Posted on 07/07/2015 10:45:22 AM PDT by ShadowAce
When Lon Chaney's son, Lon Jr., was born, his wife said "Here is Baby Lon!"
Though many other nations, but not all, also allow abortion, it has been America which has led in the abortion movement.
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I believe this to be factually incorrect.
The abortion rate is considerably higher in Russia than it is in the US.
1 Peter 5 is written in present tense, outside of the context of a prophetic vision of the future, but Revelation is not.
We are never going to agree, so there’s no point.
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Hmm, I just checked, and it was marginally inhabited at that time, but I don’t think “flourishing” is a good description. The city had been almost entire destroyed, with the marketplace and temples burned as recently as 123 BC, and contemporary accounts from Greek writers around that time describe it as “in great part deserted”, with nothing remaining of the city except for one temple and the city walls. Pliny wrote that, besides that one surviving temple, “in all other respects the place has gone back to a desert”.
So there may have been some people living there, but it wasn’t a city, much less a “great city” that could fit any of these prophecies, at least at that time.
I am starting to agree with John Price about fleeing America! The only problem is; where to go?
I believe it's the same way in scripture as well.
pretty sure that city mentioned spiritually as Sodom and Egypt has legalized abortion today,too.
God brought Israel out of Egypt on “Eagles Wings”. He and His angels are the “Eagles”. Many great powers have used the Eagle as their symbol...
Iraq has amazingly become front and center on world stage since 1990. Just like the cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi were built-up in less than 10 years, it is not unbelievable that Babylon could be reestablished quickly (See “Footsteps of the Messiah” by Arnold Fructenbaum). However, I could be wrong about physical Babylon and it may be a new spiritual Babylon. Even so, America is not necessarily Babylon.
Here are some of Babylon’s most famous citizens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtdlrlbAm08
The rate in Russia may be higher (I don’t know that), but it has been America who has pushed it to the whole world—America is the mother of that particular abomination.
Sure, but Babylon wasn’t the capital of any nation at that time, and hasn’t ever been the capital of any nation since then.
Yes it is, though it is more regulated than it is here.
We sit on many waters, we push our culture and abominations out to the rest of the world, we are arrogant, and we are the hammer of the world.
Those sins will not be the cause of our destruction though. Our destruction will come about because we will refuse to assist Israel when the nations are at her border, ready to invade.
Babylon is Rome.
Have you read his book? He recommends seeking out countries that have strict abortion laws and few Muslims. He moved to Chile. I have friends who have moved to Panama, although their Muslim population is over 1 million.
Once you start researching, where do we move?, it’s shocking how few countries will accept immigrants, how strict their requirements are, and if they are places where you could even live and be safe.
I think we probably agree that America isn’t the “Babylon” spoken of in Revelation. I personally think that Revelation identifies that city pretty clearly, but most people don’t seem to like that identification, so I tend to be in the minority in my opinion.
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