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The Meaning of the Year 2026 - Political Babylon 

Cosmic Attack
The Meaning of the Year 2026 - Political Babylon
Cosmic System Counterattack
Examples of Political Babylon
Eclipses
Conclusion

The Meaning of the Year 2026 - Political Babylon  

January 1, 2026 (Day 1):  The meaning of the year 2026 is Political Babylon.   Political Babylon is a theological term for one of three attributes of Satan's Cosmic System.  "Cosmic" is a transliteration of the Greek word kosmos, meaning world.  The Cosmic System is the system that Satan uses for ruling the world.  God is still Sovereign over all Creation, but He allows Satan limited Sovereignty over the world for the purpose of allowing Satan to defend himself and oppose God in Satan's Appeal Trial.  Satan wants to prove that he can rule the world in the place of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God creates life, which includes more than just being alive, eating and breathing and being healthy.  Life includes having relationships, a family, and support with food, clothing, and shelter along with a friendly environment.  Satan cannot create life, but he has the power to alter the course of life and to end it in death, with God's permission, under the rules of the Appeal Trial.  He lured the first man and woman in the Garden of Eden into Spiritual death and the sentence of physical death.  Satan can bless people with fame and fortune or curse them with pain, misery, and ruin.  Satan counterattacks the life that God created and lures people into sin and death.  People are pawns in Satan's plan, and he regards death as the ultimate vote of confidence that people had rather suffer with him in Hades than live with God in Heaven.

This is the background for understanding Political Babylon, which began in the Garden of Eden before the city of Babylon even existed.  Babylon is the Greek word for the Hebrew Babel, which was a city-state, or kingdom, in the region of Mesopotamia.  However, Babel and the word Babylon in the Bible was also used symbolically.  Political is from Latin politicus for citizens or a state.2  So Political Babylon refers to citizens (or people) in Satan's kingdom of Babylon.  Satan is the ruler of the world, and all people on Earth are subject to him in some way.

Satan became the ruler of the world when he convinced man to sin in the Garden.  Adam and his wife,
'Ishah, were trichotomous creations of God with body, soul, and human spirit.  They were created to be witnesses for the prosecution in the Appeal Trial to demonstrate the Righteousness of God.  They were created in the image of God, unlike the prehistoric species of man.  They had no sin.  They could sin in only one way, by violating God's command not to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  If they ate from that tree, dying spiritually, they would die physically (Gen 2:16, 17).

In order to vindicate himself Satan needed to convince the man and woman to sin against God and thereby choose death over the life that God had created for them.  So Satan counterattacked the woman first.  He indwelt the serpent, who was the woman's favorite pet.  He lured the woman away from Adam and started a friendly conversation with her.  Satan was the most beautiful creature that God ever created and could be quite charming.  Satan spoke through the serpent, and the woman thought the serpent was talking.  She didn't know about Satan and demons, like most people today

The woman listened to Satan's lies and promises that she could be like God and sit on his throne by eating the forbidden fruit.  In talking to Satan, the woman was being socially unfaithful to her husband.  To convince the woman Satan changed the subject from the command of God to the qualities of the fruit and what eating it could do for her.  The woman  was convinced.
When 'Ishah saw that the tree was good for food, that it was a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband by her, and he ate. (Genesis 3:6)  
The woman was overcome from all directions by the power of the Satanic Counterattack.  Although she had not yet sinned, she was already hanging on Satan's every word and about to sin.  "'Ishah saw that the tree was good for food."  This was the counterattack of Ecumenical Babylon from the X-axis of the Cosmic System of Satan.  "It was a delight to the eyes."  This was the counterattack of Political Babylon from the Y-axis of the Cosmic System.  "And the tree was to be desired to make one wise."  This was the counterattack of Cosmic Babylon from the Z-axis of the Cosmic System.  The woman was lured by the power of Ecumenical, Political, and Cosmic Babylon from the Cosmic System of Satan.  This verse was the perspective of the Holy Spirit in recognizing the three parts of the Satanic counterattack on the woman.  The three axes correspond to the three axes of the Trinity, "Faith, Hope (Justice, Sovereignty), and Love."

The woman ate of the forbidden fruit, and died spiritually.  She then turned into a Cosmic Evangelist and picked the fruit and handed it to her husband Adam to eat.

Now, Adam was in the same predicament that his wife had been.  She appealed to his love for her to follow her into sin.  However, unlike the woman, Adam was not seduced.  He was not under the power of the Satanic Counterattack.  He was dealing with the woman in the Cosmic System, who was empowered by Satan.  He knew objectively what was happening, but his personal love for the woman was greater than his respect for the command of God.  The power of personal love drew Adam to his wife, who was Spiritually dead in the darkness of the Cosmic System.  The woman was in the Cosmic System under the power of Satan and the spell of Political Babylon.  Adam knew what had happened.  Yet, he lacked the strength to obey God's authority and preserve the authority over his wife.  Adam used his volition to reject the authority of God and obey his wife in sin.  He also ate of the fruit and died spiritually.

When the man and woman in the Garden sinned, they fell into the Cosmic System of Satan.  They no longer ruled the world, and Satan became the new world ruler.  As long as the man and woman lived on Earth, they were subjects of Satan.  Satan also became the ruler of all the other life forms on the Earth, including plants, animals, insects, and even bacteria and pestilence.  

Cosmic System Counterattack

Cosmic
            System CounterattackSatan counterattacks the life of the believer in Christ to alter his course in life and take him to his grave.  Satan tempts to sin on one side and attacks (makes war against) on the other side.  Whether tempting, luring, enticing or attacking in Spiritual Warfare, Satan is the enemy of the Christian and out to destroy him.  This is in keeping with Satan's attempt to prove that he can rule a person's life better than the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.  One of the most difficult aspects of life is finding the New Spiritual Life and staying on course.  Satan is out to disrupt that process.
 
The two main protections against Satanic Counterattacks are the Filling of the Spirit and the Divine Dynasphere.  The Filling of the Spirit is achieved by Rebound.  The Divine Dynasphere is a shield of protection around the believer provided by the Grace of God.  Grace Orientation is necessary to keep from interfering with its operation.


Cosmic
            System AttackThree elements of Satan's Cosmic System are exposed by the Justice of the Holy Spirit.  They are Cosmic, Political, and Ecumenical Babylon.  However, the individual elements cannot be broken out of the system.  The number 26 may identify Political Babylon, but Political Babylon is part of the Cosmic System.  It does not exist outside of the system.  The elements of the Cosmic System are like the elements of the fire triangle, where heat is analogous to Political Babylon.  The fire doesn't burn unless all three elements (fuel, air, and heat) are present (ref. Fire Testing).  Similarly power failures and the lights going out may be associated with Political Babylon in the Cosmic System.

For more complete explanation see Cosmic System Counterattacks (Divine Dynasphere) and Cosmic System Counterattack (Emotion).

Examples of Political Babylon

The year 2026 stands for Political Babylon.  It follows 2025, which was the year for Sovereignty.  Sovereignty belongs to God, but 2026 will be a time for Satan to play God and demonstrate his ability to be the sovereign king of the world.  This will likely come through Evil Kings, antichrists, and Prostitutes of Babylon.  For some ideas on what to expect some examples of Political Babylon might be helpful.  Searching for Political Babylon in the references may help. 

Some examples of Political Babylon are:

    1.  Demon Attacks (Dealing with Demons in Grace) - Spiritual Warfare, including attacks on the body.
    2.  Cosmic Degeneracy (Scar Tissue of the Soul) - Political Babylon is a cheap substitute for love of Right Man - Right Woman.
    3.  Moab; Lust (Balaam)
    4.  Daughters of Jerusalem (Shulamite Woman) were Political Babylon.
    5.  Ahaziah's Relatives (Four Generation Curse)
    6.  Pointing with the Forefinger (Hands in Scripture)
    7.  Lust of the Eyes (Colors in Scripture, ref. 1 Jn 2:15-16) - Pink is the color for lust, but the verse is about separation from the world.
    8.  Social unfaithfulness (The Fall)

Eclipses 

There will be four eclipses in 2026.  Three of the four points of greatest eclipse will be at the ends of the Earth in the Antarctic and Arctic.  The first eclipse will be a Total Solar Eclipse on February 17.  The Noahic Flood began on the 17th of the 2nd month.

Conclusion

The meaning of the year 2026 is Political Babylon.  Political Babylon is a theological term for one of the three main attributes of Satan's Cosmic System.  The Cosmic System is used by Satan to rule the world.  Everyone on Earth is subject to Satan, even Christians.  Christians don't worship Satan, but they are forced to live under his dominion.  Satan controls governments, commerce, organizations, educational institutions, health care, and has strong influence over families and social relationships.  He aims to control the lives of people and uses them before dumping them and trying to send them to their grave.               

Satan works through people today just as he did in the Garden when he spoke through the serpent to lure the woman into sin and death.  Satan destroyed Job's life just as he did the lives of Adam and his Right Woman.  No one can escape Satan in this life, but God has provided some protections to sustain people in need.  People don't have to suffer the same fate as Satan, who is destined for the Lake of Fire.  Salvation is freely available for all who will believe in Jesus Christ.  Christians can learn Bible Doctrine and grow Spiritually so they can withstand the attacks of Satan.  The Filling of the Holy Spirit protects the soul from sin, and the Divine Dynasphere protects the life of the believer from the Cosmic System attacks of Satan.

Christians who avail themselves of Bible Doctrine will be able to handle the problems of life in the devil's world .  They will be witnesses for Christ against Satan and his Cosmic System.  They will be able to recognize the stratagems of Satan. They will resist Political Babylon, and have fellowship with God.  And they will come to know the Love of Christ which goes beyond human knowledge.  And they will experience the power of the Divine Dynasphere to protect them from Satan's attacks.

References

1.  Larry Wood, "Satan, the Super Creature, Satan's Pattern of Deception, " July 16, 2017.
2. 
Douglas Harper, "Political," etymonline, online etymology dictionary, 2001-2025,.
3. 
Larry Wood, "Mystery Babylon the Great, The Fall of Babylon, The Fall, " March 19, 2017.
4. 
Larry Wood, "The Divine Dynasphere, Cosmic System Counterattacks, " Aug. 31, 2015.
5. 
Larry Wood, "Emotion, Cosmic System Counterattacks, " Oct. 7, 2013.
6. 
Fred Espenak
, "Eclipses During 2026," Aug. 16, 2024.

Released January 1, 2026

Author:  Larry Wood