Enough to know that a bunch of crackpots make it. A bunch of people who don't know the Scriptures.Fundamentalist Christians are conspiracy theorists. Fundamentally, that is exactly what they are.
The USA is Babylon. Yea, okay, preach that nonsense if you want atheists to keep laughing at Christians with the way you caricature their faith.
The eschatology of the Olivet Discourse materialized within the apostles' generation, just as Jesus said. The Apocalypse and the Great Revolt put it in all perspective.
Did you watch the film?
The Babylon where Jesus was crucified was . . . wait for it . . . Jerusalem.
Jerusalem was the faithless whore. Jerusalem was the city surrounded by armies, from which the church fled for three and a half years. Jerusalem was sacked for five months culminating in the fiery furnace that left the temple desolate, whose smoke blacked out the moon and stars.
First-century Christians cared not one whit for a country they never heard of.