The Prophecy of
The Fall of Babylon
in the Book of Revelation
II. The Great City of New York and the Statue of Liberty in the Prophecy
The Statue of Liberty is based on The Roman Goddess Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. Originally as goddess of personal freedom, she later became the goddess of the Roman commonwealth. Greek equivalent: Ishtar (pictured on the right) is the Akkadian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess `Ashtart. On the dedication of the completed Statue of Liberty (From Masonry and the Statue of Liberty): “Dedication Day, October 28, 1886, was declared a holiday in New York City. Stone, Grand Marshal, led the 20,000 paraders, including many Masonic Lodges, from 57th Street past President Crover Cleveland’s reviewing stand at Madison.
Out of all the big cities in the world, no other city than New York City can have a better match of all these characteristics of “the Great City of Babylon”.
1) A City of World Political Power
New York City is the city of world political power where the United Nations is located. Since its inauguration in 1945, the United Nations has grown more and more important and influential in international affairs. It’s truly the center of world political power “that rules over the kings of the earth.” (Revelation 17:18)
However, due to the fact that many nations in the United Nations have different religions, the United Nations usually stays away from religious issues and sometimes has to cooperate with those anti-God atheist countries. That’s why it is stated that “For all nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her.” (Revelation 18:3) That refers to the spiritual adultery on the faith of God.
Although the United Nations has done a good job providing humanitarian aids to the people in need, it could not solve the problem without the blessing of God. Only when the nations turn their heart to God will they receive the blessing of God for peace and prosperity. That’s how “the kings on the earth” could break away from the sin of adultery with Babylon the Great.
2) A City of World Economic Power
New York City is also a major financial and trade center in the world. Nowadays, more than half of the wealth in the world is in the hands of financial institutions in New York City. Three major stock exchanges, international banks, big insurance companies, the Federal Reserve Bank, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and all kinds of financial institutions are located in the center of New York City. Anything that happens on Wall Street could cause big effects in the world market. There is no other place in the world that has more economic influence than New York City has. New York City is truly the great city of World Economic Power.
New York is also a world trade center where 'the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries' and 'sold these things and gained their wealth from her.” (Revelation 18:3-15) The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that were destroyed during the 'September 11' terrorist attacks were actually the landmark of New York City, which is also the symbol of the 'Great City of Babylon' prophesied in the Book of Revelation.
One thing mentioned in this prophecy is particularly alarming. It is said that “Your merchants were the world's great men. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.” (Revelation 18:23) That indicates these “merchants” or big financial institutes in the “Great City of Babylon” are the “world’s great men” with powerful influence over the world, and currently, they are under the “magic spell” of Babylon the Great and leading all the nations astray from the Way of God. That’s exactly what happens on the Wall Street and in the financial district of New York City.
3) A City of Great Wealth, Luxury & Fashion
New York City is not only the wealthiest city in the world, but it is also one of the fashion centers in the world “dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls.” (Revelation 18:16) New York City is one of the largest markets for luxury items, from expensive jewelry to luxury real estate. It leads the vogue in the luxury market, and “the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.” (Revelation 18:3).
4) A Port City by the Sea
New York City is one of the biggest port cities in the world. It has a safe, natural harbor in the mouth of the Hudson River, protected from the ocean storms by Staten Island and Long Island. With year-round non-freezing deep water, no wonder it was once claimed as “the Port of the New World”. It provides great access for international trading through ocean freight and “all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth.” (Revelation 18:19).
5) A City of Multiple Nations and Ethnic Diversification
New York City is the biggest city in the United States. It not only has the United Nations headquartered in the city, which represents all the nations in the world but also has a large diversified ethnic representation of the world. Caucasians, Africans, Jews, Central and South Americans and Asians all live together in this city. They provide great cultural and ethnic diversification for the city. As the prophecy said, “the waters you saw are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.” (Revelation 17:15)
6) A City of Art & Music
New York City is also famous for its art and music excellence. It has about 150 museums, 400 art galleries, 38 Broadway theaters, and scores of concert halls, clubs, and dance halls. Broadway Music theaters and great art museums are the great attractions and spotlights for millions of visitors to New York City every year. New York City even claimed as the capital of Music in the world. That’s also the major characteristic of the 'Great City of Babylon' prophesied in the Book of Revelation.
7) A City of Arrogance & Pride
As a cosmopolitan metropolis and major commercial center in the world, New York City has also become a city of arrogance and pride. People think that they can achieve anything by themselves without the blessing of God. Like what Christ wrote in the letter to the Church in Laodicea, “You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.” (Revelation 4:17) In this letter, Jesus Christ precisely prophesied the mentality of the people at this age after they made money and acquired wealth.
However, most people do not realize that without the blessing from God, the wealth that people acquired can be lost quickly, like the bursting bubble of the stock market from the year 2000 to 2002 and the collapse of the financial and real estate market in 2007-2008.
Due to its success as a major metropolitan city in the world, New Yorkers were well-known for their arrogant attitude and rude manners in the past, just as prophesied in the Book of Revelation, “In her heart she boasts, 'I sit as queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn.'” (Revelation 18:7) That had caused a great amount of negative Fortune Credit or bad Karma for the city. Hopefully, people can remember the Word of God - “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18).
8) A City of Sexual Immorality
Sexual immorality is one of the main characteristics of Babylon the Great. In the ancient time of old Babylon, prostitution was even a part of their religious services. Unfortunately, sexual immorality is also closely associated with the city of New York. In the 1960s and 1970s, New York City was the origin and the capital of “Sexual Liberation”, which caused a dramatic increase in sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancies and abortions.
At the beginning of the New Millennium, “Sex and the City” became the popular topic of New York City, and there was also a new “Museum of Sex” opened in New York City, which claimed that New York City is the pioneer of “Sexual Liberation” in the Western World. Isn’t that another confirmation for the title of Babylon as “the Mother of Harlots” prophesied in Revelation 17:5?
With the huge influence of New York City, the Sexual Liberation has been spread to the world. Just as prophesied in the Book of Revelation, “With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” (Revelation 17:2)
9) A City of Blasphemy
Because of the high commercialization of New York City, many people in New York City lost their faith in God. They pay too much attention to material gains or sensual desire and don’t appreciate the blessing of God. Some people cursed God for the misfortune caused by their own misbehaviors. Some people rallied against the teachings of the Word of God in public schools. A person even used an elephant’s dung to depict the Virgin Mary and a museum in New York City still exhibited it to the public in the name of “art” or “freedom of expression”. How could these sins of blasphemy escape the judgment from God without causing the misfortune to the city?
These were all the results of the influence from the spirit of Babylon the Great and its beast, which in the past had persecuted the people of God in Israel, and later in Rome. Now that evil spirit already came to New York City and made New York City the central hub of many Anti-God media and organizations.
In Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation, it was prophesied that the beast of Anti-Christ spirit would be “given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them, and he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.” (Revelation 13:7)
In New York City, this beast not only waged wars against the people of faith through its controlled Anti-God and Anti-Christ media outlets, but also have influence over the United Nation to insert its “authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.” (Revelation 13:7) From nowhere else but New York City could the beast have such a strong influence on this nation of God and over the world as well.
10) A City Symbolized by a Woman
When people talk about New York City, most people will think of the famous landmark of the city, the Statue of Liberty. The New York City is indeed symbolized by a woman, Libertas, the goddess of liberty worshipped in ancient Rome. Is that just a coincident? Not really.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from French people to the United States of America to commemorate the alliance of France and the United States during the American Independence and the perseverance of freedom and democracy in the United States. The initial concept was proposed by Edouard Rene de Laboulaye, a French law professor and politician in a small group meeting in France. And then a sculptor named Frederic Bartholdi took the task to design the statue and he also came to the United States to seek the support of building a colossal statue in New York City. Eventually, an agreement was reached that the French group would pay for the cost of the Statue and Americans would be responsible for the cost and construction of the pedestal of the statue. The designer of the pedestal was also a freemason in the United States.
Statue Of Liberty Babylonian Goddess Ishtar
The official title of the statue is “Liberty Enlightening the World”, which followed the motto of the French Revolution, “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity”. It represents the people of both French and American looking forward to liberty after a long repressive Dark Age in Europe. It also showed the friendship between the two nations. So the initial goodwill of this Statue of Liberty as a gift from French people to the United States was all good.
Statue Of Liberty Babylonian Goddess
However, as prophesied in Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation, the French Revolution was inspired and influenced by the fallen star from the heaven – the AntiChrist Spirit of Lucifer. It initially inspired people with the good motto of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity”, then it turned people against the church and Christianity. After people abandoned the faith in God and Christ, the AntiChrist spirit turned the dream of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” into the nightmare of the “Reign of Terror”. And after the French Revolution and Napoleon Wars, the country was ruined and France was eventually turned into a godless country.
At the same time, the Freemason in the United States of America also gradually abandoned the faith in Christ in the name of religious tolerance. Eventually, it also fell into the hand of Lucifer in the nineteenth century when its Sovereign Grand Commander in America announced the faith to Lucifer to the top three levels of the Freemasons. Although these two designers from France and America designed the Statue of Liberty and its pedestal separately, even far apart by the Atlantic Ocean, they were under the same influence of Lucifer to complete the prophecy of the “Woman on the Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns” in the Book of Revelation.
i) The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is originated from the Greek/Roman Goddess Libertas, which can be traced to the root of theBabylonian goddess Ishtar or Inanna. One of the sexual rites in Ishtar worshipping is for women to provide sexual service, or temple prostitution, as part of their religious service. The following two images are of Ishtar and the Statue of Liberty. They both held the torch in their hands, just like Lucifer once was the “Light Bearer” before he fell from the Heaven. Do these two images look similar to each other?
Although the current Statue of Liberty has a whole new meaning, because of this similarity and historical connection to its origin, the Statue of Liberty became vulnerable to the attachment and occupation of the evil spirit of Babylon. A statue itself may not be a big threat, but what is dangerous is the spirit that occupies it and works behind its positive image. When it is combined with the odd shape of its pedestal, the meaning of this statue is totally changed.
ii) The Pedestal of the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty and the Arial Photo of its Pedestal |
Most people who visited the Statue of Liberty may not pay attention to the odd shape of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Why would someone design such an odd-shaped structure for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and what's the real meaning behind such a bizarre design?
Actually, this special shape does have a special meaning. It is a kind of variation of eight-pointed Star of Ishtar.
Instead of eight points in the original Star of Ishtar, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty bent the three major points on the three sides inward to create two small points on each of these three sides. It seemed that the designer of the pedestal tried to hide its relationship with the Star of Ishtar, but he did not realize that his intentional change of the design of the pedestal actually completed the prophecy of Babylon the Great and the Beast in the Book of Revelation. Here is how it looks like now!
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It has SEVEN triangles (A-G) sticking out of a square formed by the corner 1, 4, 7, and10 with a little bent inward in the front. The triangle A in the front is bigger than the other six triangles (B-G). If you add the four corners of the square to the six small triangles, there are TEN small corners (1-10) in total.
That’s Seven Heads (A-G) and Ten Horns (1-10)!The Statue of Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of Sex and Fertility, is sitting on the modified Star of Ishtar!What a perfect match to the prophecy of the Babylon the Great - “the woman on the beast with seven heads and ten horns” (Revelation 17:7)!
In the past two thousand years, most people had a hard time to imagine what kind of figure with seven heads and ten horns should look like. Now the answer is here. The designer of the pedestal might not have had any malicious intent while designing the pedestal for the statue, but the evil spirit of the beast always tried to influence people behind their mind and take advantage of their lack of awareness of the warnings in the Bible.
When people abandoned the faith in Christ, they could easily be deceived and led astray by the Spirit of Lucifer, the Antichrist. That’s how this statue and its pedestal were designed under the spiritual influence of Lucifer to create a matching design of the Statue of Ishtar and the Star of Ishtar from the same spiritual root of Babylon and complete the prophecy of 'Babylon the Great' in the Bible's Book of Revelation.
11) Additional Implications from God - “Babylon”, “Queens” and the “Big Apple”
To make this prophecy more clearly to people, God even inspired the local authority to name a small community to the east of New York City as “Babylon”, where all the ships coming from the south to New York City can clearly see the big name of “Babylon” on the water tower in the city. Inside New York City, it also has a district named Queens as “In her heart she boasts, 'I sit as queen...'” (Revelation 18:7)
In the early twentieth century, God inspired a writer to give New York City a nickname as the “Big Apple”. Anyone who heard the story of Adam and Eve knows that they were driven out of the paradise because of the “Apple”. Although in the English Bible there is no name for the fruit they ate in the Garden of Eden, one of the main reasons for people to believe it was apple is that the Latin word for evil is “malum” and the Latin word for apple is also “malum”.
As apple is the fruit that caused Adam and Eve to fall, God just used the “Big Apple” as a hint for the origin of sin to indicate that the spirit of Babylon, the mother of the abominations of the earth (Revelation 17:5), already came to the New York City in the early twentieth century. Shortly after that, the misfortune happened. The Wall Street collapsed and the stock market had the biggest crash in history followed by the “Great Depression”. God always gave people some signs before the major disasters happened. Unfortunately, most people just didn’t pay attention to them until it's too late or after it happened.
With all these matching characteristics, hints and special design of the Statue of Liberty and its pedestal, it is indisputable that modern-day Babylon the Great prophesied in the Book of Revelation is the Great City of New York.
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Today I am going to reveal to you a new conspiracy concerning the Statue of Liberty. I have been reading Rob Skiba’s book Babylon Rising. The Babylon Rising book is teaching me about occult symbolism in America. I must admit I had a rather naive opinion of the American Founding Fathers before reading this book. Basically I erroneously assumed that since Mr. Adam Weishaupt is credited with establishing the Illuminati around 1776 that there was not enough time for the Illuminati to influence the early USA Founding Fathers. Silly me. Freemasonry itself traces its roots back to Ancient Babylon!
After reading Babylon Rising I have a much better understanding of what happened in early America. This got me thinking about symbols of America. I have some unique things to say about the Statue of Liberty. Also I have a brand new conspiracy to share with you about it.
A background on the history of the Statue of Liberty …
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. – Statue of Liberty Wikipedia
The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Édouard René de Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor who was inspired by an 1855 visit to Egypt and admired the colossal statues on the facade of the Abu Simbel temples. – Statue of Liberty Wikipedia
Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty. In early American history, two female figures were frequently used as cultural symbols of the nation. One of these symbols, the personified Columbia, was seen as an embodiment of the United States. – Statue of Liberty Wikipedia
The other significant female icon in American culture was a representation of Liberty, derived from Libertas, the goddess of freedom widely worshipped in ancient Rome. – Statue of Liberty Wikipedia
These quotes on the Statue of Liberty Wikipedia page are insightful. But they do not tell the entire story. You see Libertas wasn’t just worshiped in Rome. She found her way onto The Great Seal of France in 1848. Also known as Marianne.
Now Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French artist. He was a Freemason who loved Egyptian monuments. This is not according to me. It is according to the official park service page!
The original design of “Liberty Enlightening the World” wasn’t even intended for the United States. The original design was for a colossal statue of a woman holding a torch in Egypt – but it got turned down. Many people know these things. Here are things most people do not know.
The Libertas goddess explanation is provided as “factual” on the official Statue of Liberty Wikipedia Page. For sure it is an abomination to Christians. I am specifically reminded of Leviticus 26:1. There are many more Bible passages concerning this. I encourage you to learn what paganism is so that you can identify it when you see it.
Speaking of paganism – have you ever tried a google image search for “Hecate” or “Hekate” or “Hecate figurine” or “Hekate art”? I suggest you do. The spikes on the tiara. The torch. Ladies and gentlemen the Statue of Liberty looks like Hekate the goddess of witchcraft. Do you know how very few Americans know this? Now you do.
If the Statue of Liberty looking like the Ancient Greek Witch Queen isn’t earth shattering enough for you then don’t worry there is much more. Are you familiar with the ancient goddess Semiramis aka Ishtar? She was queen of Ancient Babylon. That is a key connection I will make in this post. If I can make that connection from Statue of Liberty to Ishtar then I can show you a wild conspiracy.
To start down that path I have heard it said that Cicero of Rome called Libertas the “Mother of Harlots”. This is significant because the “Mother of Harlots” is a direct quote in the Bible from Revelation 17:5 referring to Babylon …
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. – Revelation 17:5 KJV
This would be a strong connection between Lady Liberty and the Mother of Harlots. However I am having a hard time finding the exact text where Cicero says this. I need more proof. I found more proof at the Ishtar Gate …
The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed in about 575 BCE by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city. It was excavated in the early 20th century and a reconstruction using original bricks is now shown in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. – Ishtar Gate Wikipedia
The Ishtar Gate helps me establish a better correlation to Ishtar. Consider the Statue of Liberty at Ellis Island is considered “The Gateway to America”. Ishtar Gate? Gateway to America? Pay attention to the pedestal on which Lady Liberty rests. That is a key to understanding. Have a look at a painting of the Ishtar Gate to hammer this home. Hint. Look on the wall …
There is more. Do you recognize “The New Colossus” poem?
“The New Colossus” is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal’s lower level. – The New Colossus Wikipedia Page
Now the “old” Colossus was the Colossus of Rhodes. The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was a giant statue of the Greek god Helios aka a pagan god. This further reinforces that the Statue of Liberty is a pagan goddess statue.
Circle back to Emma Lazarus. Do you know any of the other poems by Emma Lazarus? I do. Her last poem is entitled “By the Waters of Babylon”. Please note the obvious that the Statue of Liberty is by the waters. Is Emma – the person who helped fund raise for the statue’s completion – calling America Babylon? Emma is known as a faithful Jew in many historical references. What faithful Jew writes a fund raiser to erect a giant pagan goddess statue? A very confused one to say the least.
At this point if I have linked Lady Liberty to Babylon to Ishtar to your satisfaction then we can link her to Astarte. Consider the Astarte Wikipedia Page. It tells us Astarte is the Hellenized version of the goddess Ishtar. In plain English they are the same goddess.
Statue Of Liberty Babylon
I have now traversed the goddess heirarchy from Libertas all the way back to Astarte. Now I can show you a wild conspiracy that traces all the way back to Deuteronomy in the Old Testament.
If you look up the word “grove” in e-sword (e-sword is free software that provides Hebrew definitions of words found in the KJV Bible) you will find that in the KJV the word “grove” means “Asherah or Astarte – a Phoenician goddess – also an image of the same”.
In the NIV version of the Bible the word “grove” is translated slightly different on occasions. It is sometimes translated as what is called an “Asherah pole”.
I now propose that the Statue of Liberty is a giant Asherah pole as described as an abomination in the Old Testament.
Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the LORD your God – Deuteronomy 16:21 NIV
He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people. – 2 Kings 23:6 NIV
I prefer the KJV Bible but there are times the NIV version is very useful! If you look at the Statue of Liberty you will notice that near her feet the robe resembles a tree trunk. The statue appears such that she totally *could* be carved out of a single (yet giant) tree. Even the angle at which she holds the torch is extraordinarily parallel – much like a pole. From torch to toe the Statue of Liberty resembles a pole.
I understand she isn’t made of wood. She is a symbol of many occult things and many ancient goddesses and no Christian things. If she is an Asherah pole it is some of the largest news in American history. Realize that in the Old Testament – specifically 1 Kings and 2 Kings – that Kings are judged by their decision to build Asherah Poles or raze them to the ground. This is literally monumental news.
In conclusion I will say this. Let us talk politics for a moment. If the President of the United States is a true Christian he or she will start calling for the demolition of occult monuments like the Statue of Liberty. Paganism was pitched to us as patriotism in so many ways.
Statue Of Liberty Babylonian Goddess