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The same prophet who said the Euphrates would dry up, and it is drying up on the news right now, also said the youngest nation on earth is the one that goes dry next. There are nine verses in Jeremiah 50 and 51 that, if you take them at face value, are not about the ancient world at all. Read them slowly. Jeremiah 50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. Jeremiah 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds. Jeremiah 51:31 and 32 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. So here's the question. Who is this actually talking about? The safe answer, the one you heard in Sunday school, is that it's Babylon. The real one. The empire that burned Jerusalem and carried Daniel off in chains. Jeremiah was writing against the enemy of his own day. Nothing too strange. But here is the problem with the safe answer, and it's a problem you can check tonight in any history book. Babylon never fell the way these chapters say it would. Jeremiah 51:8 says, "Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed." Jeremiah 50:40 says it would be "as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah," no man abiding there. Jeremiah 51:26 says, "thou shalt be desolate for ever." That is not what happened. In 539 BC the Persian army walked into Babylon in one night, during the feast you read about in Daniel 5, and took it without burning a building. The city went on being a capital under the Persians for two hundred years. Alexander the Great died there. People lived in Babylon for centuries after Jeremiah said no man would. It didn't fall suddenly. It faded, slowly, like an old town does. Its springs never dried. Its mighty men did not hide in their holds, they switched sides. Nobody ran to tell the king the passages were stopped. He was at dinner. So either Jeremiah got it wrong, which no one reading this believes, or he was describing a Babylon that hadn't shown up yet. And that is exactly what the Bible itself says. Six hundred years after Jeremiah, long after the real Babylon was a ruin, John sits on Patmos and writes Revelation 17 and 18. And he describes a Babylon falling. Not fallen. Falling. In the future. A rich nation the whole world trades with, that sits on many waters, that goes down "in one hour." He uses Jeremiah's words. On purpose. He's telling you the chapters you just read were never finished. For most of the last century, pastors and teachers who take these verses at face value have read them one way. And it is nearly unanimous among them. Babylon the Great is a rich, young nation. Younger than all the others. It sits on many waters. It rules the world's trade. Its army, at the end, stays home. And it falls suddenly, from the inside, with its passages stopped. Now let me read the first verse again. This time I want you to pay attention to one word. The hindermost of the nations. Hindermost means the last one. The youngest. The one that came after all the others. Babylon was the oldest nation in that world. Its walls were already ancient when Jeremiah was born. You cannot call Babylon the youngest of the nations with a straight face. So who is the youngest nation, abundant in treasures, that dwells upon many waters? Two oceans. The Great Lakes. The Mississippi. More fresh water than any country on earth. You already know the answer. You knew it before I asked. And if that's who these chapters are about, then the rest of the nine verses are not history. They are a sequence. And the question that should keep you up tonight is not whether it's true. It's how far along the sequence we already are. Let me read the verses again. This time I want you to pay attention to the structure. Jeremiah isn't describing a place. He's listing marks. One after another. The way you'd describe a man to someone who's never met him so they'd know him when he walked in. Mark one. "The hindermost of the nations." The youngest. Who is the youngest great nation on earth? Not the oldest. The youngest. The one that showed up last and got rich fastest. Mark two. "Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures." Who sits on two oceans, the Great Lakes, and the biggest river system on the continent, with more fresh water inside its borders than any nation alive? Mark three. Revelation 18:11 and 17. "The merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more." "Every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors... stood afar off." Whose ports does the whole world ship to? When whose economy stops, do the merchants of the earth weep? You see where this is going. Every mark points the same direction. And you've known it since the first one. Now here is the part I want you to slow down on. Because the next marks aren't about who she is. They're about what happens to her. In order. Jeremiah 51:30. "The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds." Her army stops fighting abroad and stays home. Go look at the news from this summer. Units coming home from Europe. Ships pulled back to American ports. Bombers flown out of England. They'll give you a reason for each one. Jeremiah gave you the reason first. Jeremiah 51:32. "The passages are stopped." The strait. The one narrow stretch of water that a fifth of the world's oil has to pass through to reach us. Shut since February. Ships hit. Tankers turned around. If you've bought gas this year, you've paid for that verse. Jeremiah 50:41 and 42. "Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel." Not one enemy. Many kings. A coalition. From the north. Russia, which sits due north of Jerusalem on any map you own. Iran, which the Bible calls Persia. And China. Russia and Iran signed a twenty-year partnership treaty in Moscow in January of last year. China and Iran already had their twenty-five-year agreement. The three of them run joint naval drills together in the Gulf of Oman every year now, at the mouth of the strait that's shut. And on October 11th Iran announced it was done responding to the Americans. No talks. No channel. Many kings, holding the bow and the lance, from the north. Those three marks have already happened. Not predicted. Happened. Dated. On your own TV. Now read the next two, because they haven't happened yet. And they come next. Revelation 18:23. "The light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee." The lights go out. Revelation 18:8 and 17. "Her plagues come in one day." "In one hour so great riches is come to nought." Not a decline. Not a slow winter. One day. One hour. Three hundred million people, and the lights go out at once, with no countdown. And then the verse most people skip right past. Jeremiah 50:38. "A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up." Jeremiah 51:36. "I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry." The water goes. Not the rain. Not the rivers. Her springs. The water that comes to her people. In a nation that dwells on many waters, sitting on more fresh water than anyone on earth, the springs run dry. How does that happen? Here's the safe answer again. It's poetry. It's judgment language. Don't take it literally. But stop and think about how this nation actually gets its water. Not from the many waters. Nobody in America drinks out of the river behind their house. Every drop comes through one system. The plant pulls it in, cleans it, and pumps it to your kitchen, and every piece of that runs on the power grid. No power, no pumps. No pumps, no tap. It takes hours, not days. So when the candle goes out in one hour, the springs dry in the same hour. Revelation 18:23 and Jeremiah 51:36 are the same event, written six hundred years apart. And here is the part that should make every Christian sit up. You don't have to wait for the lights to see the water being touched. It has already started. A few weeks ago, hackers linked to one of those kings from the north got inside at least thirty water plants in Minnesota and nine in Michigan. Changed the passwords. Dropped the pressure in the pipes. The plants went to manual, men at the valves by hand. In 2023 the same group took over a control panel at a water authority in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The FBI put its name on it. Not a story from a prophecy channel. A government advisory, dated, with a number on it. Somebody is sitting in the springs of the youngest nation on earth, waiting for a date. Now, why water? Of everything God could touch first, why that? Because there is a pattern in your Bible, and once you see it you can't unsee it. Genesis 11. Men build one city, one tower, one system, so that nothing would be out of their reach. God scatters them. Exodus 7. Egypt, the richest nation of its day, drinks from one river. The first plague is the Nile. The water, before anything else. Jeremiah 51. Babylon, one city on one river, drinks from the Euphrates. "I will dry up her sea." Revelation 16:12. The last Babylon. "The great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up." Every time men build one system that everyone has to depend on, God touches the water first. Not because He hates water. Because the one system is the thing they trusted instead of Him. And no nation in history has ever built a bigger single system than ours. One grid. One plant per city. Three hundred million people, one tap. So here is the verse that matters. The one the whole chapter is building to. Revelation 18:4. "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Jeremiah says the same thing twice. 51:6. "Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul." 51:45. "My people, go ye out of the midst of her." Come out of her. For two thousand years, pastors have read that as a spiritual instruction. Separate yourself from her sins. And it is that. But read it next to the plagues. The candle. The springs. God is not telling a mother in Ohio to sell her house and move to the mountains. He's telling her the plagues are coming through the one system, and to step out of it before they do. What does "come out of her" look like for a woman who can't leave? It looks like not depending on the one tap. Picture something for a second. Tonight, instead of scrolling, you open your Bible to Jeremiah 51. You read it with the news on in the background. And one by one, the verses you used to speed past snap into place. The soldiers in their holds. The passages stopped. The many kings from the north. You realize you're not reading about the ancient world. You're reading the last three months. And then you get to the springs, and you stop. Because you know how your water gets to your house. And you know who's already been inside the plant. That's the night I ordered. Not a generator. Not a bunker. One small thing. A filter straw, the size of a marker, that pulls clean drinking water out of any creek, pond, rain barrel, or bathtub you filled before the pumps stopped. It screws onto a water bottle. No power. No batteries. Nothing from the one system. The one I got is from a small American company called PureFlow, and I chose it for one reason that matters more than the rest. 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