BABYLON

Prophetically scheduled for a Rebuild and a Final Fall

(all articles by Bible Prophecy As Written)

The Islamic State Of Iraq-Syria (ISIS), a terrorist army, created a borderless-State (Islamic State, caliphate) a few years back across two nations: Syria & Iraq.

In 1992 I documented the Bible prophecies about the unification of end-time Syria-Iraq. See the maps below.

ISIS, after a couple of years of terror, was beaten back, but still exists in several scattered positions. ISIS is also called ISIL,  i.e., Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant (essentially the boundaries of ancient Assyria) or simply IS for “Islamic State.”  As predicted in the Bible (map 1 below), the “king of the North” (Dan. 11:40) will occupy Syria-Iraq in the Last Days. As seen on map 2 below, the same kind of scenario appeared for a few years (2013-2017) with the rise of ISIS. If this is not the pre-fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy, another such event will bring it to pass in the exact same territory. It seems beyond coincidence that such a precise event would—?? just happen ??—at the same time the other end-time prophecies are clearly setting the stage for the rise of the Antichrist, and the soon return in Victory of Jesus Christ,

When the “king of the North” arises in Syria-Iraq, Babylon will rise up for its’ prophetic encore. ISIS was at the doorstep of Bagdad, and Babylon is only 55 miles away! Those who say Babylon is over have either ignored or misread the prophecies. Read on for The Final Rise & Fall Of Babylon.

The Rise of Babylon—Next? The Islamic State “ISIS” was 70 Miles Away! —& is due for an Encore...

My friend Joseph Chambers (Paw Creek Ministries) visited Babylon twice. In a telephone conversation with him several years ago, I asked him what a Bagdad cab driver would say when asked “Can you take me to Babylon; where is it and how far is it?” Joseph’s answer— “They immediately say—”Babylon? Of course! It’s that way (south of Bagdad) about 55 miles.” This is about as clear a refutation as you can get to the teaching that Babylon was finished when the Persians took it in 535 BC. For those who continue to teach this, they need not ask the Bagdad cabbie, but best check their Scripture. For the prophecies of the rise of Babylon in the Last Days are both numerous and clear. There are 3 major passages about End Time Babylon—Isa. 13:17-22; Jer. 50-51; Rev. 17-18. Jeremiah says at Babylon’s FINAL fall they shall “sink down and not rise again.” (Jer. 51:64) Other prophecies say that Babylon HAS NOT MET ITS FINAL FALL , until these 5 things happen. NONE of them have happened. Therefore, Babylon MUST RISE AGAIN to fulfill these 5 prophecies.

The NEAR-FAR prophecy above has 3 parts:

FIRST—it forecasts the capture of Babylon in the days of Daniel by the Persians. The historical record above shows that when this happened in 539 BC, the

             Persian king Cyrus took Babylon peacefully. Thus the last part of Jeremiah’s prophecy about “I will make it an everlasting desolation” did not happen,              and has never yet happened.

SECOND—the Babylonians are referred to by their distinct ethnic name, “Chaldeans.” This eliminates the wild speculations about America, Rome, or Great             Britain being the Babylon of the last days. New Yorkers are not Chaldeans. Nor are Italians, Brits, or anyone else outside of Iraqis.

THIRD—the “FAR” part of the prophecy looks way beyond the punishment of the king of Babylon in 539. When it says “I will make [Babylon] an everlasting             desolation,” that part of the prophecy is yet future. This makes perfect sense when we read Revelation chapter 18 about “the great city Babylon” (v. 10)             It makes even more sense when we consider the double exclamatory “Fallen, fallen” (v. 2) and then another, “Woe, woe”(v. 10). Since the 3 “Woes” in             Revelation 8:13 refer to a literal 3-judgments (9:12 & 11:14), then the 2 Woes of Babylon surely refer to a literal two-falls of Babylon—that by the             Persians in 539, and the one yet to come in Revelation chapter 18 .

Indeed, “fallen (then)” and “fallen (future)” is Babylon the Great! (Rev. 18:2)

At the future “fallen,” Babylon will then become “an everlasting desolation.”

4. No Arab will ever again Dwell at Babylon

It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there...

Isaiah 13:20

This is still to happen in a rebuilt Babylon because Arab villages have been documented at Babylon.

                    Two archaeologists, on two separate and unrelated expeditions,

                    documented the presence of several Arab villages at Babylon in the 19th and 20th centuries.

LEFT BELOW, Map #1

—p. 13. cf. map titled "Babylon." Barthel Hrouda. Robert Koldewey, Das wieder erstehende Babylon. Verlag C. H. Beck. Munchen. 1990. ISBN 3-406-31674-3

RIGHT BELOW, Map #2

—Ground Plans of the Remains at and near Babylon, by Capt. R. Mignan, London, Colburn & Bentley, New Burlington Street, Oct. 1829

..

..

When the headlines about ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq-Syria) appeared for the first time in 2014-16, the ISIS-map had the remarkable appearance of a prophecy about the "King of the North", based on the Bible, not the headlines. This prophecy is found in Daniel 11:40 and following. The Bible didn't change, or adjust its meaning--just the headlines. If the headlines disappear and recede into history (as is so often the case), the prophetic truths of Scripture continue onward toward there ultimate fulfillment. With that in mind, regarding the phenomenal rise of ISIS, I stated...,

Newsletter, Sep. 2016, Bible Prophecy As Written,
"If this is not the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy, another such event will bring it to pass in the exact same territory. "

Mid-America Prophecy Conference, Apr. 2016, presentation handout on "Eastern Leg",
"This is the boundary of the coming King of the North, The Assyrian. If this Iraq-Syria "State" is not the final "King of the North," then there will be another Iraq-Syria "State" just like it in the future."

Partner Letter June 2014

God and only God calls forth events before they happen. (Isa. 46:8-11) And it is the Word of God in Daniel, Micah, Revelation and other Biblical references which predicts the rise of Syria-Iraq in the Last Days.
That's what I documented in The Assyrian Connection—Biblical prophecies. Therefore, we look to God's Book, and no other book, as the basis of understanding today's events. Though the events in Syria-Iraq have not yet worked there way into full fruition, indeed...they do look very familiar.

Various Conferences 2014-16
When the real event stacks up to the North of Israel, it will look very much like it does Today.
(Statement on the Events North of Israel given at the Lake Charles Prophecy Conference in Sep. 2014; the Pre-Trib Prophecy Study Group in Dec. 2014; the Mid-America Prophecy Conference in Tulsa, April 14-16, 2016)

Today (2017), as ISIS control of Syria-Iraq recedes, another "King of the North" geo-pattern is arising,

There has arisen another "look-alike" to the King of the North--The Arc Of Influence Created By Iran

(CLICK HERE map, NBC News)

NOTE:

In all references above to Daniel 11:40, the "King of the North" TERRITORY refers to modern-day Syria-Iraq. This is supported by a number of experts in Bible prophecy,

And there is no question about the contextual meaning of Daniel 11:40, as Arnold Fruchtenbaum makes clear below,

"... in all previous references [in Daniel chapter 11], "the king of the north" is always Syria. ... "the king of the north" always refers to Syria throughout Daniel 11 ...Consistency demands that "the king of the north" of Daniel 40-45 also refers to Syria..."

Messianic-Jew Bible Scholar Arnold Fruchtenbaum, https://www.pre-trib.org/consistent-biblical-futurism/message/a-review-of-after-the-empire-by-mark-hitchcock/read

(Note: In the historic era of Daniel 11 of which Fruchtenbaum is speaking, Syria, or "Seleucia", included the territory of modern-day Syria-Iraq)

NOW...READ ON about BABYLON...