Does Jesus physically appear in the Old Testament?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, it's Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to John, calling in from Arkansas. John, what's

your question for, Adriel? Hey, John, are you there?

Yes, sir.

I just want to, I've been studying on the mystery Babylon and the Bible, and I just want to get your opinion.

Everybody I talk to you seems to think that is the United States, but I'm stuck on this in the Internet.

You've got anything to feed me one way or another?

Well, it's a mystery.

I mean, how are we going to find out?

I do have thoughts about this.

So we're looking at the latter chapters of the Book of Revelation, and in particular the fall of Babylon.

And Babylon, it's interesting because John in the book of Revelation, he sort of resurrects

these Old Testament empires, you know, oftentimes spoken of, whether it's the Babylonians

or the Egyptians, these great

empires that really persecuted the people of God. I think he's using them more than anything

as a sort of visionary picture of the enemies of the people of God throughout history.

And there's indication throughout the book that you can associate, there was an association with Babylon with regard to the Jews, the people who were persecuting the Christians there in the first century.

Remember that this book was written for believers in the

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