Apostasia means a falling away from the truth everywhere else that word is used in the Bible, and it means a falling away in that verse also. The pre-trib doctrine is not in the Bible, no matter how much people want it to be.
For those who believe that Babylon is America…
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Most fail to look at the prototype of Babylon the Great, that of ancient Babylon, both Scripturally and historically. Ancient Babylon comes into notation around the latter part of the 3rd millennium B.C.E., for Nimrod, a great grandson of Noah, founded the city of Babel.("Babel" meaning "confusion", Gen 10:10)
However, Nimrod proved to be "a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah."(Gen 10:9) Local citizens, thinking of their city as God’s seat of government, claimed that the name was compounded from Bab (Gate) and ilu (God), signifying “Gate of God" instead of the verb ba·lal´, meaning “confuse.”
Nimrod started a rebellion or apostasy against Jehovah God after the global deluge. This rebellion brought about the instigation of false religious practices and teachings that have persisted down till our day.
At Jeremiah 50, it names several of her false religious gods, saying: "The word that Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by means of Jeremiah the prophet: "Tell it among the nations and publish it. Hide nothing, O men. Say, ' Babylon has been captured. Bel (part of the original Sumerian triad of deities, along with Anu and Enki (or Ea), thus producing a trinity of gods) has been put to shame. Merodach (Babylon's most important god and later a king of ancient Babylon bearing the name of Merodach-baladan, Isa 39:1) has become terrified. Her images have been put to shame. Her dungy idols have become terrified."(Jer 50:1, 2)
From it inception in the land of Shinar (original name of the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers later called Babylonia), Babylon began promoting false religious ideas and practices, having trinities of gods (and even triads of devils), as well as idol worship, even having their own special guardian deities, somewhat like "patron saints" (such as in Ur, it was Sin; in Eridu, Ea; in Nippur, Enlil; in Cuthah, Nergal; in Borsippa, Nebo, and in the city of Babylon, Marduk [Merodach]), as well even origination of the teaching of "hell" with the teaching of an "underworld" and the dominate use of the zodiac and magic.(Isa 47:12, 13)
Around the year 618 B.C.E., king Nebuchadnezzar (II) in determining which city to attack (either Rabbah or Jerusalem), looked to divination, with Ezekiel writing that "he has shaken the arrows. He has asked by means of the teraphim (a small portable god or family idol); he has looked into the liver."(Eze 21:21) Thence, ancient Babylon was notoriously religious, beginning as a city opposing the true God, Jehovah and continuing as such till her demise sometime after the 1st century C.E.(Isa 13:19-22)
Thus, Babylon the Great has the same character as ancient Babylon, teaching and practicing false religious ideas, and is the world empire of false religion.
However, Nimrod proved to be "a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah."(Gen 10:9) Local citizens, thinking of their city as God’s seat of government, claimed that the name was compounded from Bab (Gate) and ilu (God), signifying “Gate of God" instead of the verb ba·lal´, meaning “confuse.”
Nimrod started a rebellion or apostasy against Jehovah God after the global deluge. This rebellion brought about the instigation of false religious practices and teachings that have persisted down till our day.
At Jeremiah 50, it names several of her false religious gods, saying: "The word that Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by means of Jeremiah the prophet: "Tell it among the nations and publish it. Hide nothing, O men. Say, ' Babylon has been captured. Bel (part of the original Sumerian triad of deities, along with Anu and Enki (or Ea), thus producing a trinity of gods) has been put to shame. Merodach (Babylon's most important god and later a king of ancient Babylon bearing the name of Merodach-baladan, Isa 39:1) has become terrified. Her images have been put to shame. Her dungy idols have become terrified."(Jer 50:1, 2)
From it inception in the land of Shinar (original name of the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers later called Babylonia), Babylon began promoting false religious ideas and practices, having trinities of gods (and even triads of devils), as well as idol worship, even having their own special guardian deities, somewhat like "patron saints" (such as in Ur, it was Sin; in Eridu, Ea; in Nippur, Enlil; in Cuthah, Nergal; in Borsippa, Nebo, and in the city of Babylon, Marduk [Merodach]), as well even origination of the teaching of "hell" with the teaching of an "underworld" and the dominate use of the zodiac and magic.(Isa 47:12, 13)
Around the year 618 B.C.E., king Nebuchadnezzar (II) in determining which city to attack (either Rabbah or Jerusalem), looked to divination, with Ezekiel writing that "he has shaken the arrows. He has asked by means of the teraphim (a small portable god or family idol); he has looked into the liver."(Eze 21:21) Thence, ancient Babylon was notoriously religious, beginning as a city opposing the true God, Jehovah and continuing as such till her demise sometime after the 1st century C.E.(Isa 13:19-22)
Thus, Babylon the Great has the same character as ancient Babylon, teaching and practicing false religious ideas, and is the world empire of false religion.
True Babylon existed thousands of years ago, originating at Babel, before the confounding of speech. This was the first organized Satanic worship system on the Earth..[ after the flood..], & Nimrod, the first "Soul Hunter", was her king...who demanded worship.After the demise of Babel, & the confounding of speech, the tribes that spoke alike magnetized, & the great continental drift came, by the Word of the Lord, & Babel was dispersed. http://www.christmasisalie.com/revalexanderhislop.htm
This is why today you find in Archeolgy today digs that prove the Incan's & ancient Chinese worshipping the exact same spirits with the exact same doctrines of faith....& the same all over the world...which they did befoe Babylon was broken up by the Lord, & then re-appeared in various city states, culminating in Babylon of modern day Iraq. This was the seat of Satan himself...& eventually transmigrated to Rome...where the known world was ruled by him. There were 1300 satanic temples in Rome, the chief of which was the temple of Jupiter, [ Satan's ancient name..], which is still in use by him, now known as the Vatican, the highest hill in Rome. The word Vatican is related to prophesy, or the "oracles"...a place where the demons communicate.
After the rise & victory of the early Church, Satan came up with the most Brilliant of strategies: He embodied Babylon in symbollic power using the name of Christ...The Roman UNIVERSAL, CATHOLIC..[ that is what the word means..] CHURCH...THE MODERN SEAT OF SATAN. She has martyred more saints than any other...Babylon today...long before America was discovered. America became the financial Queen...the Power Queen of the World, & is anointed by the Devil, who gives his power & blessing to whoever he desires. I believe that today, in the halls of the Cardinals....Satanic ritual yet exists...to increase her power...& enforce her will. America has an ambassador to the Vatican..[ Babylon ]... Here is a list of Presidents that have met with the Pope, some in Rome...[ This is a Church?]
January 4, 1919 Vatican City[1] Woodrow Wilson Pope Benedict XV First meeting of an incumbent President of the United States and a reigning Pope.
December 6, 1959 Vatican City[2] Dwight D. Eisenhower Pope John XXIII
July 2, 1963 Vatican City[3] John F. Kennedy Pope Paul VI Only meeting of a Roman Catholic U.S. President and a reigning Pope.
October 4, 1965 New York City[4][5] Lyndon B. Johnson Pope Paul VI First visit to the United States by a reigning Pope.[6]
December 23, 1967 Vatican City[7] Lyndon B. Johnson Pope Paul VI
March 2, 1969 Vatican City[8] Richard Nixon Pope Paul VI
September 29, 1970 Vatican City[8] Richard Nixon Pope Paul VI
June 3, 1975 Vatican City[9] Gerald Ford Pope Paul VI
October 6, 1979 Washington, D.C.[10] Jimmy Carter Pope John Paul II First visit to the White House by a reigning Pope.
June 21, 1980 Vatican City[11] Jimmy Carter Pope John Paul II
June 7, 1982 Vatican City[12] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
May 2, 1984 Fairbanks, Alaska[10] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II President Reagan was returning to the United States from a visit to China while Pope John Paul II was making a stopover on his way to South Korea, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.[13]
June 6, 1987 Vatican City[12] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
September 10, 1987 Miami, Florida[10] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
May 27, 1989 Vatican City[14] George H. W. Bush Pope John Paul II
November 8, 1991 Vatican City[14] George H. W. Bush Pope John Paul II
August 12, 1993 Denver, Colorado[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II Both leaders addressed thousands of young students at World Youth Day.[15]
June 2, 1994 Vatican City[16] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
October 4, 1995 Newark, New Jersey[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
January 26, 1999 St. Louis, Missouri[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
July 23, 2001 Castel Gandolfo, Italy[17] George W. Bush Pope John Paul II
May 28, 2002 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope John Paul II
June 4, 2004 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope John Paul II President Bush presented Pope John Paul II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[18]
June 9, 2007 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
April 15–16, 2008 Washington, D.C.[19][20] George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
June 13, 2008 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
July 10. 2009 Vatican City[21][22][23] Barack Obama Pope Benedict XVI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_meetings_between_the_Pope_and_the_President_of_the_United_States
The statue of Liberty in New York Harbour is the Queen of Permissiveness, not Liberty as we know it....It symbolizes the Queen of Heaven herself, Astarte, or the Jezebel Demoness, Mary, in Catholic doctrine. America, fueled by Roman blessing, is now Satan's seat...& the Vatican sits upon the whore, riding her....but....Babylon will fall, as will America.
Rome will be ravaged by Islam, annihilated, & the Vatican will become a major Muslim Mosque, & America , the current seat of the Queen of Heaven, Jeze-baal, will fall...for she worships the pagan permissiveness of her.
Here is the core of the Vatican, & who really anoints American power & wealth..http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/l/18/182764-one-of-the-many-amazing-statues-inside-the-vatican-museum-vatican-city-vatican-city.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/182764.html&h=480&w=640&sz=42&tbnid=Yl6o-chwsA-z2M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&zoom=1&usg=__bebJLfHzb7FvgVNlaYodBtrkW_A=&docid=GcBMyPqcgTkvrM&sa=X&ei=TSrYUemJKMODrgHF34GgCw&ved=0CDcQ9QEwAg&dur=546
A statue in the Vatican of the devil as God.
America honors Satan, & does what she wills, for she sits a Queen...& believes that she will see no sorrow...but she must fall...for she is the surrogate of Rome...& Rome will bow to Allah, & the Anti-Christ [ Bin Laden ]...confessing that he is indeed Jahweh ....& America will be over run by Radical Islam..[ but some will escape to the coming of the Lord..].
And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
If you want to see Babylon in action, watch Fox news, the "conservative" news outlet. They live to preserve their rich & lustful life-style...as does the rest of America.....This is the heart attitude of what the American dream is all about.....a part of Babylon for sure....
After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying,
“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”[ The Roman Satanic anointing of power & wealth.]
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her!"
Coming out of Babylon is accomplished IN YOUR HEART!...by devoting yourself to Jesus all and all, & learning how to love, & denying yourself & following Him & His ways....not LOVING this World, OR your life, or it's loves.......This is the Cross that we must learn NOW...for the time is short....& America, along with Europe & all the West will soon be ravaged by Radical Islam....& blood will run at your local Walmart for all who refuse the Mark of Islam...[ to buy or sell anything..or any commodity ].....& DO NOT TAKE THAT MARK.....BE BEHEADED INSTEAD...!!..for if you do...you may exchange a year or two of life for an eternity in the Lake of fire..!!
"He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[a] the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
WHO-EVER......
And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and WHOEVER receives the mark of his name.”
This is very soon coming upon us...I think LESS than 3 years....."GOD HAS NEVER FORSAKEN ANYONE WHO PUTS THEIR TRUST IN HIM!"
THERE WILL BE AN OVERCOMING CHURCH FILLED WITH GREAT GLORY...WITH MANY BEHEADED MARTYRS.
This is why today you find in Archeolgy today digs that prove the Incan's & ancient Chinese worshipping the exact same spirits with the exact same doctrines of faith....& the same all over the world...which they did befoe Babylon was broken up by the Lord, & then re-appeared in various city states, culminating in Babylon of modern day Iraq. This was the seat of Satan himself...& eventually transmigrated to Rome...where the known world was ruled by him. There were 1300 satanic temples in Rome, the chief of which was the temple of Jupiter, [ Satan's ancient name..], which is still in use by him, now known as the Vatican, the highest hill in Rome. The word Vatican is related to prophesy, or the "oracles"...a place where the demons communicate.
After the rise & victory of the early Church, Satan came up with the most Brilliant of strategies: He embodied Babylon in symbollic power using the name of Christ...The Roman UNIVERSAL, CATHOLIC..[ that is what the word means..] CHURCH...THE MODERN SEAT OF SATAN. She has martyred more saints than any other...Babylon today...long before America was discovered. America became the financial Queen...the Power Queen of the World, & is anointed by the Devil, who gives his power & blessing to whoever he desires. I believe that today, in the halls of the Cardinals....Satanic ritual yet exists...to increase her power...& enforce her will. America has an ambassador to the Vatican..[ Babylon ]... Here is a list of Presidents that have met with the Pope, some in Rome...[ This is a Church?]
January 4, 1919 Vatican City[1] Woodrow Wilson Pope Benedict XV First meeting of an incumbent President of the United States and a reigning Pope.
December 6, 1959 Vatican City[2] Dwight D. Eisenhower Pope John XXIII
July 2, 1963 Vatican City[3] John F. Kennedy Pope Paul VI Only meeting of a Roman Catholic U.S. President and a reigning Pope.
October 4, 1965 New York City[4][5] Lyndon B. Johnson Pope Paul VI First visit to the United States by a reigning Pope.[6]
December 23, 1967 Vatican City[7] Lyndon B. Johnson Pope Paul VI
March 2, 1969 Vatican City[8] Richard Nixon Pope Paul VI
September 29, 1970 Vatican City[8] Richard Nixon Pope Paul VI
June 3, 1975 Vatican City[9] Gerald Ford Pope Paul VI
October 6, 1979 Washington, D.C.[10] Jimmy Carter Pope John Paul II First visit to the White House by a reigning Pope.
June 21, 1980 Vatican City[11] Jimmy Carter Pope John Paul II
June 7, 1982 Vatican City[12] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
May 2, 1984 Fairbanks, Alaska[10] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II President Reagan was returning to the United States from a visit to China while Pope John Paul II was making a stopover on his way to South Korea, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.[13]
June 6, 1987 Vatican City[12] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
September 10, 1987 Miami, Florida[10] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
May 27, 1989 Vatican City[14] George H. W. Bush Pope John Paul II
November 8, 1991 Vatican City[14] George H. W. Bush Pope John Paul II
August 12, 1993 Denver, Colorado[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II Both leaders addressed thousands of young students at World Youth Day.[15]
June 2, 1994 Vatican City[16] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
October 4, 1995 Newark, New Jersey[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
January 26, 1999 St. Louis, Missouri[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
July 23, 2001 Castel Gandolfo, Italy[17] George W. Bush Pope John Paul II
May 28, 2002 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope John Paul II
June 4, 2004 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope John Paul II President Bush presented Pope John Paul II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[18]
June 9, 2007 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
April 15–16, 2008 Washington, D.C.[19][20] George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
June 13, 2008 Vatican City[17] George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
July 10. 2009 Vatican City[21][22][23] Barack Obama Pope Benedict XVI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_meetings_between_the_Pope_and_the_President_of_the_United_States
The statue of Liberty in New York Harbour is the Queen of Permissiveness, not Liberty as we know it....It symbolizes the Queen of Heaven herself, Astarte, or the Jezebel Demoness, Mary, in Catholic doctrine. America, fueled by Roman blessing, is now Satan's seat...& the Vatican sits upon the whore, riding her....but....Babylon will fall, as will America.
Rome will be ravaged by Islam, annihilated, & the Vatican will become a major Muslim Mosque, & America , the current seat of the Queen of Heaven, Jeze-baal, will fall...for she worships the pagan permissiveness of her.
Here is the core of the Vatican, & who really anoints American power & wealth..http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/l/18/182764-one-of-the-many-amazing-statues-inside-the-vatican-museum-vatican-city-vatican-city.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/182764.html&h=480&w=640&sz=42&tbnid=Yl6o-chwsA-z2M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&zoom=1&usg=__bebJLfHzb7FvgVNlaYodBtrkW_A=&docid=GcBMyPqcgTkvrM&sa=X&ei=TSrYUemJKMODrgHF34GgCw&ved=0CDcQ9QEwAg&dur=546
A statue in the Vatican of the devil as God.
America honors Satan, & does what she wills, for she sits a Queen...& believes that she will see no sorrow...but she must fall...for she is the surrogate of Rome...& Rome will bow to Allah, & the Anti-Christ [ Bin Laden ]...confessing that he is indeed Jahweh ....& America will be over run by Radical Islam..[ but some will escape to the coming of the Lord..].
And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
If you want to see Babylon in action, watch Fox news, the "conservative" news outlet. They live to preserve their rich & lustful life-style...as does the rest of America.....This is the heart attitude of what the American dream is all about.....a part of Babylon for sure....
After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying,
“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”[ The Roman Satanic anointing of power & wealth.]
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her!"
Coming out of Babylon is accomplished IN YOUR HEART!...by devoting yourself to Jesus all and all, & learning how to love, & denying yourself & following Him & His ways....not LOVING this World, OR your life, or it's loves.......This is the Cross that we must learn NOW...for the time is short....& America, along with Europe & all the West will soon be ravaged by Radical Islam....& blood will run at your local Walmart for all who refuse the Mark of Islam...[ to buy or sell anything..or any commodity ].....& DO NOT TAKE THAT MARK.....BE BEHEADED INSTEAD...!!..for if you do...you may exchange a year or two of life for an eternity in the Lake of fire..!!
"He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[a] the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
WHO-EVER......
And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and WHOEVER receives the mark of his name.”
This is very soon coming upon us...I think LESS than 3 years....."GOD HAS NEVER FORSAKEN ANYONE WHO PUTS THEIR TRUST IN HIM!"
THERE WILL BE AN OVERCOMING CHURCH FILLED WITH GREAT GLORY...WITH MANY BEHEADED MARTYRS.
With all the clearly seen events in today's world, it's amazing to me that any believer on Christ could still hold to the old Reformer's beliefs that the pope and the Catholic Church represent the seat of Antichrist (no, I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Protestant Christian).
Here we are in 2013, and the unbelieving Jews are preparing to build another temple in Jerusalem to start up the Old Covenant ceremonial worship and sacrifices again.
And Bible Scripture our Lord Jesus and His Apostles gave make it clear the coming Antichrist is going to appear in Jerusalem, not in Rome, not in New York, not in the E.U., not Africa, nor any other place but the holy land.
So everytime I see this stupid attack upon the Catholic Church today, or America, or the European nations, etc., then it just shows me how those LOVE... listening to man-made doctrines, and not God's Word of Truth. It's as if those heeding those men can't really... think for theirself, but have to be TOLD... what to think and believe.
Here we are in 2013, and the unbelieving Jews are preparing to build another temple in Jerusalem to start up the Old Covenant ceremonial worship and sacrifices again.
And Bible Scripture our Lord Jesus and His Apostles gave make it clear the coming Antichrist is going to appear in Jerusalem, not in Rome, not in New York, not in the E.U., not Africa, nor any other place but the holy land.
So everytime I see this stupid attack upon the Catholic Church today, or America, or the European nations, etc., then it just shows me how those LOVE... listening to man-made doctrines, and not God's Word of Truth. It's as if those heeding those men can't really... think for theirself, but have to be TOLD... what to think and believe.
Ha ha ha! One of your best posts, Veteran!veteran said:
They forget the 60's when the Holy Spirit roared like a whirlwind through the Catholic church (and other churches) and filled many Catholics with the Holy Spirit, just as He did on the day of Pentecost. Maria Von Trapp (from the Sound of Music) was one of the most stubborn ones, but she too was filled. IT was a glorious time for the Catholic church. It certainly proved that many there were born again believers.
Lamad
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