Begin Reading Table of Contents Newsletters Copyright Page In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. We dedicate The Babylon Code to the Hebrew prophets and the Ancient of Days who inspired them to write about a prophetic mystery in the Bible, code-named Babylon. From the Tower of Babel incident in Genesis to the famed accounts in the prophetic books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, and ultimately to the apostle John’s enigmatic description of “Mystery, Babylon” and “Babylon the Great” in Revelation, Babylon plays a central—though seldom recognized—role throughout the Bible. The biblical writers told the tale of a powerful empire—one steeped in sorcery and the “magic of money manipulation”—that would reemerge in the last days as a global government, economic system, and religion under the control of the Antichrist and False Prophet. Employing a variety of literary devices involving phrases, numbers, and riddles, these brave prophets and their investigative scribes laid out in exacting detail the stunning course of events that would transpire as mankind neared the end of history as we know it. Many paid with their very lives to reveal this great biblical mystery, one that Daniel wrote would be “sealed until the time of the end” when only the “wise would understand.” Introduction The Great Biblical Mystery Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come. —APOSTLE JOHN, REVELATION 18:10 NKJV There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. —SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY T he world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, in an exclusive interview, said, “The Bible indicates that as the time for Christ’s return approaches, evil and social chaos may well intensify. Are we living in those days?”1 It’s the great question of our time. Are we now living in the last days of planet Earth? If so, how will the apocalyptic events foreseen by the ancient prophets unfold? Are powerful forces now at work to create a global government, economic system, and religion as predicted in the Bible? Unlocking a great biblical mystery that has puzzled scholars for nearly two thousand years, The Babylon Code unearths answers to these momentous questions. In this book, we’ll explore a prophetic enigma that begins in Genesis at the Tower of Babel and ends in Revelation with the Battle of Armageddon. The prediction involves “Mystery, Babylon”—the Bible’s greatest end-times riddle —and reveals how an elite group of wealthy globalists and their interlocking network of transnational corporations, international banks, government agencies, think tanks, foundations, and secret societies are working to create a global government, cashless society, and universal religion as predicted in Scripture. The world is at a final turning point. An unparalleled convergence and acceleration in end-times signs is now occurring. These harbingers are geopolitical, economic, scientific, technological, cultural, and moral. To ordinary men and women, these forces are overwhelming, as if a giant tsunami is about to drown everything they’ve ever known or dreamed of. It’s at this moment that every one of us is confronted with a choice. Either we can allow ourselves to be overcome by fear, leading to panic, or we can seek to understand the nature of the forces behind these events so we can survive. In an out-of-control, upside-down world, The Babylon Code asks two urgent questions: Is it possible that God embedded a code in the Bible that could be cracked only in the end times? What if by decoding this prophetic cryptogram we could unlock the secret to both our salvation and our survival? In these pages, we’ll reveal the results of a five-year journalistic investigation that uncovered astonishing evidence that not only has the countdown to Armageddon begun, but the elite are involved in an international political and economic takeover—what one former U.S. official calls a “global financial coup d’état.”2 As we investigate this prophetic mystery sweeping across time, we’ll unearth evidence that connects a secretive, international power structure with ties to ancient Babylon—the occult-enmeshed civilization where the “magic of money manipulation” originated—to what today’s globalists call the “New World Order.”3 Featuring scores of exclusive interviews with prominent world leaders and highly respected experts in geopolitics, economics, science, and theology, The Babylon Code is the first book by a mainstream, award-winning investigative journalist and a prophecy expert to explore the nexus between current events, secret societies, and end-times biblical predictions. We’ll also tell the intriguing backstory—a fateful tale of poetry, music, and a mysterious death involving Ludwig van Beethoven, “Ode to Joy” poet Friedrich von Schiller, and the Bavarian Illuminati—that brought us together to write The Babylon Code. Follow us on our journey as we piece together this apocalyptic puzzle— uncovering what could be the biggest story and political scandal in modern history. Along the way, we’ll unearth answers to the questions many have about the troubling events now transpiring in the world. Recent polls and statements by world leaders demonstrate extraordinary public interest in this topic: • A Barna Group survey found that four in ten Americans—and 77 percent of evangelical Christians—believe the “world is now living in the biblical end times.” A similar poll commissioned by New York Times bestselling author Joel Rosenberg confirmed these results, finding that 41 percent of Americans believe that “events such as the rebirth of the State of Israel, wars, revolutions, instability in the Middle East, widespread national disasters, and the serious threat of a global economic depression are evidence that we are living in what the Bible calls the last days.”4 • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently told the United Nations General Assembly that “Biblical prophecies are being realized.” Meanwhile, Pope Francis said the world has entered the “last times” and is at the beginning of a “piecemeal” Third World War.5 • A McLaughlin & Associates poll found that 80 percent of Americans fear a “Second Holocaust” in Israel—and 68 percent fear a “nuclear holocaust” in the United States—if the world does not take decisive action to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons. A recent Fox News poll found that 84 percent of Americans fear ISIS will soon launch terrorist attacks inside the United States.6 • Meanwhile, 28 percent of American voters believe a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda are working to create an authoritarian world government. Nearly 40 percent of Republican voters agree. A poll by Public Policy Polling— ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the nation’s top polling firms— found that 19 percent of voters believe secret societies such as Yale University’s Skull and Bones produce America’s political and financial leaders to serve the wealthy elite. Further, the poll found that 17 percent of voters think a group of world bankers are slowly eliminating paper currency to create a cashless society and global economic system.7 The World Is at a Final Turning Point These stunning poll results come amid an explosion of interest in the end times. In recent years, a seemingly nonstop series of crises has prompted many to ask whether the conclusion of the human epoch is quickly approaching. These concerns have intensified since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks—an event that shocked the world and that some saw as the biggest wake-up call in the nation’s history. Since then, disaster after disaster has battered the planet— the Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, the global economic meltdown, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Recently, people worldwide have been intrigued by the convergence of a rare set of four blood moons and the biblical Shemitah, along with Sir Isaac Newton’s end-times prediction known as “Newton’s Riddle” regarding 2015–2016—asking whether these are portents of the beginning of the end. A number of prophecy scholars in recent years have uncovered biblical mysteries and riddles they say point toward the possible fulfillment of end-times prophecies between 2015 and 2028. Nations are drowning in unparalleled levels of debt. Fears of a cataclysmic economic collapse and hyperinflation are rising. Tensions between Russia and America are growing, ISIS is warning the West of “Armageddon,” and North Korea has threatened a nuclear strike on the United States. Some experts believe Iran may already have nuclear weapons—further raising the specter of the unthinkable. Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum says the world is experiencing record-breaking natural disasters and extreme weather, not to mention worsening global drought and famine.8 Scientists are sounding the alarm about the dangers of mega-earthquakes and tsunamis, the Yellowstone supervolcano, solar storms, and massive tornadoes the likes of which the world has never seen before. A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urged the world to prepare for more intense drought, famine, floods, freak weather, and heat waves—emphasizing that the “world’s food supply is at considerable risk.” Due to the dramatic and unprecedented planetary climate change, the globe is on the verge of massive food and water shortages. This is expected to lead to battles over food and water over the next five to ten years.9 A Brookings Institution report put it bluntly: The world is in an “unprecedented state of crisis.”10 Is this the end of civilization? Noam Chomsky, a political theorist and a professor of linguistics emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is considered “one of the world’s most controversial thinkers,” pondered that question in his recent article “The End of History?: The Short, Strange Era of Human Civilization Would Appear to Be Drawing to a Close.” “It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human civilization, which may now be approaching its inglorious end,” Chomsky wrote.11 The question of whether civilization will indeed approach its “inglorious end” is now in our hands, Chomsky said in an exclusive interview. “Since 1945 we have lived in the shadow of possible nuclear war, and it was understood a long time ago that a nuclear war would have horrendous consequences, from which the power that initiated it would not escape,” Chomsky says. “The threat has too often come ominously close, in part through foolhardy and irresponsible actions, in part through accidents that have been barely averted. Those dangers persist, but at least in this case we know in principle how to mitigate them. That is not so obvious from the twin threat of environmental catastrophe, towards which we are marching resolutely… For the first time in human history we have to decide whether we will bring human civilization to an inglorious end or will try seriously to carry the experiment forward.”12 Chomsky’s concerns are echoed in a recent study by professors and researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota who found that civilization could be headed for an “irreversible collapse” because of unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution between the rich and the poor.13 A recent Oxfam report titled “Working for the Few” found wealthy elites have “co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, undermining democracy”—creating a world where the eighty-five richest people own nearly half the world’s wealth. The report found that 1 percent of the world’s population control 46 percent, or $110 trillion, of its wealth. The richest 10 percent possess 86 percent of the globe’s wealth. Noting growing public awareness of this “power-grab,” the report found that increasing inequality is helping the rich undermine democratic processes and drive government policies that promote their interests at the expense of everyone else’s.14 Meanwhile, a growing number of scientists, philosophers, and “tech billionaires” at Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley, believe the world needs to start thinking seriously about the threat of human extinction. Curiously, they warn that one of the risks that threatens human civilization is a “world dictatorship” or a “global totalitarian state.” These prestigious universities recently created several institutes to help humanity prepare for the Apocalypse, including Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, MIT’s Future of Life Institute, and UC Berkeley’s Machine Intelligence Research Institute. The physicists, philosophers, biologists, economists, computer scientists, and mathematicians at these institutes are “students of the apocalypse,” New Statesman assistant editor Sophie McBain wrote in her story “Apocalypse Soon: The Scientists Preparing for the End Times.” “Predictions of the end of history are as old as history itself, but the 21st century poses new threats,” McBain wrote. “The development of nuclear weapons marked the first time that we had the technology to end all human life. Since then, advances in synthetic biology and nanotechnology have increased the potential for human beings to do catastrophic harm by accident or through deliberate, criminal intent.”15