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. If Marduk is the God of Hollywood and he is a subordinate of Bel then I would think Bel would refer to the mainstream media and all the ways in which they control people with brainwashing and propaganda. 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 live in her but both people and animals will flee away, that tells me that Russia will nuke the US. Recently the US provoked Russia by encouraging the Ukraine to join NATO. If Ukraine joined NATO it would be the beginning of the end of Russia. This was an existential threat to their sovereignty. So Russia invaded Ukraine and the US supplied arms and supplies to Ukraine. They were using Ukraine as a proxy to fight Russia. Not only so but the US is making it clear they want this to be a long, protracted war that will bankrupt and destroy Russia. This war would be devastating to Ukraine, everyone that depends on wheat from Ukraine and even to all those that can't afford fuel prices to go up. This is forcing Russia into a corner where they must attack the US. However there is no way Russia can win a conventional war with the US. This forces Russia to go nuclear and it will be quite soon.
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. To destroy the US as a power would leave Israel and Taiwan naked to attacks from Russia and China. Russia has already made deals with the Middle East to provide security and to sell oil in a different currency than the US dollar.
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. Right now many Christians are mocking and ridiculing the warnings. Those that survive this attack (the US will be destroyed in one hour) will be able to repent and confess their sins in not listening to the prophets and the warnings God sent.
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).