October 16, AD 2010

Glenn Beck and Babylon
Frank Allnutt

Glenn Beck told his TV audience on Friday, October 15, that he had been reading about Babylon in the books of Genesis and Jeremiah.

The Genesis account concerns ancient Babylon, of course, and some of the prophecies of Jeremiah about “Babylon” have not yet been fulfilled and therefore pertain to fulfillment in the end-time “Mystery Babylon the Great” that is discussed in the book of Revelation (particularly in chapters 17 and 18).

Beck cited similarities between the ancient Babylonian religion and false god (Baal) and a growing religion today that, in effect, "worships” the creation (the earth) rather than the Creator.

Hurrah for Glenn Beck!

But there's more to the story.

Actually, that earth religion is part of a broader religion that also worships a world system of elitist control of the four realms of civilization: the Intellectual, the Economical, the Political, and the Religious. Paradoxically, that world system embraces the worship of man (“humanism”), while, at the same time, cites man as the number one enemy of earth—of the environment. The solution, according to that religion, calls for reducing what it considers the world’s over-population to a smaller, more controllable and earth-friendly size.

Beck, along with his side-kick, Christian Dominionist David Barton, and others of their ilk, believe the solution to America’s problems (and the world’s problems) is for all “God-worshipers” to join Beck’s pluralistic movement against the neo-Babylonians.

Who does Beck welcome into his Pluralistic Civil Religion? “I don’t care what god you worship,” he has said, “as long as he’s not a violent god.”

And just what god does Beck worship? Since he is a Mormon, we assume he worships the Mormon “God”—a “God,” according to Mormon doctrine, who once was a man who became “God.”

Because Beck has been seduced by lies, deceptions, and fantasies, he fails to understand that he himself is a neo-Babylonian whose concept of a future America is no less than a foolhardy vision to transform this country into a Tower of Babel of sorts to connect with heaven.

Now that Beck has brought Babylon into the discussion, I wonder where he will go with it. He always has the destiny of America in blurry foresight, and contends that “We the People” control our destiny. But that is far from the biblical truth. If Beck has any interest in understanding the true God’s destiny for the world (which includes America) he need only delve a little deeper into Bible prophecies, particularly those related to “Mystery Babylon the Great.” And it would be good for Beck to invite David Barton and other Christian Dominionists to join him in such a study.

Should they do that, they would discover that “We the People” are not in control of our destiny, that neither Mormons nor Christian Dominionists will establish the Kingdom of God in America and in the world, but that a remnant of true, persevering Christians will be guarded by Jesus in the midst of Mystery Babylon the Great and the Satanic retaliation of the Antichrist until our Lord and Savior returns to create a new world over which He will reign.

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