May His strong right arm uphold you and yours.
You won't believe this but since my retirement I have been able to spend a great deal of my time in prayer and Bible sstudy and was in the book of Revelation when I seen your post.
In the time of the end the anti- christ heads up a confrderacy of European and western nations that most likely includes this one in some form or another.
Certainly it will be but a shadow of its former self as we will be just another spoke in the big wheel as it is under judgment and in rapid decline and headed for an economic disaster that always follows the moral collapse of a nation.
We have meddled in His business in a way that he told us not to,we have turned our back on His teachings and pitched our tents toward Sodom and Gomorrah and He has now said enough, and given us over to ourselves.
The system of government the Anti- christ heads up is one based on world trade and is the commerical Babylon spoken of in Revelation and I believe, is the one for which the ground work is well on its way to being laid.
The other Babylon is the Apostate one world Church made up of many different types and denominations, that are left behind after the true church has been raptured.
Any way as you probably know if you study chapter 18 and other books of the bible you will see that this dominant commercial power called Babylon is the system headed by this monster which is based on world trade and gets its power from an unholy alliance made up of the rich and powerful elite, the powerful giant corporations, the political parties and the lawyers/lobbyists that provide the front men.
THen we have the Congressmen,judges and executive branch con men that prostitute themselves for careers that let them hold the purse and divide the yearly take from the people between the Party, their rich sponsers and their own pockets.
For those that are younger than I who want to see what is coming their way read chapter 18 in Rev and if you really want to know more read ,Isaiah 13,14,Jeremiah 50,51 and Rev.17,18 will give you a look at the future of the base city, the coming world government, its leader and what happens then and what is happening now.
A little taste for those that might not be as familar as we.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies Rev 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
Rev 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Rev 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
I don’t know if you know this, but I lived in Seattle for 45 years, which was my entire adult life. I’m 58 now. Two weeks before the 2008 election I bought a small farm with a new house on it and actually moved there (here) in August of 2011.
My tag line here, for that entire time was that I am here in the spirit of Revelation 18:4.
I agree with pretty much everything you posted there. I believe we are wrong about a few things because I don’t believe prophesy is there to give a detailed future image, but more as a warning and peppered with enough info to prove itself just before or after an event happens. And, of course we are clearly told to watch for the signs.
Which is why you and I mostly agree.