Babylon's destroyers come from the north

[Shilohsfoal]

 

 

According to scripture,Babylon is destroyed on the day of the Lord and it's destroyers come from the north to destroy it.

As we understand from revelation,at least ten kings along with the beast from the abiss hate Babylon and will attack it .

Revelation 17:16

The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

 

But scripture also shows some of the nations that will attack Babylon on the day of the Lord and from what direction they come.

 

Jeremiah 51

 

²⁷ Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

²⁸ Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

Jeremiah 51

⁴⁸ Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.

 

THe kingdoms of

Ararat-Turkey

Minni-North west Iran

Ashchenaz-Turkey

Media-Iran

 

 

From these few verses we learn that Babylon is found south of these nations that will attack it on the day of the Lord.

 

What's more Interesting is the nations are said to attack Jerusalem on the exact same day and are in Jerusalem on the day of the Lord.

Zechariah 14

14 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

² For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

 

what's more interesting is these same events take place in Babylon on the exact same day they do in Jerusalem.

 

Isaiah 13

¹⁶ Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

 

Which leads us right back to the verse I started out with.Where is the beast that ascends out of the abiss on the day of the Lord?Scripture shows they hate the prostitute and will attack her.Well scripture shows that beast from the abiss in Jerusalem on the day of the Lord as well.It attacks and kills the two witnesses in Jerusalem and are still there on the day of the Lord when those two witnesses are revived and ascends up in a cloud.

 

 

Edited June 22, 2023 by Shilohsfoal

[douggg]

4 hours ago, Shilohsfoal said:

According to scripture,Babylon is destroyed on the day of the Lord and it's destroyers come from the north to destroy it.

As we understand from revelation,at least ten kings along with the beast from the abiss hate Babylon and will attack it .

Revelation 17:16

The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

The woman turned harlot, herself is not Babylon the Great, but one of the mother of harlots daughters.

Jeremiah 51 is about the destruction of Ancient Babylon, by the Medes.

 

Edited June 22, 2023 by douggg

[Shilohsfoal]

5 hours ago, douggg said:

The woman turned harlot, herself is not Babylon the Great, but one of the mother of harlots daughters.

Jeremiah 51 is about the destruction of Ancient Babylon, by the Medes.

 

Ancient Babylon was never destroyed by the Medes.Check your history books if you need too.

Alexander the great defeated the Medes and lived in ancient Babylon which you claim was destroyed.Alexander died in Nebuchadnezars palace which you claim didn't exist.

History proves the Medes did not destroy ancient Babylon.It was abandoned in 1000 ad.

Ancient Babylon was the seat of a bishop of the church of the east well after the Muslim conquest in the 7th century.

 

Hellenistic periodEdit

In October of 331 BC, Darius III, the last Achaemenid king of the Persian Empire, was defeated by the forces of the Ancient Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great at the Battle of Gaugamela.

Under Alexander, Babylon again flourished as a center of learning and commerce. However, following Alexander's death in 323 BC in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar, his empire was divided amongst his generals, the Diadochi, and decades of fighting soon began. The constant turmoil virtually emptied the city of Babylon. A tablet dated 275 BC states that the inhabitants of Babylon were transported to Seleucia, where a palace and a temple (Esagila) were built. With this deportation, Babylon became insignificant as a city, although more than a century later, sacrifices were still performed in its old sanctuary.^[54]

 

 

Under the Parthian and Sassanid Empires, Babylon (like Assyria) became a province of these Persian Empires for nine centuries, until after AD 650.^{[citation needed]} Although it was captured briefly by Trajan in AD 116 to be part of the newly conquered province of Mesopotamia, his successor Hadrian relinquished his conquests east of the Euphrates river, which became again the Roman Empire's eastern boundary.^[55][56]

However, Babylon maintained its own culture and people, who spoke varieties of Aramaic, and who continued to refer to their homeland as Babylon. Examples of their culture are found in the Babylonian Talmud, the Gnostic Mandaean religion, Eastern Rite Christianity and the religion of the philosopher Mani. Christianity was introduced to Mesopotamia in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and Babylon was the seat of a Bishop of the Church of the East until well after the Arab/Islamic conquest. Coins from the Parthian, Sasanian and Arabic periods excavated in Babylon demonstrate the continuity of settlement there.^[57]

Edited June 22, 2023 by Shilohsfoal

[Shilohsfoal]

Babylon is destroyed on the day of the Lord

Isaiah 13

⁹ Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

 

 

¹⁶ Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

¹⁷ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

¹⁸ Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Montana Marv]

This "day of the Lord" sounds like a period of time covering many events from once Satan knows his time is short to Armageddon, and everything in between. Babylon being fully destroyed some months before Armageddon.

In Christ

Montana Marv

[NConly]

Babylon the city is symbolic of the world's self-centered and God-rejecting governments that will be destroyed and replaced when Jesus Christ returns to the earth. just saying a possibility

[douggg]

On 6/22/2023 at 7:24 AM, Shilohsfoal said:

Ancient Babylon was never destroyed by the Medes.Check your history books if you need too.

Alexander the great defeated the Medes and lived in ancient Babylon which you claim was destroyed.Alexander died in Nebuchadnezars palace which you claim didn't exist.

Go to Daniel 5, the chapter about the handwriting on the wall.

25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

 

[Shilohsfoal]

1 hour ago, douggg said:

Go to Daniel 5, the chapter about the handwriting on the wall.

25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

 

Exactly.Jerimiah 51 describes Babylon as being destroyed by the Medes .

Ancient Babylon was never destroyed,it was taken over without a fight.None of the city was destroyed,not even the kings palace and it remained a city for for than 1000 years after that .Ancient Babylon had a very quiet ending being finally abandoned in 1000 ad.

Jeremiah 51 describes the same end as the Babylon in revelation.A very violent destruction.

 

Jeremiah 51

⁵⁸ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

 

The Medes never burned ancient Babylon.The Medes didn't destroy anything.They ended up leaving the city as they found it,gold and all.

History shows ancient babylons walls and gardens were still standing hundreds of years after the Medes conquered the city 

 

 

Edited June 23, 2023 by Shilohsfoal

[douggg]

2 hours ago, Shilohsfoal said:

Exactly.Jerimiah 51 describes Babylon as being destroyed by the Medes .

"destroyed" as in "ended" the Babylonian empire.

[Shilohsfoal]

4 hours ago, douggg said:

"destroyed" as in "ended" the Babylonian empire.

So your saying the Babylon that is destroyed on the day of the Lord really isn't destroyed,it will continue for perhaps another thousand years or so.

It just won't have an empire,right?

Edited June 24, 2023 by Shilohsfoal