BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar of earth gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Neuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the kings and his lords, his wives, and concubines might drank from them. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king / BELSHAZZAR the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone / BABYLON THE GREAT / he. In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king / BELSHAZZAR the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance changed, his thoughts troubled him, so that the the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other. The king / Belshazzar cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaladeans, and the soothsayers. The king / BELSHAZZAR spoke, saying to wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and tell me its intertation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." Now all the kings's wise men came, but they could not read the writing, or make known to the king its interpretation. Then King Belshazzar of earth was greatly troubled, his contenance was changed, and his lords were astonished. The queen of earth, because of the words of the king / Belshazzar and his lords came to the banquet hall. The queen of earth spoke, saying, "O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let countenance change. "There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God / the LORD . And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father - your father the king - made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and soothsayers.here is a tdeans and soothsayers. "Inasmuch as and excellence spirit, knowledge, undestanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were found in this Dainiel of earth, whom the king named Beltshazzar, now he will gave the interetation." Then Daniel was brought before the king / Beltshazzar. The king of earth spoke, and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah. "I have heard of, that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and understanding and excellence wisdom are found in you. Now the wise men, astrogers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not give the interpretation of the thing. 'And I have heard of you, that you can give the interpretation and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be third ruler in the kingdom." Then Daniel answered, and said before the king / Belteshazzr, "Let your gift be yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the inrterpretation. O king, the Most High God / the LORD gave your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor. "And because of the majesty that He gave him, all the people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whoever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. "But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. "Then he was driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints it over it whomever He chooses. "But you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this. "And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the god of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone / BABYLON THE GREAT, and the God / our God who holds your breath in His hand and owns your ways, you have not glorified. "Then the finger of hand sent from Him / our God, and this writing was written. And this the interscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TAKEL, UPHARSIN. "This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finish it; "TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; "PERES: Your kingdom ha been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." Then Belshazzar gave the command, they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be third ruler in the kingdom. That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede recieved the kingdom, being about sixty - two years old. DANIEL 5:1-31
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abomination and filthness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. REVELATION 17:4-5
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling with to the house of Jacob. Then people will take them and bring them to their places, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors. It shall come to pass in the day the LORD give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and hard bondage in which you were made to serve, ISAIAH 14:1-3
That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, the golden city ceased! The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers; He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he who ruled the nation in anger, is persucuted and no one hinders. The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedar of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were cut down, no woodsman has come up against us.' "Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief one of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. They all shall speak and say to you: ' Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worm cover you.' ISAIAH 14:4-11
"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depth of the Pit. "Those who see you will gaze at you, and consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, Who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who did not open the house of his prisoners?' "All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house; But you are cast out of your grave like an abomination branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot. You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named. ISAIAH 14:12-20
Prepare slaughter for his children / MYSTERY / the bloody city / your people in your midst are woman on the earth, BABYLON THE GREAT / he, the daughter of Babylon / a rebellious people on earth because of the iniquity of their father, lest they rise up and possess the land, and fill the face of the world with cities." "For I will rise up against them, "says the LORD of hosts, "And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and offspring and posterity," says the LORD. "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD. The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, and as I have purposed, so it shall stand: That I will break the Assyrians in My land, and on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be romoved from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders. This is purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, and this is the hand that stretched out over over all the nations. For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it back? "His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?" This is the burden which came in year that the King Ahaz died. "Do not rejoice, all you Philistia, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's roots will come forth a viper, and its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent. The firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety; I will kill your roots with famine, and it will slay your remnant. Wail, O gate! Cry city! All you Philistia are dissolved; for smoke will come from the north, and no one will be alone in his appointed times." What will they answer the messengers of the nations? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall take refuse in it. ISAIAH 14:12-32
THEN I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure the Jerusalem, to see its width and what is its length." And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, Who said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying: 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. 'For, 'say the LORD, 'will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.' " Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, "says the LORD; "for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, "say the LORD. "Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with MYSTERY / the bloody city / your people in your midst are woman on the earth, BABYLON THE GREAT / he, the daughter of Babylon / a rebellious people,." For thus says the LORD of hosts: "He sent Me after glory on earth, to the nation which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye. "For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts have sent Me. "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," says the LORD. "Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you. "And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. "Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for He is arouse from His holy habitation!" ZECHARIAH 2:1-13
WOE to MYSTERY / the bloody city / your people in your midst are woman on the earth, BABYLON THE GREAT / he, the daughter of Babylon / a rubellious people on earth! It is all full of lie and roberry. Its victory never depart. The noise of a whip and the noise of rattling wheels, of galloping horses, of clattering chariots! Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear. There is a multitude of slain, agreat number of bodies, countless corpses - Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries. "Behold, I am against you, "says the LORD of hosts; "I will lift your skirit over your face, I will show the nations your nackedness, and the kingdoms your shame. I will cast abomination filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle. It shall come to pass that all who look upon you flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her? Where shall I seek comforters for you. Are you better than No Amon that was situated by the River, that had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the sea? Ethopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers. Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her young children were dashed to pieces at the head of every street; they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. You also will be drunk; you will be hidden; you also will seek refuse from the enemy. All your stronghlods are fig trees with ripened figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. Surely, your people in your midst are woman! The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies; fire shall devour the bars of your gates. Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick klin! There the fire will devour you, the sword will cut you off; it will eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many - like the swarming locust! You have multipied your merchants more then the stars of heaven. The locust plunders and flies away. Your commanders are like swarming locusts, and your generals like great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedge on a cold day; when the sun rises they flee away, and the places where they are is not known. Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; your nobles rest in the dust. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one gathers them. Your injury has no healing, your wound is severe. All who hear news of you will clap their hands over you, for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually? NAHUM 3:1-19
"I was sought by those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here I am, here I am, 'to a nation that was not called by My name. I have stretched out My hands all day long to MYSTERY / the bloody city / your people in your midst are woman on the earth, BABYLON THE GREAT, the daughter of Babylon / a rebellious people, who walk in way that is not good, according to their own thoughts; A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense to altars of brick; Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in the tombs; who eat swine's flesh, and the broth of abominable things is in their vessels. Who say, 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am holier than you! 'These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all the days. "Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silence, but will repay - even repay into their bosom - Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers togather, "says the LORD, "Who have burned incense on the mountains and blasphemed Me on the hills; therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom." Thus says the LORD: "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, 'Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it, 'so will I do for My servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. I will bring forth the descendants from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains; My elect shall inherit it, and My servant shall dwell there. Sharon shall be fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for My people who have sought Me. "But you are those who farsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who prepre a table for Gad, and who furnish a drink offering for Meni. Therefore I will number you for the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear, but did evil before My eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight. Therfore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungery; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, My sevants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed; Behold, My servant shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for grief of spirit. You shall leave your name as acurse to My choosen; for the Lord GOD will slay you, and call His servants by another name; So that he who blessed himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; becuase the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from My eyes. "For behold, I creat new heaven and a new earth; and former shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I creat; for behold, I creat Jerusalem as rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. "No more shall an infant from there lives but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. "It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall freed togather, the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," says the LORD. ISAIAH 65:1-25
Then I stood on the sand of the sae. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sae, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast / Egypt / perdition / the king of Babylon which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. REVELATION 13:1-2
And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marvelled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon / the serpent of the earth who give authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" REVELATION 13:3-4
And he was given a mouth speaking things and blasphemies, and was given authority to continue for forty - two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blasphem His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He / the man who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who / BABYLON THE GREAT / the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience of the saints. Revelation 13:5-10