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isPermaLink="false">http://musicians4freedom.com/?p=30306</guid> <description><![CDATA[Infowars Paul wants to freeze defense spending but has most support from those in the industry. Much has been made of the fact that Ron Paul is the choice of the troops, having received more donations from active duty military personnel than all the other GOP candidates combined, as well as Obama. However, new figures [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://www.infowars.com/even-defense-contractors-support-ron-paul-for-president/" target="_blank">Infowars </a>Paul wants to freeze defense spending but has most support from those in the industry. Much has been made of the fact that Ron Paul is the choice of the troops, having received more donations from active duty military personnel than all the other GOP candidates combined, as well as Obama. However, new figures also show that Ron Paul is favored among people who work in the defense sector.</p><p><img
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style="text-align: left;">That figure is the highest any GOP candidate received from defense workers at companies such as Boeing, Deloitte and Lockheed Martin.</p><p>Although Mitt Romney’s total isn’t far off Paul’s, the figures show that the former Massachusetts Governor received just 198 contributions.</p><p>Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum received just $27,310 and $8,185, respectively from defense workers.</p><p>Defense news notes that the results are startling because, unlike the other candidates, Ron Paul has campaigned for a stemming defense spending.</p><p
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title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>Loren Thompson, chief operating officer at the Lexington Institute believes that the findings speak more to the politics of those working in the defense industry. “There’s a strong libertarian streak among many in the sector,” he said. “Just because people work in the defense industry, doesn’t mean that they always vote their economic interests.”</p><p>The numbers could also indicate that those within the industry feel morally compelled to support the only candidate who advocates a humble foreign policy and a reduction in military activity around the world.</p><p>Gary Howard, a spokesman for the Paul campaign, noted:</p><p>“Those in the defense community, like other supporters, likely find that Dr. Paul’s common-sense foreign policy and the serious attention he pays to our nation’s number one security threat — our debt — are the most vital issues a presidential candidate must address.”</p><p>During his campaign, Paul has been sure to make a firm distinction between his definition of defense spending and military spending. Defense spending, as Paul has explained during the debates, has to do with protecting the country itself and its citizens. Defense spending can be accomplished WITHOUT overseas military spending. They are two different kinds of expense.</p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">Whitney Houston was a star&#39;s star; she had beauty, talent, and emotion</p></div><p>The cardboard box looked like every other, too. “Arista,” the return address said. Yet the doe-eyed girl with the curly hair and the expensive photo session spoke to me. She didn&#8217;t look much older, and she seemed so alive in the moment.</p><p>“I hope this doesn&#8217;t suck,” I remember thinking, knowing Clive Davis&#8217; predilection for drama queens and divas, Barry Manilows and frumpy AC. I wanted to like this girl, in the days when MTV was exotic and dance music ruled the clubs.</p><p>Back in my dorm room, she killed me. That voice: the power, the range, the essence of being alive. She had diva range, but she didn&#8217;t bludgeon you with it. Instead she leapt over tall buildings, turned cartwheels and seemingly laughed while she was doing it!</p><p
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title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>“How Will I Know?” seemed to be the anthem for Every(young)woman trying to find herself, wondering if he was the one. She understood, though, how to bob on the anxiety like a cork &#8211; and her ebullience gave us all something to cling to as we figured out who we were.</p><p>While she was pretty, staggeringly pretty, a former 17 covergirl, as well as the niece of Dionne Watwick and daughter of gospel stalwart Cissy Houston, she didn&#8217;t seem otherworldly. Whitney Houston could have been one of us, came off as someone who would talk to us. She even in the moments of big vocalizing seemed to feel our pain, our desire, our rapture, our hope.</p><p>“Saving All My Love For You” and “The Greatest Love of All” &#8211; both bravura turns &#8211; had just enough innocence to let us know these were emotions mortals could feel, too. Yes, she looked like a goddess and sang with the kind of powerhouse acumen that would cause Mariah Carey to bludgeon and over-sing through her first few records, but Houston&#8217;s heart was pure.</p><p>It wouldn&#8217;t last, of course.</p><p>The industry would start putting walls between us, currying favor and encouraging diva-like behavior. The stakes and expectations would rise. The toadying would increase. No doubt the disorientation and then vertigo would follow.</p><p>She could come off as the same effervescent girl, shiny and happy in the “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”” video, but the unraveling was already being set into motion. Not yet. No, there would be another album that would provide the perky uptempo feel good moments &#8211; “So Emotional” and “Love Will Save The Day” &#8211; a la the Supremes, and the big ballads &#8211; “Didn&#8217;t We Almost Have It All” &#8211; that would recall Diana Ross&#8217; most serious solo work.</p><p>It was still the music and the image of exquisite perfection. No troubles, no drama. Just a mahogany goddess who poured down light like the sun. Right up until the burn started. If the second album found Houston in a white tank top, hair flying free and easy, “I&#8217;m Your Baby Tonight” saw a young woman in the Limited&#8217;s universal Firenze sweater &#8211; just like the rest of us &#8211; only seated side-saddle on a motorcycle.</p><p
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title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>She wasn&#8217;t trashy, wasn&#8217;t a whore, but was certainly opening up to the thrills life has to offer. As the MTV Onset Generation&#8217;s Beyonce, she was the object of fantasy &#8211; and it wasn&#8217;t long until Bobby Brown, New Edition&#8217;s resident bad boy and emerging solo force, came calling.</p><p>There were whispers. There were fierce fights that made the tabloids. There was, obviously, drug use. But there was also more music… the stuff of true soul queen proportions… and the movie that made her an international superstar a la Miss Ross: “The Bodyguard.” Co-starring heavyweight serious man-hunk of the day Kevin Costner as the man assigned to protect the star from a stalker, it was a smash.</p><p>Beyond the film, where Houston&#8217;s goddess-on-pedestal perception was tempered with a humanity, range of emotions and skosh of street smart homegirleality, there was the gigantic performance of Dolly Parton&#8217;s “I Will Always Love You” that served as the film&#8217;s theme. What had been written as an enduring good-bye with gratitude to Parton&#8217;s once mentor Porter Wagoner was turned into a tour de force of love beyond limits that sat at #1 on every radio chart across the world for months. Ubiquitous isn&#8217;t nearly enough: car radios played it relentlessly, talent shows were over-run with it.</p><p>Whitney Houston, the most unilateral girl singer possibly ever, had graduated to the ranks of inescapable, but was still capable of turning in truly monstrously great vocal performances. She slayed “The National Anthem” on a regular basis. She performed with her aunt and mother on a gospel medley and left jaws slack.</p><p>Yet, there was something ravaging the grown woman&#8217;s psyche. Never mind the theoretical alliance with r&amp;b&#8217;s hottest male star, nor their small daughter Bobby Christina. Like George Jones and Tammy Wynette before them &#8211; right down to a self- tribute-named-daughter named Tamela Georgette &#8211; she and Brown seemed hell-bent on conflict, destruction, consumption and being lashed together with a love that would ultimately eviscerate them.</p><p>There was the infamous “crack is whack” interview, where Houston seemingly blitzed beyond reason came across not as Ghetto Fabulous, the way newcomer soul queens like Mary J Blige were, but ghetto tragic: out of her mind, possibly lost forever and absolutely throwing herself into a gutter she had no business being in.</p><p>Was Brown&#8217;s rapacious drug use the issue? Had the wild thing sucked Houston under? Or had she so soured on being America&#8217;s sweetheart that she found the good girl role repellent?</p><p>Hard to say. Plus, addiction&#8217;s addiction. Once you&#8217;re in its jaws, it&#8217;s hard to ever escape. And in show business, there&#8217;s always someone dying to give you a bump, a hit, a puff to gain access to a world they&#8217;d have no other entrée to. Plus once you start bottom-feeding, you change the game of both the quality of people you attract and their willingness to not protect you.</p><p>The tabloids lit up. Drama. Drugs. Physical altercations. Skeletal pictures. Flubbed performances. Court appearances. Cancelled shows. Riots. It was a fiesta of bad news, and it kept getting worse.</p><p>Yes, she made attempts to get clean. Divorced Brown, who&#8217;d been arrested on various charges of battery and domestic violence; but not before taking that “hood stance” of so many women that “that&#8217;s my man…” regardless of what he was doing, even to her.</p><p>Whitney Houston languished, became a punchline &#8211; not even a cautionary tale about drug use. So extreme, it was comedic &#8211; that awkward laughing when it&#8217;s too uncomfortable to face. So lost, she didn&#8217;t seem to notice what was gone &#8211; or consider how to come back.</p><p>That wasn&#8217;t what was important. What was? Hard to say. There would be glimpses. Maddening seconds where we could remember. Introduced by Prince Andrew of Monaco at “The World Music Awards,” where her weightlessly compelling reading of “I Will Always Love You” &#8211; defying gravity, clinging with such strength to the notion of a love that would never let go &#8212; eclipsed any scurrilous notion or harsh photograph.</p><p>For the Dawn of MTV Generation &#8211; and countless waves of young people who came after &#8211; Whitney Houston was definitive. Mariah could pummel a song; Alicia Keys, another Clive Davis protégé, could scale melodies with startling ease; Christina Aguilera could toss columns of air around like feathers, but none was Whitney.</p><p>Whitney Houston: effortless, gracious, glorious. She was glamorous even in a pair of beat-up jeans, hair a mess and giant sunglasses hiding heaven knew. She could sing circles around all of them &#8211; and had a knack for finding songs that spoke to feelings even larger than her voice &#8211; a gargantuan instrument &#8211; seemed to carry.</p><p>It was all so sad. The train wreck her life became. The music and film careers she eschewed. The chaos the public seemingly would never know. The squalor that swallowed her as drugs devoured her life.</p><p>Clive Davis remained unflagging in his support. Rumbles would tumble down the grapevine of a comeback. Houston would get clean, would come out, would dazzle. But had the moment passed? Could she maintain the strain?</p><p>It was hard to say. Harder still to know…</p><p>Until now.</p><p>Until an hour ago, when a few random postings hit the Facebook feed. Then the requisite Google News Search provided entirely too much independent sourcing. Whitney Houston was dead… no cause or whereabouts given… confirmed by her publicist to the ever vigilant and utterly credible Nekesa Moody of the Associated Press… on the night of Clive Davis&#8217; annual pre-Grammy soiree.</p><p>Ramdon. Sudden. Wham!</p><p>Too many images flooding my mind. Too many songs jump-cutting in my head. Too many memories laced into the soundtrack of growing up at the University of Miami, with a ten-year old Mustang with no air conditioning &#8211; windows down, radio painting the immediate vicinity with those shiy early hits.</p><p>Equally warm and heavy afternoons in Silver Lake, waiting on my star to rise… knowing that my name in Rolling Stone, Musician and The Los Angeles Times would take me places I couldn&#8217;t imagine. Los Angeles so glamorous, girls like Whitney Houston with their perfect bodies and satin skin dressed to kill intimidating the a Midwestern girl in me… and yet on those afternoons of stultifying heat and doubt about the future, I could put on my pink bunny slippers and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and jump around the apartment until I wore myself out.</p><p>My beau at the time would return from the office to find me, t-shirt knotted up, hair matted with sweat and the album cover propped against our wall of vinyl and laugh. “Face down in Whitney Houston again?” he&#8217;d ask. “Get any writing done?”</p><p>Often the answer was “not really,” to which he&#8217;d reply “Feel any better?”</p><p>Inevitably, the answer was “Yes.” For if she could, why wouldn&#8217;t I?</p><p>Only a matter of believing, pushing off the bottom and staying happy.</p><p>Staying happy is the trick. It seemed to elude her. Screw the talent, the charmed life, the bold faced-ery of it all. Screw the maggots who prey on the famous; the drugs, high impact great love in Brown. Damn the brokers of glisten who forget that it&#8217;s the music that saves.</p><p>Somewhere Cissy Houston has a broken heart, Dionne Warwick is thinking about every sad song she ever sang. Don&#8217;t even think about Bobby Christina, who lost the disaster that carried her for nine months and was the fierce mother who fought for every choice she ever made.</p><p>It was a waste, however it happened &#8211; and it don&#8217;t matter how. Whitney Houston&#8217;s gone. All that promise, that light, that talent: silenced.</p><p>Whatever it was, well, it happened. There&#8217;s no turning back, not much reason to wonder what if. The tragedy is the entitlement of fame, the predators they draw like moths to light and the reasons too many people don&#8217;t step in.</p><p>We as a culture have made vanity first a reason, now a blood sport. To be the hottest, youngest, famest, flamest… Lindsey Lohan has been choking on the fumes of this since before she could drive; Demi Moore and Heather Locklear are both locked up, unable to cope with inevitable reality of aging and hard-partying lives of privilege that are indulged for those who exist beyond the mortal coil.</p><p>Seemingly, they are immortal. So they don&#8217;t just believe, but are sold by everyone who would sell them out. Lying to themselves and each other about the loyalty of those around them, convincing themselves it can&#8217;t happen to them.</p><p>Until right now.</p><p>Whitney Houston&#8217;s gone. She will, no doubt, always love us &#8211; perfection collapsed in Kevin Costner&#8217;s arms in the climax of “The Bodyguard;” frozen in infamy as one more snuffed out too soon and with God knows how much left to create.</p><p>Tonight, Clive Davis will have his party &#8211; where she was slated to sing. Among those gathering will be some of pop, rock and soul&#8217;s true royality: Quincy Jones, See Lo Green, Tony Bennett, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Jackson Brown, Jennifer Hudson, Elvix Costello and Diane Krall. What they will make this loss mean remains to be seen…</p><p>What it means to me is this: Create. Love. Be. Embrace every moment. Respect what you&#8217;re given. Honor the people around you. Be grateful for others&#8217; work, their efforts, their gifts.</p><p>Try generosity and grace, eschew judgement and especially live with honor.</p><p>We all know right from wrong; good from bad, the straight path from the slippery slope &#8211; and we&#8217;ve all watched people we love teeter. Rather than say “It&#8217;s not my place,” let&#8217;s all reach out, steady or even pull them back. Yes, they might get mad, but in the end, better to cause rancor and save them than tacitly enable the things that can kill.</p><p>Whitney Houston was 48. That is the middle of middle age. Tony Bennett is still vital, still msking music and taking our breath away… So should it have been for her, for us.</p><p>How will we know, indeed?</p><p>&#8211; Holly Gleason, 2/11/12</p><div
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href="http://musicians4freedom.com/2011/10/12/qa-rebecca-gates-on-music-and-money/" title="Permanent link to Q&#038;A: Rebecca Gates on Music and Money">Q&#038;A: Rebecca Gates on Music and Money</a></li><li> <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://musicians4freedom.com/?p=30283</guid> <description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Like many in the freedom movement, including Alex Jones, David Icke presents problems in great detail but offers little in terms of solutions. Some would say his presentation is dishonest and even label it disinfo. But I would argue that Icke provides a necessary overview to wake up the sheeple. Few really comprehend [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Like many in the freedom movement, including <a
href="http://musicians4freedom.com/featured-activists/activists-hall-of-fame/alex-jones-tribute/" target="_blank">Alex Jones</a>, <a
href="http://musicians4freedom.com/featured-activists/activists-hall-of-fame/david-icke-tribute/" target="_blank">David Icke</a> presents problems in great detail but offers little in terms of <a
href="http://getoutandstayoutofjail.com/top-level-page-1/" target="_blank">solutions. </a>Some would say his presentation is <a
href="http://illogicalcontraption.blogspot.com/2010/06/truth-will-set-you-freethe-truth-will.html" target="_blank">dishonest</a> and even<a
href="http://davidickedebunked.com/" target="_blank"> label it disinfo.</a> But I would argue that Icke provides a necessary overview to wake up the sheeple. Few really comprehend <a
href="http://musicians4freedom.com/the-story-of-america/featured-projects/2012-projects/voodoo-dolls-of-the-elite/" target="_blank">the problem</a> at a deep level, and the ones that do are<a
href="http://musicians4freedom.com/the-story-of-america/featured-projects/2011-featured-projects/the-story-of-burt-a-free-people/" target="_blank"> challenged to implement the solution. </a>Check out my new project, <a
href="http://getoutandstayoutofjail.com/" target="_blank">Get Out and Stay Out of Jail.</a></em></p><p><a
href="http://www.davidicke.com/" target="_blank">David Icke</a> encapsulates humanity&#8217;s current plight and how we can secure our freedom from the Hidden Hand behind global events.</p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">David Icke Presents to Crowd at the Oxford Union Debating Chamber</p></div><p>Tens of millions of people across the globe are now turning to David Icke&#8217;s extraordinary information as the world he has predicted in his books and talks is becoming part of our daily experience. We are seeing the pages of George Orwell&#8217;s novel, 1984, turning by the hour as what he calls the Big Brother surveillance State expands towards its goal of a global fascist dictatorship. David Icke has spent virtually 20 years researching in more than 45 countries and uncovering the cabal of interbreeding families behind this agenda for human enslavement and their goals and methods of operation and manipulation.</p><p
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title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>If you want to know what is really happening in your world, and why, this presentation by David Icke is not to be missed. Your freedom and that of your children and grandchildren could well depend upon it.</p><p>Feature Length &#8211; 120 minutes.</p><p>NOW ON DVD &#8211; David Icke LIVE at The Oxford Union &#8211; Cat. #U697. Go to <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://musicians4freedom.com/?p=30267</guid> <description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Well, New Yorkers are breathing a sigh of relief&#8230;Chris says Mystery Babylon is the eschatological Jerusalem!  Where might that be geographically? Where it is today? Or somewhere else? Also, here&#8217;s MP3s and more. Check out Voodoo Dolls of the Elite. Also read about IRS Fraud at my new project, Get Out and Stay [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Well, New Yorkers are breathing a sigh of relief&#8230;Chris says Mystery Babylon is the eschatological Jerusalem!  Where might that be geographically? Where it is today? Or somewhere else? Also, <a
href="http://versebyversebibleteaching.com/?page_id=375" target="_blank">here&#8217;s MP3s and more.</a> Check out <a
href="http://versebyversebibleteaching.com/?page_id=375" target="_blank">Voodoo Dolls of the Elite.</a> Also read about<a
href="http://getoutandstayoutofjail.com/irs-fraud/" target="_blank"> IRS Fraud at my new project, Get Out and Stay Out of Jail.</a><a
href="http://versebyversebibleteaching.com/?page_id=375" target="_blank"><br
/> </a></em></p><p><a
href="http://conspiracyclothes.com/nowheretorun/mystery-babylon-full-text/" target="_blank">Chris White </a>Even among dedicated Bible scholars and teachers, there is a wide range of views about the identity of Mystery Babylon, ranging from very allegorical to literal.</p><p><img
class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-30268" title="Sunset on Babylon" src="http://musicians4freedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Sunset-on-Babylon-500x375.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p><p>The angel in <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Rev+17.18&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Rev.17.18" target="">Rev 17:18</a> while interpreting John’s vision mentions that the woman is a city.</p><p>“And the woman which thou sawest is <strong>that great city</strong>, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” – <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Rev+17.18&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Rev.17.18" target="">Rev 17:18</a></p><p>Mystery Babylon is referred to as a city eight times in Revelation, and many of the things that happen to it in the narrative seem to be talking about a literal city. For instance, the city is burned down, the smoke can be seen from the nearby sea, merchants sell items to it, and many other factors which we will soon see cause many to believe that it is in fact talking about a literal city.</p><p
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>There are many candidates proposed for the identity of the Mystery Babylon by Bible scholars including:</p><ol><li>Rome or Vatican City. Many early reformers saw it as Rome. Somewhat ironically, the Catholic church also teaches that it is Rome on the Vatican website<a
href="http://conspiracyclothes.com/nowheretorun/mystery-babylon-full-text/#_ftn1">[1]</a>, though it is referring to ancient pagan Rome, where the protestant reformers would say that it was the Rome of the Catholic church.</li><li>Some suggest it is the actual city of Babylon in Iraq. In this scenario, they say Babylon will be rebuilt in the future.</li><li>Mecca or some other Arab cities have been proposed. This view has been especially popular very recently.</li><li>Jerusalem is also suggested, this is the oldest recorded view of Christians, and is held by many different groups.</li><li>There is a long list of other less popular candidates, New York being one example.</li></ol><p>Some other very popular viewpoints assert that the Bible is metaphorical, and say it’s not referring to an actual city, but is symbolic of something else entirely, possibly, a world pagan religious system, and/or a world financial system.</p><p
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>In counting the characteristics given to Mystery Babylon, I have found over ninety characteristics. In this study, I will show that there are explicit Biblical interpretations of most, if not all, of these ninety characteristics, and that by comparing scripture with scripture, we can come to a more biblical identification of Mystery Babylon.</p><p>I believe Mystery Babylon is the eschatological city of Jerusalem. I chose my words very carefully in this description. In other words, I believe it is the Jerusalem of the end times, where, according to <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Daniel+11.45&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Daniel.11.45" target="">Daniel 11:45</a>, the Anti-Christ sets up his end-times world government and end-times world religion headquarters.</p><p
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src="http://musicians4freedom.com/wp-content/plugins/fast-tube/skins/default-blue/top_big.png" border="0" /><br
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>The city and its habitants will promote the Anti-Christ as their Messiah, and as the one true God, thereby committing the ultimate abomination, the ultimate harlotry. Not only that, but they will promote him and entice the world to follow them in their worship of the Man of Sin.</p><p>We know that the Anti-Christ will choose Jerusalem as the place to declare himself to be god ( <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=2Thes+2.4&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.2Thes.2.4" target="">2Thes 2:4</a>, <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Mat+24.15&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Mat.24.15" target="">Mat 24:15</a>, <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Dan+11.31-32&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Dan.11.31-32" target="">Dan 11:31-32</a> ) We know that the greatest religious killing of all time will happen in the city of Jerusalem according to <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Matt.+24.15-21&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Matt.24.15-21" target="">Matt. 24:15-21</a>.</p><p>Too often people look at the “Woman who Rides the Beast” and try to define her in terms of what we have already seen in history, as opposed to what Scripture says we will see in the future. That is the primary reason people miss this. As we will see, it is not because of a lack of Biblical support.</p><p>For instance, <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Rev.+18.24&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Rev.18.24" target="">Rev. 18:24</a> says: “And in her was found <strong>the blood of prophets</strong>…”</p><p
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/><a
title="Click here to watch this video!" href="http://musicians4freedom.com/2012/02/20/mystery-babylon-study-by-chris-white/#vCt-RR_4FZg"><img
src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vCt-RR_4FZg/0.jpg" alt="Fast Tube" border="0" width="320" height="240" /></a><br
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>We don’t even have to speculate as to what city the prophets were killed in, as Jesus says it is impossible for a prophet to be killed anywhere except Jerusalem:</p><p>“The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, ‘Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.’ And he said unto them, ‘Go ye, and tell that fox, behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following: <strong>for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem</strong>. <strong>O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets</strong>, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!’” <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Luke+13.31-34&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Luke.13.31-34" target="">Luke 13:31-34</a><strong> </strong></p><p>This idea is repeated by the Lord in other places, as well. For instance, He tells them that their fathers killed the prophets and they hypocritically built their tombs. (<a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Luke+11.47&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Luke.11.47" target="">Luke 11:47</a>) In <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Matthew+23&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Matthew.23" target="">Matthew 23</a>, He names Zechariah as such an example who He mentions was killed near the temple. He also says that they will be held accountable and judged for this blood on their hands.</p><p
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>If the blood of the prophets is found in the mystery Babylon city, it is strong evidence in favor of it referring to Jerusalem.</p><p>Jerusalem is specifically called a harlot hundreds of times in Scripture and always in spiritual context – the harlotry of following false gods and killing prophets, etc.</p><p>Just a small sampling of this is in <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Isaiah+1.21&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Isaiah.1.21" target="">Isaiah 1:21</a>:</p><p>“How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.” – <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Isaiah+1.21&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Isaiah.1.21" target="">Isaiah 1:21</a></p><p><a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Ezekiel+16&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Ezekiel.16" target="">Ezekiel 16</a> is entirely about this subject, and it starts out by saying:</p><p>“Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations…” – <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Eze+16.1-2&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Eze.16.1-2" target="">Eze 16:1-2</a></p><p
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id="QW6y23UoQ4c" style="text-align:center;display:block;"><img
src="http://musicians4freedom.com/wp-content/plugins/fast-tube/skins/default-blue/top_big.png" border="0" /><br
/><a
title="Click here to watch this video!" href="http://musicians4freedom.com/2012/02/20/mystery-babylon-study-by-chris-white/#QW6y23UoQ4c"><img
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>He spends the whole chapter saying things like:</p><p>“But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.” – <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Eze+16.15-16&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Eze.16.15-16" target="">Eze 16:15-16</a></p><p>Jerusalem is constantly warned in Scripture that if they do not turn from their “harlotries” they will be judged. As we go through <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Revelation+17-18&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Revelation.17-18" target="">Revelation 17-18</a>, we will find that the specific judgments Mystery Babylon gets are the exact same as the ones promised to Jerusalem because of her spiritual harlotry.</p><p>Here is one example:</p><p>“They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. Therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.” – <a
href="http://www.blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm?Criteria=Eze+16.40-43&amp;t=KJV" rel="KJV.Eze.16.40-43" target="">Eze 16:40-43</a></p><p
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>This idea that Jerusalem is as a harlot, and also has children or inhabitants that are harlots, is what is meant when Revelation says that the “Woman” is the mother of harlots – the harlots are the inhabitants and Jerusalem is the mother.</p><p>I think that much of the confusion comes from the fact commentators want to put in the word <strong>ALL</strong> – “the mother of <strong>ALL</strong> harlots,” as if it was the source of all bad things from the history of the world. But that’s not what the texts says Mystery Babylon is – it simply says that the city is the mother of harlots, those harlots are simply the inhabitants of the city. Jesus uses the same analogy in the following passage:</p><p>“But Jesus, turning unto them said, <strong>Daughters of Jerusalem</strong>, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.’ Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us; and to the hills, cover us.’” – <a
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/><small>Fast Tube by <a
title="Casper's Blog" href="http://blog.caspie.net/">Casper</a></small></span><!--[/Fast Tube]--></p><p>This view of a futuristic Jerusalem (when the Anti-christ reigns there) being Mystery Babylon is not mine alone. I am standing firmly on the shoulders of giants. I first heard of this view from a great Bible scholar named Charles Cooper. I was then pleasantly surprised to find that this view is the earliest recorded view of the church fathers that I know of.</p><p>There was a writer name Hippolytus who produced the earliest known commentary on the Book of Revelation. He was probably the most important theologians of the 200′s. This was an important time because Revelation was written so late that it took a long time to be circulated. As a result, we don’t find many commentaries on it until about his time. However, around this same era, the hermeneutic (the way people interpreted the Bible) of the early church was about to change.</p><p>Around the time that the Catholic Church began in the 300’s, people began interpreting the Bible more allegorically as opposed to looking at it literally or with a face value approach. As a result, there is a very short window of time during which we can hear the views of a premillennial and futurist church father on the book of Revelation. But here is what Hippolytus said about Mystery Babylon:</p><p>“By the unrighteous judge, who fears not God, neither regards man, he means without doubt Anti-Christ, as he is a son of the devil and a vessel of Satan. For when he has the power, he will begin to exalt himself against God, neither in truth fearing God, nor regarding the Son of God, who is the Judge of all. <strong>And in saying that there was a widow in the city, he refers to Jerusalem itself,</strong> which is a widow indeed, forsaken of her perfect, heavenly spouse, God. She calls Him her adversary, and not her Saviour; for she does not understand that which was said by the prophet Jeremiah: “Because they obeyed not the truth, a spirit of error shall speak then to this people and to Jerusalem.” – TREATISE ON CHRIST AND ANTI-CHRIST.</p><p>It is also worth noting that Hippolytus was a student of Irenaus who was a student of Polycarp who was a student of John, the original author of the Book of Revelation.</p><p>I myself used to think the “Woman” was Rome or the Vatican, but when we get to the verses about the seven mountains you will see why I see this interpretation, held by so many, is grammatically and contextually impossible.</p><p>I also used to believe that it was referring to an allegorical kind of amalgamation of the world’s occult religions or financial evil. You will see that that view requires a deliberate departure from the plain and simple meaning of the text. It also goes against the angel’s own interpretation of this “Woman”.</p><p>This imaginary “ALL” we discussed earlier makes people think that they have to have Mystery Babylon account for all the evil in the world, past, present, and future. So, they go looking, in the past or in the present, for the most evil thing they can think of. And that’s pretty much how they come up with their interpretation – whatever the most evil thing is in their paradigm, is what she will be to them. It’s not a coincidence therefore that all the books about Mystery Babylon being some aspect of Islam showed up after 911.</p><p>The strength of going verse by verse through this difficult section of scripture is its thoroughness. I hope you will get as much out of reading it as I have researching it. This study will give me an opportunity to teach some of the most complicated aspects of the Anti-Christ, as well as the city in which he chooses to set up shop.</p><p><a
href="http://conspiracyclothes.com/nowheretorun/mystery-babylon-full-text/" target="_blank">Read entire article at Nowhere to Run</a></p><div
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