Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 28 - 33

"Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon, a desolation without an inhabitant". Yes, God will raise up one nation to put down another. In judging Babylon, which has infected and enslaved all the nations of the earth, God uses those same nations to judge her. "And the land shall tremble and sorrow" could be a reference to the earthquakes Jesus mentions in Mathew 24:7. Sorrow usually follows an earthquake. Certainly the land in the natural realm always reflects what is happening in the spirit realm. The earth quaking speaks to us of God shaking our flesh, delivering us from lust of the flesh and all that is in us that is unclean and that does not come from God, but from the enemy. Just as the earth opened up and swallowed Korah and all who rebelled against Moses, so shall all who come against the Moses of our day, the apostles and prophets God is raising up, be swallowed up by their own fleshly lusts and desires, thereby making their own flesh a grave wherein will die all that is Holy and Godly.
Making Babylon a "desolation without an inhabitant" is referred to in one form or another no less than 12 times in these two chapters of Jeremiah. Surely that alone is a clue that He's referring to more than just the physical Babylon, because that has been at least partially rebuilt since Jeremiah's day. It was reported that when war came to modern day Iraq, it was discovered that Saddam Hussein was actively trying to restore Babylon to it's former glory by rebuilding her.
"The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women, they have burned their dwelling places; her bars are broken". As goes her king (Jer:50:43), so go her mighty men. This passage can't help but remind me of the gulf war and more recently the Iraq war, where we heard reports of tough, hardened Iraqi soldiers cowering in their underground bunkers refusing to come out and fight, surrendering at the first opportunity, due to the relentless air assault they had to endure. Her dwelling places were certainly burned and her bars broken. And there is no greater insult to a soldier than to be told he's "become like a woman".
"One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, and that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire and the men of war are affrighted. For thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come". God is telling Satan, the king of Babylon, when his final judgment comes, there is no escape. The secret underground passages out of the city are stopped, the reeds around the city that they could use to hide in, are burned. Satan desired to "sift Peter as wheat", well, now it's his turn! I can see the messenger demons running to and fro in panic, telling Satan his city is taken, halleluJAHWEH! Contrary to what some believe, Satan is not omniscient, nor is he omnipresent. He does not know everything and he can't be everywhere. As his kingdom is finally judged and defeated, it might be a while till he fully realizes it. Or he could just read this blog. Not only is Babylon judged, but her spawn, her daughter is judged as well. Throughout scripture we see that our offspring inherit our blessings as well as our curses. As the daughter of Zion is being raised up (to become the Bride of Christ), so is the daughter of Babylon being threshed, sifted, consumed.