Just Past the Bend

To all who read this, please be aware, this is not one of those arm twisting dogmatic, I’m right and everyone else is wrong type of apologetics theory! This is simply a question that you and I must answer after examining the facts that we have, from, our current culture here in America, and what the Holy Scripture teaches us about the defining marks of the end time Babylon. The reader must come to their own conclusion; my goal is to simply present the facts that exist in both.  I ask you the reader, to ask questions about each of these characteristics of Babylon, such as could this be the Catholic Church as many have believed. Could it be Italy, or modern day Babylon in Iraq, do these entities fit into these Scriptures, could it even be Turkey or modern day Israel? Weigh these theories against what scripture says, not what you have always been told and taught, for many a good man and woman of God have shared many opinions on these subjects down through time, but none of...

Were you taught like me, that just as soon the Rapture takes place, the Tribulation will begin?  It's a very popular teaching and has been for over a hundred years. There is just one problem with it, the Bible doesn't say that, as a matter of fact the Bible is silent on the window of time in between the two. It could start the next day, it could start the next year, it could start the next decade, we just don't know. It's not laid out like the seven year's of the Tribulation. Even though it is a seven year calendar of events, it's the last three and half years where things go really bad as GOD begins to pour out His wrath. Now, to the question will people even notice we're gone in that time period? Some say no, I say yes, but where they think we're gone is a whole nother question. But I'm getting ahead of myself, let me slow down, and get back to what the Bible does say. It says that "the Tribulation" starts when the man of sin, signs a sev...

I get asked from time to time, where is America in End Times Bible prophecy? I always answer, it's mentioned, it's called Babylon. I won't go into why I believe that here, there is actually an article I wrote called, "Is America Babylon 10 Question?", detailing why I say that, it details why I believe America is one of the Babylons. But that's not what this article is about completely. This actually addresses what leads up that Babylon ending for America. This is about another question I have been asked recently, where is China in the End Times? I actually believe the two are intertwined. I know as a young man growing up in the seventies and eighties, many taught China was the two hundred million man army mentioned in Revelation 9:16. That doesn't appear to likely considering China has currently less than three million people in there total military. That's a huge disparity, as the days grow closer to what will be The Day of the Lord. Let me say this b...