Jeremiah 50:1 This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians:
2 “Announce and proclaim among the nations,
lift up a banner and proclaim it;
keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;
Bel will be put to shame,
Marduk filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
and her idols filled with terror.’
Marduk is a god that Hollywood worships, the Oscars are held in what could be considered a temple to Marduk. Babylon was built with bricks that had idols on every brick. Bel and Marduk are two of these idols, pagan gods. I like how Jeremiah says "keep nothing back" this is contrast to the elites who are hiding this information while they build themselves underground bunkers for the elites and for their armies.
3 A nation from the north will attack her
and lay waste her land.
No one will live in it;
both people and animals will flee away.
A strong case can be made for the US being Babylon, if that is the case what Nation is to the North of the US? Canada is, but I think this is a reference to Russia. If Russia attacks they will do so from over the North pole. Now this expression that no one will liver in her but both people and animals will flee away, that tells me that Russia will nuke the US.
4 “In those days, at that time,”
declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together
will go in tears to seek the Lord their God.
In the same way we have two different people of God based on God's covenant, we have the Christians who are left behind and we have the Jews. If the US were destroyed Israel would immediately be threatened. After the rapture all the believers left behind will go in tears to seek the Lord. This reminds me of the prophecy in Amos where God is going to turn our feasts to mourning. Thanksgiving is the big feast in the US, if the rapture takes place around the time of Thanksgiving it would certainly turn that feast to mourning for those left behind.
5 They will ask the way to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come and bind themselves to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant
that will not be forgotten.
This is why there must be a pre tribulation rapture, it will show to the rest of the saints who God has approved and it will cause them to rededicate themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant. Christians like to talk about "revival" where many unbelievers get saved, but this will be a revival where millions of lukewarm Christians repent and rededicate themselves to the Lord.
6 “My people have been lost sheep;
their shepherds have led them astray
and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill
and forgot their own resting place.
7 Whoever found them devoured them;
their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’
This is a description of the Apostasy. Laodicea is the apostate church. At the end of the Age you will have the evangelical church (Philadelphia) and the Apostate church (Laodicea).
2 “Announce and proclaim among the nations,
lift up a banner and proclaim it;
keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;
Bel will be put to shame,
Marduk filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
and her idols filled with terror.’
Marduk is a god that Hollywood worships, the Oscars are held in what could be considered a temple to Marduk. Babylon was built with bricks that had idols on every brick. Bel and Marduk are two of these idols, pagan gods. I like how Jeremiah says "keep nothing back" this is contrast to the elites who are hiding this information while they build themselves underground bunkers for the elites and for their armies.
3 A nation from the north will attack her
and lay waste her land.
No one will live in it;
both people and animals will flee away.
A strong case can be made for the US being Babylon, if that is the case what Nation is to the North of the US? Canada is, but I think this is a reference to Russia. If Russia attacks they will do so from over the North pole. Now this expression that no one will liver in her but both people and animals will flee away, that tells me that Russia will nuke the US.
4 “In those days, at that time,”
declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together
will go in tears to seek the Lord their God.
In the same way we have two different people of God based on God's covenant, we have the Christians who are left behind and we have the Jews. If the US were destroyed Israel would immediately be threatened. After the rapture all the believers left behind will go in tears to seek the Lord. This reminds me of the prophecy in Amos where God is going to turn our feasts to mourning. Thanksgiving is the big feast in the US, if the rapture takes place around the time of Thanksgiving it would certainly turn that feast to mourning for those left behind.
5 They will ask the way to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come and bind themselves to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant
that will not be forgotten.
This is why there must be a pre tribulation rapture, it will show to the rest of the saints who God has approved and it will cause them to rededicate themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant. Christians like to talk about "revival" where many unbelievers get saved, but this will be a revival where millions of lukewarm Christians repent and rededicate themselves to the Lord.
6 “My people have been lost sheep;
their shepherds have led them astray
and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill
and forgot their own resting place.
7 Whoever found them devoured them;
their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’
This is a description of the Apostasy. Laodicea is the apostate church. At the end of the Age you will have the evangelical church (Philadelphia) and the Apostate church (Laodicea).