There comes a point when the history of a nation can no longer be separated from its present condition. What was planted generations ago eventually produces fruit, and when that fruit is bitter, a proud people will call it a difficult season rather than consider whether they are witnessing the consequences of what the nation has continually practiced. This is why Deuteronomy 32:28–29 is so piercing: “For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them. Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!”
When America is placed beside the prophetic description of the Bible, particularly Mystery Babylon, the parallels demand serious examination. Revelation 17:18 describes the woman as the great city having influence over the kings of the earth. Revelation 18:3 says the kings commit fornication with her and that the merchants of the earth become rich through the abundance of her luxury. This is not the description of an insignificant country hidden from the world. It is a wealthy, consuming, internationally influential power whose prosperity reaches kings, merchants, nations, and economies across the earth.
The meaning of her luxury becomes even clearer when judgment arrives. Revelation 18:11 says the merchants weep because suddenly “no one buys their merchandise anymore.” Babylon is therefore not merely wealthy; she is an enormous consumer. Her appetite enriches others. Her purchasing power becomes part of the machinery through which merchants prosper, and when that purchasing power disappears, the world feels the great loss.
History also shows us that the foundational contribution did not begin with modern consumerism. Smithsonian research documents Black technical knowledge, craftsmanship, agricultural skill, engineering, food preservation, medicine, infrastructure development, and invention extending back through slavery, when enslaved people were denied ownership and denied recognition for what their minds and hands produced. America extracted labor from Black bodies while simultaneously benefiting from Black intelligence, creativity, production, culture, and innovation.
That becomes especially thought-provoking when considering the history and present state of so-called Black people in America. After centuries of bondage in a land where they were brought in chains, Black people were offered the illusion that oppression had been lifted—granted the right to vote, hold property, and voice their views. Yet within that system, they were steered toward a false definition of success and temporary happiness. Nielsen reports Black American buying power at roughly $2.1 trillion, revealing that an oppressed people have been turned into the primary motor of consumer spending feeding the Babylonian economy. But the luxury of Babylon is not simply the physical goods it trades; it is built on the very intellect, labor, and creative genius of Black people who invented many of these advancements, only to have a relentless market manufacture worthless consumer products for them to spend their money on.
This extractive dynamic is visibly portrayed in the commercial relationship between Black consumers and external merchants who operate in their communities. In Columbia, South Carolina, 61-year-old convenience store owner Chikei Rick Chow falsely accused 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton of shoplifting water bottles, chased him down, and shot the child in the back. When a jury acquitted Chow, Cyrus’s mother, Nicole Carmack, alongside civil rights organizers, called on Black consumers to stop funding businesses that profile and degrade them: “If they cannot support you, you do not support them.”
The depth of this economic reliance is no secret to the merchants themselves. Sam Hwang, Vice President of the National Federation of Beauty Suppliers, openly acknowledged the total dependence of Asian-owned supply chains on Black dollars, stating, “Ninety-nine percent of [our] customers are Black... Koreans embraced those neighborhoods and they control the market today.” Yet despite deriving their livelihood from these communities, hostility repeatedly breaks through. In Charlotte, North Carolina, after Missha Beauty store manager Sung Ho Lim physically assaulted a Black customer—triggering widespread boycotts and daily street protests—he was forced to publicly plead, “I overreacted, I’m very sorry... No matter what the reason, I feel very sorry to her and to them.”
When targeted Black boycotts take hold, storefronts empty overnight and desperate owners hang emergency signs offering 30% discounts in a frantic effort to entice Black shoppers back inside. It serves as a stark, contemporary preview of Revelation 18:11: the merchants weep the moment the captive consumer stops buying, proving that these commercial entities cannot survive without the very Black dollars they disrespect.
That history cannot be discussed honestly without discussing theft. Land was taken through removal, coercion, broken agreements, fraud, intimidation, and violence. Smithsonian documentation concerning American Indian removal records the use of treaties, fraud, intimidation, and violence in removing approximately 100,000 Native people westward. Enslaved people were themselves treated as property. Labor was stolen. Families were broken. Wealth was accumulated while those producing it were denied the fruit of their work.
This systemic exploitation is bound directly to the prophetic sentence against Babylon. YarmiYAHU (Jeremiah) 50:33–34 states: “The children of Yasharal and the children of Yahudah were oppressed together; all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong; 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts is His name.” Babylon’s judgment is inextricably tied to her refusal to grant true release, justice, and restoration to those whose captivity and exploited genius built her wealth.
Now, consider the words of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 in Yahuchanan (John) 10:10: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” The verse describes the work of the thief, and it supplies a sobering standard by which any system can be examined. When the historical record repeatedly contains stealing, killing, dispossession, destruction, exploitation, and then the justification of those things afterward, the resemblance should cause examination rather than national boasting.
The horror became even more visible during the era of racial terror. Black men and women were lynched before crowds. Some were mutilated, dismembered, tortured, shot, hanged, and burned alive. These were sometimes public spectacles attended by families. Equal Justice Initiative scholarship documents how spectacle lynchings involved prolonged torture, mutilation, dismemberment, and burning, with thousands sometimes gathering to watch.
On Sunday, April 23, 1899, Sam Hose was tortured and burned alive near Newnan, Georgia. Thousands reportedly witnessed it. Historical documentation records that spectators later took pieces of bone and bits of his flesh as souvenirs; the Library of Congress also preserves Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s contemporary documentation of the burning. This happened in a society that could attend religious services, speak about righteousness, and then participate in or tolerate unimaginable brutality against another people.
That makes Psalm 14:4 disturbing in ways that should not be casually passed over: “Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and do not call on 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄?” The passage primarily speaks to people being consumed, exploited, and devoured by workers of wickedness, but American history produced physical atrocities so grotesque that even the imagery becomes chilling. Cannibalistic acts are not imaginary folklore either. Such acts have recurred across American criminal history and into the modern era—most notoriously in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, who confessed to the murder, dismemberment, and cannibalism of 17 young men and boys, the majority of whom were Black, Asian, and Latino. The point is not that such conduct characterizes every person in America. The point is that human depravity Americans often imagine belongs only to distant civilizations has existed on this soil as well. The point is that human depravity Americans often imagine belongs only to distant civilizations has existed on this soil as well.
Then Revelation adds another identification: “For by your sorcery all the nations were deceived” (Revelation 18:23). The Greek pharmakeia is associated historically with sorcery, magical practices, drugs, and potions. America undeniably possesses worldwide pharmaceutical, technological, media, financial, military, and cultural influence. The worldwide push and deployment of the mRNA jab during the COVID-19 campaign—co-developed by the American company Moderna and scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health—stands as modern proof backing the prophetic reality of pharmakeia, demonstrating how rapidly American biomedical power and corporate authority can reach into every nation on earth.
Furthermore, this sorcery extends into worldwide cultural and digital channels. Through media, music, entertainment, and digital algorithms, America exports consumerism, moral decay, and inner blindness directly into the minds of populations across the earth, binding the nations to her corrupt desires.
Yet while all of this history stands behind the nation, many still speak as though America is merely experiencing a hard season. They believe another election, another economic plan, another religious revival, another administration, or putting the Bible and prayer back into schools will restore what is being lost. But system reform inside a fallen empire is an illusion. YashaYAHU (Isaiah) 9:10 records the same kind of national confidence: the bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild stronger. The people did not first ask why the bricks were falling.
This is where religious pride becomes especially dangerous. A nation can demand public religion while refusing acknowledgment, justice, repentance, and restitution. YashaYAHU (Isaiah) 1:15–17 shows 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 rejecting multiplied petitions when hands are full of blood and commanding the people instead to seek justice and rebuke oppression. Numbers 5:6–7 shows that confession of wrongdoing was accompanied by restitution. Saying the right religious words while defending the fruit of wrongdoing is not repentance.
If descendants are not personally guilty for every deed committed by their ancestors, they still have a choice concerning what they do with the truth. They can grieve evil, acknowledge it, refuse to honor it, repair what remains repairable, and pursue justice. Or they can defend the national myth, become angry whenever the record is mentioned, and demand that those harmed simply forget. Leviticus 26:40 even speaks of people confessing both their own iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers. True understanding does not fear truth.
But pride prevents such examination. Proverbs 16:18 declares that pride goes before destruction. Mystery Babylon herself says in Revelation 18:7, “I sit as queen… and will not see sorrow.” That confidence is spoken immediately before devastation. She cannot imagine herself becoming what every previous empire eventually became.
This is the snake eating its own tail. Violence eventually returns inward. Greed consumes stability. Debt consumes prosperity. Division consumes unity. Corruption destroys confidence. Appetite consumes resources. Pride prevents correction. The mechanisms once used against others eventually begin consuming the society that perfected them, while the nation continues calling the process temporary.
And this is precisely why Deuteronomy says such a nation lacks counsel: it cannot consider its latter end. It can possess universities, laboratories, weapons, satellites, corporations, wealth, religious institutions, and unparalleled technology while still lacking the wisdom necessary to recognize judgment.
America is Mystery Babylon. Thus, Revelation does not promise her another golden age. Nor does it tell the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to remain inside her ways waiting for political reform or an economic rebound. Revelation 18:4 commands: “Come out of her, My people.” Then Revelation 18:21 declares that Babylon will be thrown down and “will not be found anymore.”
That is what makes this hour serious, while clearly identifying who America in the Bible. The greatest danger is not merely that a nation has sinned. Nations throughout history have sinned. The greater danger is reaching the point where wickedness has become history, culture, economy, identity, pride, and inheritance—and then becoming so void of counsel that even while the consequences are consuming the land, the people still cannot recognize their latter end.
This is America—biblically!
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