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Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.
APOSTLE JOHN, REVELATION 18:10 NKJV
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
T he world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, in an exclusive interview, said, The Bible indicates that as the time for Christs return approaches, evil and social chaos may well intensify. Are we living in those days?
Its the great question of our time. Are we now living in the last days of planet Earth?
If so, how will the apocalyptic events foreseen by the ancient prophets unfold? Are powerful forces now at work to create a global government, economic system, and religion as predicted in the Bible?
Unlocking a great biblical mystery that has puzzled scholars for nearly two thousand years, The Babylon Code unearths answers to these momentous questions.
In this book, well explore a prophetic enigma that begins in Genesis at the Tower of Babel and ends in Revelation with the Battle of Armageddon. The prediction involves Mystery, Babylonthe Bibles greatest end-times riddleand reveals how an elite group of wealthy globalists and their interlocking network of transnational corporations, international banks, government agencies, think tanks, foundations, and secret societies are working to create a global government, cashless society, and universal religion as predicted in Scripture.
The world is at a final turning point. An unparalleled convergence and acceleration in end-times signs is now occurring. These harbingers are geopolitical, economic, scientific, technological, cultural, and moral. To ordinary men and women, these forces are overwhelming, as if a giant tsunami is about to drown everything theyve ever known or dreamed of.
Its at this moment that every one of us is confronted with a choice. Either we can allow ourselves to be overcome by fear, leading to panic, or we can seek to understand the nature of the forces behind these events so we can survive.
In an out-of-control, upside-down world, The Babylon Code asks two urgent questions: Is it possible that God embedded a code in the Bible that could be cracked only in the end times? What if by decoding this prophetic cryptogram we could unlock the secret to both our salvation and our survival?
In these pages, well reveal the results of a five-year journalistic investigation that uncovered astonishing evidence that not only has the countdown to Armageddon begun, but the elite are involved in an international political and economic takeoverwhat one former U.S. official calls a global financial coup dtat.
Featuring scores of exclusive interviews with prominent world leaders and highly respected experts in geopolitics, economics, science, and theology, The Babylon Code is the first book by a mainstream, award-winning investigative journalist and a prophecy expert to explore the nexus between current events, secret societies, and end-times biblical predictions.
Well also tell the intriguing backstorya fateful tale of poetry, music, and a mysterious death involving Ludwig van Beethoven, Ode to Joy poet Friedrich von Schiller, and the Bavarian Illuminatithat brought us together to write The Babylon Code.
Follow us on our journey as we piece together this apocalyptic puzzleuncovering what could be the biggest story and political scandal in modern history. Along the way, well unearth answers to the questions many have about the troubling events now transpiring in the world.
Recent polls and statements by world leaders demonstrate extraordinary public interest in this topic:
A Barna Group survey found that four in ten Americansand 77 percent of evangelical Christiansbelieve the world is now living in the biblical end times. A similar poll commissioned by New York Times bestselling author Joel Rosenberg confirmed these results, finding that 41 percent of Americans believe that events such as the rebirth of the State of Israel, wars, revolutions, instability in the Middle East, widespread national disasters, and the serious threat of a global economic depression are evidence that we are living in what the Bible calls the last days.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently told the United Nations General Assembly that Biblical prophecies are being realized. Meanwhile, Pope Francis said the world has entered the last times and is at the beginning of a piecemeal Third World War.
A McLaughlin & Associates poll found that 80 percent of Americans fear a Second Holocaust in Israeland 68 percent fear a nuclear
Meanwhile, 28 percent of American voters believe a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda are working to create an authoritarian world government. Nearly 40 percent of Republican voters agree. A poll by Public Policy Pollingranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the nations top polling firmsfound that 19 percent of voters believe secret societies such as Yale Universitys Skull and Bones produce Americas political and financial leaders to serve the wealthy elite. Further, the poll found that 17 percent of voters think a group of world bankers are slowly eliminating paper currency to create a cashless society and global economic system.
The World Is at a Final Turning Point
These stunning poll results come amid an explosion of interest in the end times. In recent years, a seemingly nonstop series of crises has prompted many to ask whether the conclusion of the human epoch is quickly approaching. These concerns have intensified since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacksan event that shocked the world and that some saw as the biggest wake-up call in the nations history. Since then, disaster after disaster has battered the planetthe Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, the global economic meltdown, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Recently, people worldwide have been intrigued by the convergence of a rare set of four blood moons and the biblical Shemitah, along with Sir Isaac Newtons end-times prediction known as Newtons Riddle regarding 20152016asking whether these are portents of the beginning of the end. A number of prophecy scholars in recent years have uncovered biblical mysteries and riddles they say point toward the possible fulfillment of end-times prophecies between 2015 and 2028.