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Mystery Babylon

Maranatha Ministries

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  1. Appreciate you joining me. Those of you that have been

  2. born again, welcome, welcome, welcome. We're going to be doing

  3. some edification today and bringing to bear historical facts. So

  4. this is going to cause a lot of frustration with

  5. those that have not been born again, with dispensationalists, with preterists.

  6. They're just going to gnash their teeth at the truth.

  7. But All of us should be used to that. So,

  8. Mystery Babylon. Hmm. What is the truth? All right. God

  9. bless everybody. Matthew Miller here from Maranatha Ministries. We're going

  10. to be talking about the historical truth. We're not going

  11. to be talking about myths or anything like that. No

  12. cunningly devised fables today about Mystery Babylon. There's three facts

  13. that lay solid exactly who Mystery Babylon is right now.

  14. So let's get to Revelation chapter 17 where the word

    Revelation 17 chapter mention

  15. reveals to us this end time global entity. So Revelation

    Revelation 17 chapter mention

  16. chapter 17 starting in verse 3. So he carried me

  17. away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw

  18. a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full

  19. of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns.

  20. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned

  21. with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her

  22. hand a golden cup full of the abominations and filthiness

  23. of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written,

  24. Mystery Babylon, the great, the mother of harlots and the

  25. abominations of the earth. I saw the woman drunk with

  26. the blood of the saints and with the blood of

  27. the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I

  28. marveled with great amazement. So yeah. Remember, this ministry has

  29. switched over. I am no longer issuing a call to

  30. repentance to the baptized churchgoers who have not been born again.

  31. I'm not doing that anymore. And for this very reason

  32. right here. The Word reveals what your fellow congregants are

  33. going to do to those of us that's been baptized

  34. in the Holy Spirit. They're going to make martyrs out

  35. of it. The word comes right out and tells us

  36. right here that it is these 501c3 entities that are

  37. tied in and authorized by the government. Just came right

  38. out and told you right here. Of course, we could

  39. go on to the entire length of this chapter and

  40. 18 to just make that clear, but there's no need to.

  41. Those of us that's been born again, the Spirit has moved.

  42. and we know this is the case, as is the

  43. historical facts clearly going to lay out. Now, there's much

  44. consternation about what country is Mystery Babylon. It is absolutely

  45. a historical fact, the three things that made Babylon a

  46. mystery in the book of Daniel. Three things. Daniel lived

  47. from the Babylonian Empire, into the Persian Empire. Now, what

  48. made this a great mystery was, of course, everything kept

  49. on running. Why is that? Well, the three pillars of

  50. Mystery Babylon was language, currency, and military. These are historical facts.

  51. These are beyond contestation. So, with the language, the Persians

  52. continued to use both the Babylonian language and elements of

  53. its economic weight system through a major imperial updates as

  54. well as integrating their military. So, let's talk about number one,

  55. the currency. Oh yeah, Cyrus the Great, of course remember,

  56. the word calls Cyrus a messiah, That's what triggers the

  57. mystery part of this, but anyway. Strictly speaking, the Babylonians

  58. did not use minted coins. Uh-oh, you didn't know that,

  59. did you? Their currency was uncoined silver bullion, and it

  60. was traded by exact weight. The fundamental Babylonian unit of

  61. value was the shekel. What's the shekel? Now, the Persians

  62. fully adopted the Babylonian weight standard for their economic transitions

  63. across the core regions of the empire. When Darius the

  64. Great introduced the empire's first official biometallic coinage system, the

  65. gold derrick and silver siglos, he explicitly used the weight

  66. of the silver coin adjusted to the Babylonian shekel, roughly 8.3 grams. Now,

  67. while minted coins became highly popular in western provinces, the

  68. eastern provinces and Babylonia itself heavily relied on weighing raw

  69. silver according to the traditional Babylonian systems for centuries. One currency.

  70. When the Persians did mint, they made sure their minted

  71. coins went according to the weight of the Babylonian shekel.

  72. You didn't know this, did you? Okay. Number two. So

  73. the Persians took over and they just eradicated everything and

  74. changed languages, right? Nope. So number one, It remains the

  75. global currency in weight systems. Does this trigger remembrancers with

  76. those seals? Because it should. Anyway, so there was a

  77. global currency. Now let's find out about the global lingua franca.

  78. This is detrimental to the thing. So number two, we're

  79. on to number two now. So, the Persian Empire Famously,

  80. decentralized and multilingual opting to keep the local language rather

  81. than forcing everyone to speak Old Persian. The Babylonian language,

  82. which is Akkadian. See, the Assyrians and the Babylonians were

  83. the same thing. The language was Akkadian, okay? The Persians

  84. actively continued to use the Babylonian language and its cuneiform script.

  85. It was used extensively for local legal contracts, astronomical tax,

  86. and temple administration. Yes, the education system used Acadia. Yes,

  87. it did. Oh, yes, it did. So, how can we

  88. prove this? Famously, when Cyrus the Great declared his conquest

  89. in policies, he had them inscribed on the Cyrus Cylinder

  90. In Akkadian, the Babylonian language and script. Imperial Aramaic is

  91. the language. Did they keep the language? Yes. You've all

  92. been lied to. Aramaic is called in the East, Kaladian. Yes,

  93. it is. It's the Kaladian language. Kaladi, of course, is...

  94. Please look this up. It's Akkadians. So anyway, Imperial Aramaic

  95. in its important role and to note that the Babylonian

  96. Empire had already been transitioning to Aramaic as an everyday

  97. lingua franca, recognizing its efficiency. The Persians adopted the lingua

  98. franca of Aramaic as its primary language bureaucratic language for

  99. the entire empire running alongside local Babylonian records. So they

  100. had the global currency. They had the global language. Third

  101. time's a charm because we're not done. Third time's a charm.

  102. So the integration into the Persian military Rather than maintaining

  103. a single national army, the Persian military operated as a

  104. multi-ethnic imperial army. When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylonia in

  105. 539 BC, the region became a satrapy. We call that

  106. a providence. And its human resources, including local soldiers and levies,

  107. were integrated into the wider military obligations owed to the

  108. Persian kings. Historical records such as Herodotus' description of the

  109. Persian military expedition, like Xerxes' invasion of Greece, explicitly listed

  110. Babylonian contingents serving within the royal army alongside the Persians

  111. and the Medes. Now, this plays out something you need

  112. to know what Cyrus did. He did not destroy Babylon. No,

  113. he didn't. Now, this is going to make all the

  114. dispensationalists and all the preterists angry. No, we didn't. It

  115. ended at the Battle of Opus, but we're going to

  116. read about that here in just a second. So anyway,

  117. the organized Babylonian military resistance effectively shattered at the Battle

  118. of Opus prior to the peaceful entry into Babylon itself.

  119. Babylon was not conquered. No, no, it wasn't. All those

  120. prophecies are about the mystery Babylon, the end. We'll get

  121. to that here in a second. So, you need to

  122. realize that some local units and garrisons directly shifted their

  123. allegiance and surrendered intact when Cyrus entered the capital as

  124. a liberator, not a destroyer. All those prophecies about Babylon

  125. being destroyed never happened. That is reserved for Mystery Babylon,

  126. the late great American Empire. We can prove this beyond

  127. contestation in the court of law. The only entity that

  128. matches this is America. Number one, it is America that

  129. has the global lingua franca beyond contestation. You know this

  130. by all international flights must be conducted in American English.

  131. In order to be peer-reviewed at the academic level, you

  132. have to have your white paper published in American English.

  133. These are true statements. This is true. These are hardcore facts.

  134. Number two, if you don't know that the American dollar

  135. is the global reserve currency, you're just a little bit uneducated.

  136. That is literally common knowledge. If the Chinese want to

  137. trade with the Russians, guess what they have to do?

  138. They have to transfer their currencies into the American dollar

  139. to perform those trades. And if they don't, we'll nuke them.

  140. This is literally beyond contestation. So, number three, the military.

  141. If you were not aware that you don't conduct military operations,

  142. Without the United States' approval, well, once again, you're uneducated

  143. in the fact of the matter. Let's talk about NATO.

  144. NATO's really not NATO. It's just American stooges. That's a fact. Okay?

  145. Nothing happens militarily without the United States say so. That's

  146. a fact. That's a fact. Let's take the battle in Ukraine.

  147. What happened? The government wanted to switch over and align

  148. itself with America and off to war they went. What

  149. happened in the Middle East with this Iranian conflict? Same thing.

  150. Same exact thing. So you need to understand that If

  151. you don't know that America is Mystery Babylon, it's only

  152. because you're uninformed. Because other people were trying to entertain

  153. you and get clickbait. They were trying to make money

  154. off the ads by getting you to click on their

  155. video or their audio or their document. I just told

  156. you the three pillars, and I can prove this in

  157. a court of law. And I wouldn't need legal counsel.

  158. I could do it myself. Literally, this issue would be

  159. thrown out in a court of law because it would

  160. be like debating whether the sky is blue or not.

  161. And the judge would throw it out. It would be

  162. like debating whether water is wet or not. The judge

  163. would throw it out. It would be no contest. No,

  164. this is not permitted. So anyway, these three things are

  165. historical facts. If you didn't know these historical facts, you

  166. would have been misled by dispensationalists and preterists to believe

  167. that Mystery of Babylon was something else. Oh, no. Jesus

  168. Christ was either crucified in 30 AD or 33. And

  169. according to the promises in Hosea 6, verse 2, we're

    Hosea 6:2

  170. going to get this show on the road. And the

  171. new world order isn't coming. It's here. We are Mystery Babylon. Now,

  172. take note that during the birth pangs, the four spirits

  173. of heaven stir things up and they break apart the

  174. American monopoly into four things. There are four great empires coming.

  175. Thus saith the word. I don't care what dispensationalists say.

  176. I don't care what preterists say. That's what the word says.

  177. The word says that out of one of these four

  178. beasts will rise a little horn. That's what the Word says. So,

  179. I hope you learned the fact of the matter here

  180. in this video, those of you that's been baptized in

  181. the Holy Spirit. You need to know, you need to

  182. know that the verses that I read about Mystery Babylon

  183. and those whole two chapters She is absolutely tied to

  184. the hip with the government. That's what's going on. So,

  185. and also tied to the hip to those world princes. So,

  186. you need to know this, that the end game is this.

  187. They are going to make a martyr out of you

  188. if they've been born again. You just need to know that.

  189. You need to flee These buildings. You need to get

  190. out of them. Because the word states. When the four

  191. spirits of heaven. Start stirring things up. Revelation chapter 6.

    Revelation 6 chapter mention

  192. Verse 9. Tells you why they do it. The great apostasy.

  193. Is not like the wars of religions. Triggered by. The

  194. great reformation. It's not going to be Protestants killing Catholics.

  195. And vice versa. No. It's going to be. unbaptized congregants

  196. killing those who've been baptized in the Holy Spirit. If

  197. you want to know what they do to the word,

  198. Revelation chapter 22 verses 18 and 19 informs you, it

    Revelation 22:18

  199. edifies you of what they're going to do. And we

  200. who've been born again won't stand for it. We reject

  201. the traditions of men. We reject theological myths and we

  202. hold to the word And the word alone and its testimony.

  203. That's what we hold to. And when we do, they

  204. make martyrs out of us. So, you know, fair warning

  205. to all of you that's been born again. And we know.

  206. Me and my wife bear testimony. We've been to so

  207. many different churches. Catholic churches, Baptist, Methodist, yada, yada, yada.

  208. We bear witness. that in every one, there was maybe

  209. two or three, maybe four at most in all of

  210. these churches that had been born again. So I'm telling you,

  211. you've been forewarned. If you continue going to those church

  212. buildings and you've been born again, they're going to make

  213. a martyr out of you. So, To those of you

  214. that have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, I issue

  215. an urgent request. If you have any encouraging words or prayers,

  216. put them in the comments. Please like the video, share

  217. the video, and subscribe to the channel. And help get

  218. these messages out to those who have been born again.

  219. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless.