Today a huge portrait of Saddam Hussein stands at the entrance to the Babylon site, 56 miles south of Baghdad. He has left his own mark at Babylon, building a presidential palace a few hundred metres from the site, in the same style as the original (SNIP)
President Saddam's palace sits on a hill overlooking the great throne room of Nebuchadnezzar's palace.
But United Nations weapons inspectors, hunting for biological and chemical weapons between 1991 and 1998 claimed it might have another use: to hide an arsenal of banned weapons.
Now compare it with the prophesy about the DESTRUCTION of Babylon in Isaiah 13:
1 Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon: 2 "See the flags waving as the enemy attacks. Cheer them on, O Israel! Wave to them as they march against Babylon to destroy the palaces of the high and mighty. 3 I, the LORD, have assigned this task to these armies, and they will rejoice when I am exalted. I have called them to satisfy my anger." 4 Hear the noise on the mountains! Listen, as the armies march! It is the noise and the shout of many nations. The LORD Almighty has brought them here to form an army. 5They came from countries far away.
They are the LORD's weapons; they carry his anger with them and will destroy the whole land. 6 Scream in terror, for the LORD's time has arrived--the time for the Almighty to destroy.
Things are moving in exactly that direction!
LINKS:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,709809,00.html
http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/tools/printer-friendly.pl?book=Isa&chapter=13&startv=1&endv=22&version=nlt&Go.x=32&Go.y=2
Things are moving in exactly that direction.
Thanks for the info. & links. Very interesting.