|City on a Hill - Writings for Refuge

Saul - The King We Want The thread of Babylon runs throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Babylon has always represented what it first represented in Babel: the power of man apart from God. The wicked vinedressers who desire to remake the garden in their own strength, and break from the owner of the vineyard. Man mostly desires all the benefits of God’s leadership, called “life,” but wants those benefits outside of God’s leadership. Created satan wanted life on his own terms, apart from the Creator…and most people, even Christians, want that same thing in some degree. This is the darkness, the corruption of love, introduced to man’s heart by the virus from Tree of the Knowledge of Good AND Evil. The object of our years now…the 70 or 80 we get if we are blessed…is to work that virus out of our heart…to let God “reformat” our hearts by living the Sermon on the Mount. There is so much to talk about with regard to the spirit of Babylon, but for time’s sake, I am going to brush o

The First Rebel and the Last Rebellion So the spirit of Babel was really the spirit behind mankind’s first attempt to re-establish Eden without its owner, the Father God. God, committed to eventually give mankind what it wanted, confused the languages and scattered the people of Babel, in order to “pause” what God would eventually allow mankind to get when “knowledge increased.” It is no coincidence that the famed Babel, and later Babylon, was located between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers…the same general location the Bible describes as “Eden” Genesis 2:7-14 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (8) The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. (9) And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of goo

Ancient Babel OK, the computer/corrupted heart analogy was a side-trail, but a super important one. Back to Babylon… So Tom, how IS all of this connected to the End-Time Babylon?!! It all goes back to the first Babylon, called Babel. God made man to be with Him on earth, developing the resources of creation forever in partnership with Him. That is what God called “very good” in Genesis 1:31. But man, in the corruption of His heart, has consistently attempted to develop the earth in righteousness APART from God. This resulted in God completely destroying everyone but Noah the first time. God did a complete reformat of the whole earth with a flood…but the programming language was still corrupt…even in the one righteous man’s family. Out of Ham, the corruption began to infect more and more of creation: Genesis 10:6-10 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. (7) The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. (8)

The corrupted heart Habakkuk 2:12-14 "Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity! (13) Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain? (14) For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea. To understand the Bible…to understand prophecy…to understand the end-times and all the intensity contained in Jesus’ plan for the end-times, you have to understand what God wants, and what man’s heart, left to its own devices, desires. This requires a deep understanding of Genesis. Genesis is the most important book…the foundation of the Bible. Genesis documents why God made us, how God made us to operate in creation, what satan desired, and how satan led man to darkness. This is why Genesis is probably the MOST attacked book of the Bible. Even many Christians have fallen for a symbolic interpretation of Genesis rather than a litera

One of the most pressing revelations that God has given me is the revelation of our identity…in the United States…as the end-time Babylon. That is a mouth full. If you have ever studied the literally dozens of incredibly specific passages about the end-time Babylon, that is a jaw-dropping statement. I don’t make it lightly. This is a very disturbing concept, but it is also CLEARLY laid out in the Bible. Which I intend to cover extensively over the coming days for anyone interested in reading. Coming to this realization, as hard as it was, has been one of the most defining moments of my life. It has completely changed the way I pray for my family, my church, my city, my country, and Israel. It has radically altered my understanding of the Bible and opened up passages that for years perplexed me. I feel the Lord’s immense pleasure and weight upon my grasp of this subject. I am mostly writing this for me, to finally sort out and lay out my thoughts on this. For nearly a year, I have vague