The more America’s status as a superpower is slipping away, the more it becomes a sunk cost fallacy for the Philippines to continue relying on it. Add to that people say that America is Mystery Babylon, the prophesised nation-state said to corrupt the entire world, with an earthquake in the wings sent to destroy it. If God is a god of the impossible, then he’ll find a way to undermine or even undo America’s superpower status. There are people who point out the physiogeographical reasons why America became a superpower, one is that it’s sufficiently guarded by two oceans as to keep it away from being invaded by other countries (or so it seems to be). It has a lot of rivers and coastlines that make it more convenient to facilitate economic trade with.
But when you have other prophecies of America falling into another civil war in years, getting invaded by other countries like Russia and China, and also the entire-nation disappearing off the face of the earth, coupled with political and cultural hegemony over the world then it truly is Mystery Babylon in a way no other contemporary country qualifies. It’s not just that the contiguous United States will actually be invaded by its enemies, even its allies and territories will be taken over by its enemies due to their own alliance with Babylon and their own sins. Celestial even has a series of prophecies of Europe getting taken over by Russia for its backsliding, which means America will no longer be the face of western civilisation when this happens. It should be noted that Russia sees itself as a third Rome.
The first Rome being obviously the one in Italy, which heavily influenced subsequent western countries a lot. Mind you Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands were all part of the Roman Empire to varying degrees and many of them would come to colonise Africa, the Americas and East Asia, which means that if Russia (the third Rome) were to conquer all of them, then if all roads lead to Rome so all roads lead to Russia. The second Rome is the Byzantine Empire, originally the eastern half of the Roman Empire. This is the empire that would come to heavily influence what would become modern Russia and Ukraine, though its core constitutents also included Turkey. One would wonder if Russia is the third Rome, would America be the second Babylon?
The first Babylon is the original Babylon, the one God used to deal with Judah’s misdeeds. But unfortunately it’s such a corrupting people that Judah doesn’t want to have anything to do with anymore, so eventually he cast mercy on it and have Persia free it from Babylon. Persia being the former name for Iran, which God will also use to castigate America with. If there’s nothing new under the sun, then America is essentially a retread of Babylon. Albeit on a much larger scale since the original Babylon’s confined to West Asia and North Africa, but America’s influence is far more widespread. America is the one that took away some colonies from Spain, you may know these as the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam. I even said that God will be looking to undo American influence wherever it went.
It’s already being undone in Europe and Canada, though it’s a matter of time if it’s also going to affect the Philippines. But one that’s the most shocking given we continue to be sympathetic to Babylon, despite the Bible telling us not to be of Babylon, though unfortunately Filipinos would rather be of Babylon. This is partly why God is going to allow China to take over us, because of our rebellion and love of evil that no sooner or later we’ll be turned over to it. God knows how wicked the Philippines has gotten partly due to its alliance with Babylon, as he knows bad company corrupts character, so the Philippines follows and emulates the worst America has to offer like porn and infidelity (polyamory). He’s going to revoke or undo most American influence here, whether if we like it or not.
Filipinos will no longer be bilingual in Tagalog and English, but rather Tagalog and Mandarin instead. American companies will no longer be operational in the Philippines, American media will no longer be popular here. The Philippines deliberately gave itself to a depraved mind, so it’s getting much worse over time. It’s a matter of time if God will undo anything and everything American influence, but it is forthcoming around the time America gets destroyed and invaded. If America gets destroyed by an earthquake and then a recession, the Philippines will get invaded or taken over by China in some way. The Chinese sword will never leave the Philippine house, so Chinese influence in the Philippines is going to be deep and permanent. Similar things will happen to Japan, South Korea and the like. The Sinosphere will be much larger than it was before, including countries that weren’t part of the original Sinosphere.
This will include the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Australia and New Zealand as part of China’s effort to build its equivalent to the European Union but one largely composed of countries from both Mainland East Asia and the Pacific, a kind of Asia-Pacific Union or a European Union set in the East. The European Union proper plus other European countries and parts of North America (America and Canada) will be directly incorporated into Russia, but only America will be directly ruled over by Russia. A painful irony considering that Russia was America’s major rival during the Cold War, with America having undermined the Soviet Union that it’s only fair for Russia to return in kind. Judge them and you get judged too (I struggle with this as well).
There are actually a lot of prophecies about America’s reign coming to an end, with America getting destroyed both from outside and from the within, then ceasing to exist altogether. America might even be nearly forgotten in the future, in the same way Babylon was nearly forgotten until it got rediscovered by both orientalists and archaeologists. If Babylon got figuratively destroyed by Persia, then America will literally get destroyed by Iran, Russia, North Korea and China. There are people who say that the Bible has dual prophecies, as these deal with both the contemporary Babylon and the future Babylon. If God’s word is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, then it remains perfectly timeless and applicable to any circumstance and situation. Whatever it said about Babylon can also be applied to America.
If I’m honest about why I want the Philippines to ally more with other East Asian countries is because it’s too westernised for its own good, with its publishers never bothering to translate even Korean books and comics despite our Koreaphilia. But my father said that Korean influence here happened more recently than that of America, so this explains why Philippine publishers don’t bother translating those but Philippine stores eagerly import American books anyways. However with American influence slipping away that there’s a chance that Philippine publishers can and should translate Korean books and comics by then, if American products get less popular over time that substitutes would be more than necessary. They might be mandatory, but now that America’s slipping away.
I even think it would be nice if Philippine publishers also do the same for publications coming from China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and India, likewise if American audiovisual productions cease to be popular with even Filipinos and if/when Korean audiovisual media isn’t enough, then dubbing audiovisual productions from Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia would do. As Canada might not be able to entirely support itself, perhaps turning to Russia would be a doable but awkward alternative. Admittedly this is my personal preference as I don’t want it to suffer the same way America will be getting, so becoming a Russian protectorate is a fate better than death. If God is merciful enough to have Canada join Russia, then he can and will make it happen. If not Russia, then relying on other European countries would do, which is what it’s already doing to some extent.
I guess if Canada does ally with Russia in some way after America’s finished as a superpower, it’s possible they see themselves in each other physiogeographically speaking. They have a similar range of biomes and climates together, something America doesn’t share with these two really. It should be noted that America contains hot deserts and tropical forests, something neither Russia nor Canada have. Also both Canada and Russia are fairly sparsely populated compared to the United States, though Russia would be in the middle between Canada and America. However God will find a way to get rid of as much Americans as he could, that is by making some states uninhabitable as it will be for California. Though some Bible verses speak of the original Babylon becoming uninhabitable, which it eventually did, it could also be applied to America just the same.
If the Bible speaks of Babylon becoming uninhabitable for both humans and their domesticants, perhaps it’s possible it can also be applied to parts of America becoming uninhabitable for humans and their true residents being wild and feral animals by then. California getting struck by a serious earthquake would make it really uninhabitble enough for people to leave beforehand, should they become casualties if they never leave. So it’s wiser to pray for others to leave the place before it gets destroyed, if being alive and safe is really important, even if it involves having to live elsewhere instead. So it’s wiser to leave California before disaster strikes.
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