The Whore and her Mother: 9/11, Babylon and the Return of the King

by Raymond McCullough

  Zechariah 2:7 “Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!”

  Not many nations today can be described as ‘daughter nations’. Those that can be are mainly those of the former British Empire – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, the United States of America. There are a few more – such as India, South Africa and Jamaica, even – but the description is much less common, and none of them have an ‘empire’ tendency.

  The only ‘empire’ to have a ‘mother nation’ is the United States. The United Kingdom ‘gave birth’ to the USA – and they have had a strong link ever since. Many of the ‘sins of empire’ committed by the USA, were first committed by the British Empire in its heyday. In many ways, the USA is an example of “like mother like daughter!” (Ezekiel 16:44)

  I believe that the USA has fallen from her standing before the God of Israel, that there is great corruption in her corridors of power and many dark and evil things – currently hidden below the surface – which will eventually be exposed to the light.

  I do not believe that the USA deserves to be regarded any more as a Christian, or godly, nation. She has fallen far from her former glory and we can see evidence of this in her greed for luxuries – particularly oil – her dependance, both directly and also financially, on an expanding drug culture, the amount of filth and pornography increasingly being exported around the world (now eclipsing the output of Hollywood itself); and her falling away from the Judaeo-Christian values which, in the past, made her strong.

  The Hebrew prophets predict her destruction. She will fall in one day – in fact, in one hour.

  So, where is this mega-city?

  1 The fact that none of the other possible contenders for Mega-Babylon has any kind of seaport, leaves the major port of New York City as the most likely candidate.

  2 New York City has had not only one, but three, major stock exchanges, dealing in all of the commodities listed in The Revelation and, specifically, is the major city trading in both gold and diamonds.

  3 New York City is by far the world’s most important port in terms of immigration – or ‘bodies and souls of men’, as The Revelation puts it.

  4 The United States of America is the world’s strongest economy – importing 43% of the world’s resources each year, though with only 6% of the world’s population!

  5 The United States of America is the only world super-power today – dominating every other nation in the world by its military and economic might.

  6 The population of the United States of America have, by and large, an extremely arrogant and self-centred approach to the rest of the world.

  7 New York City has, outside of Israel itself (and only then if we include ‘greater Tel Aviv’), the largest Jewish population of any city in the world.

  8 The world’s only inhabited, ‘Town of Babylon’, (founded by immigrant Jews), is situated on Long Island, in the middle of New York City.

  9 The headquarters of the United Nations is also based on Long Island, another reason why New York City is where ‘the nations stream!’

  10 The United States of America regards itself as the ‘world’s policeman’, regularly interfering in the affairs of other nations, to the extent even of invading them, and can be accurately described as “the hammer of the whole earth”.

  11 The United States is the only nation that could be described as both a daughter nation and as an empire – the United Kingdom being the ‘mother nation.’

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  4 Why trust these Hebrew prophets?

  There are six million Jews currently living in the USA, and perhaps another four million among other nations, with five million now living in Israel – perhaps 15 million in total? But many of these do not believe that their Torah and Tanakh should be taken literally.

  The same is true of many Americans and other western nationalities, who profess a Christian faith, but have never really read – never mind believe, or understand – the Old Testament or New Testament prophets. These books – known as the Tawrat, Zabur and Injil, in Arabic – are also regarded as holy books by those of the Islamic world, but most Moslems have never read them.

  So why should we trust in these words written down many hundreds – even thousands – of years ago? Before we can answer that, we need to take a closer look at some of the events they DID foretell.

  As we said earlier, most of the Hebrew prophecies concern the people of Israel. Right back in the time of Moses, the God of Israel promised that if they would be obedient, He would bless them and establish them upon the land which he gave them – Eretz Israel, or the land of Israel.

  However, if they were disobedient, He promised to give their enemies power over them and, eventually, that He would scatter them to the four corners of the earth. Yet even so, He also promised that one day He would gather them from the ends of the earth and restore them once again to their own land.

  Isaiah 43:3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: … 5 Do not be afraid: for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east, and gather you from the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, do not hold them back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth– 9 All the nations gather together, … let them bring in their witnesses, to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.” 10 “You are my witnesses”, declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, neither will there be one after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and apart from me there is no savior. 12 I have revealed and saved and pro-claimed– I, and not some foreign God among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.”

  This passage from Isaiah declares that the existence, preservation and in-gathering of the people of Israel is all for one ultimate purpose – to declare that, ‘I AM God’ and ‘beside Me there is no saviour.’ The people of Israel are a sign and a witness to all the nations, tribes and peoples of the earth, that the God of Israel is the only God and that His word is true.

  If the children of Israel survive until the end of the age (which, against all odds, they have done so far); if they are restored once again to the very land that He promised to them (taking place before our eyes since 1948); and if He actually gathers the people of Israel back again from the four corners of the earth – will this not be the greatest miracle the world has ever seen?

  From the Book of Deuteronomy in the Torah of Moses, to the prophecies of Yeshua (Jesus) and John in the New Testament, these things have been foretold by the Hebrew prophets.

  If we examine their prophecies and can see the fulfilment of their words taking place here and now, then we will have a solid foundation for taking heed of their other prophecies about the end times and the things that have yet to take place in the world.

  Yeshua (Jesus), thought by many, especially Christians, to be the greatest of the Hebrew prophets), said:

  Matthew 24:32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation [race] will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

  The word translated here as ‘generation’ is the Greek word, genea, which can also be read as genealogy, or race. In other words, Yeshua is saying, ‘This [Jewish] race will not disappear, until all these things are fulfilled.’

  There have been many serious attempts, down through history, to eliminate the Jews. We can think of the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, pogroms in Russia and Poland, the Nazi Holocaust (Shoah), and the current Arab/Islamic campaign against Israel. But the Jewish race is still here! Yeshua promises that they will continue to be right here until all these things are fulfilled.

  After the death of King Solomon,
the people of Israel became divided into two separate kingdoms: the northern kingdom, Israel (consisting of ten of the tribes, plus some of the Levites); and the southern kingdom, Judah (consisting of the other two tribes, Judah and Benjamin and those of the Levites who remained faithful and served in the temple in Jerusalem).

  That may sound like nine and a half tribes were in the northern kingdom, but the tribe of Joseph was given a double portion and so the descendants of Joseph’s two sons – the half-tribes Ephraim and Manasseh – were treated equally with the other tribes and given a full portion of the land. So, in fact, there were ten and a half tribes in the northern kingdom of Israel and two and a half tribes in the southern kingdom of Judah. (Yes, that does make thirteen tribes!)

  In spite of many warnings from the prophets, the northern kingdom of Israel became more and more disobedient to the commands of their God, taking on the heathen practices of the nations around them – such as worship of Baal, Ashtoreth and Molech, which included sun worship and child sacrifice.

  Judah also was often disobedient but, unlike the northern kingdom, they had a certain number of righteous kings, who periodically restored the nation to the LORD and destroyed Baal-worship. The prophets repeatedly spoke of the need for justice, to remove oppression and exploitation from the land – otherwise they would be removed from it.

  Eventually, as He had promised, the LORD allowed the northern kingdom to be taken captive by the king of Assyria – the superpower that preceded Babylonian rule.

  The ‘ten tribes’ were taken from their land to Assyria, the land ‘ethnically cleansed’ and other people groups from Mesopotamia transported back to Israel to replace those ten tribes. The replacement peoples became known as the Samaritans, because they lived in the region known as Samaria.

  The kingdom of Judah (‘The Jews’), continued to exist as a nation, but eventually their disobedience also grew to such an extent that the LORD allowed them too to be carried off – this time to Babylon, though only for seventy years. At the end of this period, as prophesied by Jeremiah, Cyrus, the new king of Persia, allowed around 50,000 Jews to return and rebuild their city and temple in Jerusalem.

  From this period on they were known as ‘The Jews’, as opposed to ‘Israel’, because the connection with the other ten tribes had by now been completely severed.

  Eventually – after hundreds of years – the majority of the Jews who had remained in Babylon, were scattered further and further away. But they retained their separate Jewish identity, as they had done all along in captivity. In fact, the long years in Babylon tended to reinforce their identity as Jews.

  The ten tribes, who had strayed much further from the commandments of the God of Israel, and were taken captive much earlier, had also become scattered further and further along the ancient trade routes. They, too, kept their separate identity as sons of Israel, although not as distinct as the Jews – because of the longer period of exile, the greater degree of their rebellion and apostasy, and their earlier scattering.

  To the outside world these ‘sons of Israel’ ceased to exist as a separate entity and they became the ‘Lost Tribes of Israel’. Yet, amongst themselves, they retained the knowledge of their ancestry, even though they’d lost many of their practices.

  Their captivity had taken place in stages and they were transported to different areas within the Assyrian empire, so that these separate groups lost contact with one another. In one region would have been people from several different northern tribes, and in another may have been other members of these same, or different, tribes.

  Each of these groups held onto some of their former practices, though not always the same ones. As the centuries went by, these groups took on their own identities, and travelled further and further apart, yet often retained a memory still of their separate tribal origins.

  So, for 2,700 years we have had this scattering – of both Jews and the other ‘Ten Tribes’ ‘to the four corners of the earth’. Yet, the same God who scattered them had also promised that one day He would gather them back again.

  Isaiah 11:12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.

  Where Judah and the Jews were concerned, this re-gathering began with the birth of the Zionist movement in the 1880s – coinciding with pogroms, when many Jews from Russia and Poland made their way, usually on foot, to the then Turkish province of ‘Southern Syria’.

  Under the later British Mandate, from 1917, this province was deliberately renamed ‘Palestine’, after the extinct ancient enemies of Israel, the Philistines (falasteen, in Arabic).

  In return for Jewish help during the First World War, the British had promised – in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 – a Jewish homeland in Israel. They later also promised the major part of this land to an Arabian emir, Abdullah, and they then gave away 78% of what they referred to as ‘Palestine’, to become the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan – illegally, and without any United Nations mandate!

  Hence it is scathingly referred to by Israelis as ‘the twice promised land’. Jewish (and also Arab) immigration increased and, in 1948, the State of Israel came into being.

  (By the way, the remaining 22% of the former British Mandate consists of Israel proper, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. When so-called ‘moderate Palestinians’ refer to the ‘Occupied Territories’, they often refer to ‘The 22%,’ thereby claiming all of the land west of the Jordan, including Israel itself!

  Due to instant declaration of war by the surrounding Arab states, following Israel’s proclamation of statehood in 1948, and her subsequent and very unexpected victory in what became known as Israel’s ‘War of Independence’, around 850,000 Jews were in turn expelled from the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa. (www.theforgottenrefugees.com)

  Unlike the unfortunate 550,000 Arab1 refugees who were encouraged to flee Israel and then rejected by their fellow Arabs; these Jewish refugees were – with great hardship – assimilated into the fledgling new state within a few years and many others joined them from around the world. The ‘in-gathering’ – back from the four corners of the earth – had begun!

  All of these immigrants were Jews, i.e. from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi. But, in 1949, a strange event occurred. The British forces in Aden were suddenly faced with an Old Testament style exodus of ‘Jewish’ people travelling on foot from the interior of Yemen.

  A people who had lived there from the time of Solomon now wanted to join with the new State of Israel. June 1949 saw the beginning of ‘Operation Magic Carpet’, a 16-month airlift of around 50,000 Yemenite Jews – who had been cut off from the rest of the Jewish world for about 3,000 years!

  These were the first not-strictly-Jewish Israelites and the forerunners of the ‘Beta-Israel’, (also known derogatorily as the ‘Falasha’), another group of 85,000 ‘children of Israel’ living in Ethiopia. These so-called ‘Black Jews’ were transported to Israel from Addis Ababa and the deserts of Sudan in 1985. The basis for their acceptance under Israel’s ‘Law of Return’ was a decision by the Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, that these people were from the ‘lost tribe’ of Dan.

  Another 26,000 Beta-Israel – the so-called ‘Falash Mura,’ a derogatory title for Ethiopian Jews by race, who had been forcibly converted in past centuries to Coptic Orthodox Christianity – were left behind, but are now also slowly being brought to Israel. This is not the end of the story by any means, but we will deal with the so-called ‘Lost Tribes’ in more detail in the next chapter.

  The Hebrew prophets, time and time again, have foretold that the Jews would be restored to their land and that the land would begin to prosper when they returned to it. The land of Palestine was a fairly desolate place in 1880-1890, before the first Zionist Jews began to return from Russia and Poland.

  The Jews already living there previous to this were concentrated in the holy towns of Jerusalem, Hebron, Safad and Tiberias and
their lives focussed mainly on study of Talmud and Torah – living mostly off the charity of the worldwide Jewish community.

  The land was not empty, but the population was quite small, with most local Arabs living as serfs, paying much of their hard-earned crops and produce to a Turkish ‘effendi’, who arrived once a year to be honoured and paid.

  Isaiah 6:11 Then I said, “For how long LORD?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted, and the fields ruined and ravaged, 12 until the LORD has sent everyone far away, and the land is utterly forsaken 13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down; so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”

  But from the late 19thCentury on, as more and more Zionist Jews arrived, with a vision to live off the land, the Turks sold them the worst of the land – stony ground and malarial swamps – expecting these weak Jews to give up because of the hardships.

  Many of them DID die, through disease and Bedouin raids, but more and more arrived. Land was cleared, swamps drained, trees and crops planted, kibbutzim and moshavim established – and a Jewish defence force established to protect the new immigrants.