How do I know that I'm a true Christian?

First a person needs to recognize that he is a sinner, accept Jesus as his savior and renounce his own will to do God's will (Matthew 16:24). When God accepts this dear one into sonship, he is spirit begotten. God's spirit will slowly transform him into Christ-likeness. How does this happen? Romans 12:2 (NLT), "Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." Disobeying God's will becomes painful and he seeks forgiveness to restore his close relationship with God. He sets his affections on things above and doesn't strive after earthly riches, status, power, etc. (See Matthew 6:19, 20.) He learns to love righteousness and hate wickedness (Hebrews 1:9).

Another evidence of spirit begettal is answered prayer. A Christian will petition God for help and God will answer him. (Always remember to include in your requests, "Not my will but thy will be done" Luke 22:42.) Sometimes God answers yes, sometimes no, and sometimes wait. The answers may seems like coincidences but one wise man said: "Answers may seem like coincidences, but when I stop praying, the 'coincidences' stop happening." 

However, it is also possible for a Christian to ignore God's word. The apostle Paul warns,  "Do not quench the spirit" 1 Thessalonians 5:19 (ESV). This means a man can ignore those little prompts to do God's will and harden his heart. He may think that a little waywardness is not that important. It's just a small thing. Song of Solomon 2:15 warns, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines." These foxes represent those little compromises and sins a person may commit daily. But these sins actually can spoil his walk with God. Remember, "He who is faithful in very little things is faithful also in much…" Luke 16:10 (ESV).

God loves His children so much that “even the very hairs of your head are all numbered…” Luke 12:7. Therefore, be “…confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it…” Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)

Who made Babylon?

The city of Babylon was the capital of the ancient land of Babylonia in southern Mesopotamia.  It was situated on the Euphrates River about 50 miles south of Baghdad.  The tremendous wealth and power of this city, along with its monumental size and appearance, were considered a Biblical myth, until its foundations were unearthed and its riches substantiated during the nineteenth century. 

“Cush became the father of Nimrod….the beginning of his kingdom was Babel….in the land of Shinar (in Babylonia).”  “The Lord there confounded the language of all the earth; and from that place the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the earth.” Genesis 10:8-10; 11:9  (Amplified)  The name of Babel in the Bible means “confused.”  Throughout the Bible, Babylon was a symbol of confusion caused by godlessness.

The earliest known inhabitants of Mesopotamia were the Sumerians.  Sargon united the people of Babylonia under his rule about 2300 B.C.  Many scholars believe that Sargon might have been the same person as Nimrod.

It was the Babylonians, under King Nebuchadnezzar II, who destroyed Jerusalem, the capital of the Kingdom of Judah, and carried God's covenant people into captivity in 606 BC, for 70 years.

The Bible also uses Babylon symbolically as the mother of false and blasphemous systems of worship. Revelation 17:3-6, “…and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored best, full of names of blasphemy…and the woman was …decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus…”

This horrible symbolic Babylon with her harlot daughters will be destroyed in the last days. “When the kings of earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her….After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting, ‘Hallelujah!  Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments.  He has condemned the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her adulteries.  He has avenged on her the blood of his servants….Hallelujah!’ ”  Rev. 18:9, 19:1-3  NIV