3. Event Timeline
• Event 1 - The Mid East becomes the center of a desperate global struggle for
(refined) oil, as demand exceeds supply and prices soar and nations fight for
economic survival.
• Event 2 - Terrorism fueled by hate of the west and Israel pushes the world to
the brink of total chaos.
• "Believers must attack world infidelity, the requirement for such a strategy is that
violence against the US has to be catastrophic, the killing must be on a grand scale”.
Osama Bin Laden
• Event 3 - Israel aggressively defends itself in a sea of enemies, bringing the
world to the brink of WWIII
• Event 4 - American power and influence in EMEA fade as the US retreats to
deal with major crises at home – economic (oil), terror (nuke), rapture
4. Event Timeline – USA Extra
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist
as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue
to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote
themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates
who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the
result that every democracy will finally collapse due to
loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
years, these nations always progressed from bondage to bondage
- Alexander Tytler
5. Event Timeline - USA
1. From bondage to spiritual faith
2. From spiritual faith to great courage
3. From courage to liberty
4. From liberty to abundance
5. From abundance to complacency
6. From complacency to apathy
7. From apathy to dependence
8. From dependence back into bondage
- Alexander Tytler (unverified)
6. Event Timeline
• Event 5 - New Pax Romana
• To save western civ from total collapse, the 10 nation fed world leaders
create an “iron fist” to stop the chaos and assure the supply of oil.
• "Any peace, even the most inequitable, is better than the most righteous war". Cicero
• Event 6 - Russian & Islamic invasion of Israel in response to the “iron fist”
• A new alliance of Islamic nations and Russia challenge 'the west', attack
Israel, and are destroyed (by God)!
• Event 7 - One leader seizes power by uniting the military and economic power
of the west, declaring himself world ruler, destroys the Apostate Church
• Event 8 - The world ruler breaks peace with Israel, destroys the Temple in
Jerusalem, and attempts to exterminate the Jewish people
7. Event Timeline
• Event 9 - The world ruler makes “a city” the new commercial and economic
center of his rule world.
• Scholarly debate – Rebuilt Babylon; Mecca; Jerusalem
• Event 10 - China, starved for oil and economic growth challenges the world
ruler's control of the Mid East.
• Event 11 - Billions of people die in the World Series of disasters in the history
of the world.
• Event 12 - The armies of the world clash in the valley of Megiddo.
Armageddon. Final battle of WW III begins just before Jesus returns.
8. Two Babylons of Revelation
Chapter 18
Ecclesiastical Babylon
• Hated by the wild beast
• Destroyed at the start of the last
3.5 years of the tribulation
• Destroyed by the wild beast
• Pre-destruction: Rome
• Post destruction: Jerusalem?
Commercial Babylon
• Loved by the kings & the world
• Unholy alliance between big
business and government
• Destroyed at the end of the last
3.5 years of the tribulation
• Destroyed by the return of
Christ
• Mecca? Babylon? Jerusalem?
9. Revelation 18 Notes
• Exiting chap 17: False prophet in Jerusalem (religious capital), Anti-Christ in Rome (political capital),
Apostate church annihilated, Babylon becoming center of business & culture (stock market, styles, arts,
etc.), then Anti-Christ relocates to Jerusalem? New Babylon? Mecca?
• Verse 3: Babylon is the big business culture that denies God’s authority. Unholy alliance of biz and govt.
• Present today. Business is the sacred cow. The single greatest excuse for having no time for God.
• Verse 4: Calling out God’s people to separate themselves from sin – similar to Lot leaving Sodom &
Gomorrah. Lesson for us - walking in the Spirit, not in the flesh.
• People are coming Christ right up to the second coming of Christ
• Lesson: Dealing with our own sin - judging our own sin (1 Corinthians 11:31).
• True confession (1 John 1:9). What would God say about your (habitual) sin??
• Verse 5: God has remembered her (Babylon) iniquities across millennia. Graceful patience that
culminates to Holy judgement!
• Verse 6: Cup of Iniquity pressed to the lips of those who have sinned
• Verse 7: Prosperity of Babylon blinded her (us) from the need for God and from seeking Him
• Verse 8: Plagues come in one day. Sudden destruction by fire. So great is her grief that mourning is
counted as a plague – death, mourning and famine
• Babylon is the first city of prominence, now completely destroyed
• Isaiah 63 – Christ is coming with blood sprinkled garments
• Verse 10: A “nuclear explosion” of Biblical proportion
• OT Parallel: Ezekiel prophesied the destruction of Tyre
• Verse 20: Rejoicing over the fact that God is making everything right
