Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

More examples of a mathematical pattern to history

If you go from the Crucifixion to the Magna Carta and then to Women’s suffrage you get the golden ratio, approximately 1.618

If you go from 1776 to women’s suffrage and then to 2020 you get the golden ratio, 1.618

Please note, Women’s suffrage was almost the same year as the Grandfather law was repealed which restricted the vote for descendants from slaves. So this was a major step forward in giving everyone the vote.

If you take the time from the 14th Amendment to the I have a dream speech to 2021 you get the golden ratio, 1.618

This basically is a mathematical proof that you reap what you sow.

Mark 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34 It is as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch. 35 Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning; 36 lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

This is great, he explains what he means by you not knowing what the time is. The master has soujourned to another country. Generally speaking they would have an itinerary, you might know they were supposed to be back in two weeks, but you wouldn't know the exact time. You might know they are coming by train and so if you knew the train schedule that would give you a clue, but what if they are coming by horse? Not knowing the hour is not the key point, the key point is to take care of the house and to be ready the minute He does arrive to open the door and He can see everything is in good order. Today we would liken this to being "on call". You have your phone with you, it is on, it is charged, it has "bars" so that if someone does try to contact you it will work. That is what your spirit should be like. Also, they should find you working. During the pandemic I had been attending many "Zoom" meetings and it is always amazing to me that people think they can attend these meetings while driving in their car and running errands.

The Great Reset and the Mark of the Beast

In 1914 the US federal reserve Bank was created and printed the first US dollars. The US went on the gold standard and then during WWI the US amassed gold by selling to the allies. This strengthened the US dollar and helped precipitate the financial collapse in 1929 but in the midst of the Great Depression the US dollar became the reserve currency for the world.

Please understand this. To become the reserve currency is a tremendous prize making one fabulously wealthy and powerful. It was the spoils that we got as a result of WWI and the Great Depression. So while most people see the war and the great depression as the two main events of that time, to the elites the big event was winning this prize of being the reserve currency.

This is called "the great reset". What is meant by this is one country emerges as the dominant banking power and they control the world's currency. This is what the mark of the beast is all about. The mark of the beast is the currency of the beast, you cannot buy or sell unless you have this mark. This is why we fought WWI and pushed a Great depression on the world. WWII was fought to protect this central bank structure from the communist threat in Russia. This is why the Rothschilds and Ford and the Central bank financed Hitler so he could attack Russia. War is extremely profitable, great fortunes are made supplying armies and then afterwards in rebuilding countries. They financed both sides of WWII and when it was clear Germany would lose they put the "Final solution" into effect to get their money out by stealing from those they gassed. Then in 1971 the US came off the gold standard, this was approximately one Jubilee after 1921 when the US dollar was really starting to flex its muscles verses the British pound. Once again, this is another great reset.

In this reset we secured an agreement that we would provide security for the Middle East as long as they required oil to be purchased with US dollars. This is when we became the "petro dollar". The US became a fiat currency, we could print money whenever we liked. However, it was absolutely imperative that we protect the Middle East at all costs and you can see why many other countries wanted to break our stranglehold on this. Once again this lasted for one jubilee and then 50 years later in August of 2021 when we abandoned Afghanistan Russia cut a deal to provide security for the Middle East. This is what the war against the US will be about, who gets to be "the central bank" and as we know Russia will try and fail and instead the Reformed Roman Empire with the Antichrist at the head will emerge with the fiat currency called "the mark of the beast". The pandemic is part of this war to break the US stranglehold. Anyone paying attention can see a battle going on in the US between globalists and nationalists.

Once the US falls the Islamic nations allied with Russia will try to defeat Israel. God will wipe them out. As a result the AntiChrist will make a peace treaty with Israel enabling Europe to have the fiat currency. This is what is behind the whole "climate change" debate, they are trying to bankrupt oil companies in the US to break the US stranglehold. Russia will make a preemptive move that will fail to seize control.

This is what happens when Faith without works is dead, Satanism is free to grow

Your Redemption is Drawing Near

Luke 21: 26 People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Please note, "your redemption is drawing near" is a reference to a future event, not a reference to the Lord's redeeming work on the cross.

Also please note that He says "when these things begin to take place" there are many things that we have been warned about that when they begin to take place you know that your redemption is drawing near. You may not know the day or the hour, but you do know it is drawing near.

Biblical Basis for a pre tribulation rapture

Some claim that there is no pre-tribulation rapture so it is important to lay out these verses. This is the "black and white" word, the plain word, on the harpazo (rescue) that takes place prior to the rapture. This is not supposed to be comprehensive. Nor have I touched on the types and shadows in the Old Testament, nor have I really gone into the Psalms or the Prophets or Proverbs to show the words there that fill in the picture even more.

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."

Abraham asked the Lord "Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?" The answer was no.

Enoch was raptured before the flood.

Noah and 7 other souls (signifying the 7 golden lampstands?) entered the ark 1 week prior to the flood (7 years?) that was God's judgement on the Earth.

Jesus told us the end of the age would be as the days of Noah.

The book of Revelation from chapter 2-3 is completely focused on the church age. Chapter 4 begins saying "after this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be heareafter". John is raptured to the throne room, we don't hear of the church until Revelation 19 when it says the church returns again to the Earth as the Bride.

Psalm 18:16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
he drew me out of deep waters.
17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from my foes, who were too strong for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the Lord was my support.
19 He brought me out into a spacious place;
he rescued me because he delighted in me.

The pre tribulation rapture is the Lord rescuing us from a powerful enemy.

Luke 21:36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

1Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

If you are there when the AntiChrist says "peace and safety" you will not escape and yet the Lord told us to pray that we might escape. Hmmm?

Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

This word is to the church in Sardis, they are believers. It seems very obvious from this verse that there are two potential outcomes to the believers, when the Lord returns.

Luke 12:39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

Ready for what? The Lord's return is likened to a thief in the night and He is warning the believers they "need to be ready" because "He will come at an hour when you do not expect Him". Again, two outcomes, one where there are believers who are ready and watching when the Lord returns and one for those believers who are befuddled and are not ready.

Luke 2:1-3 An inkling of what is going on behind the scenes

1 In those days it occurred that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman empire should be registered. 2 This was the first enrollment, and it was made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all the people were going to be registered, each to his own city or town.

This is a big deal. You had to be tuned into the community that Mary and Elizabeth were in to know about John and Jesus. They didn't put that on the front page of the news. But the news that would be on the front page would be this census. Most of us are too naive to see the significance of this. The redeemer is coming to redeem us to Himself, at the same time the Roman Caesar is counting how many people belong to him. They are choosing up sides. The Lord said that God has a field and sowed wheat in his field while an enemy sowed tares. The two grow together and then at the end of the age the angels come forth and separate the two, throwing the tares in the fire and gathering the wheat to the barn. Right now we are seeing this separation process, people call it the “polarization” of the country. This is not going to stop, rather it will become more extreme with an even stronger contrast. People thought that if they would vote for Biden it would stop, wrong. Instead the front page is this census, but this time they are calling it a Pandemic Passport. We saw those who stood up to say the election was fraudulent and they can’t certify it were threatened. The most vocal among them was Matt Gaetz, a congressman, who they have tried to blackmail. People who came forward and testified concerning the election fraud were called racists, the school their kids went to was put out on the internet and these people recommended that their kids get bullied at school. We have seen thugs attacking people around the country that wear anything promoting Donald Trump. A man in Oregon was attacked by a mob of Antifa thugs because his truck had an American flag. He had a gun to protect himself. He didn't shoot it, but when the police came they arrested him, not the thugs. On the other hand the rally concerning the election fraud involved prayer, hymns of praise, and thanksgiving to God. The mark of the beast is taking this census to an extreme. Not only are we counting everyone but we are tracking them as well. We know where you are, where you go, and what you buy. The irrational behavior towards Covid19 is to force people to get their vaccine which will include a RFID chip which can let them know you have the vaccine, as well as your medical insurance and credit cards. Why is it irrational? Look at the data, yes, the numbers of people becoming infected is growing and spreading. But the numbers of those who are dying has flatlined. Social distancing and masks work at preventing you from getting a large viral dose. You still get exposed and your body still develops immunity. But you don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital or die. Italy which had close to 40,000 deaths only had 5 die who were under 20. The number who died and were under 50 was negligible. So yes, if you have a preexisting health condition, if you are obese, if you are over 65 it is certainly something to be concerned about. But shutting down the entire economy over this is irrational. I worked in the NYC public school system. We were testing every person in the school. During the entire year our school had a handful of people test positive, but they were people who were not in the school. Yet NYC shut down the schools. You could call it "an abundance of caution" except at the same time they are doing all this they are teaching illegal immigrants in school. They have them in shelters that are at 200-400% capacity. People are housed with those that are sick. There is no caution there and then they are releasing all of these infected immigrants into Texas as though they are trying to create a super spreader event. The mortality rate of this disease has plummeted. Social distancing and masks are making it very safe for any healthy person who is 50 or younger. However, if the goal is to get everyone to get the mark of the beast then you need a super spreader event to persuade everyone: if you want to work again, if you don’t want to lose your business and become homeless you will “voluntarily” get the mark of the beast.

Now you might argue this is unrighteous, you threaten us with death from Covid, you say we won't be able to keep our jobs or travel if we don't get this "vaccine" and yet that is how you are marking us as belonging to the beast? That is not righteous. The gospel gave everyone an opportunity to make a decision for themselves to receive Jesus' redemption. Yes, the beast is unrighteous, that is part of what we have been telling you with the gospel. So why does it surprise you? He sowed the tares in a field that didn't belong to him, that is what he does.

Luke 2:4-7 Mary the Hillbilly

4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the town of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5 To be enrolled with Mary, his espoused (married) wife, who was about to become a mother. 6 And while they were there, the time came for her delivery, 7 And she gave birth to her Son, her Firstborn; and she wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room or place for them in the inn.

During this process of separating the wheat from the chaff the believers need to separate themselves to the House of God (Bethlehem). At this time there will be no room for believers in the Inn. What kind of a mother puts her baby into a feeding trough in a barn? This girl is rural, we used to call them hillbilly's but that is no longer politically correct. Now we call them "deplorables". If you think I'm exaggerating try reading her prayer again, it is very clear that she identifies herself as a deplorable.

Luke 2:8-24 Ohh, so that's why there was no room at the Inn

8 And in that vicinity there were shepherds living [out under the open sky] in the field, watching [in shifts] over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord flashed and shone all about them, and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel said to them, Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people. 11 For to you is born this day in the town of David a Savior, Who is Christ (the Messiah) the Lord! 12 And this will be a sign for you [by which you will recognize Him]: you will find [after searching] a Baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. 13 Then suddenly there appeared with the angel an army of the troops of heaven (a heavenly knighthood), praising God and saying, 14 Glory to God in the highest [heaven], and on earth peace among men with whom He is well pleased [men of goodwill, of His favor].

Sometimes we get too focused on the Antichrist and the mark of the beast and you won’t be able to buy or sell without it. On the other side we have a heavenly host of angels that appear to shepherds. Think of these shepherds as being like the midwives when Pharaoh wanted to kill Egyptian male babies. So let’s not hyperventilate on what the enemy is going to do, God is great, He is omnipotent and He is omniscient. Trust in Him. These shepherds are used to dealing with wolves. What a contrast with the religious and political leaders who think the world revolves around them. The biggest thing happening was in this barn and with these hillbilly rural farm workers.

15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing (saying) that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us. 16 So they went with haste and [by searching] found Mary and Joseph, and the Baby lying in a manger. 17 And when they saw it, they made known what had been told them concerning this Child, 18 And all who heard it were astounded and marveled at what the shepherds told them 19 But Mary was keeping within herself all these things (sayings), weighing and pondered them in her heart.

Many Christians focus on how great it would be to be those raptured before the tribulation. But look at this story, those who are here seeing the Lord years before His ministry, they were embracing their position as outcasts of society. As Paul said "the offscouring" of society. The best description of these people was given by Hillary Clinton, she said they were "irredeemable". There is just no way for Satan to buy them off.

20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them. 21 And at the end of eight days, when [the Baby] was to be circumcised, He was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. 22 And when the time for their purification [the mother’s purification and the Baby’s dedication] came according to the Law of Moses, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord— 23 As it is written in the Law of the Lord, Every [firstborn] male that opens the womb shall be set apart and dedicated and called holy to the Lord— 24 And [they came also] to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord: a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.

This offering indicates they were in extreme poverty. Maybe the claim that there was no room in the Inn was because every nook and cranny was already occupied, but I wonder if she wasn't a poor hillbilly if they would have found room for this pregnant girl about to give birth. Today if you saw some poor hillbilly teenage girl who is 9 months pregnant with her fiance what you would assume? They treated her like a farm animal, no way they do that if she was someone "important". Every Christian who thinks they are so important, can we look at Mary and be humbled?

As usual Chuck Missler does a wonderful scholarly job that is filled with insight.

Zechariah 11 gives us a physical description of him.

We have a contradiction here

Daniel 7:21, 22 "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;"

Revelation 13:7 "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

Matthew 16:18 I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The promise from the Lord is that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the church He builds and yet in Revelation we are told that the Antichrist will prevail over the saints. Anyone who thinks there is no pre-tribulation rapture needs to reconcile this contradiction.

"By Peace he shall destroy many" Daniel 8:25

Biden is a man of peace. We now have peace at our Southern border, not like when Trump was president and everyone was screaming everyday about it. Of course this peace is destroying America. He also made peace in Afghanistan, though it does look like that peace has lit a fuse that will destroy the Middle East. And Biden is much nicer to China and that peace that he is making with them will almost certainly destroy Taiwan.

Timing of the tribulation?

(I was recently asked about the timing of the tribulation and rapture. They referenced Jeffrey McGaha's videos concerning predictive programming and 9/23.)

The date that was being presented was pulled off of predictive programming, there was a date that was embedded in many Hollywood movies and music videos and was used repeatedly to suggest a cataclysmic event. That date is not from the Bible but suggested that the elites know something we don't know, a concern supported by the incredible increase in underground bunkers being built for the elites as well as governments building elaborate underground systems.

That number was 9/23 which was interpreted to be September 23, however, September means 7 not 9. The word November means 9. This is mentioned in the Bible that the enemy will mess up the calendar so that he can confuse time.

None of that though is Biblical, however it is something that people should be aware of, the elites seem to be very concerned over this date of 9/23 tied with a cataclysmic event.

So then what does the Bible say:

1. The fig tree prophecy talks about Israel "and all the trees" which refers to the other nations that were also formed after WWI at about the same time as Israel. The Lord says that this generation will not pass away until all things are fulfilled. The only verse in the Bible that seems to define a generation is in Psalm 90 -- 70-80 years. Since Israel was reformed in May 1948 80 years later is May 2028, being the time at which everything that the Lord was referring to in the context of the prophecy will be fulfilled.

2. Most end time teaching considers the last 7 years of this age to be the 70th week in Daniel and the tribulation. This seven years begins with the Antichrist confirming the covenant with the many. Therefore the Antichrist is revealed at the start of the 70th week and according to Paul in his writing to the Thessalonians the Antichrist is not revealed until the Holy Spirit steps aside. However, the Lord told us the time would be shortened otherwise no one would survive. Still it seems to me and to many others that the Antichrist needs to be revealed prior to this May 14th 2022 (I am using the Gregorian calendar for simplicity but in reality these dates should be converted to the Hebrew calendar) otherwise you will have a major conflict in our understanding of the Lord's word with the prophecy in Daniel.

3. There is no prophecy that tells us the date of the rapture and instead the Lord compares this to a woman who is pregnant. You may have a due date, but that is simply a guide and you must be watching. We are commanded by the Lord to watch. He also compares this coming to a thief in the night. The thief would never tell you ahead of time the day and hour he is coming, which is why you must prepare and you must watch. He also compares this to a farmer who again may have a general idea of when to expect the crops to be ripe yet at the same time needs to be watching carefully to know precisely when to harvest.

4 With that in mind it appears that the book of Psalms are prophetic with the first 121 Psalms giving a prophetic reading from 1901 to 2021. (A book was written about the prophecy in the Psalms). In these Psalm 18 is very clearly describing a pre-tribulation rapture. So if we look at 1918 we can get an idea, like watching the trailer to a movie, of the year of this rapture. Two big things took place, you had a worldwide pandemic and you had the end of WWI. Psalm 120 referring to 2020 prays for deliverance from liars, and Psalm 121 refers to the pre-tribulation rapture.

5. The book of Joel also describes a worldwide pandemic in great detail and says that it is a sign that the day of the Lord is at hand. However, the prophecy in Joel cannot refer to the Spanish flu because he describes a global shutdown of the economy as part of this pandemic and also precisely describes social distancing as a key strategy in combating the pandemic.

6. There are other signs as well in the heavens pointing to 2021 as well as wars and rumors of war and earthquakes in various places (the number of earthquakes this year are at least 100x the average for this last century if not 200x).

7. Other prophecies say that a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse will take place at the start of the Great day of the Lord. We will have two pairs of lunar and solar eclipses per year, and the only one left for 2021 is Nov 19 and Dec 4.

8. Another prophecy Amos 8:10 “And I shall turn your festivals and feasts into mourning And all your songs into dirges (funeral poems to be sung); And I shall cause sackcloth to be put on everyone’s loins And baldness on every head [shaved for mourning]. And I shall make that time like a time of mourning for an only son [who has died], And the end of it shall be like a bitter day. I find it interesting that this is plural, several religious festivals and feasts as well. We really only have one religious festival associated with songs and that is Christmas. We also have a feast at this time called Thanksgiving. Our thanks will be turned to mourning and our Christmas songs will be turned to dirges.

Therefore if this is referring to this year it would fit with many of the prophecies, and many I haven't mentioned if it takes place prior to Thanksgiving which is November 25th.

The Antichrist is "the Assyrian"

Micah 5:5 And this man shall be our peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight [d]principal men. 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border.

Isaiah 13:1 A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
2 Raise a banner on a bare hilltop,
shout to them;
beckon to them
to enter the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded those I prepared for battle;
I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath—
those who rejoice in my triumph.

An army will come from God, summoned from a great distance away to bring judgment to the Earth. I am hypothesizing that this is the tail of this Planet X system that is composed of hundreds of thousands of rocks, debris picked up by its gravitational field as it travels through the ort cloud.

4 Listen, a noise on the mountains,
like that of a great multitude!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations massing together!
The Lord Almighty is mustering
an army for war.
5 They come from faraway lands,
from the ends of the heavens—
the Lord and the weapons of his wrath—
to destroy the whole country.

When God says "they come from far away lands" He is clarifying that they are coming from the ends of the heavens. We now believe our solar system is a binary star system with the other star being a brown dwarf meaning you can only see it with an infrared telescope like the one the Vatican has purchased. This system is on an extremely elliptical orbit that takes it hundreds of years to go around the Sun, maybe even longer.

6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
7 Because of this, all hands will go limp,
every heart will melt with fear.
8 Terror will seize them,
pain and anguish will grip them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at each other,
their faces aflame.
9 See, the day of the Lord is coming
—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—
to make the land desolate
and destroy the sinners within it.

Think of the movies about "the purge" where the elites go into their little bunkers for the night while everyone trapped outside either gets killed or kills others.

10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
will not show their light.
The rising sun will be darkened
and the moon will not give its light.

There are many prophecies that this takes place during a solar eclipse and lunar eclipse. However, I suspect it is far worse than a typical one. If planet X system gets very close to the Earth it would definitely block out the Sun. We estimate that it is ten times more massive than Earth which would make it much, much bigger than our moon. If it comes between the Earth and the Moon it would also block out the moon. Can you imagine the entire world seeing this huge planet approaching Earth, blocking out the Sun and the Moon? They would melt with fear.

11 I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.

It is on full display. In the US we are seeing the leaders have no regard for the law or the constitution. They are evil (the vaccine is designed to destroy natural immunity making people dependent on the sorcerers and giving them complete control over life or death). The people who have done this are wicked, arrogant, haughty and ruthless.

12 I will make people scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the Lord Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.

We are told many places that this judgement will be by fire. We also learn of massive death totals that are very hard to believe with billions of people dying (in Revelation). Not only so but the rapture removes those who are faithful to God.

14 Like a hunted gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd,
they will all return to their own people,
they will flee to their native land.
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall by the sword.
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
17 See, I will stir up against them the Medes,
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.

The elite are prepping, they are building bunkers to hide in. The problem with that is they will all be scattered and isolated. Then this hoard of "Medes" (I'm thinking Mad Max) will sweep through with the atrocities you get when you have complete anarchy. These elite thought that their gold would be useful which is so stupid, once Mad Max kills them he gets all their gold, why would he have any use for these "elites"?

18 Their bows will strike down the young men;
they will have no mercy on infants,
nor will they look with compassion on children.

After a cataclysmic event like this no one is in a position to be a nursemaid to a bunch of small children.

19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,
the pride and glory of the Babylonians,
will be overthrown by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Many people try to interpret Babylon as Iraq. Is Iraq the "jewel of kingdoms"? Everyone on earth knows that today "the jewel of kingdoms" is the United States. But even if you disagree then what nation on earth can be described as "Sodom and Gomorrah"? There are two ways to look at this, rather than simply saying "the United States" I would say "Multinational corporations that are pushing for globalism". They are corrupt like Sodom and Gomorrah, they are the "jewel of kingdoms". Toyota is the jewel of Japan, GM is the jewel of the US, Rolex is the Jewel of the UK, etc.

20 She will never be inhabited
or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads will pitch their tents,
there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 But desert creatures will lie there,
jackals will fill her houses;
there the owls will dwell,
and there the wild goats will leap about.
22 Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds,
jackals her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,
and her days will not be prolonged.

That said, I do think these verses from 20-22 may refer to Iraq and the site of ancient Babylon. I do believe that God views these multinational corporations and one world religion as having grown up from ancient Babylon.

I have done a lot of mountain climbing in NY and the top of a mountain is not a good place to see an approaching army. It seems like it would be but it isn't. First, the mountains are part of a mountain range so it would be easy to approach the mountain from the backside of another mountain. Second the valley is filled with trees. If your army was marching under the trees it would be very difficult to see anything until they were really close.

One exception would be if your mountain were right next to the sea and you saw an armada of ships approaching. But even then they wouldn't be very far off, maybe one day away.

But we are told in verse 5 They come from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—

And then it hit me, the top of the mountain, a bare hilltop, is the best place to put an astronomical observatory. This army is coming from the ends of the heaven, of course you would be looking through a telescope to see it. This is what happened, in the 70s they realized there had to be something out there based on the orbits of several planets, then in the 80s they sent out Pioneer 10 and saw it, the Vatican bought a very expensive infrared telescope that would be able to see the brown dwarf and since that time they have entered the gates of the nobles and the elite to let them know what is coming.