Jeremiah Chapter 50 KJV verses twenty three & twenty four

"How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon and THOU WAST NOT AWARE: thou art found and also caught, BECAUSE THOU HAST STRIVEN AGAINST THE LORD".
I like how the Lord goes from prophecying about Babylon to speaking directly to her. It's as if Jesus and the Holy Spirit are both speaking on behalf of the Father. At times, this has happened to me during the prophetic flow. Remember Nimrod? Verse 24 plainly reveals his spirit bound to Babylon and this also sums up what Babylon is all about - "striving against the Lord". In Genesis God says "My spirit will not always strive with man" (Gen:6:3) and we would do well to heed this warning today. "But as the days of Noah were so shall the coming of the Son of man be" Mt:24:37.
Those who dwell in Babylon will be completely surprised when their world crumbles around them, going up in flames. Like an earthquake, God's judgments are "suddenlies". One second you're fine, the next a plane has crashed into your office window. Just like those poor souls going about their daily business in the twin towers when "sudden destruction came upon them", so will it be for all caught in Babylon. They are a prophetic sign to our complacent, self centered generation. I pray this blog reaches as many people as possible, though narrow is the way and few there be that find it. You can tell from my daily counter, not many have found this blog but I will still keep it going, day after day, in the hopes that more and more will be set free.
Just as she was a hammer that broke the will, (or enslaved people in their pride), of all who dwell in the earth who's names are not written in the Lamb's book of life, so shall she be broken. As she caused God's kingdom to become a desolation, robbing God of souls that rightly belong to him, so shall she become a desolation among the nations. Keep in mind that judgment from God is an act of mercy on his part. The worst thing he could do to a nation or indivisual on a path to hell is nothing. Judgment is his way of shaking them to wake them, one last chance to wake up and repent. As the thief on the cross can testify, better late than never.
Notice how she isn't aware of the snare the Lord has set for her. So many are in churches, day after day, going through their religous ceremonies, completely unaware that God is against them and they are soon to be judged for judgment begins in the house of the Lord. "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say Peace and safety; THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM, as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief" 1 Thes:5:2-4. Yes, just as it was in Noah's day, so it is today. People, consumed by their internet, tv shows and movies, have no idea what is about to happen to their world of wickedness. "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be when the son of man is revealed" Lk:17:28-30. You could substitute "Babylon" for "Sodom" and "the Bride of Christ" for "Lot" in this passage and have an accurate picture of our day and age.
As Babylon is judged and "weighed in the balances and found wanting" Dn:5:27, as Satan's kingdom is suddenly departed from him, all those ensnared therein will be completely surprised but not so "the children of the light and the children of the day" 1 Thes:5:5, we aren't surprised at all. Like Noah, we are prepared and ready for the Day of the Lord's vengeance and we will hide in the cleft of the Rock (Jesus) until he passes us by. He is not just a "shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy" Psalm 61:3, he also shelters and protects us from his own wrath, which we need fear far more than the enemy's. Yes, "when my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I" Psalm 61:2. This verse reveals the secret to riding out the storm of his wrath coming on the world, that is, ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGING HE IS HIGHER THAN WE ARE, always esteeming him more highly than ourselves, always, in the secret chamber of our hearts, keeping him on the throne of our hearts and not we ourselves, for he will always be "higher than I". When our hearts are overwhelmed with pride it is only by being led to him, by the Holy Spirit, that we can know true humility for in the light of him we clearly see ourselves and know our proper place. Still, there will be those who will be overcome by the enemy and even martyred and this too is the Lord's doing for there is no higher honor than to be sacraficed for him, as he was for us. Those who suffer greatly for the Lord will also have the greatest reward in Eternity.