Although every new day is started with a sincere prayer for a good and blessed day, bad experiences often come with their sad episodes. Such experiences tear at the individual's faith. It has a particularly negative impact on people who have not lived a life of faith for long and have not yet had enough experience with God. It can get to the point where some doubtful questions arise, such as: B.: “If there is a God, why does HE allow bad things to happen, why doesn’t HE intervene?” HE has the love and power necessary for this! – or not? If such negative experiences accompany a person over a long period of time, then it is possible that faith can gradually be lost.
If it is to come to that, what is left of the meaning of a life without firm faith? I, the author of this article, have lived for a very long time and have experienced a lot of good and bad things. My life has been very varied and adventurous. Looking back, I think I did a lot of good things, both family and public. But to be honest - there were also things that hurt others and were even described as evil.
The idea that this was my actual life and that it would ultimately end in a grave makes me feel enormously dissatisfied. What were the many long years good for? What is left of me and after me? Was this “long” life even worth it, let alone paid for?
Atheists in particular ask themselves such a question! For them, everything actually ends with the grave. There are very few people who survive history with their works. Of the whole, huge remainder, only a small dust remains, scattered in the vast ground or sea water. No more photos remain in the family anals and albums. In other words: there is nothing left of the person - as if he had never been there!
This fact is a reason for a hope for survival that is sought in various religions; a hold that would make up the meaning of life. At this point one could have named different religions with their subjective beliefs. This belief here is based on the Bible - the Holy Scripture - the word of the cosmic God.
The choice of this book and its credibility lies in the prophecy contained within it - the many prophecies that have been miraculously fulfilled throughout history. Predictions that have come true in a short but also a very long time and continue to do so.
This elaboration points to a special prophecy for the time of the end of earth's history. She talks about a special people and their arsenal of weapons. It is important to emphasize here that this vision was written a very long time ago, when people had not the slightest clue about the weapons of today. Logically, there were no appropriate words and terms for a correct description at the time. For example, the writer Joel used horses and rattling chariots symbolically to express strength and speed.
About armored car, Aircraft, biological weapons, machine guns: The second chapter of the book of Joel, entitled: “The Destroying Host on the Day of the Lord”:
1/ “Blow the Shophar horn…for the day of the LORD is coming, yes, it is near … 2/ … Like dawn spreads over the mountains, a great, mighty people, the like of which has never existed since eternity and will no longer exist in future times and generations. Everyone can research for themselves which large people this refers to today.
Verse 3 mentions an important detail: “Devouring fire leaves in front of him behind him, and behind him a blazing flame.". What weapons did the seer Joel see going before the army and causing great fires? Grenades fired from cannons have such an effect. The grenade fire arrives first, and only later does the military arrive.
4/ “They look like horses and run like riders.“The motorized weapons are very fast.
5/ Like rattling chariots they come over the heights of the mountains"Here the seer definitely saw fighter planes. “Like a flame of fire that roars and consumes the straw"The rattle of the machine guns is reminiscent of the crackling fire in a straw stubble field.
7/ “Like... warriors they climb the wall; Everyone goes on their own path and no one crosses the other's path. 8/ Nobody pushes anyone else, everyone goes their own way; They rush through between the projectiles (weapons) and cannot be stopped.“This image fits the armored cars aptly.
9/ “They invade the city, run up to the wall, climb the houses, climb in through the window like thieves.“A thief makes no noise. He moves silently. Biological and chemical weapons have such insidious handling.
10 / "The earth trembles before them, the sky trembles; The sun and moon darken and the stars lose their shine.The celestial bodies fade in the blinding explosion of a nuclear weapon.
Fall of Babylon in one hour According to the Revelation of John Chapter 18: Babylon was a very large city in ancient times that could not be destroyed in a flash. Not even at the Flood did the destruction happen so quickly. It is only through the effect of an atomic bomb explosion that it is known that gigantic things are destroyed in an instant. Accordingly, the term “Babylon” is a symbol of a current city that, like the one back then, will suddenly perish. This city is explained in more detail in the appendix.
This is followed by a discovery of the “atomic bomb” in the Bible. 8th/ “Therefore shall their plagues (of Babylon) in one day (in an hour – verse 17) come: Death and mourning and hunger, and she will be burned with fire; 9/ And the kings of the earth will weep and lament for them, (An international reputation of today's Babylon) 15/ "The merchants... will stand afar off for fear of their torment...17/ For in an hour so great wealth has been laid waste. And every helmsman and every coaster and sailor and all who are employed on the sea, stood far away. " A fire to be afraid of is a nuclear fire. 19/ And they...said, Woe, woe! The great city…for in an hour it has been laid waste.”
What fire can in one day, in one hour, destroy a great city, cause starvation, and render useless all that remains? What fire forces people to keep a long distance from it? Only the explosion of a nuclear weapon can have such a large impact.
In the Revelation of John in chapter 18 we find a similar picture to that in the second chapter of the book of Joel. Verse 21 provides further information about this atomic bomb: “And a mighty angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “So Babylon the great city will be thrown down with violence and will not be found again.”
It is known that when a large stone falls into the water with great force, a water hole is created. Then the water rushes together and creates a tall, splashing water mushroom. The situation is similar when an atomic bomb explodes: the large, high embers of the explosion burn the air in an instant. A big vacuum is created. Then the masses of the surrounding air hurl each other. A pressure wave is created that demolishes everything that stands in its way. The worst part is the irradiation that follows, which spoils, renders unusable and fatally contaminates everything for a very long time.
The Bible contains further prophetic, current information, the fulfillment of which has a positive influence on faith and encourages people to prepare for the grandiose and pompous coming of the Lord Jesus.
“But even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, with mourning. 13 Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For he is gracious, merciful, patient and of great kindness, and he soon repents of the punishment. 14 Who knows if he will not repent and repent and leave blessings behind him? (Joel 2,12:14-XNUMX)
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Fall of ancient Babylon, depicted in the book of Daniel, chapter 5. Babylon is not the only city that fell, but it is the only one that the Bible records in detail. She also reports on this great city at the end of world history. It is an example of great wealth, and an example of the mixing of true religion with counterfeit religion - the pagan one. This mixing is Satan's greatest success. She is so clever that he has managed to infect billions of people at all times with this hidden mixture.
Another addition to this topic can be found on this website “Chest of Faith” under the title: “Fallen Babylon”.