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THE FINAL DESTINY OF BABYLON (IRAQ).
(From 2 Esdras Ch.15 & 16).

"Alas for you, Babylon and Asia! Alas for you, Egypt and Syria! Put on sackcloth and hair-shirt, and raise a howl of lamentation for your sons; your doom is close at hand." (16:1,2 NEB).

"I will do to them as they are doing to My chosen people even to this day; I will pay them back in their own coin." (15:21 NEB).

"They will flatten to the ground cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees in the woods and crops in the fields. They will advance all the way to Babylon, and blot it out. When they reach it, they will surround it, and let loose a storm in all its fury." (15:42 44 NEB).

JEHOVAH WILL GATHER NATIONS AGAINST BABYLON.
The book of Esdras gives ample description of the end of literal Babylon (Iraq) and of spiritistic "Babylon the great" existing among all nations of the world. After Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2nd the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning the invasion and demanded the withdrawal of Iraqi troops. On August 6th another UN Resolution placed economic sanctions on Iraq. The Iraqi army are now within striking distance of one of Saudi Arabia's largest oil fields. Iraqi control of these fields as well as Kuwaiti and Iraqi reserves would give it control of the majority of the world's oil. There is now a military build-up of U.S. troops, tanks, and aircraft in Saudi Arabia, while the nations through UN resolutions make preparations to "advance all the way to Babylon, and blot it out." (Read 15:28 to 16:34 NEB).

Many nations will become involved: "The dust and smoke will reach the sky, and all her neighbours will mourn for Babylon. Any of her survivors will be enslaved by her destroyers." (15:44,45 NEB). "Hordes of dragons from Arabia will sally forth with countless chariots". These are already in place in Saudi Arabia in the form of military forces, tanks, trucks and aircraft. (15:29 NEB). "They will clash together, they will pour over the land a vast storm; blood, shed by the sword, will reach as high as a horse's belly, a man's thigh, or a camel's hock. Terror and trembling will cover the earth". (15:35 37 NEB).

Now that the full number of the anointed sons of God have been gathered in from all nations by the Spirit of God, the very last people that God intends to gather into His spiritual house are the survivors of the Jews those of earthly Jerusalem. (Zeph 3:11-13). Until now, Muslim nations have made it impossible for the Jewish nation to achieve peace, and involve them in a constant state of war. But all enemies of the Will of God will be paid back in their own coin, as it is written: "Wait for Me, therefore, says the Lord, wait for the day when I stand up to accuse you; for Mine it is to gather nations and assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them My indignation, all the heat of My anger; the whole earth shall be consumed by the fire of My Jealousy." (Zeph 3:8 NEB).

"Should I be so fierce with you, says the Lord, if you had not killed My chosen ones continually, gloating over the blows you struck them, and hurling your drunken taunts at their corpses?" (15:52,53 NEB). These blows have been struck against all Spirit anointed sons of God in the world. They were spiritually "trampled" on and made spiritually inactive ("killed") by people of the nations after those nations were "cast clear out" of the "courtyard". (See Rev 11:1-11).

THE TYRANNICAL "YOKE" OF POLITICAL
RULE AND OIL WILL BE REMOVED.
Besides the great number of deaths that the indignation of God will bring about, it will also cause economic collapse and great misery for all nations because their economic systems are interdependent and under the political control of the "wild beast". "And it must occur in that day that his load will depart from upon your shoulder, and his yoke from upon your neck, and the yoke will certainly be wrecked because of the oil." (Isaiah 10:27).

13/8/90.