'Beginning of Sorrows'
Rev 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
The Great Harlot is also called Babylon the Great.
Dan 4:30-32a The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?" While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice fell from heaven: "King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you! And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen;
King Nebuchadnezzar was a God-fearing man who wrote to all his subjects declaring the signs and wonders that God performed in his life in Dan 4:1-3. Interestingly, when pride got in the way, he robbed God of His glory. The king lost his sanity and began eating grass like a beast. King Nebuchadnezzar was humbled by God.
Rev 18:7 In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.'
Since the wars and the great depression, US was the richest and most powerful nation.
In 1961, John F. Kennedy, the only US Catholic President quoted, "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute—". The phrase 'separation of church and state' can be traced to a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in January 1, 1802. The intent of this clause was to limit the power of Federal Government in regard to religion thus ensuring religious freedom in the United States of America.
In 1962, the Bible was taken out from all public schools in the US, a confirmation of the complete rejection of God and Theocracy.
In 1963, God rejected President Kennedy and he was assassinated.
America has rejected God as its Head. The resolution is parallel to negating His blessings of riches and accomplishment to itself.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, "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."
The sin of pride and stealing God's glory had made a mad man out of King Nebuchadnezzar. Similarly, God will put madness or blindness into US, so that it becomes a habitation of devils, where heresies and abominable practices are initiated.
Rev 18:3 "For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury."
With its abundant wealth, US has made many nations rich at the price of acquiescing to abominable practices sanctioned by the UN through its human rights agency.
"They don't want to upset the United States. Actually, most of the Western officials only repeat what the United States want them to say. This is the reality," Assad said in an interview filmed in Damascus that took two years of negotiations to arrange.
Rev 18:17-18 For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like this great city?'
This city can only be New York City, which houses both UN and NYSE, the powerhouse of US. So, in a very short period of an hour, World War 3 will see US and the West annihilated.