Why is the name Babylon important? God thought it was important enough to mention it 284 times in your Bible! That is a lot of scriptures containing this word! You might think because the name is mentioned so many times it deserves honorable mention? Not for its value but a warning to us of its destructive powers to any culture! The name appears first in Second Kings 17:24. The King of Assyria brought men from Babylon and planted them in Samaria! Verse 25 goes on to say they did not fear God and God sent lions in to consume them! This is one way to handle the illegal immigrant problem! We have moved to a place in America where very few people fear God! They work on Sunday and do not honor the Sabbath! Sixty years ago when I was a small boy growing up in Nebraska only the police department and the hospitals were open on Sunday! You traveled to church and no where else on Sunday! If you murdered someone you got the death penalty! The name Babylon means confusion! In the Hebrew Strong’s #894. However this Hebrew word has another Hebrew root word that helps us understand the name Babylon! This word literally means to mix yourself with God! That is you dilute God with yourself! Like diluting milk with water to get skim milk! You try to make yourself God! Like an atheist you decide what is right or wrong! You decide who lives or dies! Abortion! Holocaust! However God initiated the incarnation to mix himself with humanity through his only Son Jesus Christ! Then God had to sacrifice his only Son on a Cross to make us right with God! Remember Jesus was fully God and fully man! When the Jews were mixed with the ideology of Babylon God had to take them into captivity to Babylon for 70 years! In the land of confusion they discovered the truth of their God again and regained their heritage and were returned to Israel! Babylon is mentioned several times in the Book of Revelation! God is warning us that in the end times confusion will rule the world! Sexual identity confusion! Political confusion! Darwin/Creation confusion! Lawless confusion! The list goes on also here in America! When I went to another culture in India and lived for 3 years I discovered the great value of my Christ while living there! Had I not gone to India I would not have understood the precious value Christ is to any culture and without him man makes himself God and destruction follows! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com