Where does the "Great City" get its Power, Authority, Influence, Riches, Control?

How does the "Great City" lay claim to its immense riches, wealth and goods?

BELOW: The following example, using today's Ranking of the World's Richest Nations, can in principal be applied to the prophecies (see right) about the Wealth-Authority of the Antichrist.

Since Babylon is the Chosen City of the Antichrist for his  THRONE and HEADQUARTERS, the Biblical Prophecies pertaining to the Authority, Power, and Control of the Antichrist over WEALTH apply also to Babylon of Chaldea.

Therefore,

The Great City Babylon—by proxy, will have both Possession and Control of GLOBAL WEALTH in the End Days.

See the prophecies to the right...

Here are some of the relevant prophecies.

        1. Antichrist overcomes the Superpowers and their Wealth.

    (3 of the 10 Kings; Dan 7:24; 11:39, dividing and selling Israel to Global bidders)

        2. The 3 Antichrist-controlled Nations sway the remaining 7, and these 10 Most Powerful and Richest Nations in one swift stroke hand over their Sovereignty, their Wealth, their very Kingdoms to Antichrist. (Rev 17:13, 17

        3. With Global Authority centered and administered from Babylon, the City becomes "Antichrist-Babylon" —suddenly showered with WEALTH.

                                                                                               (Dan 11:38; Rev 18:2-3

        4. Antichrist-Babylon Economically rewards those who Worship him.                                                                                                 (Dan 11:39; Rev 13:17

        5. Antichrist-Babylon snatches the Wealth of Israel, Egypt, etc.

                                                                                        (Zec 14:1, 14; Dan 11:43

        6. Antichrist-Babylon gathers, parades, directs and distributes the WEALTH of the Nations as its own.                           (Rev chapter 18

            1. Babylon is the beneficiary of the Wealth of the Nations. The City parades and showcases its extravagant Wealth with a magnified display of "luxurious and splendid...gold and precious stones and pearls" to manifest its glory. (Rev 18:14-16)

            2. Babylon's "Wealthy-City" mantra also refers to its TOTAL CONTROL, under the GLOBAL AUTHORITY of the Antichrist, of the Wealth of the Nations. This Total Control is accomplished by the Antichrist's Absolute Authority over global supply and demand — that is, "buy and sell"-economic power. (Rev 13:17)  This global economic control over individuals necessitates global economic control over the nations. "Buy and Sell", or supply and demand, is the lifeblood of the world economy. The Great City is not only the showcase-face, but the administrative-arm, of the Antichrist. As such, it has an iron-fist control over the "buying and selling" of the nations of the world. (i.e., "merchants of the earth" implies nations trading with nations, under the control of Babylon; Rev 18:3, 11, 23)

            3. The entire Babylon, city of "great wealth" (Rev 18:17-19), phenomenon exists only and stands only on the satanically-bestowed Authority of the Antichrist situating and remaining in Babylon. (Rev 13:2-5)

            4. Babylon's reputation as the source of production centers on its GLOBAL CONTROL of production ("buy or sell", Rev 13:17) Reference to "her wealth", Rev 18: 19, is bound up in "her" (Babylon's) authority to control the world's wealth. The lengthy list of products in Revelation 18:12-13 are called "these things" (Rev 18:15), and related in the text to "their cargoes" (Rev 18:11), referring to the "merchants of the earth" ( Rev 18:3, 11, 23). Therefore, Babylon gains its "Wealthy City" reputation because it is the "Grand-Central-Station" of the World's Economy — as dictated by the Antichrist — not because it is the source of all production (though Babylon does have production capacity, v. 22).

NEXT, part 5, Does the term "Babylon the Great"

require Babylon to be a massive Seaport City?

NOTES and POSTSCRIPTS:

1. The OVERNIGHT RISE Of The GREAT CITY

                                        COMPLETE SUMMARY STATEMENTS

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF This Entire Series

( Summary of the 7 Propositions listed below, each of which encapsulates a subject of this 7-Part series )

Babylon of Chaldea has Survived, slowly rebuilding for a thousand years, awaiting its destiny as

the Throneroom of the Antichrist, the City Chosen by HIM to enforce HIS Authority and HIS Ownership

of the Global Sovereignty, Wealth, and Trade ceded "Overnight" to HIM by the Nations;

Babylon awaits its destiny as "the Great City"—perishing with its Final Fall at the Return of Christ.

(Jeremiah 50-51; Revelation 17-18)

(The "Great" in the "Great City" is the result of its status as the base-city

for the "Great Authority" of its chief occupant, the Antichrist)

Below are 7 Summary Statements concluded from the Biblical, archaeological and historical evidence presented in this series. Each of the 7 statements corresponds respectively to the 7 Parts of this series, where we will present the evidence that,

        1. Babylon of Chaldea (Iraq) has Survived to fulfill its prophesied date with destiny.
Photographs of Conditions said to be impossible after Babylon's Final Destruction prove Babylon has Survived.

        2. Babylon has been rebuilding, inconspicuously, and unnoticed, for centuries.
Beginning in the midst of Babylon's ruins, the Literal Stones of Babylon have for 1000 years been recycled and redistributed to expand and build up the city of Hillah --essentially Rebuilding Babylon.

        3. Revelation's title "Babylon the Great City" does not require Babylon to be a Super-Large city. 
Babylon is "Great"--not because of Great Size--but because of its Great Authority derived from its status as the throne-room City of the Antichrist.

        4. The description "the Wealthy City" does not require Babylon to be a city of long-standing wealth. 
Babylon becomes the global icon of extreme Wealth, not from Old-wealth, but from Overnight Wealth, bequeathed and bestowed by the Nations.

        5. Babylon "the Great" does not require Babylon to be a massive Seaport City. 
Babylon is not itself a Giant Seaport City, but it Controls Global Seaports from a distance across continents and seas.

        6. Babylon of Chaldea has not been "Replaced" any more than Israel of Mt. Zion has been Replaced. 
Babylon has a Biblical-Chaldean GPS Identification of 32.32º x 44.25º which excludes any other city as a Replacement Babylon.

        7. Babylon, Iraq, has a prophetic-time appointment that parallels that of Israel. 
Babylon of Chaldea has a Date With Destiny prophetically scheduled to coincide with the New Covenant Salvation of Israel at the End Time. (Jer 5-:1-5

If the evidence sustains these 7 points, where is the need for a metaphorical Replacement to the plain, common sense, literal understanding of the word "Babylon"?

2. Will there be an INSTANT transfer of Wealth from the nations to Babylon of Chaldea? Listen to Henry Morris on Zechariah's prophecy,

            "Zechariah's vision thus clearly foretells a time when the center of world finance and commerce will be removed from its bases in New York and             Geneva and other great cities and transported quickly across the world to a new foundation and headquarters in the land of Shinar...a biblical term             for Babylon..." [Zec 5:5-11; emphasis mine]

            Henry Morris, The Revelation Record, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, IL, 1983, p. 359.

3. "The international bankers and the corporation directors and the mercantile barons and the shipping magnates... now find it gloriously profitable to center             it all in great Babylon. Babylon is the great capital of the world, and all the capital of the world flows in and out of Babylon."

            Henry Morris, The Revelation Record, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, IL, 1983, p. 354.