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In this episode of The Rosenberg Report, Joel Rosenberg talks about present day Babylon.

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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Present Day Babylon | The Rosenberg Report | December 18, 2025

Tonight on the rosenberg report,
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As darkness descends
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And hatred for jews and israel explodes around the world.
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Like in australia,
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Where terrorists
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Brutally murdered jews trying to celebrate hanukkah.
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Something curious and prophetic
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Is happening in the shifting sands of iraq.
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Despite skeptics and scoffers who refuse to take the bible
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Literally, the iraqi government is actively working
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To rebuild the ancient city of babylon into a modern,
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Powerful center of trade, commerce, tourism and wealth.
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Just as the biblical prophets
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Foretold, babylon is rising in our time.
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It's an end times story ripped right out of the pages
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Of isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, and the book of revelation.
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And it's all straight ahead, right here, right now.
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On the rosenberg report.
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What does bible
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Prophecy say about the future of iraq?
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Look, a fascinating story is being written
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In the shifting sands of arabia.
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A story that will confound atheists and agnostics.
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A story that should thrill christians and jews.
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Yet few are paying attention.
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But you absolutely should. why?
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Because the ancient city of babylon is being rebuilt.
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Good evening, and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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Babylon was once the capital of the most wicked,
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Most powerful empire on the entire planet.
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What's more,
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Babylon is described in bible prophecy,
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Including in the book of revelation,
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As being the capital of the most wicked, most powerful empire
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On the planet.
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In the end of days, the empire that will take over
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The entire world, it'll be the very home
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And center of wealth and power of the antichrist.
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And as i say,
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Despite all the cynics and all the skeptics
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And all those who dismiss the bible
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As a bunch of fairy tales and legends and lies
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And misleading myths, babylon is rising.
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It's being rebuilt right now, in our lifetime.
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Just as the bible foretold.
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Now, look, you're not going to hear this story on most,
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News networks or news channels, newspapers.
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It's just not something that most, mainstream
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Media are interested.
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But it's a story you need to hear.
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And i'm going to put it into context for you right now.
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Back in 2006, when i wrote my first nonfiction
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Book, epicenter, i wrote an entire chapter
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Explaining that according to bible prophecy,
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The ancient and long forgotten city of babylon
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Will one day be literally rebuilt,
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Even though it has lain under sand and ashes
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For thousands of years.
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I also wrote in epicenter
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That the ancient nation that the world used to call babylon
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In its heyday is the country which we now call iraq.
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And the bible says that it will not only be rebuilt
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In the last days of history, but that it will rise
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To become the wealthiest, most powerful,
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And the most wicked nation in the entire world.
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According to both old testament prophets
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And new testament prophets and apostles.
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Now, when i wrote epicenter right almost 20 years ago, few
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People believed me at the time and fewer still cared.
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And i'd been to iraq four times, and i've reported from iraq,
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I've written from iraq.
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I've i've done i've met all kinds of leaders from iraq,
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Including senior iraqi officials.
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But i've never been to babylon.
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And as i've written about it, as i've talked about it,
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I found some people are super interested.
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Most people don't care.
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Most people aren't interested.
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And then, of course, there's all the cynics and the critics.
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Now, to me, to be clear, i'm not the only author
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Who's ever read the many prophecies in the bible
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About the future of iraq, the future of babylon,
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And come to believe that babylon really will
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Rise like a phoenix from the ashes in the end times.
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Okay.
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Some seminary professors have written about this bible.
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Scholars here
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And there have written articles and books on the subject.
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But honestly, most of those works are rather obscure.
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I've read a lot of them.
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But but most of them have not become that popular.
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Most people don't know about this,
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And they have not shown much interest or care.
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Then came doctor tim lahaye, who in his day
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Was the world's foremost expert on bible prophecy.
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And certainly in the second half
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Of the 20th century and even in the first years
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Of the 21st century, before he went home to be
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With the lord.
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Doctor lahaye, who is a personal friend of mine
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And i studied with and learned from.
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He was fascinated,
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With all kinds of bible prophecy,
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But particularly with babylon,
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And he wrote extensively on the subject.
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In fact, in the 1990s
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When i first met him in the early 90s.
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But over the course of the decade, he,
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Tim and novelist jerry jenkins even wrote a series of novels
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Known as the left behind series, envisioning how bible
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Prophecy is, such as the rapture of the tribulation.
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The battle of armageddon might play out in the end times,
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And how babylon would be rebuilt
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And become the home of the antichrist. left behind
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And the sequels were a huge, huge sensation back in the 90s.
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They took the nation,
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The world, and the publishing industry by storm.
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They sold more than 60 million copies.
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That's right.
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The left behind series sold more than 60 million
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Copies, more than almost any other series of its kind.
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I think
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Harry potter was the only series that that sold more.
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Now, later,
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In the in the early 2000, doctor tim lahaye wrote yet
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Another series of popular prophecy novels
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Known as the babylon rising series,
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And one of the novels was called babylon rising,
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And all the rest were related to it.
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But such novels also created even though
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They were so popular.
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They also created an entire industry of skeptics and cynics
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Who wrote their own articles and essays and books,
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Completely rejecting the teachings of the bible
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And specifically scoffing at mocking the idea
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That ancient babylon would ever be rebuilt.
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I'll give you one example.
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There was a man in the back in the 80s, 90s,
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Then kevin phillips.
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He was a bestselling author and in his own right.
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He was a political analyst.
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And he was a actually he was a republican strategist,
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A moderate republican strategist in his day.
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And he was one such skeptic.
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He was not a fan of evangelical
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Christians in any way, shape or form.
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And in his 2006 book american theocracy,
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He ridiculed evangelical christians and anyone else
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Who takes the bible seriously, much less literally.
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Evil babylon,
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The antithesis of jerusalem, the good city, prompted its own
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Literature in the 1990s, and tim lahaye
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Tens of millions of readers, praised his series as making
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The bible and its supposed predictions come alive.
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Phillips scoffed.
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Phillips went on to mock what he called the prophecy believers
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Who accept the the biblical view
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That babylon, the ancient city of babylon,
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Will literally physically be rebuilt
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On its ancient ruins until,
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Kevin phillips thought that was ridiculous, and anyone
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Who thought that was ridiculous and added he was not alone.
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I'm just giving you one example now.
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Such scoffers aside, the truth is that slowly but surely,
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We're actually seeing the bible prophecies regarding babylon.
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Come to pass. now, let me just to make a quick note here.
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There
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Are people who said, oh, well, babylon doesn't babylon
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In the bible, in bible prophecy doesn't mean ancient babylon.
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It doesn't mean the iraqi city
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Or the iraqi province or the iraqi nation.
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No, they say, well, babylon is new york,
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Or babylon is paris, or babylon is london,
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Or babylon is moscow, or babylon is beijing or or,
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You know, one of these that babylon is or is rome.
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So many people have written over babylon was just a,
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It's just code.
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It's just a metaphor for, a modern,
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Wealthy, corrupt, anti-god, anti-christian city.
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Okay.
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Certainly babylon is a type, i'll grant that.
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But but the prophecies are very specific.
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In the old testament and the new and give a lot of detail about
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The archeology and the rivers that are near babylon
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That are talking about literal ancient babylon from iraq
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Rising again
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After thousands of years of being buried in the sand.
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Suddenly babylon is going to rise again
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And become a major player in the end times.
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Yes, that's what the bible teaches,
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And that's what bible scoffers think is so ridiculous.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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When exactly did iraq start rebuilding ancient babylon
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Into a modern city and a future commercial capital?
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Which iraqi leader initially drove the process?
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Was he doing it to fulfill bible prophecy,
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Or did he have some other motive?
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What does it all mean for you and me?
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And is it really a sign that we're living in the last days?
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Find out when the rosenberg report continues right here
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On tbn right after the break.
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On tbn right after the break.
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Back in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, saddam hussein.
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Remember him? president of iraq.
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The tyrants of baghdad, saddam hussein, saddam.
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You know, i remember
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Dana carvey used to do an impression of,
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President george h.w.
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Bush, a bush, saddam hussein.
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Where are you going to deal with him?
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We're going to deal with maybe not right now,
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At this juncture, not getting into that game.
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And it wouldn't be prudent. know that.
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Now we should now we should go to war.
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We should take care of saddam.
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Saddam hussein. very scary. right?
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You remember all that?
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Okay, so that was hussein was a sick guy.
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It was a it was an evil guy.
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He, you know, he use chemical weapons on his own people.
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He threatened to scorch half of israel with chemical weapons.
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He, you know, he built a nuclear reactor
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That israel had to destroy back in 1981.
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He, he attacked many of his neighbors
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With ballistic missiles.
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He invaded kuwait right in august of 1990, raping
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And pillaging that country until the united states.
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And in our arab allies
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And many of our other nato allies came to rescue kuwait.
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So this is a bad guy who's an evil guy.
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But saddam hussein wasn't just evil.
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He was also obsessed with what?
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With babylon and with the man
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Who was the king, the evil king at the time, who ran.
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You know who, who, who reigned and ruled from babylon,
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Creating the massive, monstrous babylonian empire.
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A man named named king nebuchadnezzar.
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And in the late 70s and early 80s, saddam hussein
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Ordered his archeologist and his engineers to begin excavating
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And then slowly to start rebuilding babylon. why?
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Because saddam saw himself
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And called himself a modern nebuchadnezzar.
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He saw himself.
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Saddam hussein saw himself as the successor
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To king nebuchadnezzar of ancient times.
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King nebuchadnezzar of the bible.
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Who? what did nebuchadnezzar do?
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Why was he famous?
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Because he took over most of the world.
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Most of the known world in its day,
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Nebuchadnezzar created the much feared babylonian empire.
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Nebuchadnezzar conquered jerusalem.
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Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the nation of judah,
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And he enslaved the vast majority of jews in the world
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At that time.
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And saddam hussein loved him.
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Saddam hussein wanted to be
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A modern nebuchadnezzar, and he called himself that.
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And so he wanted to rebuild babylon,
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Because that's where nebuchadnezzar,
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The ancient nebuchadnezzar reign from saddam,
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Wanted to reign from it himself to iraq, began rebuilding
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The famed ishtar gates and the famed city walls in babylon,
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As well as
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They began to restore,
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Some of the buildings and actually build a museum there.
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It was slow at first.
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And and actually, during the eight year long war
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Between iraq and iran, all such work ground to a halt.
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There just wasn't money.
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And of course, both sides were bombing,
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The living daylights out of each other.
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But since the liberation of iraq in 2003,
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When the united states and other countries
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Invaded and liberated iraq and, and captured
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And executed saddam hussein, since 2003,
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And especially in recent years, a lot has happened.
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I don't think you know about it.
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For example, on april 18th, 2006, the new york times,
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Actually, the new york times reported in a front page story
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Okay, that's that's a quote from the york times.
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More, from the times...
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Another quote from the times story.
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Now, i cited this important story.
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This really was a fascinating story, and i and i quoted it
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At some length in my 2006 book, epicenter.
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But that was just the beginning.
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A few years later, in april 2009, i reported that, quote,
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That was really astonishing.
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The obama administration, not exactly a big trumpeter of
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Christianity or a big,
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You know, a big proponent of bible prophecy.
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But it was president obama and his state department
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That was helping fund, modestly, $700,000,
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But still funding
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The rebuilding, the initial nascent rebuilding of babylon.
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I found that interesting.
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But things got even more interesting in the years ahead.
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In january 2011, i shared with my readers.
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This was when i used to have a blog.
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This was before all israel news or all arab news,
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But i share with my readers
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Another intriguing article,
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Again published by the new york times.
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One of the few media outlets, mainstream media
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Outlets, that has shown an interest in this topic.
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The new york times reported...
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Now skip ahead a few years.
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By 2019, so much progress had been made
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In rebuilding babylon that babylon was actually named
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A unesco world heritage site in an april of this year.
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Okay, 2025, an iraqi newspaper reported that, quote,
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Iraqi officials,
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According to the article,
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Want this to be an annual event and say, quote,
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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What are the implications of babylon rising in our lifetime?
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What does it mean for you and for me?
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Is it really a sign we're living in the last days?
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Don't go away.
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I'll finish the story
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When the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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Right after this break.
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Right after this break.
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I have to tell you,
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I would absolutely love to travel to babylon.
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I would love to take a tbn film crew.
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I would love to report in babylon
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For the rosenberg report for all arab news.
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This would be truly amazing.
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As i mentioned, i've been to iraq four times.
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And i've spent a lot of time,
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I was even in the province of nineveh,
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On one of those trips we've done.
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Joshua fund events there.
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Training, teaching, encouraging, refreshing iraqi pastors,
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Providing, all kinds of, funding for the,
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The iraqi evangelical church, building the first ever legal
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Iraqi christian radio station in northern iraq and so forth.
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I'm fascinated with iraq.
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But i've never been to babylon.
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I would love to go to babylon.
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And the moment i can figure out how to get there safely
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And report from there, i'm going to do it.
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But for now, let me ask you, who are you going to believe
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When it comes to all these topics?
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Are you going to believe the skeptics,
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The cynics,
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The scoffers who say the bible is a bunch of hocus pocus?
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It's a bunch of myths. it's a bunch of fairy tales.
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Can't be believed. you can't, you can't.
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But you can't take the bible seriously.
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And you certainly can't take it literally.
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Is that who you're going to believe?
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The skeptics, the cynics, the scoffers?
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Or are you going to believe the hebrew prophets
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Such as ezekiel, isaiah, jeremiah, and daniel,
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All of whom?
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All of whom wrote that babylon would really rise again
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In the last days of history and become a major city,
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A major player in the ultimate showdown
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Between the lord jesus christ and the antichrist.
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Who are you going to believe?
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Are you going to believe scoffers like kevin phillips
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And others just like him, who just think
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This is totally ridiculous?
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Or are you going to believe the apostle john,
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The author of the book of revelation,
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Who prophesied in revelation chapter 18
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So you believe the skeptics, or should you believe
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The apostle john, whom who describes babylon
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As the world's great commercial hub in the end times,
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Where the merchants of the world will come to trade
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Great quantities of gold, silver, jewels, and pearls,
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Along with all kinds of other expensive goods
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And services
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That entice the kings of the world to come to babylon
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And send their ships from everywhere on the planet
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To go trade with the people and the merchants of babylon.
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Well, who are you going to believe?
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You're going to believe the skeptics and the scoffers
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Because they think it's ridiculous.
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And maybe you think it's ridiculous to or.
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And i rarely say this, but
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You can believe the new york times.
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You're going to believe unesco.
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You're going to believe the the obama administration.
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Now, normally i wouldn't say those things,
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But i'm saying because
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None of the new york times does not see this
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As a fulfillment of bible prophecy,
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But they're still reporting every few years.
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Wow, this city is really getting rebuilt.
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The obama administration is definitely
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Not trying to promote bible prophecy.
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I guarantee you that, but they were funding
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The rebuilding of babylon.
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Okay. unesco, the united nations.
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You think they're interested in bible prophecy?
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Of course. or not.
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They don't see any connection between.
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They don't see any connection between bible prophecy
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And the rebuilding of babylon.
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They just think the babylon should be rebuilt.
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The iraqi muslim, sunni muslim government.
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You think they're interested in fulfilling bible prophecy? no.
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They're trying to rebuild their ancient city
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And they want to bring tourism. they want to bring money.
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They want it to become huge and powerful and wealthy.
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But they're not doing it because they're
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Interested in bible prophecy.
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But the skeptics would say, how could a once great city
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That hasn't existed for much of the past 2000 years,
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Once again become a city at all, much less
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Eventually the wealthiest, most powerful, and most evil
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City on the planet.
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Well, look, there's only one way that could happen.
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If the god of the bible decrees that it will happen,
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Then it will happen.
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And whether you like it or not, the simple fact is
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Babylon is rising right now.
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The iraqi government is rebuilding ancient babylon
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Right now.
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They're working on attracting
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Massive new investments into babylon.
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Right now,
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They're working on attracting massive numbers of tourists
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To come
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And eventually see babylon for themselves when it's ready.
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But they're working on it right now.
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So look, dismiss the bible if you want.
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Dismiss bible prophecy too, if you want.
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But take heed.
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God will not be mocked.
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His word, the bible, is true,
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His prophecies are real, and they will come to pass.
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And those who seek him and embrace his son,
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The lord jesus, yeshua the messiah,
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And those who love god and love his son
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With all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.
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They'll be warmly welcomed
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And adopted into god's family forever and ever.
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But those who reject him and his word, who snicker at it,
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Who scoff at it, i think it's all ridiculous.
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They will face a day of judgment
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That will last for eternity.
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In the book of deuteronomy, chapter 30, verse 19,
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We read this.
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These words, and i close with these words.
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This is. these are the words of the lord.
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This is the lord speaking to you.
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He's speaking to me. he's speaking to all of us.
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He's saying, i'm setting
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Before you life and death a blessing or a curse.
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So choose life in order that you may live.
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The choice that god puts in front of us
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Could not be clearer.
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And i implore you, choose wisely.
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So let's close with this question.
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So what? okay.
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I believe what we're seeing, what this story is about,
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Is about that that the bible is is true.
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And the bible, these properties are literal.
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They're literally coming to pass,
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Just like people didn't believe
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Israel would be reborn in the last days of history.
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And the millions of jews
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Would return here to jerusalem and the holy land
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And rebuild the ancient ruins and make the desert bloom.
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People didn't believe that for thousands of years.
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And now and now it's happening over the last hundred years,
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Over the last eight decades. this is real.
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And not only the prophecies about israel being reborn
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In the last days.
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True, the stories about babylon, the city and the nation
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State the empire.
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Wicked, wealthy, horrifying in its day.
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The bible says it's coming back
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And we're beginning to see it come back now.
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We're in the early stages, admittedly,
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But that's why i think this story is so important to you.
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To me, to our families, to our churches.
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Let's dig into the scriptures.
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Let's believe the bible.
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Let's study ezekiel, jeremiah,
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Isaiah, daniel, and the book of revelation.
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And let's study it. let's believe it.
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Let's live in light of it,
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And let's teach it in a healthy way to others.
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Well, that's all the time we have.
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I'm so glad to be able to share with you
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The story on babylon rising.
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Have a great week as you walk with the lord.
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Spend time in his word, i pray.
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Care for the needy.
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Spend time in fellowship and worship.
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And lord willing,
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I will see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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Joel Rosenberg: Present Day Babylon | The Rosenberg Report

December 18, 2025 | 28:7

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