A single Photograph shows the evidence…   

            1. If Babylon has not survived, but has been Destroyed,   

                                                                                            This Picture exposes a False Prophecy (no more Inhabitants, Shepherds, etc.)

            2. If the Prophecy of Babylon is taken Literally,

                                                                                           This Picture proves Babylon has Survived

                                                                                                                                                              to Rise Again for a Future Destruction
HERE’S WHY…

Now, look at the prophetic information in this Single Photograph above...it is packed!

It was taken at the Etemenanki (Tower of Babel) location in the center of the archaeological site of Babylon, Iraq, in 1977. Look carefully. Consider the prophecies above, paraphrased below. What do you see in the photograph?

What do you read LITERALLY below? What do you see LITERALLY above?

"It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation...

                             [NO] Arabs …[No] shepherds …[No] flocks … nothing dwelling in it,

                                                                                                                                        whether man

                                                                                                                                                        or beast,

                                                                                                                                                               …a perpetual desolation.’    Isa 13:19-20; Jer 51:62

Let's examine the SINGLE PHOTO, with all aspects of the prophecies above, highlighted below...

You will know Babylon has NOT been Destroyed, but has SURVIVED for its Future Destruction, when you see…

RIGHT (highlighted): Vegetation

Only a portion of the Vegetation is highlighted in this photograph.

But it is clearly ample and lush. Note the dense growth of Palm Trees in the background.

For more photographs of the greenery and Vegetation at Babylon...

                                            GO HERE

ABOVE: "Babylon Community Association(BCA [BCA] members review... site boundaries." p. 124

"The BCA comprises eight landowners, four living within the Central Administration Area ("the nucleus of Babylon", p. 143) and four residing between that area and the site boundary." p. 124

These are "Arabs" who pitch [their] tents" at Babylon TODAY, contra-Isaiah 13:20, if the city of "Chaldeans" (Isa 13:19) in Iraq has been destroyed. (see Jer 51:29; Isa 13:20

ABOVE: Residents of Babylon TODAY. p. 61

ABOVE-2 pics: Construction of new homes. p. 58

ABOVE: Arab farmers grow date palms within the grounds of Babylon, Iraq. p. 60 (see Jer 51:62

ABOVE: Magnified insert of Sinjar Arab Village & Gardens showing residential, public, and commercial land deeds numbered by ownership, within the boundaries of Babylon TODAY !

ABOVE: Note that the World Monuments Fund says this agricultural field at Babylon is "typical"; other pics confirm this. p. 181 (see Jer 51:43

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"It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation...

                             [NO] Arabs …[No] shepherds …[No] flocks … nothing dwelling in it,

                                                                                                                                        whether man

                                                                                                                                                        or beast,

                                                                                                                                                               …a perpetual desolation.’  [No vegetation]

                ...not...even a stone [No recycled-stones]                                                         

Isa 13:19-20; Jer 51:62; Jer 51:26

NEXT, Part 2, "The Centuries-Long Rebuilding of Babylon"

NOTES and POSTSCRIPTS: (to be added as they become available)

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.

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. Daniel himself is PROOF that Babylon SURVIVED its Fall in 539 BC— Daniel continued to inhabit Babylon until his death ! (Dan 5:29-6:3; Remember, it was prophesied that AFTER Babylon's FINAL Fall, there would never again be any LIFE at Babylon —Isa 13:19-20; Jer 51:62 )

3. "...the site of Babylon has never been void of inhabitants. A city or town of one type or another has always existed there, so this prophecy must point toward a yet future desolation."
MacArthur Study Bible, John MacArthur, Word Publishing, 1997, Isa13:20, p. 976.

4. MORE NOTES from ( REPUBLIC OF IRAQ STATE BOARD OF ANTIQUITIES AND HERITAGE; Risk Preparedness & other maps; CONTRIBUTING PARTNER WORLD MONUMENTS FUND BABYLON, Risk Preparedness Map, 2013, 8rev-2293-Management Plan-en(8); An official report sponsored by on-site investigation and development of the World Monuments Fund, the United Nations UNESCO, the World Heritage List, and the U.S. State Dept)

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                      [Arab Villages]                                               
al-JIMJMAH — The Babylon archaeological site is part of the Babil provincial district and municipality of
al-Hillah (Qadaa al-Hillah), with the largest portion in the sub-district of Kweiresh (sub-district
16).2 Other areas of the site fall across the sub-districts of Kroud al-Jimjmah—North (sub-district
15), al-Jimjmah—North (sub-district 19), Sinjar Gardens (sub-district 27), Zwair West and al-
Jesreya (sub-district 28), and Bernoun (sub-district 39).
p. 27
The villages of Annanah and Sinjar on the west bank of the Shatt al-Hillah, al-Jimjmah on the
east bank, New Kweiresh (corresponding to the modern-day al-Intisar Village) to the northeast,
and Bernoun to the northwest, all lie within Babylon’s administrative purview and are prominent
land features.
p. 29
Claudius James Rich, East India Company resident at Baghdad, visited Babylon in 1811 and 1817. His Memoir
on the Ruins features the first detailed map of Babylon, including the site’s major mounds, a clear
impression of the eastern portions of the outer city wall, of al-Jimjmah and Annanah villages.22
p. 34
   Aside from al-Hillah, the origins of the communities within and surrounding Babylon are difficult to ascertain.
Local residents often maintain that their villages date to the Ottoman period, due to the fact that miri land deeds

date to this period. Muayad Said Damerji, former director of the Revival of Babylon Project, suggests that some

villages were settled in antiquity: Bernoun or Thul-Noon, Kweiresh or Koresh (Cyrus), and Annanah or Inana.

109 Many villagers claim that their community is ‘original’ to the area.110
p. 61
All of the communities in and around Babylon are rapidly developing from compact dense settlements to
sprawling suburbia. Despite laws restricting construction inside Babylon, new housing threatens the
archaeological remains...
p. 61                

  [Babylon-Hillah REBUILT]
Al-Hillah was built using baked bricks from the site as were many other settlements and structures, including the

nineteenth-century al-Hindiya Barrage.
p. 34
23 J. E. Reade, “Disappearance and Rediscovery” I. L. Finkel and M. J. Seymour, eds. Babylon: Myth and Reality
(London: British Museum Press 2008a), 20. A block of structures in al-Hillah’s old city district of Sob as-Surgayah
(small bridge) were built from Babylon bricks.

            
The sewerage infrastructure for Babylon is underdeveloped. There are no connections to al-Hillah
municipal system and disposal is ad hoc. In surrounding communities, particularly al-Jimjmah and Sinjar inside the site
sewage is disposed of via individual or group cesspools
p. 90
New construction particularly at Sinjar and al’Jimjmah villages continues virtually unchecked.
Additionally, agricultural policies related to archaeological sites have failed to consider historical precedence,
farmers’ needs, and the possibility of engaging them in the site’s protection.
p. 113

Urgently needed actions to lessen these threats (which also threaten archaeological remains)
include halting illegal building construction, implementing solid waste service improvements
for local communities, and preventing livestock from entering the Central Administration Area.

(The Central Administration Area, the nucleus of Babylon...p. 143)
p. 176
Iraqi Police ... duties include patrols and emergency response within the site boundaries,
including at Sinjar and al-Jimjmah.
p. 123
Expand dialogue with community representatives at Sinjar and al-Jimjmah through the BCA [Babylon Community Association]
and explore shared concerns and problems between residents and the inter-agency...
p. 211
Community Association (BCA [Babylon Community Association])
A self-organized group, the BCA comprises eight landowners, four living within the Central
Administration Area and four residing between that area and the site boundary [having] properties within the boundary.
p. 124

                       [VEGETATION]
Irrigation improvements and a series of agrarian reform laws changed Babylon’s landscape...The area was subsequently

repopulated and cultivated. Photographs from the mid-twentieth century show Babylon surrounded by a lush landscape,
a far different view than Koldewey’s a half-century earlier. Large sections of the site along the Babil River’s east bank were

sown with crops, and date palm groves expanded further inland from the Shatt al-Hillah. On the river’s west bank around

the villages of Sinjar and Annanah, a dense curtain of date groves formed a natural barrier to development and an aesthetic

backdrop to the archaeological core, where palms surrounded al-Jimjmah and Old Kweiresh as noted by Koldewey.
p. 59

Pockets of high grass and other vegetation have flourished thanks to the relative absence of
visitors. Animals reside in the dense overgrowth at the north side of the Central Administration
Area... (The Central Administration Area, the nucleus of Babylon...p. 143)
p. 177
In the southeast corner of the Central Administration Area the land is flooded after heavy rains, the water collecting

in a large but shallow seasonal lake. (The Central Administration Area, the nucleus of Babylon...p. 143)
p. 181