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Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Koinia Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck begins his teaching entitled, The Mystery of Babylon. Well, we are in session six of our study of the book of Daniel.

And we went through chapters one through five up through last session, but we're inserting sort of an addendum on Babylon.

We talked, obviously, in Daniel chapter 5 with the fall of Babylon to the Persians.

Historically, that happened in 539 BC. It's well documented.

And many of your Bible helps, of course, will help you with that, except most of them make

a mistake. Most of them assume, incorrectly, that Babylon was destroyed when it fell to the Persians.

Quite the contrary.

They took it over without a battle.

And I mentioned that not to disparage many of the good helps that are around, but you will

discover that most of them fall into the trap of assuming that the fall of Babylon and the

doom of Babylon are the same thing.

And so because of that, we're going to devote this session to talking about what really happened to Babylon since that fall,

because it turns out not just a question of correcting an erroneous history,

but it has profound implications for each one of us in this room and, in fact, gives us one

of those marvelous chances to test our hermeneutics, to put an empirical test to our theories

of interpretation.

This is very dear to me for a lot of reasons because I grew up very interested in the Word

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