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Mystery Babylon the Great and Conflict

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Where do wars and conflicts come from?

“1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
Jas 4:1-3 WEB

Mystery Babylon’s public face seems to be businesses

“12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; 13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, bodies, and people’s souls.”
Rev 13:12-13 WEB

Mystery Babylon promotes conflict

“The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
Rev 17:18 WEB

Wars and conflicts are about money, about “ … You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. …” Jas 4:2 WEB. The popular accounts act as if the billions or trillions of dollars spent on a war just disappear … but they don’t. The trillions of dollars are “made”/“earned” by businesses that make the things needed for war. The money is still around … out of the taxpayers hands, the ones who do the suffering and dying.

Mystery Babylon’s purpose seem to be to make money. Then an astonishing statement is made about Mystery Babylon.

ALL the blood shed ON EARTH is on Mystery Babylon

“In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of ALL who have been slain on the earth.”
Rev 18:24 WEB emphasis added.

Revealing the Christian Age gives examples of the money to be made by arranging wars.

That would almost seem to be impossible. Let’s think it through. Here is a religio-commercial entity, a secret or semisecret religion, which seems to facilitate international trade and dominate it. (See the posts on Mystery Religions.) She rules over kings. She seems to stir up conflicts to make money. She is the source of all sorts of immorality and luxury. It almost seems as if she plants many of animosities which cause men to kill each other. She is the source of every sort of vile and nasty sex.

But there is the statement. God is the one who “says” Rev 18:24. Are you really willing to say that it could not be?

Also notice that what is talked about is too big to be ancient Rome. The statement made is broader than the influence ancient Rome ever had.

Also Revelation points to Babylon the Great as being destroyed just before the end of this present universe.

You cannot be part of these things and live forever

“4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues, 5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities. ”
Rev 18:4-5 WEB

WEB is the World English Bible, a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901

Mystery Babylon, Influence and Money

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Sometimes we have the most naive views of how things work. The media often portrays wars or revolutions or great political movements as spontaneously arising out of nowhere. Movements of the “will of the people,” is a phrase we often hear. The truth is that very little is spontaneous in either war or the political world, in “democracies,” or under kings or dictators.

Almost everything requires funding to work

Revealing the Christian Age, talks in detail of examples of money in public affairs, all in the chapter “Excursus: What this might look like in history.”

Where does food come from for your family? And clothes? And medical care when it is needed. It does cost money, and at times, a great deal of money. Still at times we may think as if a guerrilla movement of several thousand men can just happen. Or several hundred apparently unemployed men can make a “sit-in” for days or weeks, months, and it can just happen.

Start with a squad of say twelve men. Price uniforms for them, and boots and socks and underwear. Then automatic weapons for all twelve. Then figure out how many bullets and hand grenades they will need for six months of combat, and how to buy all of that. Then figure out what it will cost to feed twelve hungry and active young men for six months. That is just a start. Then multiply those figures by an army, and you are beginning to understand the most elementary of costs for even a small war.

The truth is that wars or revolutions cost too much money, and require too much organization and planning for them to ever happen “by accident.” They have to be carefully planned and financed, or they will soon fall apart.

Take Hitler’s Storm Troopers, the “brown shirts.”

At their height Hitler had millions of such unemployed men in uniform. Just take a million such unemployed men. What do you think it would cost to merely put them into uniform (remember, one million men), and pay them at least a token amount so they will make the time to march and train, and then street fight together. Then you have an idea of how much money Hitler had behind him, and you are beginning to think of how much money mass political movements cost anywhere in the world.

Dues are not enough in most organizations

Some organizations, like churches, are able to be very influential long term, especially if their members all tithe (10%) as is often promoted. Even then, most of that money goes for local maintenance and expenses, and paying local workers, with generally lesser amounts be devoted to slow-going mission works in far off places.

Or think of the primaries before the 2016 elections

Jeb Bush, if I remember right, raised over 100 million dollars for a disastrous presidential primary bid. We are talking here about temporary pushes just to win a primary election.

Most fast growing movements require dramatic
infusions of resources.

Such must come from the productive activities of men, or businesses, or the printing of money.

These are basics to understand our world,
and what prophecy tells us about our world.

Mystery Babylon makes others rich, Rev 18:3.