If American Christians imagine America as a kind of Biblical Israel, we will inevitably make the mistake of thinking that the apparatuses of American government—including the war machine—are commissioned by God for divine purposes. Thus to “Make America Great Again” is imagined to be supported by divine warrant and connected to the salvation of the world. But America is not a kind of Biblical Israel—America is a kind of biblical Babylon. America is the latest in a long line of Babylons.