Any opinions on How the Iraqi Dinar ties in to "end of the age".
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Any opinions on How the Iraqi Dinar ties in to "end of the age".
For a quick response, I believe that when King Nebuchadnezzar plundered Israel and stole from the house of the Lord over and over again, the treasures have never been found, and God said He will repay Babylon for all that they did...I think this might be it! REPAYMENT...IT will reign on the just and the unjust. Will try and respond with scripture back up later.
Lots of interest has built up since then!:biggrin:Much of the dinar is in the hands of people who will further advance God's kingdom here on earth.
Keep your eyes on Babylon, it will rise up out of the ashes and become THE world power in the days to come.Quote:
Originally Posted by RB6FIGHTER
God’s prophets foretold of this day thousands of years ago. God has a divine date with these people and when He’s done with Babylon the Bible says NO ONE will EVER inhabit that place again and not even one stone will be left on top of another.
It’s interesting how God put all that oil under Iraq and through the turn of events, and even Saddam, has kept it there while the demand for oil has increased and other countries were depleting their supplies.
I always expected there would be a lot more oil discovered in Iraq than anyone ever dreamed possible. Now they are saying maybe 300b instead of 112b… I expect even more.
Bottom line, this thing is bigger than George Bush and Nouri al-Maliki. What’s going on in Iraq right now is bigger than all mankind. Almighty God planned this day thousands of years ago.
So sleep well my friend your Iraqi dinars are going to be as good as gold for a lot of years.
God bless,
Dave
The Second Coming of Babylon: What Bible Prophecy Says About It.
Amazon.com: The Second Coming of Babylon: What Bible Prophecy Says About...: Books: Mark Hitchcock
Summer Cold and Hay Fever. Tried working in the Garden today for awhile and had to come back in to lay down. Yes, I will always take a prayer.Quote:
Originally Posted by DocDave
Anyways on your figure DocDave, I listened to a couple KERA (Diane Ream Show) shows Thursday and Friday on the Oil Law and just Oil talk. If I remember right and I think I do, that should be closer to 1.9 Trillion. They also stated a problem in the media on the HCL that only 17 oil wells was all said to be shared with the Iraqi people and there was another 89 discovered and also stated that that was nothing, compared to that just being part of the supply. (undiscovered) This is a problem, and I believe already being worked out.
Yes, this is Hugh and they also stated it like that. :ro_emote: Babylon....hummm you know this is Hugh!!!!!!!!! Ok Back to Bed... I think I will read the link you gave again. :bow:
Wow, thanks, Dave for that post and that link to that book. I have read his books before and will be buying that one...Interesting.
Thanks Sister Tammy, I thank God for all that you do!
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Just finished praying for your health Brother Tommy, I believe tomorrow will be a much better day. Thanks for the info, very interesting!
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God has some unfinished business with Babylon, here’s where it started.
This is where Babylon & her king Nebuchadnezzar provoked the wrath of God by desecrating God’s Holy Temple where the Ark of the Covenant resided, and carried off His people.
Tomorrow I’ll post what Revelation says about the future of Babylon.
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Then came Isaiah the prophet unto King Hezekiah (Hezekiah reigned as king of Israel from approx. 715 - 687 BC)
2 Kings 20:16-18
16. And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
17. Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
18. And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
(Isaiah prophesied this around the year of 702 BC)
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(It came to pass approx. 104 years later in about 598 BC)
2 Kings 24:10-15
10.At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11. And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12. And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13. And he (Nebuchadnezzar) carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
14. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
15. And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
God bless,
Dave
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Thanks all for all of your thoughts.
DocDave, I so look forward to reading your posts and those of other like-minded spirits. Hope to hear your thoughts and scripture references from the book of Revelations on the future of Babylon soon. Thanks for everything! Tricia
This is from BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages.Quote:
The Vision of the Woman and the Scarlet Beast
The angel promises to show John the punishment of the great prostitutethe kings of the earth committed adultery (v. 2). The angel's language, focusing on the prostitute's punishment, confirms the notion that the vision extends beyond chapter 17 through 19:10. Her punishment is not specified until 17:16, and it then goes on to occupy chapter 18 and the beginning of chapter 19. The angel begins by carrying John in the Spirit to a desert, where he is shown a kind of tableau, or still life, of the woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns (v. 3). The beast is recognizable from an earlier vision (13:1), but the center of the tableau is the seated woman, who is dressed in purple and . . . glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls (v. 4). She is a picture of wealth, extravagance, luxury and ease. John's attention is intently focused on this woman, and he identifies her by the name written on her forehead: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (v. 5). This name, he tells us, is a mystery. (v. 1) with whom He has used the name "Babylon" before (14:8; 16:19), but now he explains that it is a figurative or symbolic name, like "Sodom and Egypt" applied earlier to the city where the two witnesses died (11:8).
The corruption of the woman is evident both in the angel's first mention of her (vv. 1-2) and in John's own observation (vv. 4-6). She is the great prostitute (v. 1) and the mother of prostitutes (v. 5), the latter probably in the sense that she deceived or led other cities astray. Her adulteries are compared to wine, with which the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated (v. 2; compare 14:8). John sees in her hand a golden cup . . . filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries (v. 4). He sees too that she herself is drunk, not with wine and adulteries, but with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus (v. 6). She is the evil genius behind those on earth who "shed the blood of your saints and prophets" and have been given blood to drink (16:6). The fierce rhetoric of John's vision is directed not against the woman's wealth, laziness, or luxurious living, nor against her drunkenness or prostitution. These characteristics are noted, but the vision's real target is the woman's deception of the earth (v. 2), and above all her violence against the people of God (v. 6). In this sense her crimes match those of the dragon (12:9, 17) and the beast (13:7-9).
Only rarely in his visions does John express emotion at what he sees. He collapsed at the feet of the figure who appeared to him in 1:17 and was told, "Do not be afraid." He began to weep bitterly (5:4-5) when "no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look into it" and was told, "Do not weep." Here he is greatly astonished at what he has just seen (v. 6), and the angel asks him, "Why are you astonished?" In each instance John's emotion is calmed and corrected by a heavenly being of some kind (compare also 19:10; 22:9).
What exactly is the emotion here? H. B. Swete (1908:218) defined it as sheer surprise: "The Seer had been invited to see the downfall of Babylon; the angel had offered to shew him her sentence executed. He expected to see a city in ruins. But instead of this there had risen before him on the floor of the desert the picture of a woman gilded, jewelled, splendidly attired, mounted on a scarlet monster, drunk with blood. It was a complete surprise. Who was this woman?" Tina Pippin (1992:57) describes it as something more akin to lust. "The narrator of the Apocalypse of John relates a marvelous feeling on encountering the Whore of Babylon. The female has seductive power. The desire of the male who views her erotic power is brought quickly under control by the angel: `Why are you so amazed?'"
Pippin is correct that John is being seduced here, yet John's language suggests that he sees Babylon first of all not as a seductive woman, but as a city, "the great city" of 16:19. A man can be "astonished" or "amazed" at the splendor of a world metropolis, but in the case of a sexually alluring woman, "astonishment" is not the right word! The Greek text says, literally, "And seeing her I marveled a great marvel." The archaic accents of the King James Version capture the meaning quite well: "and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration." A man may lust after a prostitute, but rarely "admires" her. John is on the brink of yielding to temptation, but the temptation is not sexual. John's astonishment is more dangerous than that, for it is closer to worship. It recalls the earlier account in which "the whole world was astonished and followed the beast" (13:3; see Caird 1966:214). John is taken in by the beast as much as by the woman. It is not "erotic power" that momentarily beguiles him, but the power and wealth and magnificence that ruled the world in which he lived. Seductive? Yes. Erotic? No.
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The Three Laments over Babylon
The kings, merchants and seafarers of the earth mourn Babylon's demise with three variations, or stanzas, of the same song (18:10, 16-17, 19). Each group of mourners stands far from the city watching it burn, fearful for their own safety (vv. 9-10, 15, 17-18). The elements common to all three laments are identifiable in the dirge sung by the kings: Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come (v. 10).
The merchants and the seafarers elaborate the basic stanza in keeping with their respective interests. To the merchants, "the great city" had been dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls (v. 16). To the seafarers, it was where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth (v. 19). All share the common opening line, Woe! Woe, O great city, and a concluding line introduced by the words in one hour (compare 17:12, "who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast").
The merchants' dirge is the longest. They preface their formal lament with a long list of Rome's imports (18:11-13). These include not only the fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth, the gold, silver, precious stones and pearls to be singled out in the lament proper (v. 16), but much more, starting with those luxury items and moving on to other luxuries as well as necessities--from silk, different kinds of wood, ivory, bronze, iron, marble, cinnamon and other spices, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour and wheat, to cattle and sheep, horses, chariots, and finally slaves (that is, bodies and souls).
Despite the emphasis on slaves at the end of the list, with its moving reminder of their humanity, the list's primary purpose is not to highlight the evils of Roman slavery. More important is the light it sheds on John's first glimpse of "Babylon" at the beginning of his vision, where she was "dressed in purple and scarlet," and "glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls" (17:4). These are the items from the list singled out for special mention in the merchants' subsequent lament (v. 16). Now it is clear, if it was not before, that the prostitute's magnificent apparel is all imported. John himself would have recognized the purple and scarlet dyes that linked the seven cities of Asia economically to imperial Rome (see, for example, Ramsay 1904; Court 1979). To him, Rome and the provinces are interdependent, and implicated in the same crimes (remember the "cities of the nations" that fell when great Babylon fell according to 16:19). When the merchants have finished mourning the loss of their profitable trade (vv. 11-13), they shed some tears for Rome herself. If they have lost their profits, Rome has lost all the luxuries world commerce brought her: The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered (v. 14). Worse, she has lost her life. The great city is no more (vv. 16-17).
In keeping with the judgments of the trumpets and the bowls, which affected earth and sea alike, the merchants of the sea take up the lament of the kings and merchants of the earth (vv. 17-19). Was there ever a city like this great city? they ask. Their motives, like those of the merchants of the earth, are economic: the place where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth is gone in a single hour (v. 19). Their profits have withered and dried up. The seafarers do not know it yet, but before long the sea itself will be gone (21:1).