Woe Be To Asia (Philippines...): Partakers of Babylon

Earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, and floods aren’t the exchanges Southeast Asia hoped for when it entered the global marketplace, but that’s exactly what it got and worse as droughts and diseases also cropped-up across the once enchanted lands of God’s rainforests. It may not seem fair, but it’s karma. Southeast Asia was lured into globalization by the inventor of a lying, cheating market system – Babylon, the city of merchants, in the land of traffick. Unfortunately, Southeast Asia is now known as the land of human trafficking, selling its children and youth to Sodom and Gomorrah – sodomy and sexual-perversion.

“And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person: Woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou hast made thyself like unto her; and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom (child prostitution), that they might please and glory in thy lovers, which have always desired to commit whoredom with thee. Thou hast followed her (Babylon) that is hated in all her works and inventions: therefore saith God, I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death (2 Edras 15:46-49).”

Southeast Asia does suffer from God’s wrath, because it “sold out” and entered a world of materialism and perversion. “Woe be unto thee, Babylon, and Asia!… (2 Edras 16:1).” God sent a fire to Southeast Asia that cannot be quenched to this day. ASEAN countries wanted to slash and burn the rainforests for profit, now they deal with on-going wildfires. “A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it (2 Edras 16:4)?” Deforestation has brought pollution, climate change and natural disasters. God’s rainforest can no longer absorb water or carbon or keep the land in place. “He shall cast lightnings, and who shall not fear? He shall thunder, and who shall not be afraid (2 Edras 16:10)?” Who wouldn’t be afraid of the storms of El Niño – Christ’s warning storms of the End Times, when the Third Trumpet sounded (2 Edras 5:4-5). The Third Trumpet being the Chernobyl-Wormwood disaster in 1986 (Rev. 8:10-11). Southeast Asia just ignores the warnings. It is cursed. “But for all these things they shall not turn from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges (2 Edras 16:20).”

They chose to burn God’s rainforests; they got more than they bargained for. They chose to sell their children into sex and labor slavery; they got more than they bargained for. They chose the beast system’s invention of evilconomy; and they got more than they bargained for. But even after being raped and pillaged, they still cozy up with the beast, allowing “disaster capitalism” to take hold and continue to rob them. “At the same time men shall hope, but obtain nothing: they shall labour, but their ways shall not prosper (2 Edras 5:12)… And therefore they that labour labour in vain: For strangers shall reap their fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captives, for in captivity (slavery) and famine shall they get children (2 Edras 16:45-46).”

God makes it clear that He does not like materialism, “And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons: The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the Lord (2 Edras 16:47-48).” And while this article addresses mainly Southeast Asia, all nations will feel the scorches of correction because all of them choose to cozy up to the beast and its whore.

The once God-fearing nations of America the Great and Great Britain were two candlesticks, being lights unto the world for Him as His Two Witnesses (Rev. 11: 3-7), and demonstrating His perfect Laws. But they were lured away by Babylon into industrializing their nations for profit, not sustaining them for God. Their kings would also fornicate with the great whore and learn materialism as a way of life. The Book of Genesis gives us a clue to who the two witnesses are through God’s promise to Abraham that Isaac’s sons (Saxons) would be great: “He [Manasseh] also shall become a people, and he also shall be great [U.S.A.]: but truly his younger brother [Ephraim-Britain] shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations (commonwealth) (Gen. 48:19).” They were great and were protected as long as they witnessed for God, but they backslid and became witnesses for Satan, the Great Destroyer, spreading the Babylonian market system all over the world for material gain for themselves, and learning the art of seduction from the great whore. They will be overcome and killed (Rev. 11:7).

War and Sex in Southeast Asia
While the Japanese cultivated prostitution in Southeast Asia to serve its own soldiers during World War II with its “comfort-women”, it wasn’t until the engineered-Vietnam War that Thailand became an “American brothel”. There were 20,000 prostitutes in 1957; but after the Americans set up seven bases there that number grew to 400,000 by 1964. In 1967, Thailand agreed to provide rest and recreation (R&R), called intercourse and intoxication (I&I) by soldiers. A South Vietnamese government official said that Americans need girls, and they need dollars. That’s a lie: neither party “needed” either one, just like they didn’t NEED that war. The war brought in $16 million annually to the Thai economy; and when the bases closed, the injection stopped. The World Bank encouraged Southeast Asia to concentrate on tourism as an economic strategy. Specifically, in the 1970s, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Development Program approved loans to Asian countries, urging them to raise capital by expanding tourism and entertainment industries. With dollar signs in their eyes, Southeast Asia took the lure, hook, line and sinker. And in correlation, the number of “hospitality” women issued health certificates went from 1700 in 1981, to 7000 in 1986, in Manila, Philippines for example.

Instead of learning God’s Laws from the West, Thailand learned how to make money with prostitution. Every sector had a vested interest in its continuation, so much so that politicians, tourism officials, and policemen invested in the sex-trade industry, even owning brothels themselves. Politicians wheeled-and-dealed with the big boys of capitalism; tourism officials promoted Thailand’s “exotic” lands; and policemen protected everyone’s investment. Tourism became a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry, where mega companies made the big bucks and the laborers worked for peanuts in comparison.

Still today, wherever troops are in the world, prostitution flourishes; and the troops demonstrate how money rules the world, on many levels. For example, the Western presence in Kosovo was blamed for fueling growth of sex trafficking and forced prostitution. Amnesty International reported that NATO soldiers, UN police, and aid workers operated with near impunity in exploiting the victims of the sex traffickers.

The Perversion of Supply and Demand
It’s a perverted system when a tourist thinks that one night in Bangkok is the ultimate-experience. Because the reality is that for laborers in the sex industry, it’s a night of hell, followed by another night in hell. Those young girls and boys aren’t dreaming of having sexual encounters every night with a handful of old, white fat men, or soldiers with an entitlement attitude, or locals on a right of passage. It’s an act of survival, because their kings (leaders) sold them out. And those children aren’t hoping for a romp with a deluded pedophile tourist who thinks he is helping them “because they’ve got to eat”. Almost all sex-laborers aren’t in it for the thrills that tourists can provide them – they are slaves. But because disease comes with sexual perversion, virgins and children become hot commodities, sold to the highest bidder. This means a constant supply of prostitutes are demanded because a child is only a virgin once; and young bodies age quickly as they can’t handle the drugs forced on them; and they die from diseases and malnutrition. Older “used” slaves are offered to locals at reduced rates. For all these abominations, their nations are cursed, just as 2 Edras predicts.

“The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled, and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, and before the glory of His power (2 Edras 16:12).” This verse may have predicted the 2004 Tsunami that hit the region, killing more than 250,000 people and causing massive destruction, even turning their fresh, sweet water bitter as saltwater infiltrated their inland wells. Southeast Asia wasn’t heeding the warnings of the wildfires and El Niño effects, which were allowed to continue under the Babylonian system; so then, just maybe the Heavens allowing the earthquake and tsunami would clear things up. The quake started off the west coast of Sumatra, widely known for its decimation of rainforests for profit, as they slash and burn it for globalized palm-oil companies– proving they have no respect for what was in their hands to take care of for God. The day after Christmas, which was probably also a sign, as well as being a high-season for holidaying tourists, the quake shook the Earth and sent a tsunami directly to the coastlines of the Southeast Asian countries that had sold their nations into whoredom. The tourist industry took a nosedive as destination hotels were wiped-out. The fishing-industry took a nosedive as boats were wrecked. The world mourned for them; and sent aid and donations. Yet, the Babylonian materialists intervened with its scheme “disaster capitalism”, which basically works like this: they’ll loan money to rebuild, just sign in blood. Interestingly, blood often means “life” in the Bible. Instead of funds reaching the impoverished people, they were bank entries used to fund a capitalist scheme to privatize land, water and energy. “We will rebuild” becomes a motto, but rebuilding the same-old dung isn’t progress; it’s still the Tower of Babel. The World Bank and IMF seemingly come to the rescue inducing the Stockholm Syndrome.

This article “Woe Be to Asia: Partakers of Bablyon” continues on the Hannah Michaels Blog.