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We are now approaching the end of our second 76-day cleansing cycle at the start of the Prophetic Year. The first cycle always begins shortly after the end of the feast of Tabernacles. In the current case, the first cycle began November 21, 2024 and ended February 5, 2025. The second cycle then continues until April 21 or 22, depending on whether we calculate the time inclusively or exclusively.
Sunday, April 20, is the Wave-sheaf offering (commonly called Easter). The two 76-day cycles give us a baseline prophetic pattern of events that are developing each year and which reach a culmination point at the feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth).
This year we have watched an added feature, because we have seen important events occur on all the watch dates established during the two cycles of 76 days in 1983. At that time, however, the second 76-day cycle ended April 9, 1983 with special emphasis on April 1-9. In other words, that which was accomplished in 1983 has come around again with a greater fulfillment on a new level. How often we see future events established in the past on the same dates.
In this case, 1983 to 2025 is 42 years, the biblical number of arrival. It is clear that the world has arrived at a critical point in history, stemming particularly from Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2, 2025. His tariff plan immediately caused huge turmoil in the financial markets and stock markets around the world, because world trade is being threatened.
The markets were volatile, moving up and down more than 1000 points a day, and in one case going back up nearly 3,000 points—a new historical record. About 30 years ago I read that increased volatility would signal the end of the current debt-money system. At the time, the markets had begun to swing 100 points a day, and this was likened to a great giant who was staggering before falling to the ground. Now we are seeing the giant stagger with 1000-point ups and downs. How long will it take for the giant to collapse?
Perhaps now we have finally “arrived” at that point.
Donald Trump took note of this volatility and paused most of the retaliatory tariffs for another 90 days. China was the exception, because China had the temerity to respond with tariffs against US products. All nations now are having to decide whether to keep their US markets or move toward China and the BRICS nations as a whole.
Trump is injecting uncertainty in the markets. No one knows if he will do what he says or bluff his way to bring the nations into submission. Markets do not like uncertainty. Sanctions in recent years have alarmed many countries, who cannot be sure of maintaining good trade relations with America. The US/EU theft of Russian bank deposits a few years ago make them realize that the same could happen to them as well, if the US president thinks other nations are not fully aligned with the US position.
Recall that we took Mystery Babylon to the divine court on November 21-29, 1993, and God gave his verdict 12 months later on November 29, 1994. This was according to the pattern in Daniel 4:29. The answer came when the US House passed the GATT treaty on November 29, 1994. This was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. It was a precursor to the World Trade organization.
The point is that God’s answer told us that Mystery Babylon was to be overthrown and that it would have to do with “Tariffs and Trade.” We have now come full circle 30 years later (as of last November). Trump was elected US president, and he immediately began to speak of tariffs. This suggests that Trump is answering our prayer to overthrow Mystery Babylon, which rules the earth today mostly through a financial empire that supports its military force.
The prophecy in Revelation 18:3 tells us that “the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality,” but yet “her sins have piled up as high as heaven” (Revelation 18:5). So when Babylon falls, we read in Revelation 18:11,
11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more.”
Verses 15-18 continue,
15 The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand at a distance because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning… 17 for in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste! And every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make a living by the sea, stood at a distance, 18 and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, “What city is like the great city!”
The fall of Babylon is characterized in prophecy mostly in financial terms and the end of world trade. What better way to implement this than for the world’s largest market to slap high tariffs on imports? So should we be upset with Trump for being God’s instrument of destruction? No, for we read in Revelation 18:20,
20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her.
In other words, God has issued His “judgment” (or verdict) in our favor. We won our case, and therefore the great city Babylon is being cast into the sea like a “millstone” (Revelation 18:21). The debt-money system of fiat has made many merchants wealthy, but this is now coming to an end. The debt-money system has resulted in too much money being created, but that money has flowed primarily into the bank accounts of the wealthy creditors. The people on the street have been left with debts and have too little money to survive.
This will be replaced by a Kingdom economy which is about to emerge.
Dr. Stephen Jones has been writing blog posts since 2005 on a variety of topics from Bible Studies to World News, and he has been writing books since 1992. Dr. Jones' most important writings came after God brought him back into the full-time ministry in 1991. It is here that all his earlier years of searching the Scriptures began to come into clear focus. He combines a knowledge of the Old and New Testaments with a personal revelation of God that began and developed during the "wilderness" period of his life, which he often refers to as God's True Bible College... Read More
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