Wallace Henley - Two Men from Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar, Trump, and the Lord of History

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PRAISE FOR TWO MEN FROM BABYLON

While working together at the White House, both Wallace Henley and my late father developed a spiritual, more comprehensive lens that allowed them to see how Gods ultimate plan is played out in history through improbable leaders and nations. In this book, your spiritual eyes will be opened to see how God works in human history.

GINNY DENT BRANT

In this book, author Wallace Henley, with his background in the White House and in pastoral service in the church, writes about the Lord of History, who raises up and tears down whom He willultimately for the furtherance of His kingdom. That includes King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of ancient Babylon, and Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States. The overall point of this important new book is to explore what Christian historian Christopher Dawson calls the overruling purpose of God. I recommend it highly.

DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE, AUTHOR; SENIOR PRODUCER, ON-AIR HOST, AND COLUMNIST, D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES

A powerful, thought-provoking read that brings into perspective how God uses unlikely leaders to bring about His plans and purpose. You wont just read the book, youll reread each chapter; write in the margins, and lean back and say... WOW... God really is in control!

PERRY ATKINSON, CHRISTIAN MEDIA LEADER, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER OF THE DOVE RADIO AND TV

Wallace Henley has written one of the most insightful books I have ever read. God is the Master of history and chooses the leaders who shape it. Man looks at the outside and questions why many leaders fill the seats they do, not understanding Gods bigger design and how He uses the most unusual to accomplish the sometimes unexplainable. Honestly, this is a book that will challenge you greatly and help you understand Gods ways better.

STU JOHNSON, RETIRED US AIR FORCE COLONEL; EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCHES AND MINISTRIES

ALSO BY WALLACE HENLEY

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CONTENTS

B efore the Golden Age of Greece, and long before the Roman Empire, there was Babylon.

Long after Greece and Rome, there is still Babylon.

The founder of what would ultimately be literal Babylon was Nimrod, a man described in Genesis 10:89 as a mighty hunter before the LORD. In his commentary on Genesis, Matthew Henry described Nimrod like this:

Nimrod was resolved to lord it over his neighbours. The spirit of the giants before the flood, who became mighty men, and men of renown... revived in him. Nimrod was a great hunter. Hunting then was the method of preventing the hurtful increase of wild beasts. This required great courage and address, and thus gave an opportunity for Nimrod to command others, and gradually attached a number of men to one leader. From such a beginning, it is likely that Nimrod began to rule, and to force others to submit.

Centuries later in 620 BC, Nebuchadnezzar, a successor to Nimrod, became the ruler of Babylon and would demonstrate that founders of a nation inject their spiritual DNA into their offspring. Nimrod himself bore the DNA of the giants, the mighty ones who descended from the Nephilim (Genesis 6:4). The Bible reveals that at the core of the Nephilim spirit was self-pride and a passion for self-exaltation. This is the essence of all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life (1 John 2:16).

This also is the essence of Babylon in all its forms. Nebuchadnezzar, in his time as Babylons ruler, would pursue these lusts extravagantlyuntil, in a chaotic period in his personal life, he discovered the Lord of History.

TWO MEN FROM BABYLON

In vision, style, and personage, many view Donald Trump as a type of Nebuchadnezzar, a child of ancient Babylon. In AD 2016, he, a child of modern Babylon, became the president of the nation at whose gates she sits. Thus, even though the ancient city of Babylon became a desolate desert ruin, the Babylon image will not go away. It appears in several varieties across history. Under Nebuchadnezzar a desert waste became a city of splendor. Its very name, babilu, means gate of god. Nebuchadnezzar himself laid the spiritual foundations of the great city in his embrace and propagation of idolatry. One of the spectacles on the streets of Babylon was a gleaming image of Baal made of fifty thousand pounds of gold.

The Greek historian Herodotus (480429 BC) wrote of the impressive nature of Nebuchadnezzars Babylon. The city was a huge square, each side spanning fourteen miles, with a walled enclosure fifty-six miles long, anchored by 250 towers, each 450 feet tall. The wall itself, according to Herodotus, was 300 feet high and 25 feet thick, backed by another wall of 75 feet. A moat surrounded the entire complex. Eight huge gates, including the spectacular Ishtar Gate, were embedded in the walls. Nebuchadnezzars famous hanging gardens bloomed lavishly, irrigated by hydraulic pumps bringing water up from the Euphrates.