The Burden of the Madbar of the Sea

Them: Okay, sooo let me get this straight. You say a flood is coming to destroy the whole world?

Nakh (Noah): Yes,

Them: Exactly what day and in what hour can we expect this to happen?

Nakh: No man knows the exact day and the hour, but I do know the year because YA’OH the creator of heaven and earth said there are only 120 years left, and He said that 119 years ago.

Them: So you mean the year after next year is the end of the world as we know it?

Nakh: Yes.

Them: Can we be saved even if we don’t get inside “your” boat?

Nakh: Uhhhh, well, I guess you could try to make your own boat.

Them: See, now that’s where I disagree with you. We need a spiritual boat, not a literal boat brother.

Nakh: Righhhht, okay.

Them: You think you the only one with the truth? Humble down. You not the only one with knowledge.

Nakh: Okay.

Them: We can’t all fit inside the boat you’re building you silly clown. Don’t you see how ridiculous and unreasonable you are being with this foolish doctrine of yours?! He not gonna kill whoever not inside your boat. Stop it!

Nakh: Right. Okay, well, is there anything else I can help you with today? If you don’t mind, I have to go waste more of my time and finish building my literal boat.

Them: You too full of pride, brother. I can tell by your spirit that the most high and christ is not with you. You must have a demon on you.

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The moral of this story? If you knew you could only save a few people then you must treat everyone else as if they are already dead. They just don’t know it. So let them have their last few moments of fun, even if that means mocking and ridiculing you as if you are the one who is crazy, because that’s all they have left.

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[1] The burden of the MADBAR (the wilderness) of the sea. Like whirlwinds in the south hastening passed. From MADBAR it is coming. From a land of terror.

[2] A hard vision is declared to me. The treacherous is the one dealing treacherously, and the spoiler is the one spoiling. Go up, Ghaylam! Besiege, Maday! All the groanings of her have I caused to cease.

[3] Therefore, filled are my loins of pain! Pangs have seized hold of me, like the pangs of the woman in labor. I was bent over from hearing! I was shocked from seeing!

[4] Thumped my heart! Fearfulness, it terrified me! The twilight of my pleasure, it has turned to trembling anxiety unto me!

[5] Prepare the table, watching in the watchtower, eat, drink. Rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.

[6] For thus He said to me, the Lord: Go! Set up the watchman. That which he will see let him declare.

[7] And he saw a chariot, a pair of yoked horsemen, a chariot of an ass, a chariot of a camel. And he paid sharp attention with great heed.

[8] And he cried out: Lion! Upon the watchtower, oh lord, I am standing continually day by day, and upon my ward I am set all of the nights.

[9] And behold this! There came a chariot of men, a pair of yoked horsemen. And he answered and said: Fallen! Fallen is Babylon, and all the idols of her gods has He shattered to the earth!

[10] My threshing, and the grain of my threshing floor, that which I have heard from YA’OH tsaba’oth, the Higher Power of Ya’oh-shar-al, I have declared to you.

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Commentary

[1] I crack a lot jokes at times, one of the reasons being is that what I have been allowed to see in terms of the future is horrifying and I know most people will not listen to the warning, and there is nothing you can do about it. The information is enough to drive you mad, and laughter is one way to help you cope and keeps you from going insane. You cannot save everyone, even the ones you love the most.

For the longest time I had no clue what this verse 1 meant, and I must have read a million times over the years. I didn’t have a clue until after He told me His name in this place where I am now.

The “madbar of the sea” is none other than the second wilderness, an archipelago of islands located in the “south” sea of east Asia. It is a place frequented by “whirwinds” (typhoons, hurricanes), which makes it a “land of terror” exactly as this verse 1 states. But these natural storms which hastily pass through the Philippines often several times a year, the last one called Super Typhoon Odette ripped the roof off my house, they are nothing compared to the destruction and terror that will come to the world from a people who have only recently relocated to the Philippines. Verse 1 is a warning!

[2] This verse can throw you off, if you’re not careful. On the surface it looks as if it is saying that the destroyers of Babylon will be Ghaylam (Elam) and Maday (Medes). The problem is, if this is talking about ancient Babylon then this is a false prophecy. The Elamites and the Medes of old did not destroy Old Babylon. There was no fighting at all. The ancient city of Babylon surrendered to Cyrus of Persia in 539 BCE peacefully, without a battle. Old Babylon is in ruins in Iraq today not because of the ancient Elamites and Medes of the Persian empire of Cyrus the Great, but because of the Muslims in Iraq during the 7th century CE. And there was no war against Old Babylon during the Islamic period either. The place was already abandoned and the Muslims simply let Old Babylon continue to deteriorate as they harvested bricks from the city to use in other buildings elsewhere. Old Babylon never came crashing down and turned into ruins by an invading army.

So who are the people called Ghaylam and Maday who will destroy a New Babylon and turn it into ruins, and where is this New Babylon since Old Babylon can never be resurrected and become a world superpower?

New Babylon is the modern-day country of the treacherous one who deals treacherously (with the people of Ya’oh-shar-al living within her) and of the spoiler one who spoils (the people of Ya’oh-shar-al living within her). It is the world’s only superpower but not the home of the free and the land of the brave. Rather, she is the home of the slave owner and where she is still oppressing her former slave 157 years after she abolished slavery.

Her “groanings” refer to all the pompous noise she makes in boasting about herself and how good and how strong she is, reveling in all her accomplishments, in her vast economic power, and always flexing her military superiority around the world, propping up leaders when they serve her interests, and then knocking them down when they don’t.

But all of her noise will be silenced when Ghaylam and Maday come up and start knocking on her door. The word ghaylam comes from ghalam which means “hidden” and maday comes from madah which means “measure” and mad-ay means “my measure”. Why do these people, whoever they are, attack New Babylon with such ferocity if not for the simple fact that they primarily are the ones whom she deals treacherously with, and they primarily are the ones whom she has gotten over on and continues to spoil? The ones who spoil her will rightfully be the ones “from the north” where she is who were spoiled by her (Yaram-Ya’oh 51:48).

These people are not the literal Elamites and Medes of old. These are the people whose true identity has been “hidden” among the nations and yet they are the “measure” and portion of YA’OH among the nations. They are His hidden measure. YA’OH is putting a remnant of them in the “madbar of the sea” and it is from their location in the madbar of the sea that they will come against New Babylon (Maycha 4:10). Their weapons will obliterate armies and destroy the arsenal of every country no matter how advanced and sophisticated their arsenal may be.

[3-4] Why is the prophet so sad and so upset in these two verses? Why is he is in so much pain over what should be a reason to celebrate? Is not the collapse of that New Babylon a just cause for rejoicing? Yes and no. Why no? No because the majority of his people, the people of the middle passage brought to that land of pyramids by slave ships, will not leave her. They will stay in New Babylon and staying means they will die. This is why the prophet is in so much anguish. Only a remnant manage to escape and get out of her before it’s too late.

[5] Prepare the table means set the table and furnish it with meats and drinks. The prophet is foretelling what the new Babylonians will be doing when their enemies to the east of them make their move and strike. They will be eating and drinking and going about their merry lives carelessly, indulging in life’s pleasures, wining and dining totally carefree. She has reason to feel so safe and secure behind her borders. No country with a modern mechanized army and conventional weapons can sneak up on America. America’s watchtowers can see you mobilizing your forces and prepping your missiles thousands miles away. You have absolutely zero chance of pulling off a successful surprise attack, and we all know by now that the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks were not surprises.

The order given to the “princes” to rise and to anoint the shield in this verse 5 is an order given to Ghaylam and Maday to prepare for battle while the new Babylonians are feasting securely; and since the Ghalaym and the Maday will not be fighting with conventional weaponry the new Babylonians will be taken completely by surprise. The weapons they utilize will go undetected by New Babylon’s All-Seeing eye and she wont know what hit her (Yashai-Ya’oh 47:11). Her defenses will be utterly useless against the kinds of arrows that will be shot at her from the madbar of the sea by the two prophets Ghaylam and Maday.

[6] The prophet is now told to go and set the watchman and then let the watchman report back what he sees. This is not the enemy watchman behind enemy lines in New Babylon. This is the watchman in the “madbar of the sea” and their prophet is the one who sets a watch in order that the remnant in the “madbar of the sea” may stay abreast of what is happening in New Babylon now that she has come under attack. This is a figurative way of saying that the remnant in the wilderness who are the attackers of New Babylon will also be watching and waiting for updates from a safe distance.

[7] What the watchman sees is something no one would have believed was possible in a million years. The mighty armed forces of New Babylon, the same country that policed the whole world and beat nations into oblivion, that country’s army has been decimated and reduced to a single chariot, to a pair yoked horsemen, to a single chariot pulled by an ass, and to a single chariot pulled by a camel. The vision employs ancient imagery in order to convey a complete overthrow of a modern superpower. The watchman is astounded by what he sees and he pays razor sharp attention as events continue to unfold.

[8] The watchman speaks these words to the prophet, who, by command from YA’OH, had set him in this watchtower; to whom, he therefore gives the following account. He cries out: “Lion!” This is not a mistake in the manuscripts, as some suppose. The watchman assesses the situation on the ground, which is that the scattering and the mind-boggling reduction of the enemy forces is like when animals flee from a lion in order to save their lives. That’s what he is expressing to the prophet. The very name YA’OH is the sound of a lion’s roar and none of these events could have preceded the name’s return from the islands of the far east, in the madbar of the sea, via a ravenous bird.

The watchman also tells the prophet that he never leaves his post but remains there day after day and night after night. What this means is that although New Babylon is going to be brought down violently and abruptly in just “one day” (Yashai-Ya’oh 47:9), she will linger on in the daytime and wallow on in the nighttime, and thus the watchman’s job around the clock day by day and night by night will last for a period of some time.

[9] Things become increasingly worse in New Babylon after its initial fall. The watchman now sees only a single chariot of men and a pair of yoked horsemen. The single chariot pulled by the ass and the other one pulled by the camel are gone. This is a further reduction from what the watchman reported seeing of the enemy forces in verse 7. At that point, the watchman confidently cries out that: “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon, and all the idols of her gods has He shattered to the earth!”

Once again, I would like to remind you, the reader of this blog post, that Cyrus the Great of Persia did not break Old Babylon into pieces, or in any way destroy or insult the Babylonian idol gods. On the contrary, he maintained them and financially supported them in their various shrines. He restored them where they had been displaced; and he professed himself to be a worshipper of the chief Babylonian god – Mardouchebag (Marduk). He repaired and beautified the massive temple of Mardouchebag and he prayed to him to lengthen his days as king. Therefore, verse 9 cannot be talking about Old Babylon. Whoever tells you otherwise is lying to you, and that lie, if you believe it, can get you killed because it’s aims is to lull you into a false sense of security so that you do not get up and get out of New Babylon.

[10] In this verse 10 the prophet Yashai-Ya’oh ends his hard vision by addressing that future generation of his people, figuratively called Ghaylam and Maday, who will bring down New Babylon violently and decisively. They are the grain of the threshing floor, crushed and downtrodden by the brutality of the nations in the lands where they were scattered by YA’OH in His wrath. But the long process of threshing has severed the wheat from the chaff and now the purified wheat is fit to be gathered to the madbar of the sea, to the land of storms, and to the land of terror from where they will send unspeakable terror to the lands of their oppressors.

You can kick, scream, shout, and jump up and down all day long, but unless YA’OH opens a person’s eyes, they will never see what the prophet is talking about in this hard vision. The world as we know it is quickly coming to an end. A new paradigm is about to shift into place. Millions upon millions of people are going to die. From madbar is this death coming. Save yourselves and those with eyes to see who want to be saved along with you. Sadly, the rest will remain oblivious, and like the ones mocking you for your “strange” and unconventional beliefs and for fleeing New Babylon as the scripture demands, they are already dead and don’t know it.

Choose Him over everything and over everyone. Choose to live with Him in His “madbar of the sea” and keep His covenant rather than die without Him in a world that is doomed.

His name is YA’OH
Always has been. Always will be.

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