Jan. 22, 2025

The Enduring Legacy of Babylon in Modern Culture - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 19

Send us a text What if the stories of old could reveal secrets that shape our world today? Join us on a captivating expedition through the ancient city of Babylon, as we uncover its historical and biblical significance during the time of Daniel. You'll explore the parallels between the Jewish captivity in Babylon and Moses’ confrontation with Pharaoh in Egypt, while marveling at the grandeur of the largest city of its era, boasting walls that could put modern city perimeters to shame. Our jo...

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What if the stories of old could reveal secrets that shape our world today? Join us on a captivating expedition through the ancient city of Babylon, as we uncover its historical and biblical significance during the time of Daniel. You'll explore the parallels between the Jewish captivity in Babylon and Moses’ confrontation with Pharaoh in Egypt, while marveling at the grandeur of the largest city of its era, boasting walls that could put modern city perimeters to shame.

Our journey takes us through the architectural wonders of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, from its imposing palace to the magnificent Hanging Gardens. Picture the bustling life along the river, where art and engineering intertwined to create legendary feats. As we piece together historical records and visualizations, you'll gain insights into the city's intricate design and its enigmatic past, with a nod to the mysteries that still linger.

But the tale doesn't end there. Discover the surprising connections between an ancient Spanish cathedral in Panama and Babylon's downfall, highlighting the broader historical themes that resonate through time. From the spread of cultural practices like witchcraft to divine interventions that redirected the Jewish people, we explore how Babylon's legacy continues to influence cultural and spiritual narratives. With a population that once rivaled the size of modern metropolises, Babylon's story is one of spiritual and enduring impact.

00:00 - The Magnificent City of Babylon

14:58 - Exploring the Ruins of Babylon

22:56 - The Fall of Ancient Babylon

28:31 - The Greatness of Ancient Babylon

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Well, praise the Lord.

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Praise the Lord.

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We're going to be in and about the fifth chapter of the book of Daniel today, because we are going on and continuing on this study of the book of Daniel parts of the book of Daniel, at any rate, because this is an important place where several battles between Antichrist and the Christ happened Amen, and Daniel was in the middle of almost all of it.

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This all happened in the 70 year period when the Jews were taken captive by Babylon and taken into captivity for 70 years into Babylon.

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Amen, and the fifth chapter is about what happened on the last night of the reign of the family of Nebuchadnezzar and essentially brought an end to the physical or temporal or earthly kingdom of Babylon.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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But before we can do that, we have to spend a little bit of time.

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I want you to spend a little bit of time with me and get an appreciation for how big this battle was, if you'll remember, back to when Moses went in and encountered Pharaoh and began to deal with Pharaoh and ordering him to let the people of Israel go, and then the 10 plagues and whatnot broke out on him as a mighty sign to him.

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At that time, egypt was one of the most of the mightiest nations in the world, and God totally brought it to its knees, totally decimated its army, totally decimated the house of Pharaoh.

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Egypt never recovered.

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They were still an important player in that part of the world because of the Nile River flows through Amen, one of the major rivers of the world, and so because of that it brought prosperity and all sorts of things.

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But the fact of the matter is that they were never the same after that because God dealt with them so severely.

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Here we are some thousand years later, more or less 1,500 years later, and a great city and empire has raised up in the area of Babylon, and Babylon is its main city.

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What I'm going to do today is just give you a backdrop for what we're going to talk about in the fifth chapter, because without that understanding, you'll think that Babylon was just a couple of little buildings and some rubble here and some little things here, and there may be a palace here and that sort of thing.

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Babylon at this time this is 2,500 years ago Babylon was the largest city on the planet.

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The estimated population of Babylon at this time was about 200,000.

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Okay, hello, you say.

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Well, that's not very much In today's, compared to the population in the world at that time, which is about a hundred million, as opposed to eight something billion people on the planet today, that's the equivalent of a city of 16 million people.

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So it's, you know, right up there with Los Angeles, chicago, new York, london, you know, as you know, comparable.

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Yet today, pound for pound with some of the biggest cities in the world, it was, by all accounts, the biggest city.

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It would take London several centuries before London got to be the first city on the planet that had a million people, which was just five times more than what this city had 2,500 years ago.

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Amen.

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I want to show you some things.

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I hope this doesn't bore you.

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Praise God.

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Okay, you can't get the scale of what's going on here, but if you look at this, there is a wall, this thing that this is called a moat.

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There's a moat all around the city.

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There is a river, the Euphrates River, that goes right through the middle of the city.

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Around the city there is a wall all the way around the city.

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Okay, you see that that's that kind of tan colored thing that's going like this.

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That's a wall that goes all the way around the city.

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Okay, you see that that's that kind of tan colored thing that's going like this.

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That's a wall that goes all the way around the city.

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Out here is another wall that goes around the western side of the city, from one point in the river to another point of river.

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The point of this wall was to protect the river.

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Okay, well, you can go.

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That's interesting.

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That's you know, that's interesting.

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But this is a map.

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The entire wall that goes around this city had a circumference of nearly 60 miles.

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It was 15 miles more or less less on each side.

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What that compares to is if you got on I-20 and I-20 and drove to 820 and went north on 820 and went all the way around Fort Worth and back to that point when you got on 820, that's almost 60 miles.

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So this is about the size of the perimeter of Fort Worth.

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Think of it this way If I put a wall on the inside of 820, okay, on the town side of 820, and 820 was a moat filled with water.

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That's essentially what you're talking about.

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You're talking about a geographical area, about the size of this thing 225 square miles.

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Are you with me?

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So far?

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This wall that goes around the western side.

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Now the river flows like this from north to south, this thing is turned upside down.

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This wall that covers the western side of the city is another 50-some miles, so you think that's interesting.

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You can't imagine the manpower that it took to build this wall and the skill, because, listen to me, this wall was 80 feet wide.

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80 feet wide and 330 feet tall.

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There is not a building in Fort Worth that is that tall.

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That's the equivalent of a 33-floor building.

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The wall was uniform all the way around 80 feet thick and 330 feet tall.

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That means when you're standing at the base of that thing and you're looking up, you can't even believe how tall it is.

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Hallelujah, praise God, this was the most formidable city in the world.

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If you look at how they planned the defenses, they planned the defenses around the river.

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The river was the water supply, first of all for the moat, and then you can see right here that they took water from the moat and ran an aqueduct all the way into the city.

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Looks like they did the same thing over here, so that that would become the water supply for the city.

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So not only did it supply the moat, but it supplied the water for the city.

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That's why they protected this side of the city so that they could protect the water supply in case they were under siege.

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They would want to keep them out of here and force them to attack on this side so they could keep water coming in.

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You do understand that this is somewhat in the middle of a desert.

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This is very important.

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They use the river as a natural source of protection and also a way that they could move supplies, weapons, troops and that thing up and a four horse chariot around on the wall of the.

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It is also said that it used to have chariot races up there, but it was built so that they could move men and materials up and down this wall.

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Amen and have and and not be.

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Have a problem in turning horses and wagons and that sort of thing around.

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On top of the wall and along the borders of the wall they built towers and these towers maybe we'll see some of that later you can kind of see the spikes of it going like that, but the towers were square so that they could see into the city and the next tower and the next tower and out like that, so they had a four-way view.

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From those towers they could see out on the area that they were defending out here.

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They could see one tower to the next tower so they could see what was going on and can communicate, and then they could turn back and look inside the city as well.

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So the city was totally protected, the perimeter was totally protected as well.

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So the city was totally protected, the perimeter was totally protected and the connectivity between units on the wall were connected.

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Now you've seen the same kind of technique used along the Great Wall of China, where they have towers and places where troops stayed and lived periodically and they were within easy communication distance.

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That's a much longer area but the same construction principle kind of held out.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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The wall itself had 100 massive bronze gates and the gates were made of bronze and the lintels and the door jams were made of bronze and they were scattered all along.

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Here.

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You can also see periodically that there were bridges that went across the various sections of the wall so that each city had a bridge that linked it with the outside garrisons over here for the troops.

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But these walls 80 feet thick, 330 feet high, 60 miles of those walls were built to surround the city.

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You can just imagine what this looked like when you started to come up on it from away, you could see these walls for miles.

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You might not be able to see anything else, but you could see those walls for miles.

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You might not be able to see anything else, but you can see those walls for miles.

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Like I said, the river Euphrates bisected the city and it was protected by the 60 mile wall out here and within that wall you can see.

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Now, this is just some somebody's idea, but you can see that there was a connecting canal from this part of the city, from this part of the river up here, went down like this and like this and all the way down to this viaduct, and then it could connect over here to this part of the river.

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So they had a way to connect the river around like that.

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So they weren't only limited to doing this, they could do this, they could do this, they could do this.

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They had different ways around it.

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To say that these people were primitive, you would not understand engineering.

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Amen, praise God.

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Now let me show you just a few other things.

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This is what somebody would imagine that the ruins of the Tower of Babel look like.

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Not necessarily like this, perhaps, but something like this.

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And it was said, different commentators have different ideas, but it was said that the ruins of the Tower of Babel were still inside the city walls of Babylon.

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It was still a major place of reverence and worship, just like other societies that we've studied.

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They worshiped among the ruins and they still honored that.

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Even after God had destroyed it, they still honored it and had not at least according to some, had not taken it down.

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Now we don't have a whole lot of firsthand evidence about any of this stuff, but we do have some historical writers that wrote within a short period of time of the things we're going to be talking about and they gave an account of some of these things.

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So there are some people that still think that or still thought that there was.

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The tower was there.

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This is a excavation and partial reconstruction of Nebuchadnezzar's palace.

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This is an actual photograph.

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This is actually on the location of where, of where Babylon was, and this is a partial reconstruction of Nebuchadnezzar's palace.

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You can see that it was also walled down here on this wall, on this wall, and you can see how heavily fortified it was and how heavily fortified the interior buildings were.

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I'm showing you all this just to let you know that this was a major fortified structure.

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This is one of the great gates, of the hundred gates that were in the wall.

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This is a reproduced model.

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You can kind of get the idea of what it would look like.

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Part of that gate has been excavated, I believe, and you can kind of get the idea of how the towers on the gates were structured so that they were square and looked out, looked to the side and then looked behind.

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So you can kind of see how that worked.

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There were parapets up here where the archers could stand up there with their bows and be protected.

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It's another rendition of what that would look like, another look at that.

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Now, these are just what people might imagine that parts of Babylon would look like.

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But you're going to see in all of these pictures and all of these renditions that are based on partially on the reports that we have, that there is a lot of building up, a lot of towers, a lot of towers.

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Remember when we talked about the towers and their association with Nimrod?

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Well, they hadn't got the message from the destruction of the Tower of Babel.

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They were still building towers.

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They were still building very tall structures.

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This is the river that goes through the city.

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You can see how that was, right there in the middle of things.

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This is a rendition of the Hanging Gardens.

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There's two or three pictures in here, gardens.

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There's two or three pictures in here that you can pick and choose which one you like and that can be your hanging garden, but this gives you an idea.

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This was regarded from the longest time to be one of the construction marvels of the ancient world.

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A lot of discussion.

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You know how people think they're going to build a reputation by denying that such things ever existed.

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But there's a lot of documentation about it.

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Whether it does or whether it doesn't is still part of the legend of that city.

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So if there wasn't something like this, there might have been something very similar.

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Yeah, there's nothing that we would have pictures of.

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I included this one because there was just no shortage of towers in this picture.

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I mean, just look at that.

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It looks like a Chinese city.

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There's towers everywhere.

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Now there was a central pyramid in Babylon.

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It was, in its day at least, at least the tallest complete building.

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I don't know about the Tower of Babel that was still there, how it compared, but this building was one of the tallest.

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I have no idea how tall it was.

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You can kind of get an idea of the river flowing through the city here Interior walls that are built to protect this building, whatever it was, probably some sort of palace or some sort of important building.

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It had its own dock.

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Just walk here there.

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Maybe you don't.

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Oh, you don't get it.

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Oh, you inside, they would have stairs in kind of the same perspective you would probably guess.

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I mean, it wouldn't take long to get it over.

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With 200,000 people there.

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You wouldn't take long to get it overfished.

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You have to go someplace else.

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No, well, there would be all along the river, along the riverbanks.

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It's a major river, so not here.

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But outside the city there would be green areas that they could plant, grow, run irrigation ditches out of it.

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Now, this would have been a temple complex.

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I'm sorry, what did you say?

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I don't know.

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My thoughts went to the other end of the process.

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You know, like after you eat, what do you do with that?

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You know it's an artist's rendition, they don't have to deal with those details.

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But you know, after you eat, what do you do with that?

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You know it's a, it's an artist's rendition, they don't have to deal with those details.

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But you know somebody did.

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I mean in a, in a, in a city.

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You take a city the size of fort worth and eliminate 80 of its population and that's basically what you have.

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You have 200 000 people living in the space of Fort Worth instead of 800,000.

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That would free up a lot of ground to grow things.

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Well, that's just somebody's idea of how it looked, but it may not have looked like it.

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They did, they did.

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I don't know quite what this is.

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It looks like maybe somebody's idea of something being under construction.

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I'm not quite sure yeah, that's what the artist's conception is Whether all these buildings were exactly there or not.

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But there's been a tremendous amount of excavation in this area and there's a lot of things that they do know and people just kind of imagine what it might have looked like.

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I'm not trying to tell you that that this is exactly how it looked.

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I'm just trying to get you to to imagine that.

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Now, this is somebody else's idea of what the hanging gardens look like.

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That's at a sunset, that's a waterfall, yeah, and that was part of the hanging guards.

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The hang gardens were not only uh plants, but it was a a system of of falling water and cascades.

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Here's another.

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I uh look at it.

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You can kind of see how it would look if the water were just kind of trickling out, you know, down through the culverts and the openings and things like that.

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They probably could control it to let as much water flow out as they wanted to.

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Yeah Well, I mean you saw the palace ruins that have been partially reconstructed.

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You know the problem with Iraq is that it's in the middle of Iraq and you know it's kind of been off limits to Westerners for a hundred years or more.

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They just don't want people in there digging around carting off the treasures like they did in Egypt.

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They were in there.

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The Germans and other people were in there in the later, in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

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The Nazis were in there trying to find some of the stuff.

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But you know by now it's 2,500 years, it's buried under several feet of sand.

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You know it's a lot of digging and excavating and you know how.

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I don't know if you.

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You know I mean, look at the pyramids.

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The limestone covering that was on the pyramids initially to make them a glistening white in the sun.

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That's all gone.

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People came and took it and stole it, you know, for building supplies.

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There was an ancient cathedral in Panama that was built by the Spanish back in the 1500s.

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That was built by the Spanish back in the 1500s.

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By all accounts, it's a beautiful building right on the tip of a point that goes out into the ocean.

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And I mean now the little city, the little town that is there, built among the ruins.

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They have fences that are made out of the stones of the cathedral.

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They have houses that are made out of the stones of the cathedral.

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They have houses that are made out of the stones of the cathedral because over the years they just went over there and got a wheelbarrow full of stones and took, came back and, you know, patched their fence and patched the wall and did that kind of stuff.

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And you know you take several centuries of that and all you've got now is kind of a half standing wall here and a little bit of a wall here and half oak door here, and you know what was there is not there, and you know you just imagine what this is like after.

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You know, in all the wars and all the yeah, oh, yeah, I mean that's yeah, that's how, that's how, that's how it is in in Mexico city.

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You know, you want to if you want to go down, if you want to go in the front door.

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You know the the property, all the buildings have sunk.

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You know, in the cause it's built on a lake, so all the buildings have sunk so you have to go down a half a flight of stairs to get in the front door.

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This is another somebody's idea of what that blue gate would have looked like in their version of reality.

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I think this is the last picture A lot of towers, and you can only imagine that that is accurate, that they would have had a lot of towers, because this place goes back to Nimrod after the flood, and what happened here in this great city was that, and we're going to study more about that the next time we get together.

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But what happened in the chapter 5 of Daniel is essentially the end of this kingdom.

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It stretched from the flood in about 1600 years after Adam all the way up to 500 years before the Christ.

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This empire was the primary empire on the planet and from this came all sorts of sorceries, abominations, blasphemies, incantations, blasphemies, curses, spells, witchcraft, incantations, fellowshipping with the devil, all sorts of stuff that went all over the planet, all over the planet, saturated every corner of the planet with their idolatries, and God, through a man, daniel, sent by God, brought an end to it and, in bringing an end to it, enabled the people of Israel, the people of Judah, to be relocated back into Judah.

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Not only relocated back into their homeland, but a decree was made for them to rebuild their temple, and the funds were supplied, the engineering was supplied and they went back and rebuilt the temple of Solomon, not to the degree that Solomon had built it, but they went back and built the temple.

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That was essentially the temple that was there when Jesus came and had been modified by Herod 40 years before Jesus came, amen.

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So this is a key moment in Jewish history, in Christian history, when Babylon was dealt a serious blow.

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Now, did all of the Babylonian witchcraft and everything else get off the planet?

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No, but they lost their headquarters.

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Remember when Paul went into Ephesus and started to preach and people started to bring their books of magic, arts and spells and all of their charms and all of that stuff?

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That stuff came out of Babylon and it was still needed to be cleansed, and that was 500 years after this happened.

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It's still been going on.

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It's still going on today.

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What came out of Babylon is still going on today all over the planet, but the major battle that disrupted its headquarters and caused it to look for other places to form a basis was this battle, right here.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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I think it's very significant that God got rid of Babylon but yet went to Babylon to pull the wise men out and come and instruct Israel on the birth of their king.

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That's a whole other message, but I don't think that would have happened had not babylon been taken, hallelujah.

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Well, we'll go on more about this next time we're together.

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I just wanted to show you these things that I've been looking at and thinking about.

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I understand that it's not accurate representations and it may be a little bit over the top, but it had to be something like this.

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It had to be for a city of 200,000 people, that's one in every 500 people on the planet.

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In its day lived in Babylon One out of every 500.

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So if you see what would be a good 500 person activity a movie theater, a high school basketball game, you know, I don't know someplace where 500 people gathered together.

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Out of those 500 people, one of them would live in Babylon, and all up from all over the world.

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It's like you know it's.

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Like if I said said to you, you would understand this.

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If I said to you that one out of every six people on the planet is Chinese and one out of every six people on the planet is Indian, you understand that because they have there's one and a half billion people out of 8 billion, kind of you know one out of every six.

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Well, kind of you know one out of every six.

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Well, one of that, one out of every five people live, lived in Babylon.

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That's how big it was for its day, praise God.

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So this was a major battle and the Lord won it when the enemy least expected that they would come.

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Praise God, hallelujah, let's stand.