“The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon… Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! …For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live there again” (Jeremiah 50:1-3)

Seventy years later this prophecy was fulfilled as Cyrus came from the North and destroyed Babylon. The latter part of the prophecy, that no one would live there again, is still true over 2,400 years later. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but now there is only desert in its place. It is said that Saddam Hussein planned to rebuild Babylon, yet the sand still blows over the supposed site. God’s Word still stands, but Babylon has fallen.