will do whatever we want.
We will burn incense to the queen, what's
it say?
The queen of heaven.
This is thousands of years before the Catholic
Church.
The queen of heaven.
We will burn incense to, listen to what
she says, and sacrifice to her just as
much as we would like, just as we
and our ancestors before us have done, and
as our kings and priests have always done
in the towns of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem.
For in those days, listen, this is the
reason why they worship.
For in those days, we had plenty to
eat, and we were well off, and we
had no troubles.
Man, we worship this pagan system of the
Babylonians, and everything was great with us.
You see what the criteria was?
Forget truth.
We've got money.
We've got health.
We've got all this stuff.
Everything's great.
We're going to worship this system because of
what it gives us, not if it's true
or not.
The queen of heaven, that very term predates
anyone that you ever talk to about the
queen of heaven, saying, oh, queen of heaven
this, queen of heaven that.
By the way, did I ever tell you
this?
Get a book by Roger Oakland right away.
It's called The Queen of All.
It's documented.
Data.
Research it.
You're going to wig out.
You're going to love it.
The queen of all.
The queen of heaven is the queen of
all.
Who is she?
It's not Mary.
The statue's not Jesus.
It goes way back.
It's an infiltration that makes its way around
truth and then strangles truth like a snake.
And this is critical.
Now, what about Tammuz?
Ezekiel 8, her son.
Ezekiel 8, beginning at verse 12.
The Lord spoken to me, saying, Ezekiel, son
of man, you have seen what the elders
of the house of Israel are doing in
secret, in darkness, each at the shrine of
his own idol.
They say the Lord does not see.
The Lord has forsaken the land.
Again, he said, I will see them and
their doings that are even more detestable.
Verse 14.
Then he brought me to the entrance of
the north gate of the house of the
Lord.
This is in Jerusalem.
During Ezekiel's day.
And I saw women sitting there mourning for
who?
Tammuz.
They were in worship crying out to Tammuz.
He had been dead a millennia earlier.
If that worship system invaded the very nation
of Israel and its worship system, is it
not able to invade our worship system today?
I suggest it not only has, but it
will more.
And if you don't know the Bible, you're
going to get knocked right off your feet.
You're going to follow its new dressing, its
new look.
Let's see the slides.
Do you have the slides of the temple
of Zeus?
By any chance, I may have passed that
up on you guys.
I'm driving them crazy because I'm not sticking
true to my notes here.
You guys, can you see this with me?
See this word Pergamon, see that Pergamon museum.
This is in Berlin, Germany.
This is a very touchy issue right now
because Turkey wants everything inside that museum back.
The Germans took it.
Germans are not going to give it back.
Let's go on in.
This is the temple of Zeus or Jupiter.
It's massive.
This is the entrance.
And once inside, it's absolutely...
If you have any travel plans or vacation
plans, you're going through Berlin, Germany, you don't
even go there without seeing this.
Next slide.
This is a model of what you will
see and what you will go up.
This is a model of the steps leading
up to the temple of Zeus where they
made sacrifices.
In fact, keep this slide.
Do you see this right here, you guys?
Hey, are you guys with me?
I need help here.
Okay, you see this?
This is a model.
There's the real deal right up there.
These images right here, they're about 15 to
18 feet high.
It's huge.
Next slide.
This is a model.
The real stuff's back there.
It's just so grand, I couldn't get it
all in the camera.
Next slide.
This is the real deal.
This is a massive structure.
You go up the stairs right here.
These are the gods that you would say,
oh, Greek mythology.
They're all named underneath.
Poseidon is here.
Athena.
You know your tennis shoes?
Nike.
Nike, the god is there.
They're all there.
All of them.
Listen, in this grand cosmic spiritual battle, the
only thing is it's of the underworld.
And it tells you all about that when
you're there.
All ascending up.
They're all trying to make their way up
to be crowned by the queen of heaven.
The temple of Zeus or Jupiter.
Next slide, if we have one.
These are huge structures that were brought over
and then replaced back together.
Some of them are still being placed.
You can see those blank spots.
Incredible detail.
Next.
That's it.
Amazing stuff.
What's that all about?
They even have references there in the book
of Revelation to the church at Pergamos that
Jesus spoke to.
Warning them.
It's absolutely amazing.
Nothing's new, as we said under the sun.
Very quickly.
What is Mystery Babylon the Great?
Obviously is a satanic system.
Revelation chapter 17 tells us of spiritual deception.
She's got all kinds of evil and twisted
doctrines.
She's a beast.
Riding upon a beast, for sure.
A few things and we'll be done.
Now we go quickly.
What is Mystery Babylon the Great?
Number one, it's a system having global powers.
Will you jot that down?
It is going to be a system that
is religious, but will have global powers.
How so?
Well, first of all, she's a woman.
She's an imposter church.
The Church of Jesus is called the Bride
of Christ.
A woman, isn't it?
She is an imposter.
That's why John freaked out.
He was amazed that he saw this thing.
What is that?
He both knew something about it, but he
was absolutely amazed by it.
It has grown into a freakish looking thing
that ensconces the earth.
She's a woman.
It says in verse 18 that that woman
that you saw is that great city.
What do I mean by that?
Jot it down if you would.
I believe that part of this grand Babylonian
deception in the last days will be, number
one, it says here, the woman resides or
is a city.
I believe it's Rome.
I'm going to tell you why.
It says it rules over the kings of
the earth.
The word in the Greek is presently.
Presently from when?
When was John given the vision?
Back then in the late 90s A.D.
Rome was ruling over the world.
John understood that.
Wow, Rome rules the world.
It says right here.
This woman sits there.
This woman is a city.
And it rules the world.
John would have understood that fine.
You say, well, that's kind of shallow.
Well, it gets better.
Look at verse nine.
Look at her location.
Mystery Babylon.
Who is she?
Look at her location.
Here is the mind which has wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains on which
the woman sits.
Vatican City in Rome sits upon Aventine, Caelian,
Capitoline, Palatine, Escholine, Quarinole, and Viminole.
Seven hills that are famous.
World-renowned.
You've got to find a city that's existing
at the time of John that will have
end-time powers as well.
It has to be something that adopts ancient
Babylonianism.
It has to be a city that meets
certain criteria that John knew about and understood.
It had to be a city that ruled
the world at his time while he was
alive.
Her location is key.
Her attire.
She's a Nordstrom's kind of girl.
Look at her.
Verse four.
The woman was arrayed in purple scarlet, adorned
with gold and precious stones and pearls, having
in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
The priesthood that came out of her corrupted
the world.
She's very, very, though, dressed in opulence.
Allow me to put it this way.
She has been wined and dined by the
political powers of the world being led by
the Antichrist in what will be the resurrected
Roman Empire that once existed.
Keep your eye on the ancient Roman Empire
of Europe.
Keep your eye on the rise of a
spiritual leadership coming out of the city of
Rome.
The seven hills and a power at the
time of John.
Her attire speaks of great, great powers as
well.
The verse 15 of Revelation 17 is her
influence.
She's going to have tremendous global influence.
Then he said to me, the waters which
you saw where the harlot sits are people's
multitudes, nations and tongues.
You saw the images of Europa riding upon
that beast over the oceans.
These are the nations of the world.
And that's exactly what Europe understands that ancient
Greek image to represent.
There'll be a global ecumenical gathering.
Number two in our study.
What is Mystery Babylon the Great?
It's a system having grand position.
A grand position.
How so?
Look at verse three.
She will be granted swift access to the
world.
So he carried me away.
That is, the Lord carried John away into
the spirit to see in the wilderness.
And here's what he sees.
I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet
beast which was full of names of blasphemies,
having seven heads and ten horns.
She's going to have access to the world
by virtue of her partner, the Antichrist and
that government.
It will be a state-promoted, agreed-upon
worship system, church imposter of the truth.
Keep going.
She will have a grand position in that
she will dominate world religions.
She has, as she rides upon the beast,
a name from the beast which is full
of names of blasphemy.
These are names that defame God.
Names that put down God, the God of
the Bible.
And yet she will be religious and the
world will flock to her.
She'll have this tremendous religious domination.
Point number three.
What is Mystery Babylon the Great?
What is it?
It's a system having glorious prosperity.
By the way, the book of Daniel warns
us, and I think it's Daniel chapter 11,
that when the Antichrist comes, he's going to
deceive the world by riches and by peace.
She has unlimited wealth.
Look at verse 4 of chapter 17.
The woman was arrayed in purple scarlet, adorned
with gold and precious stones and pearls.
She's going to utilize the economy of a
rising Europe.
And then that leads us to this consideration
here.
If you think of verse 4, you'll see
a dominant European market rising, as we mentioned
a moment ago.
You'll see that happening.
By the way, you look at the world
right now and all that's going on.
Isn't this a great time for the Antichrist
to show up?
I'll calm down the Muslim world.
I'll give the Jews promises and peace.
In fact, you guys, I'll give you this,
and I'll give you half of Jerusalem.
If you let Israel rebuild the temple there
at the Temple Mount, all this stuff's going
to come to pass at some point in
time.
We also know in verse 4 that her
wealth will elevate her status.
She has this golden cup of rule, of
dominance, of power.
Fourthly, it's a system having gross passions.
Note this.
She is a great spiritual harlot in this.
Her passions are murderous.
And since she has a golden cup full
of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, look
what it leads to.
She is just so flamboyant and so out
there and so brazen, so spiritually disgusting, that
Revelation 17-2 leads us to this consideration.
She is unholy before God, for it says,
with whom the kings of the earth, the
word is political leaders of the world, have
joined with her, and she has made them
drunk with her fornication.
You guys, there's going to be a time
when political powers will gather together to her
and with her.
That's coming.
I know it sounds crazy, but it's coming.
She's indulgent, verse 5.
She is mystery.
She is Babylon the Great.
She's the mother of harlots.
The scary thing about mothers is that they
have babies.
That's how you become a mother.
Who are her kids?
You don't want to know them.
Finally, we end here.
Mystery, Babylon, what is it?
It's a system given to persecutions.
It will sanction persecutions.
In Revelation 17, verses 6 and 7, it
says that the woman was drunk with the
blood of the saints.
The Tribulation Saints Church, listen, not only historically,
but yet in the future, this system that's
coming will be the key role player of
killing believers during the Tribulation period.
I'm going to give you one guess.
How do you think, under the direction of
the Antichrist, will this religious system implement a
murderous act of those who love Jesus?
How do they die?
The Bible makes it very clear.
How are they stopped?
I want to hear it again.
Beheading, says the Bible.
Not electrocution.
Not lethal injection.
The Bible says, yet in the future, those
who don't submit to the Antichrist and his
rule will be beheaded.
Up until a few years ago, we would
have thought beheading was something out of the
ancient, barbaric, ignorant world.
It is.
But it's back.
Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that amazing?
She's going to be given to persecutions.
By the way, historically, she always has.
That's a warning to us.
It is a warning to us.
And so with that, church, we end with
this.
I want to leave this before your mind.
In just a few brief moments together, I
cannot in any way decent present to you
what possibly would be the culmination of Mystery
Babylon the Great.
I can just simply warn you this.
It is a system that has been around
since the very beginning.
It hasn't gone away.
It infiltrates truth.
Wherever the truth is, it generates a counterfeit.
And I want to challenge you, Christian.
When you worship, be careful.
Do you need things to get you into
worship?
Do you have to be primed and pumped
to worship your God?
When you pray and when you cry out
and when you ask God for direction or
for forgiveness, is there a priest or a
pastor, an evangelist or anyone else?
Is there a Billy Graham or someone?
Is there a Chuck Smith or a Jack
or a Charles Stanley or a John Paul
or whoever that says, you come to me
and I'll represent you before God.
The Bible says there's one mediator before man
and God and that is the man Christ
Jesus.
Listen, the Bible makes it very clear.
The book of Hebrews warns over and over
again, there's a coming system that is going
to try to get between you and God.
And it could be legalism today.
It could be that you, in a vicarious
manner, you're trying to have your righteousness lived
out by the deeds of your missionaries that
you support or your pastor or whatever.
That's wrong.
It's you and Jesus.
In the end, it's you and Jesus.
That's what it's about.
And do you know Him personally?
Do you know what it's like when the
Bible says that all those who call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved?
Do you know that?
You must know that.
We are so pressed for time.
But listen, right where you're at right now,
you can say as you're even looking at
me, you can say, God, I want to
make sure things are right with you and
I.
And I don't want to get balled up
with religion and all this stuff of Babylonianism.
I'm not even aware of this stuff.
Lord, I'm kind of terrified.
I just want to be saved.
I want to have my sins forgiven.
You're not going to hear that in its
modern day message.
Lord, I repent of my sin.
You're not going to hear that in the
message.
Lord, forgive me.
I don't want to go to hell.
I want to go to heaven.
I want Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
I want your son Yeshua to be my
Savior.
And you can say that you can say
right where you're at right now.
Yes, that's what I want.
If right now you're saying yes, then I
tell you what the pastors here or myself,
we would love to know that we're not
going to bother you.
We just want to know that.
But think about it.
Who are you following?
And where will you go?
Is it the Lord of the Bible?
Or is it a system of corruption and
religion that misses heaven altogether by its grand
deception?
Father, we thank you for your truth and
for your love.
And Lord, I pray that you would make
sense of our brief time together.
This is such bizarre and strange and yet
important information.
Father, thank you that your Bible is more
ready to meet tomorrow, Lord, than we could
ever imagine, that your word anticipates everything.
So, Father, bless now, Lord, this time.
And Father, we ask now in Jesus' name
that as we go, we'd go in your
power.
For it's in your name we pray and
all God's people said.
Amen.
Let's stand as we close.
And again, if you made that decision today...