Babylon Rising

Sitchin may be whacked out on many levels (after all he believes Adam was a "surrogate" birth engineered by "aliens") but he makes some REMARKABLE statements about Babylon and modern day Iraq here:War comes to Edin. Saddam Hussein saw himself as the reincarnation of Nebuchednezzar. He rebuilt Babylon and inscribed each brick with his name in the fashion of the ancient Sumerians. Iraq will play a big role in the unfolding of the "End of Days" (and my thanks to Sitchin for pointing out these two remarkable prophecies):

First the prophet Isaiah predicted the destruction of Babylon by an army from a "far country" accompanied by the sound of tumult in Isaiah 13:

4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. {like…: Heb. the likeness of}
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land

Could this be America and the tumultous sound be "Shock and Awe"?

Next the old prophet Isaiah also predicts the end of the sons of the "King of Babylon" in chapter 14:

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

Hussein's sons? Uday and the other one? It's enough to make me hum the X-files theme all day long down here in bayou land...

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Another remarkable prophecy that isn't written about in Sitchin (I haven't read it yet at least) is the coming together of "dry bones" in Ezekiel 37. This is commonly quoted in modern Israel. But there is another aspect to this I just read about last night in Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins' book "Are we living in the Last Times?". Here is the pertinent verse from Ezekiel 37:

8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

The authors make the insight that the bones, flesh and muscle came together but there was no "breath" in them. This is a picture of modern day SECULAR Israel. It is all there in body but no conversion to the Messiah has happened yet, no Holy Spirit has been "blown into their nostrils" (yet it WILL happen during the Great Tribulation).

(Maranatha, the Lord Cometh...)