The Mystery Babylon Identity

 

 

Theory That Won't Die

 

 

If ever there was a theory that acted like a vampire

 with nine lives, it would be the theory of Dyer and LaHaye

concerning their theory on the identity of Mystery Babylon.

 

News Analysis by R.A. Coombes

 

Perhaps the most popular Mystery Babylon identity theory floating around in American Evangelical and Fundamentalist circles these days is that modern-day Iraq is the Mystery Babylon of Bible Prophecy. This view was first broached seriously by Dr. Charles Dyer in early 1991 with his book "The Rise of Babylon." The book was published just as America went to war against Saddam Hussein to retake Kuwait. This book was THE book that popularized the theory initially. Nearly ten years later, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins came out with a series of novels which ficitonally depicted Iraq as being the Mystery Babylon. Their work took the Iraq is Mystery Babylon theory to a very popular level where it remains today.

The problem is that such a theory, while popular, doesn't conform to the Biblical character traits of both the Hebrew Old Testament descriptions nor that of the New Testament Greek descriptions.

Aside from the textual problems comes one HUGE empirical problem, which no one wishes to talk about. The problem we refer to is that of nuclear radiation that has been inflicted upon the land of Iraq due to American use of "Depleted Uranium" ammunition for bullets, artillery shells and bombs. The entire nation is littered with depleted uranium shell casings. The land in many areas is extremely radioactive, including areas around and near the ancient site of Babylon. At Babylon, the U.S. and coalition forces maintained a military base which has contributed to long-term radiation effects for the entire region as radioactive shell casings litter the landscape amid rusting hulks of enemy tanks now also radioactive hotspots.

So what does this mean for Iraq and for Biblical Prophecy?

LaHaye, Jenkins and others are merely speculating that their theory will manifest its fulfillment as a rebuilt Babylon that becomes the world capital for commerce and the engine of wealth for the world's economy. None of these theorists wish to acknowledge that the texts also indicate that Mystery Babylon is THE last of the super-power nations and it exerts its power over the 7 continents of the world. How a nation can become the economic capital of the world and the last of the super-power nations when it is a hotbed of radiation at levels far worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki is beyond our ability to logically understand such thinking. Of course, the retort back as a defense is that God's prophecy are always fulfilled. To that point we agree, but we note that the weight of textual and empirical evidence are so vastly overwhelming as to make the Iraq = Mystery Babylon theory to be incredibly laughable and downright irresponsible not to mention conflicting and contradicting other Messianic prophecies.

With that background in mind, we present yet another fact in the identity debate of Mystery Babylon and Iraq. The mounting evidence of skyrocketing cancer cases due to depleted uranium are making Iraq an unhealthy and uninhabitable place to live, let alone become an economic capital for the world. Here below is another article on the dire health crisis now enveloping Iraq. Cancer is becoming an epidemic if not a pandemic with many coming down with multiple forms of bizarre cases of cancer. Read the article for yourself and see if you won't agree with us that Iraq simply has no future as becoming the economic capital or military super-power of the world.

 

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Iraq's Cancer Crisis

"I have never seen... double and triple cancers in one patient... My wife has nine members of her family with cancer"-- Iraqi doctor.

 

 

When anyone makes nuclear energy or nuclear weapons, a massive amount of radioactive waste is created.  In the U.S., Depleted Uranium is harnessed by the government as a component for bombs, shells and automatic weapons bullets. 

Nuclear waste remains radioactive for billions of years, contaminating ground, water and air, causing cancer, birth defects and death, although DU is allegedly "safe" for humans, according to Pentagon scientists (irony being the weapons are still meant to kill).

D.U. is now everywhere in Iraq: (and much of Aghanistan) bullets made with uranium lay in the residential streets, neighborhoods in Baghdad and Fallujah have been bombed with uranium weapons...  and doctors in Iraq have taken notice:

"Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before.... double and triple cancers in one patient. We had one patient with 2 cancers one in his stomach and kidney. Months later...cancer was developing in his other kidneyhe had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. Dr Yasin, a general Surgeon here has two uncles, a sister and cousin affected with cancer. Dr Mazen, another specialist, has six family members suffering from cancer. My wife has nine members of her family with cancer.
"Children in particular are susceptible to DU poisoning. They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the most, however, cancer of the lymph system which can develop anywhere on the body, and has rarely been seen before the age of 12 is now also common" -- Doctor Jawad-Al-Ali

Whatever is causing the cancer is probably behind the birth defects in Iraqis, which are now commonplace: babies with missing brains, sex organs, spines, tumors instead of eyes or intestines outside of the body, et cetera.  Like babies born in the wake of Hiroshima & Nagasaki or near bomb-test sites.

"Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe?"

"In 1979, depleted uranium particles escaped from ....National Lead Industries... near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated properties costing over 100 million dollars" -- Center for Globalization Research in Canada.
Thousands of pounds of D.U. were dropped in the bombing campaigns against Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001-2003, causing a near total incineration of the uranium and leaving its "dust" scattered.  Then, British scientists Chris Busby and Saorise Morgan found:

"...the highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in Britain, were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia; of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in Afghanistan in 2001, and the "Shock & Awe" bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003.
"...The British government facility (AWE) was taken over 3 years ago by Halliburton, which refused at first to release air monitoring data, as required by law, to Dr. Busby"

Radioactive waste doesn't discriminate. It doesn't care about your innocence, whether you're Arab or Kurd, European or Asian, baby or insurgent, American soldier or American business contractor.  D.U. doesn't dissolve in water, meaning it is never excreted from an animal's body.  It is passed on into any offspring and into their offspring.  It is the perfect weapon, working through postmodern society's greatest enemy--time.

Links:

some background on depleted uranium and why the military's weapons would be made of it.

A soldier who poisoned by D.U. in Iraq returned to the U.S., where he fathered a daughter missing parts of her hands.  The interview with Gerard Darren Matthew.

Keep in mind that the effects of DU are fiercely debated... at least, outside the United States where people have heard of it, but something foreign to Iraq is probably causing both the cancer found in the wake of Gulf War I (1991) when DU was also used, and the massive increase in cancer and birth defects now after a second attack on Iraq (and Afghanistan, let's not forget what we did to that now marvelous example of US-imposed Muslim democracy where women's and religious freedom are enshrined by law, drugs are outlawed and model life expectancy--that is to say the lowest standards in the whole of the world).

You've got to hand it to the Pentagon.  When the Mongols destroyed Baghdad and Central Asia, they left pitiful pyramids of dead Muslims skulls. Now, Iraq and Aghanistan will be rotting away from the inside for centuries. Way to show them who's boss, Donny

 You can watch a FREE 90 minute video on Depleted Uranium and what is happening in Iraq as a result of U.S. usage of such weapons. Link.