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the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest
of the people will not be taken from the city (Zech. 14:2).’
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toxicated by their success, it is then that the heathen shall rage
and the people imagine a vain thing:
‘The kings of the earth
take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord
and against his Anointed One. “Let us break their chains,” they
say, and throw off their fetters’”
(Psalm 2:23).
MAJOR CITIES TUMBLE DOWN
When all the kings of the world are gathered at Jerusalem,
the seventh angel pours out the seventh bowl of his wrath into
the air (Rev. 16:17), resulting in the greatest of all earthquakes.
Jerusalem splits into three parts, and all other major cities of
the world tumble down (Rev. 16:19) Atlanta, Berlin, Chicago,
New York, Miami, Mexico City, Moscow, Paris, Peking, Sao
Paulo, San Francisco, Tokyo. Continental landslides, generating
great tsunamis (seismic ocean waves) hundreds of feet high
and moving at the speed of jet planes, surely will have already
inundated most major coastal cities through earlier earthquakes
long before this time. Babylon not only tumbles down, but
even sinks beneath the earth. Because of the extent of her evil,
she is to be utterly destroyed the same as Sodom and Gomor-
rah (Isa. 13:19; Jer. 50:40). Babylon and all her people are to
sink like a stone into the Euphrates River:
“So will Babylon sink
to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring upon her.
And her people will fall”
(Jer. 51:64).
Jerusalem is the only city to be spared destruction by the
mighty earthquake. In this sense, Jerusalem will indeed be like
the “Rock of Ages” Jesus Christ.
“They who trust in the Lord
are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures for-
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