<TITLE>03. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 And right in the middle of this valley, this great city was planted. And it was one of the greatest cities of the day. It was a mighty place. And it was full of scientists and the intelligence of the known world.
The city was one hundred and twenty miles around it, to take the city. And this--walls were some two hundred feet across and most three hundred feet high. You could run six chariots abreast, around this wall and race around the wall. And then the city also had in it great mammoth streets. And these streets were almost equal or better than equal with the modern streets of today. They were some two hundred feet wide. That was altogether strange for a city of them days, because the streets were narrow, just for a small chariot to go through.

L-11 Sometime ago, it was my privilege to be in Oslo, Norway. And down into the old part of the city, which is well over a thousand years old, you could hardly squeeze an automobile through the city street, because the only transportation they had was chariots or horseman. And that's the way all the old ancient cities were built.
But this Babylon had two hundred feet wide streets. The armies could march up in full armour, and all of abreast, and two hundred feet wide, chariot after chariot.

L-12 And it was built something on the order of Rome, today, where modern Babylon sets. Every street led to the capitol, and the throne--I mean the throne. The throne was a great place in the center of the city, and before the throne run the great river Euphrates. And the great gates of this city, two hundred feet wide and some hundred and fifty or two hundred feet high... made of solid brass...
Oh, it was a mammoth city. And all along it's walls it had great swinging gardens. And these gardens were great places of amusement. And in the city they had purposed, that they could live just about any way they wanted to live. So they thought then, if they could do that, they'd build a tower so high that if the flood waters of judgment ever come, that they'd just run up on the tower and would be safe.

L-13 Do you see it's just the picture of modern America, trying to get a Sputnik or something to get over to the moon, thinking that we'd be safe. But God sees you no matter where you are.
And in this city they had all kinds of devicities of sin. And when any place thinks itself is secured, then violence and evil sets in.
They had the best scientists in the world. They had the best armies in the world. They had the best chariots in the world, the best trained men that there was. And the scientists and all the armour... They was supreme. They were far above any of the rest of the nations. And they... really, the rest of the nations kindly looked up to them or bowed to them.
And when a nation gets in that condition, then they think they can just do what they want to and get by with it. But remember, no matter how high the walls is, God looks down from the heavens. And God hates sin. He loves the sinner, but He hates his works, sin.

L-14 And in this great city they had become very wicked. They thought, "Well, we can just do anything that we wish to, because there's nothing can bother us. If that isn't just about the picture of our nation today, just spurning God. Now, they spurned God's mercy back there also.
They had a prophet in that city by the name of Daniel. And you could imagine a man of God seeing sin and devicedness as it was. He screamed out against it, but they just laughed at him as if to think, "That old fellow don't know what he's talking about."
And so is it today, that our peoples of this day has become so unconcerned about God, till we feel that we can just live any way we want to and get by with it. But you can't do it; you'll never be able to do it. God will judge sin.


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