I see very little in the bible that should be taken literaly, besides over time much has been deleted form it, and by whom ? man. And to what purpose? his own. Personally the babylon explaination makes as much sense as any. This truly is a wicked country in many respects, Modern day Isreal is little better. Maybe more tothe point The Zionist faction of the government is isreals biggest problem. And the stupid ol US of A just keeps funding it. if I ran the us ,the 1st 2 things to get out of bed with would be the U.N. and Isreal,then nafta ,fucking ditch the "patriot" act, and get the fuck out of Iraq and Afganistan. This country is SO deep in debt but we give Forign aid to any ol body . Worry about us for a change.