<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 Like in Oslo, not long ago, I went down to the main part of the city, and it was so narrow that an automobile could hardly squeeze it's way through, because it was made for chariots before they had automotive. And we are told that the streets of Babylon were two hundred feet across. And the gates of the city were made some eighty feet tall, of solid brass. And the walls were two hundred feet tall, and was wide enough on top, that they could run three chariots, in abreast, a horse race around the city.
And it was also the great city had gardens, great gardens all along these walls. And the palace set in the center of the city. And every street led straight to the palace. Rome's built the same way. It was called by our Bible, "modern Babylon." And all roads lead to Rome; all streets led to the palace.

L-14 And the palace was built where the river Euphrates, which irrigated this big Shinar valley, coming down from the Tigris and--and irrigated the valley; it was a great rich country. And this river was built, or the throne was built, rather, so that the river run right along in front of the throne.
Now, if my friends here, you Bible readers, understand that that was a pattern of the heavenly throne. The River of Life flows by the throne of God in the great garden. So you see, it was a perverted version of glory. It belonged and was built and--and brought up by Satan. Like all other kingdoms of the world are ruled and governed by Satan...

L-15 Now, we know that that's hard for us to believe that our nation is that, but the Bible said that it is. All the kingdoms of the world belong to the devil. He's the ruler of them. Jesus... Watch when Satan showed Him the kingdoms of the world and said, Satan said, "All these are mine. I do with them whatever I want to. If You'll bow down and worship me, I'll give them to You."
Jesus knew that He was going to fall heir to them in the millennium, so He said, "Get thee behind Me, Satan." When Jesus takes over these kingdoms, we'll stack arms and never have no more wars. We'll have no more fights or troubles, and no more sickness, sorrow, or death, when Christ takes over the kingdoms of this world to set on His father, David's throne, to rule all nations. Until then, we're going to have wars and rumors of wars, pestilence, and earthquakes, and sickness, and sorrows, and sin.
But this great city, and it was a great city, it had in it was a very beautiful type of the world today; for it had the greatest scientists there was in the world was in this city. The greatest army that they knowed in the world was in this city. The best fed and best dressed people knowed in the world was in this city. And all of the rest of the known world in those days, looked to that city for their example.

L-16 If that isn't modern America, I don't know where it is. Best scientists, as we think, best dressed people... And not only that, but their agriculture program. They have the best...?... in all the world today to compare with that valley now. You can raise almost anything there: perfect irrigation. They claim that the garden of Eden was located near there. And it is a--a great place. And strange that when God goes to doing something for people, then they get indifferent towards God.
I believe it was Solomon... Well, I hardly think it was Solomon. It was--it might've been... that prayed one of the greatest prayer, when he prayed like this: "Lord, don't make me poor enough to beg or to steal, and don't make me rich enough to forget You. Just let me have the comforts of life." And when we get more than that, we begin getting away from God nine out of ten. And when the nations of the world become great, and become a self sustaining they think, they begin to move away from God.


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