CLAIM: Isaiah describes the fall of Babylon at the end of the age. The Babylonian oppression of Judah (605-539 BC) was stopped when they were defeated by the Persians in 539 BC. Babylon will be rebuilt and established in Iraq (50 miles south of Baghdad). It will be restored and used as one of the headquarters for the Antichrist. Babylon will function as the center of the worldwide demonic, religious and economic networks (Isa. 13-14; Jer. 50-51; Rev. 17-18). The judgments prophesied against Babylon in Jeremiah 50-51, describe her sudden and permanent destruction. These have not yet occurred in fullness.
False.
Babylon was destroyed and lies a heap of rubble. The Great Harlot Babylon of Revelation 17 is Rome, based on Daniel 2 (if the head, the first kingdom, is Babylon, then so is the foot, Rome, the last). Babylon remains a haunt of desert creatures to this day, with the slight exception of the late Iraqi leader’s building projects.