There are actually a good number of Christians who believe that America is Mystery Babylon in a way no other country comes close, Mystery Babylon being the prophesised nation-state said to corrupt the entire world. Interestingly, Mystery Babylon is described as being surrounded by many bodies of water, is a reigning superpower and influences others for the worst, which sounds a lot like where America is at these days. Could the land beyond Cush be somewhere in North America? If you substitute Cush for Africa, then you should figure out what’s west of Africa. It can’t be West Asia because it’s east of Africa, nor is it Europe because it’s north of Africa. If it’s west of Africa, then it’s somewhere in the western hemisphere.
The fact that the people were described as speaking in a strange language means it couldn’t be the Babylon of Old Testament days, since Akkadian would’ve been the trade language of their day. Also whatever the Bible said in the past is still applicable to the future and present, so if Biblical writers were referring to their Babylon, then it’s still applicable to our Babylon: America. The original Babylon did become uninhabited after being conquered by the Persians, but it’s possible America itself will become uninhabitable in the future. Interesting Celestial said that the passage of hot winds actually refers to a nuclear bomb, which means there’s a possibility that Biblical writers were actually referring to America.
There are even prophecies of nuclear bombs exploding and bombing wherever they go, but most especially in America for what it has done to itself and others. Dumitru Duduman was one of the earliest people to say that America is Mystery Babylon, though there are others who said the same thing before him. But given the nature of American Christian nationalism, it’s kind of hard seeing America as something more akin to Babylon than Judah. Even if it makes more sense since Judah was never in the business of conquering other countries, as much as it got conquered by Babylon for its own faults/sins/whatever you call those. Though Babylon did get conquered by Persia, Babylon was the reigning power in its day.
Powerful enough to conquer other countries where and when it saw fit, since it sounds a lot like what America does to other countries. In the Spanish-American war, it conquered former Spanish territories. During the Korean War, it conquered the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula to keep the Soviet Union from further encroaching on its territory. It even turned a formerly sovereign nation into one of its states, you may know this as Hawaii. If Babylon got conquered by Persia, then it would be no different if America got conquered by Russia. What’s more alarming is how you have people saying that America will even be colonised by Russia, with Americans being made to speak Russian should they be coerced by Russia.
Celestial even said that the Soviet Union might return but far bigger than it was before because it will include all of Europe and parts of North America due to their own backsliding, it would be horrifying to think that Russia will even become the epicentre of western civilisation. But as Russia sees itself as a third Rome, with the original Rome being the epicentre of western civilisation, this would be really befitting. Let’s not forget that both Greek and Latin would exert an immense influence over many European languages, just as how the emerging church would popularise Roman and Greek names once they get associated with saints.
But with America being compared to Mystery Babylon that it’s a second Babylon in this regard, though one that makes the Philippines’s own sympathy with America all the more questionable, since there’s a passage in the Bible that says one can be in the world, but not of world. In the sense that it’s like Filipinos would rather be of Babylon, but not in Babylon because we’d rather gravitate to the world, than to the word of God. So this explains our anything goes attitude towards things like pornography, gambling (which was highlighted as a problem in some sermons), idolatry (which the Philippines will be judged for as to warrant getting captured by China) and homosexuality.
The idea that the Philippines will be judged by God for what it does seems reasonable that if you sin, you reap the consequences, which the Philippines does a lot. Imagine how much more embarrassing that a Christian country does a lot to the contrary, proclaiming to love God but openly enjoy the things he hates, that it will get its just desserts. The Philippines being held accountable for what it does as to warrant getting captured by its enemy, so it’s really God using evil to deal with evil (as what somebody else said). Like how can the Philippines call itself a Christian nation when it repeatedly blasphemes and disrespects God, like its people say ‘susmaryosep’, ‘diyos ko’ and ‘ay sus’?
If blaspheming God results in consequences, then getting conquered by China is really unsurprising. This is something that I experience whenever I do certain things, so bad things happen even if I want them to return in some way or another. So what the Philippines is on a much larger scale because that’s what many of its people do, it’s not that it makes China look better but that there’s no use for the Philippines to call itself Christian, yet do a lot of anti-Christian things that nothing’s hidden from him. The Philippines has effectively forsaken its first love of God for idolising other things, which is something Mary Rose kind of implied, because it practically makes God jealous by going after other gods.
It could also be musicians like those at Exo and Stray Kids, or even cartoon characters like Batman but the problem remains the same. If God allows the nation’s enemies to conquer it for its sins, then that’s his way of disciplining the country for what it does. God using China as an instrument of his indignation towards the Philippines doesn’t mean China is any better, but there’s no use for us Filipinos to take pride in our country’s Christian identity, when in reality the Philippines has made itself the enemy of God so he will use its enemy to discipline it. It would be no different if God uses Russia to conquer all of Europe and half of North America since they do the same things, despite priding themselves in allowing freedom of worship (including Christianity).
God will use evil to deal with evil, so if the Philippines and Europe do something grievous to the Lord, then he will let their enemies overtake them. (Like it is in my case with my brother, to be honest.) It would be more honest to say that the Philippines hates God more than China hates the Philippines, because the Philippines is a Christian nation that actually loves darkness more than the light. It’s a nation that loves Babylon above God, it’s a nation that loves evil more than good. By evil, this also refers to blasphemy, promiscuity/cheating (including polyamory, whether if you like it or not), pornography, homosexuality, gambling and more. Similar things can be said of North America and Europe.
Because the Philippines, Europe and North America are rebellious and disobedient towards God, that he’ll use their enemies to conquer them in some way or another. Because America actively promotes and popularises rebellion and hatred towards God, despite proclaiming itself to be a Christian nation, enough to inculcate this to its allies that God will hand them over to their enemies. The Philippines will be included because it drunk Babylon’s cool-aid and is also very rebellious and reprobate that God will have to use China to deal with it, whether if Filipinos like it or not. America leads the world in rebellion towards God, but most especially its closest allies that they too will be judged for this.
The Philippines will judged just the same, same with South Korea (which somebody else pointed out that it too suffers from the consequences of its own sins like a low birth rate). God will use China as a weapon of indignation towards the two reprobate East Asian nations (South Korea and the Philippines) for their rebelliousness, their love of evil above God and good, their habit of drinking from Babylon’s cool-aid and their wickedness, that they shouldn’t be surprised why would China do this to them, if God can see into the future. America is the physiogeographical embodiment of hell on earth, the centre of evil on earth if there ever was one, in the sense that it houses and popularises a lot of abominations and other shameful things that it inculcates onto its allies.
Though the sins of adultery and homosexuality existed before America’s founding, America has popularised these through its media and politics. America even succeeded in rebranding a form of adultery/infidelity as consensual nonmonogmany, in which polyamory falls under to a painful extent. America has succeeded in not only popularising homosexuality, but also treating it as if it were a legitimate trait, it will be no different if it legalises consensual nonmonogamy nationwide and has other countries, including the Philippines, do the same thing too. Then the Philippines will be judged for the same sins as America does, so this hastens the process of it getting conquered by China.
Or Europe for another matter when it gets conquered by Russia just the same, God will even use China to revoke most signs of American influence in the Philippines and Russia to revoke most other signs of American influence in Europe and Canada, even if the latter two are already doing it on their own due to Donald Trump’s demands. (And then Trump dies, triggering a subsequent civil war in America not seen in years.) The Philippines will be(come) a mirror of China in many ways, but most especially culturally and ideologically, to the point where China even demands Filipinos to fight with in in the war against America. Chinese festivals and holidays will be practised here, Mandarin will replace English as one of the national languages in the Philippines, so on and so forth.
Both Europe and North America will be Russianised, both culturally and ideologically, but most especially America when it comes a Russian colony. America will actually be governed by Russia, with Canada and European countries becoming its protectorates. But even then American influence will wane and it will wane more drastically when that nation goes down in (nuclear) flames, to the extent that Canada may have effectively and nearly completely deAmericanises itself, the more it allies with Russia when it consents to becoming a Russian protectorate. America’s disgusting influence will be revoked the world over, it’s already happening to an extent in some countries.
But the loss of most of America’s influence will be permanent, American influence will be mostly forgotten. Even things like Disney and Marvel Comics will be largely forgotten to many people, oddly enough including those who are alive today. America’s allies will be given over to America’s forever and their influence on America’s allies will be irreversible, the more God strengthens both China and Russia. Chinese influence in the Philippines is going to be irreversible, American influence in the Philippines will be the opposite. Likewise American influence is already being revoked in Canada and Europe, but Russian influence will be deep and permanent in these two.
Wherever US influence went, God will undo it and have others forget about it. America will not be remembered, even in the Philippines and Canada. As befitting for a nation whose influence is rather shameful and regrettable.