Signs of the Times  

    "....How terrible!  How awful for the great city!  She used to dress herself in linen, purple and scarlet, and cover herself with gold ornaments, precious stones and pearls!  And in one hour she has lost all this wealth!
   All the ship's captains and passengers, the sailors and others who earn their living on the sea, stood a long way off, and cried out as they saw the smoke from the flames that consumed her: "There never has been another city, like this great city!.....She is the city where all who have ships sailing the seas became rich on her wealth!  And in one hour she has lost everything!
    Be glad, heaven, because of her destruction!  Be glad, God's people and the apostles and prophets!  For God has condemned her for what she did to you!
       Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "This is how the great city Babylon will be violently thrown down and will never be seen again.  The music of harps and of human voices, of players of the flute and the trumpet will never be heard in you again!  No workman in any trade will ever be found in you again; and the sound of the millstone will be heard no more!  Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you.  Your merchants were the most powerful in al the world, and with your MAGIC you deceived all the peoples of the world!
    Babylon was punished because the blood of prophets and of God's people was found in the city; yes, the blood of all those who have been killed on earth...."

    ".....Then the one who sits on the throne said, 'And now I make all things new!'  He also said to me, 'Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted.'  And he said, 'It is done!  I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end.  To anyone who is thirsty I will give the right to drink from the spring of the water of life without paying for it.  Those who win the victory will receive this from me: I will be their God, and they will be my children.  But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols and all liars--the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."


                                                OUR VICTORY OVER THE WORLD

        "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.  This is how we know that we love God's children: it is by loving God and obeying His commands.  For our love for God means that we obey his commands.  And his commands are not too hard for us, because every child of God is able to defeat the world.  And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.  Who can defeat the world?  Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God."
                                                                                                            I John 5:1-5


    Jesus says:   (Excerpt from Revelations to mystic, M. Valtorta; 1943)

      "....I will take you by the hand to lead you in the most obscure point of John's book.  Commentators of John's book have exhausted their intelligence in many deductions to explain to themselves and to the crowds what the "great Babylon" may be.  With human sight, with which the shocks due to desired events or events having taken place had something to do, they gave the name of Babylon to many things.
      
      "But why have they never thought that the "great Babylon" is the whole earth?  I would be a really small and limited God the Creator had I created only the earth as an inhabited world!  with one pulsation of My will.  I gave rise to worlds upon worlds from nothingness and hurled them, like luminous fine dust, into the hugeness of heaven's vault....

    "Didn't those I call the forerunners of Evil want to imitate their master and father in their trying to declare themselves gods and oppressing the crowds?  Haven't they talked about God with a shameful condescending attitude as if they were supergods?  Haven't they usurped the right to command what is most sacred, what even God respects in human beings?  They dared to give or take away not only  permission to live, but even what to think....now thought is infringed upon by these supergods of mud and of horror.  They do not demand obedience to holy laws of love such as those I lovingly enjoin on you without forcing you to keep them.  They enforce harsh obligations which enslave you worse than oxen with yoke-crushed necks and nostrils wounded by constricting rings.  They impose them on your whole being, and not one of your three instrinsic characters--physical, moral, spiritual--is exempt from that slavery....Yes, even the spiritual.  The giant squids of the ruling Evil slip through and stretch even towards your spirits, and as they please they want or do not want them to turn to God or to His Law...." 

    "Those who do not study history, are doomed to repeat it."