SIMPLE - EASY - AWESOME - UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION FOR GENERATION Z: Christus Pax Nostra: Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat

[JacobSmith]

SIMPLE - EASY - AWESOME - UNDERSTANDING
THE BOOK OF REVELATION FOR GENERATION Z:
Christus Pax Nostra: Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat
“The book of Revelation is one of the plainest books God ever caused to be written.” So said the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., the first President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  President Smith is mentioned, by name, as well as his father, Joseph Smith, Sr., by the ancient Prophet, Joseph in Egypt, who sired the Tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, of the family of Jacob, or Israel.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/jst/jst-gen/48?lang=eng
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Anyone who understands basic economics, and has done effective genealogy research knows that “The book of Revelation is one of the plainest books God ever caused to be written.” [Economics is a social science concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. It studies how individuals, businesses, governments, and nations make choices on allocating resources to satisfy their wants and needs, trying to determine how these groups should organize and coordinate efforts to achieve maximum output.] The Holy Bible history and the history in The Book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price and The Doctrine and Covenants, simply put, are issues of family affairs, over generations of time, dealing with use and attainment of possessions; between the moral desires of helping the less fortunate, or, willfully destroying human life to obtain temporal control of goods and services. That is the whole history of the world, from the beginning to the end, from premortal spiritual existence to the end of the world, when it becomes a celestial planet (star). [I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star . . . ] [but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.] [The vail was taken from their minds and the eyes of their understandings were opened. They saw the Lord standing upon the breast work of the pulpit before them. and under his feet was a paved work of pure gold, in color like amber: his eyes were as a flame of fire; the hair of his head was like the pure snow, his countenance shone above the brightness of the sun, and his voice was as the sound of the rushing of great waters, even the Voice of Jehovah, saying, I am the first and the last. I am he who liveth. I am he who was slain. I am your Advocate with the Father] [When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!] [And Brigham Young said, “This world, when it becomes celestialized . . . will be like the sun, and be prepared for the habitation of the saints . . . It will not then be an opaque body as it now is, but it will be like the stars of the firmament, full of light and glory : it will be a body of light. John compared it, in its celestialized state, to a sea of glass.” (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p. 163).]
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The economic predictors in The Book of Revelation for Generation Z, are found in [Page 341-345]: When God made use of the figure of a beast in visions to the prophets He did it to represent those kingdoms which had degenerated and become corrupt, savage and beast-like in their dispositions, even the degenerate kingdoms of the wicked world; but He never made use of the figure of a beast nor any of the brute kind to represent His kingdom. . . . The things which John saw had no allusion to the scenes of the days of Adam, Enoch, Abraham or Jesus, only so far as is plainly represented by John, and clearly set forth by him. John saw that only which was lying in futurity and which was shortly to come to pass. . . . Now, I make this declaration, that those things which John saw in heaven had no allusion to anything that had been on the earth previous to that time, because they were the representation of "things which must shortly come to pass," and not of what has already transpired. John saw beasts that had to do with things on the earth, but not in past ages. The beasts which John saw had to devour the inhabitants of the earth in days to come. . . . John learned that God glorified Himself by saving all that His hands had made, whether beasts, fowls, fishes or men; and He will glorify Himself with them. . . . The world is full of technicalities and misrepresentation, which I calculate to overthrow, and speak of things as they actually exist. . . . Everything that we have not a key-word to, we will take it as it reads. The beasts which John saw and speaks of as being in heaven, were actually living in heaven, and were actually to have power given to them over the inhabitants of the earth, precisely according to the plain reading of the revelations. I give this as a key to the elders of Israel. The independent beast is a beast that dwells in heaven, abstract [apart] from the human family. The beast that rose up out of the sea should be translated the image of a beast, as I have referred to it in Daniel's vision. After having mentioned all of these things, let us now, in fact, go in real time, using predictive economic power in human behavior, "Back to the Future". The Book of Revelation is Apocalyptic writing, or "crisis literature". Apostle John of Patmos vividly and dramatically presents, from his historical vantage point, after the death of Jesus Christ, the future [historical struggle between all the forces of evil (anti-Christ) and the kingdom of righteousness (Christ).] [Nowhere else do we find the detailed data relative to the plagues and scourges of a sick and dying world. Nowhere is the overthrow of satanic power so pitilessly described.]
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To draw true economic conclusions, based upon past history and genealogies, a review of population estimates must be made. [Now, as our global family grows from 7.3 billion, adding 80 million people each year, where are we headed? If and when will our world population stop growing? . . . Most demographers expect this growth to continue through the rest of this century before global population levels off. On the World Population History timeline this growth is observed through the year 2050 by when the global population is projected to surpass 9 billion.] Reading the Book of Revelation from this perspective, becomes cataclysmic; showing thereby, that this revelation is exceedingly cryptic in outline and format. Therefore, John of Patmos is talking about approximately 9,000,000,000 (9 billion) people, economically, politically, and financially intertwined through global trade and commerce, interconnected through Megacities of the World. [Best Internet Concept of global business from concepts series, connection symbols communication lines. Elements of this image furnished by NASA]
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Additionally, when John of Patmos speaks of Judgement: [And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works]. This statement alone encompasses the total population of the world, born and died since the time of Adam and Eve.

World Population Since Creation shows Population Growth Estimates. Their projecting [formula readily shows the absurdity of evolutionary time scales for mankind. In one million years, if n = 23,256 generations, C = 1.25, and x = 3, the present population of the world would be P = 3.7 x 102091 persons. In contrast the total number of electrons in the universe is only 1090! Assuming that man has been on the earth for a million years or so, as the evolutionist adamantly insists, we calculate that the entire universe would now be filled full of dead bodies! A population of 1090 in one million years requires that the number of children per family be less than 2.0176.The total surface area of the earth is about 5 x 1014 square meters. If we allowed every man, woman and child a square meter and filled all the land masses with people the earth would hold no more than 1014 persons. (That is, one hundred thousand billion persons). In one million years this number would be reached only if the average number of children per family were less than 2.0026. The average number of children per family over the past 2000 years has been of the order of 2.1.] How many people have lived on earth since the dawn of time? . . . [Estimates of the total roster of humankind rely heavily on guesswork, a state of affairs not entirely unknown to us here at the Straight Dope, and accordingly the numbers vary widely. Demographers have come up with estimates ranging between 69 billion and 110 billion humans. That gives us a spread of 41 billion, a pretty formidable margin of error. . . . For example, creationists, who believe it all started with Adam and Eve around 6,000 years ago and that a flood in 2700 B.C. killed off everybody except Noah and his relatives, say the world population to date is 51 billion. Some may feel the creationist figure is entirely too close to the "real" figures for comfort. Maybe, you’re thinking, we should abandon the pretense of science and address future demographic inquiries directly to God.] Thus, John of Patmos is covering in his statement: "and they were judged every man according to their works", an assembly of at least 50 billion children of God.
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/projecting-global-population/
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[Ancient Times. - The Pentateuch contains a number of statements as to the number of Jews that left Egypt, the descendants of the seventy sons and grandsons of Jacob who took up their residence in that country. Altogether, including Levites, there were 611,730 males over twenty years of age, and therefore capable of bearing arms; this would imply a population of about 3,154,000. The Census of David is said to have recorded 1,300,000 males over twenty years of age, which would imply a population of over 5,000,000. The number of exiles who returned from Babylon is given at 42,360. Tacitus declares that Jerusalem at its fall contained 600,000 persons; Josephus, that there were as many as 1,100,000, of whom 97,000 were sold as slaves. It is from the latter that most European Jews are descended. These appear to be all the figures accessible for ancient times, and their trustworthiness is a matter of dispute], because full consideration has never been given to the horrendous amount of global destruction that occurred at the time of the death of Jesus Christ. [This event followed each of his deeds, and healings of body and soul, and knowledge of hidden things, and his resurrection from the dead, all sufficiently proven to the disciples before us and to his apostles: after the most dreadful darkness fell over the whole world, the rocks were torn apart by an earthquake and much of Judaea and the rest of the land was torn down.] [And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.]. Immediately after the death of Jesus, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. However, upon the American Continents, this most dreadful period of darkness lasted three days, (or until the Resurrection of Jesus Christ), indicating a massive amount of worldwide destruction, which would have naturally and extensively depopulated the nations of the world that formerly lived, during the time of His birth, from those that would have survived, until after His Crucifixion.
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In conclusion, from a professional genealogical research specialist economic standpoint, John of Patmos saw the same things that Moses saw, years before, pertaining to the billions and billions of inhabitants, who are all later to be judged by Jesus Christ. [And it came to pass that Moses looked, and beheld the world upon which he was created; and Moses beheld the world and the ends thereof, and all the children of men which are, and which were created; of the same he greatly marveled and wondered.] And this would have included the further billions and billions to be born henceforth during the pending Millennium of The Peace of Jesus Christ. So, that great city Babylon is the KEY. [Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: . . . And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.] In other words, in modern terms and languages, global trade and commerce, interconnected through Megacities of the World. [Globalization combined with the advent of the Internet and the accompanying revolutions in communications technology have transformed the world] See: [Global flows in a digital age: How trade, finance, people, and data connect the world economy. . . . Global flows have been a common thread extending through the mercantilist and colonial eras, from trade routes of old such as the renowned Silk Road through the industrial revolutions that swept across Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries to the more recent rise of emerging economies. But today the web of cross-border exchanges has exploded in scope and complexity. . . . By 2025, 1.8 billion people around the world will enter the consuming class, nearly all from emerging markets, and emerging-market consumers will spend $30 trillion annually, up from $12 trillion today. (2012 date)] [World cities are those that exert a dominant influence over continental and global economies and processes. This is INDEPENDENT of population size, as world cities do not have to have huge populations (but usually do) to exert such a huge influence.  Indeed, a world city (also called global city or world centre) is a city generally considered to be an important node (FOCAL POINT) in the global economic system such as London, New York and Tokyo.] Thus, when John of Patmos says, "By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.": It encompasses approximately 3,000,000,000 (3 billion) people. And when it says, "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts", John of Patmos speaks clearly concerning Gadianton "Sanctuary Cities".  [Apostle M. Russell Ballard described secret combinations as including "gangs, drug cartels, and organized crime families. . . . They have secret signs and code words. (And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.) They participate in secret rites and initiation ceremonies. Among their purposes are to 'murder, and plunder, and steal, and commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness, contrary to the laws of their country and also the laws of their God.'" Church President Gordon B. Hinckley compared modern terrorists to the "Gadianton robbers, a vicious, oath-bound, and secret organization bent on evil and destruction."]
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RESEARCH NOTE: The Role of Merchants in the Ancient Kingdom of Babylon . . . Babylon was an ancient kingdom in Mesopotamia that played a huge role in the development of human civilization. The city was built on the banks of the Euphrates River and has been ruled by multiple empires, including the Achaemenid, Roman, and Sassanid. Babylonians had a well-developed trading relationship and merchants played a key role in the kingdom. . . . Our knowledge of merchants in ancient Babylon comes from the famous “Code of Hammurabi,” a set of laws that governed Mesopotamian society. Almost a tenth of the Code covers laws of business and economics, including laying out the duties and responsibilities of the merchant class.
https://www.visiontimes.com/2019/05/28/the-role-of-merchants-in-the-ancient-kingdom-of-babylon.html
The Code of Hammurabi: The Best Rule To Manage Risk . . .  In the era of city-states, Hammurabi grew his modest kingdom (somewhere between 60 and 160 square kilometers) by conquering several neighboring states.
https://fs.blog/2017/11/hammurabis-code/
The Code of Hammurabi: An Economic Interpretation . . . [Thus, the political set-up had Hammurabi at the top of the pyramid. Next were the military and temple establishments with their own roles and responsibilities. The final layer consisted of the members of the kingdom. The Babylonian society as recognized in The Code is also seen as hierarchical consisting of three classes (Johns, 1911-1912). The land owners, merchants, priests and government officials and soldiers belonged to the elite group often identified as the Amelu. Next in the hierarchy is a group called the Mushkinu. This group included artisans, shopkeepers, teachers, farmers and laborers. The members of this group were heterogeneous and free citizens. The lowest ranking group member was ardu, the slave.] . . . [The Code recognizes many economic actors. The predominant activity in Hammurabi‟s realm was agriculture. The Code points to a feudal system of ownership with tenure resting in the hands of priests attached to a temple, nobles, military and bureaucratic officials. An important figure in The Code is the merchant (Anonymous, 1938). Although it is hard to derive enough information to make a full portrayal of this person, it is clear that the merchant engaged in international trade and even acted as a diplomat abroad.]
http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol._2_No._8%3B_May_2011/14.pdf
Ancient tablets reveal daily life of exiled Jews in Babylon 2,500 years ago . . .  Over 100 palm-sized, 2,500-year-old tablets discovered in Iraq, . . . , are providing unprecedented insights into Jewish life after Judeans were exiled to ancient Babylonia. . . . Nebuchadnezzar, a powerful ruler famed for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world), came to Jerusalem several times – including during the destruction of the First Temple – to spread the reach of his kingdom. . . . The tablets shed light on the Judeans’ contributions, detailing taxes paid, debts owed, credits accumulated and trade in fruits and other commodities.
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[Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.. . . How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, . . . for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. . . . And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. . . . And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.]
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ADDENDUM: [For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. . . . And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.] This twice stated time period shows mega city Babylon will have future worldwide telecommunications disruptions and the cessation of Internet connectivity; "for in one hour is she made desolate." The Apostle John of Patmos used this representation of the great city Babylon, as one of its historical, characteristic representations does manifest itself in the construction of the Tower of Babel, as: [the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and a tower “with its top in the heavens.” God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another.] It is therefore, an attested (written, eye witnessed, documented fact, confirmed thereafter, and  transmitted, or passed down by authorized legal and lawful scribal representatives); fully validated, by second witnesses from The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, The Book of Jubilees, the Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, and by all truly living, inspired Biblical scholars, throughout all of modern Christianity. The greatest Christian Biblical Scholar of his day, was the martyred Seer, Joseph Smith, Jr.. In his translations in the Pearl of Great Price, there is found: "A Translation of some ancient Records that have fallen into our hands from the catacombs of Egypt. The writings of Abraham while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand, upon papyrus." Abraham clearly testifies and writes: "But I shall endeavor, hereafter, to delineate the chronology running back from myself to the beginning of the creation, for the records have come into my hands, which I hold unto this present time." Abraham previously declared his legal and lawful authority: "I became a rightful heir, a High Priest, holding the right belonging to the fathers. It was conferred upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the present time, even the right of the firstborn, or the first man, who is Adam, or first father, through the fathers unto me." Therefore, there is no question, from this source, that the Bible record, as it is currently received, is a valid (as far as it is translated correctly, and though it is incomplete, having many plain and precious items removed) scribal document of activities, actions, and time chronologies, pertaining to the early, and beginning, contemporaneously created, history of all mankind. Additionally, chronological connection is made from Abraham to the Prophet Moses, through Section 84 of the Doctrine and Covenants; namely: "And the sons of Moses, according to the Holy Priesthood which he received under the hand of his father-in-law, Jethro; And Jethro received it under the hand of Caleb; And Caleb received it under the hand of Elihu; And Elihu under the hand of Jeremy; And Jeremy under the hand of Gad; And Gad under the hand of Esaias; And Esaias received it under the hand of God. Esaias also lived in the days of Abraham, and was blessed of him—Which Abraham received the priesthood from Melchizedek, who received it through the lineage of his fathers, even till Noah; And from Noah till Enoch, through the lineage of their fathers; And from Enoch to Abel, who was slain by the conspiracy of his brother, who received the priesthood by the commandments of God, by the hand of his father Adam, who was the first man—Which priesthood continueth in the church of God in all generations, and is without beginning of days or end of years." Section 107 of the Doctrine and Covenants, further confirms the age or longevity of the Ancient Patriarchs, as well as their genetic purity in the beginning of time. "The order of this priesthood was confirmed to be handed down from father to son, and rightly belongs to the literal descendants of the chosen seed, to whom the promises were made. This order was instituted in the days of Adam, and came down by lineage in the following manner: From Adam to Seth, who was ordained by Adam at the age of sixty-nine years, and was blessed by him three years previous to his (Adam’s) death, and received the promise of God by his father, that his posterity should be the chosen of the Lord, and that they should be preserved unto the end of the earth; Because he (Seth) was a perfect man, and his likeness was the express likeness of his father, insomuch that he seemed to be like unto his father in all things, and could be distinguished from him only by his age. Enos was ordained at the age of one hundred and thirty-four years and four months, by the hand of Adam. God called upon Cainan in the wilderness in the fortieth year of his age; and he met Adam in journeying to the place Shedolamak. He was eighty-seven years old when he received his ordination. Mahalaleel was four hundred and ninety-six years and seven days old when he was ordained by the hand of Adam, who also blessed him. Jared was two hundred years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam, who also blessed him. Enoch was twenty-five years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam; and he was sixty-five and Adam blessed him. And he saw the Lord, and he walked with him, and was before his face continually; and he walked with God three hundred and sixty-five years, making him four hundred and thirty years old when he was translated. Methuselah was one hundred years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam. Lamech was thirty-two years old when he was ordained under the hand of Seth. Noah was ten years old when he was ordained under the hand of Methuselah. Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, who were all high priests, (i.e., men of age and maturity) with the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing. And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel. And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, and said unto him: I have set thee to be at the head; a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou art a prince over them forever. (Adam's Calling and Election was made sure, as a Prophet, Priest and King, in the fullness of His Temple Endowment, along with Mother Eve.) And Adam stood up in the midst of the congregation; and, notwithstanding he was bowed down with age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation. These things were all written in the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time. (Along with public restoration of The Plates of Brass, the records of Mahonri Moriancumer, and all genealogies of the descendants of Father Adam and Mother Eve, in their total and accurate entirety, to obtain for mankind, completion of all necessary and expedient Temple Ordinance Work, during millennial Christus Pax Nostra.)
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tower-of-Babel
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/title-page?lang=eng
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/84?lang=eng
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/107?lang=eng
It is remarkable, that in [A vision given to President Joseph F. Smith in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 3, 1918.]; aka: Doctrine and Covenants 138, the genetic purity of the ancient patriarchs is further mentioned, for: [Among the great and mighty ones who were assembled in this vast congregation of the righteous were Father Adam, the Ancient of Days and father of all, And our glorious Mother Eve, with many of her faithful daughters who had lived through the ages and worshiped the true and living God. Abel, the first martyr, was there, and his brother Seth, one of the mighty ones, who was in the express image of his father, Adam. Noah, who gave warning of the flood; Shem, the great high priest (Melchizedek); Abraham, the father of the faithful; Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, the great law-giver of Israel; . . .]
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1988/01/the-plates-of-brass-a-witness-of-christ?lang=eng
The Tower of Babel: archaeology, history and cuneiform texts
. . . [The most important evidence for the superstructure of the tower is certainly the newest: a broken Neo-Babylonian stele now in the Schøyen Collection. Though it is not yet properly published, a photograph has been available for some time on an internet website (Schøyen 2003). The stele depicts a king standing before a seven-storey ziqqurrat drawn in outline and labelled . . . ‘E-temen-anki, ziqqurrat of Babylon’. The tower is as high as it is wide. Accompanying the relief are two fragmentary ground-plans, one of them no doubt a plan of the temple that crowned the tower, and a fragmentary text, part of which is very reminiscent of Nebuchadnezzar II’s foundation cylinders of E-temen-anki. How this extraordinary monument further impacts on our understanding of the E-sangil Tablet must await the eventual scientific publication of the stele.The ziqqurrat of Babylon from Sennacherib to Nebuchadnezzar II The cuneiform texts that bear most nearly on the history of E-teme] . . . [Having reported the decayed state of the ziqqurrat at Babylon, Nabopolassar’s text goes on to relate how Marduk commissioned him . . . ‘to ground its bottom on the breast of the “Great Place” (i.e. the netherworld), to make its top vie with the heavens’ (Nbp 1 i 34-7). This is a common cliché: many great buildings are said to bridge the gap between the lowermost and uppermost levels of the cosmos (George 1992: 318-19, Edzard 1987). The text’s use of these phrases does not signify that Nabopolassar himself brought this about, only that its author was well versed in the traditional imagery of temple building.]
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/3858/2/TowerOfBabel.AfO.pdf
Etemenanki: name of the large temple tower in Babylon, also known as the Tower of Babel. Its Sumerian name E-temen-an-ki means "House of the foundation of heaven on earth".
https://www.livius.org/articles/place/babylon/etemenanki/
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1998/01/the-flood-and-the-tower-of-babel?lang=eng
Global Power City Index (GPCI) - Institute for Urban Strategies
[Given the global competition between cities, the Global Power City Index (GPCI) evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to their “magnetism,” or their comprehensive power to attract people, capital, and enterprises from around the world. It does so through measuring 6 functions—Economy, Research and Development, Cultural Interaction, Livability, Environment, and Accessibility—providing a multidimensional ranking. The GPCI is able to grasp the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges of global cities in a continuously changing world not only through a ranking, but also through analyzing that ranking’s specific components.]
http://mori-m-foundation.or.jp/english/ius2/gpci2/index.shtml
Global Power City Rank: London, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, Amsterdam, Seoul, Berlin, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Madrid, Stockholm, Zurich, Toronto, Frankfurt, San Francisco, Dubai, Copenhagen, Vienna, Barcelona, Vancouver, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Brussels, Helsinki, Osaka, Shanghai, Washington, DC, Moscow, Dublin, Geneva, Kuala Lumpur, Milan, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Taipei, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Fukuoka, São Paulo, Mexico City, Jakarta, Cairo, Johannesburg, Mumbai
http://mori-m-foundation.or.jp/pdf/GPCI2019_rank.jpg

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