From Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq to the African continent, soldiers of the Dajjal are fearlessly marching on. They turned a merciful
religion that forbids evil and encourages acts of goodness, a religion that
distinguishes men neither by the color of their skin nor the clothes they wear
but by the degrees of their piety, a faith that encourages men to compete
for the greatest good for the greatest of rewards – turned it into dreadful
evil precisely as foretold by the prophet of Islam as a sign of the end times. “When
that moment comes,” according to the Prophet, “and if you are holding on to a stump
of a tree (dead tree), keep holding on to it because it is better for you than
joining any of them” - referring to the 73 warring factions that Islam will
break into.
If you have any iota of doubt that Babylon is Iraq…
Google Dictionary: Babylon - The chief city of ancient
Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia.
Babylon - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
The Greek form of BABEL is the Semitic form Babilu, meaning
"The Gate of God." The Assyrian tablets mean "The city of
the dispersion of the tribes." The monumental list of its kings reaches
back to B.C. 2300 and includes Khammurabi, or Amraphel (q.v.), the
contemporary of Abraham. It stood on the Euphrates, about 200 miles above its
junction with the Tigris, which flowed through its midst and divided it into
two almost equal parts. The Elamites invaded Chaldea (i.e., Lower Mesopotamia,
Shinar, Upper Mesopotamia, or Accad, now combined into one) and held it
in subjection. At length, Khammu-rabi delivered it from the foreign yoke and founded the new empire of Chaldea (q.v.), making Babylon the capital of the United Kingdom. This city gradually grew in extent and grandeur, but in the process of time, it became subject to Assyria. On the fall of Nineveh (B.C. 606), it threw off the Assyrian yoke and became the capital of the growing Babylonian
empire. Under Nebuchadnezzar, it became one of the most splendid cities in the
ancient world.
Biblical prophecies of the coming destruction of Babylon
Revelation 16:19
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the
cities of the nation’s fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God,
to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
(3 regions-parts: Sunni / Shiites / Kurds)
Jeremiah 51:54
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans:
(Wikipedia: Chaldean Christians are ethnically Assyrian adherents
of the Chaldean Catholic Church, originally called The Church of Assyria and Mosul,
which was that part of the Assyrian Church of the East which entered communion
with the Catholic Church between the 16th and 18th centuries AD. In addition to
their ancient homelands in northern Iraq, northeast Syria, northwest Iran, and southeast Turkey, migrant Chaldo-Assyrian Catholic communities are found in the United States, Sweden, Germany, France, Canada, Lebanon, Jordan, and Australia.)
Jeremiah 50:9
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set
themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows
shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
(Gulf War 1 & 2: Great Nations from the North refers to
Europe’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO])
Jeremiah 51:60
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come
upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
Revelation 14:8
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of
the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, the
hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Jeremiah 51:29
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of
the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a
desolation without an inhabitant.