All of heaven and the Almighty will be thrilled at the annihilation and fall of this Babylon the Great. Her fall, like that of ancient Babylon, will be final. She will never rise from the ashes of her calamity, nor will she ever be inhabited again (before the Millennial Reign). On this basis then, if on no other, we may safely conclude that, to the degree that ancient Babylon is located within the confines of a region controlled by modern-day, troubled and war-torn Islamic/Shia dominated Iraq, to the same degree it is highly unlikely that Babylon the Great could ever be linked thereto. No coalition of cash-strapped European nations could ever unite to pull off reconstruction of an entity more powerful than they, having an independence, a stability and prosperity far greater than any they have ever known individually (their adherence to the  ...