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The October 1, 2011 Watchtower says this date is important for two reasons. *** w11 10/1 p. 26 When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?—Part One *** But why be interested in the actual date when Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II razed the city of Jerusalem? First, because the event marked an important turning point in the history of God’s people. . . . Second, because knowing the actual year when this “ultimate catastrophe” began and understanding how the restoration of true worship in Jerusalem fulfilled a precise Bible prophecy will build your confidence in the reliability of God’s Word. So why do Jehovah’s Witnesses hold to a date that differs from widely accepted chronology by 20 years? [Emphasis added]

"Yes, in her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones+ and of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth.” - Revelation 18:24 If Babylon the Great is the modern nation of Israel, why does the book of Revelation say that "in her was found the blood of all those who were slaughtered on the earth"? Obviously the objection is that if Israel exists only since 1948, it can not be responsible for all the blood spilled! To answer this question we must understand when the Revelation and the context of this writing are fulfilled. In the meantime, it is useful to reflect on the words of Our Lord when, addressing precisely to the scribes and the hypocritical Pharisees of that nation, he said: “Serpents, offspring of vipers,+ how will you flee from the judgment of Ge·henʹna?For this reason, I am sending to you prophets+ and wise men and public instructors.+ Some of them you will kill+ and execute on stakes, and some of them you will scourge+ in your synagogues and persecute+ from city to city, so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel+ to the blood of Zech·a·riʹah son of Bar·a·chiʹah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.+ Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation" - Matthw 23:33-36 Now we know that when the Lord said "this generation" did not mean something strange, like a generation that intersects with another generation or such absurdity. Jesus pronounced those words in 30 AD. about, and those words came true in 70 CE, that is about forty years later. Nobody asked himself "what the Lord really meant" when he said "this generation" because it was clear what he meant. This also applies to the "sign of His presence" and should make each of us reflect when, trying to hide a series of errors and wrong intentions, we try to make Scripture say what it does not say. However, in this context, the question we should ask ourselves is "Why does the Lord impute crimes from Abel to the scribes and the Pharisees?" Obviously Abel was not killed by a scribe or a Pharisee! At the time of Abel, the nation of Israel did not even exist! Why, then, this condemnation? This could be one of the reasons that led to think that "Babylon the great" was the world empire of false religion because the Pharisees could not be guilty of the death of Abel or of "all those slaughtered on earth". However this hypothesis is absurd because could also be made the opposite objection. If when Jesus condemns those who are guilty of the blood of "all those who have been slaughtered on earth" meant this phantom "world empire of false religion" because, instead, the judgment strikes only on Israel? - compare Luke 21:22 The judgment fell into "that generation" and fell right on Jerusalem, exactly as the Lord said. Why, then, did this condemnation starting with the murder of Abel? This is because God considers those who have "known God" to be especially responsible, yet they commit unspeakable crimes - Amos 3: 2 What other nation in the world has had a "special relationship" with the Creator of the universe so that they have a greater responsibility for their mistakes? - compare Matthew 11: 21-24; 12: 38-41 It is also very important to consider people's heart condition - Matthew 5: 21-22 Although these scribes and Pharisees were not directly responsible for the death of Abel or all those who had been killed until that day, they had clearly manifested the same mental attitude of Cain and for this reason they were already subject to judgment - John 8 : 44-47; 1 John 3:12 However, the legitimate next objection could be "Why should God condemn Israel again, since it has already paid for its mistakes in 70 AD?" As said at the beginning, to answer this question we must understand when the biblical book of Revelation is fulfilled. Every time we read Revelation 18:24 we understood that it was to pay for all the blood spilled since the beginning of time but it does not. Indeed, Revelation is fulfilled on the day of the Lord - Revelation 1:10 So the blood that is imputed to Babylon the Great is all the blood that will be shed on the Lord's day and not from the beginning of time. This should make us reflect on the period in which the day of the Lord really begins, namely a period in which there must also be Israel, not before. If Israel exists only since 1948, the day of the Lord can not start on any other previous date. It can start at a later date, not necessarily in 1948, but it certainly can not begin sooner. However we will deepen this "bold statement" in a future article. Why will Babylon the Great be held responsible for all the blood shed on earth during the day of the Lord? Because this nation will be the main cause of the clash between the king of the north and the king of the south - Daniel 11:40 The king of the north (Russia) either directly or through one of his allies, will find himself in a situation where he will be forced to attack Israel. This attack, predicted in the Scriptures, will become the expedient to bring into play the two great world powers. These will be the wars that foretold the Lord as an unmistakable sign of His presence - Matthew 24: 6 The first and second world wars, though terrifying, have nothing to do with what we have been taught. It will be the next wars to identify the "day of the Lord" - Revelation 6: 3, 4 God is not responsible for these wars but Babylon the Great. This will be the main reason why it will be destroyed, but this will not happen during this attack (now close). Babylon the Great will continue to exist until the last moment of the world system. Towards the end of the great tribulation (not at the beginning), Babylon the Great, or the nation of Israel that will continue to exist until the end of the third world war, will be finally destroyed. This event will start the armageddon war. Look carefully at world events. The next article will see another characteristic of Babylon the Great and this will also help us to identify it as the nation of Israel.

WHY IS THE WOMAN REFERRED TO WICKEDNESS?

In the Bible there are hundreds of references relating to the destruction of Babylon and unfaithful Israel. There are also many parallels between Isreal and Babylon (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel ...). Being accustomed to making parallels with Christianity and the world empire of false religion, every time we read "Israel will be destroyed!" we read, in effect, "Christianity will be destroyed!" and every time we read "Babylon will be destroyed!" we read "The world empire of false religion will be destroyed!". Now the question is ... "If in a specific passage the Bible meant that Israel would be destroyed by intending to own Israel ... what would we find written?" Evidently we would find written "Israel will be destroyed!" In the end it is a matter of understanding whether, whenever we speak of the destruction of Babylon and / or Israel after the Lord's day, there is at least the possibility of referring to Israel, that is, modern Israel which is a literal nation. What is the greatest counterfeiting of the people of God today? Christendom or the modern nation of Israel? Before 1948 this hypothesis and these questions would have made no sense. Any hypothesis would have excluded Israel a priori simply because Israel did not exist. Since May 1948, however, Israel exists and it is basically a matter of understanding three things. 1) See if it is possible that Babylon the Great is a nation 2) If so, see if Israel matches the description that makes the Bible 3) Compare with the current understanding and see which of the two subjects, in the light of the Scriptures and not of personal desires or ideas, are more likely to be. Question 1 Babylon the Great can be a nation?  Meanwhile, let us remember that Babylon the Great, throughout history, has been "identified" with many nations and for the most disparate reasons. Imperial Rome, Papal Rome, USA, UK, USSR etc. Many different people and religious groups have given different explanations but none of them has ever resisted the test of fire and that is the scrutiny of the Scriptures - I Thessalonians 5:21 What about us? One of the explanations given in the publications of the Slave according to which Babylon the Great can not be a literal nation is the fact that "he commits fornication with the kings of the earth". A strengthening of this statement would be the fact that both kings and merchants mourn its destruction. Finally, it would not be a nation because it is said to mislead the entire inhabited earth through its "spiritual practices". That's it? Let's see. In Isaiah 23: 15-17 we speak of Tire as a "forgotten prostitute" and therefore, as such, "commits prostitution with all the kingdoms of the earth on the surface of the ground". Tire was a nation, not a religion or a religious system - Romans 15.4 So a nation can be described, in the Bible, in the act of committing prostitution with all the kingdoms of the earth and remaining a nation. Prostitution may have to do with commercial trade or acts of injustice and bloodshed and not necessarily with religion. - Naum 3: 1-4 In particular, Tire's prostitution has nothing to do with false religion because, if that were so, Jehovah would not have considered “saint” his reward - Isaiah 23:18 "Prostitution" can have to do with the covenant and trust placed in other nations, as reported many times in the Bible when Israel and Judah proved to be unfaithful by allying with pagan nations. It is clear, therefore, if this nation is compared to a prostitute the loss of this prostitute would have caused pain to her lovers (the nations with which she committed prostitution and the merchants who have enriched herself with it) just like ancient Israel " joy " for Tire's prostitution and this not because Tire was a religion or for the religion of Tire. A king can "cry" for the loss of a political ally (therefore for the fall of a nation) and a great merchant can cry for the fall of a commercial ally (which can be big or small but certainly rich nation). So the reasons that "Babylon the Great" can not be a nation because kings and merchants mourn his departure are not valid. What can we say, however, of the strongest affirmation in reference to Babylon La Grande, that is, that "all nations have been misled by its spiritual practice"? This statement in particular has led many to think that it was a religious empire (for many sects of Christianity Babylon the Great is Catholicism and for some Catholics it is even the Second Vatican Council). First of all we must realize that all the empires of the past have resorted to spiritualistic practices and this is also true of modern so-called atheist empires. Pharaoh opposed his "magic practitioners" to Moses and Nebuchadnezzar was practically surrounded - Exodus 7:11 - Daniel 2: 2 The same can be said of Assyria, Syria, Media Persia etc. So if the Bible, speaking of a literal nation, said that "uses magic" or "divination practice", it would not say anything exceptional. We also know from the study of the Scriptures that nations are governed by demons that mislead the entire inhabited earth and that during the wars not only human beings are involved - Daniel 10:13 Can we hypothesize that the demons have given particular power to a nation and that this has, today, "the kingdom over the kings of the earth"? - Revelation 17:18 see also Luke 4: 5-7 By comparing the Scriptures without preconceptions, it is not possible to exclude "Babylon the Great" among the nations. Question 2 "Does the literal people of modern Israel match the description that the Bible makes of Babylon the Great?" In Revelation 17: 1, 2 we read that Babylon the Great "sits on many waters". We know that the waters mean "peoples and crowds and nations and languages" Israel "sits on many waters" because it is surrounded by many peoples and nations that can not stand it ("to sit on" can also mean against the will of the neighboring peoples). In Isaiah 8: 5-8 one speaks of the powerful Assyrian army as "devastating waters"; therefore the "waters" are not always a symbol of protection - Isaiah 8: 5-8 It was put there by the UN against the will of the many neighboring nations. It also sits "on many waters" because his position is due to the nations that make up the United Nations (Babylon the Great also sits on the wild beast of scarlet color) that, besides having settled it where it is still, protect it militarily. The armies of Assyria are compared to "devastating waters", so we can say that they also sit on many armies? - Revelation 17: 3, 16 it is also noteworthy that the nation of Israel is right in the "crossroads" of three continents: Europe, Africa, Asia. If I wanted to find a literal nation located above "many waters" (ie peoples and nations and tribes and languages) both geographically and politically, no other nation would correspond better than the modern nation of Israel. The harlot rides a beast. In Revelation 17: 3 we read "And the angel brought me into the power of the spirit in a wilderness." And I saw a woman seated on a wild scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. " The nation of Israel is already in a desert today and rides on the wild beast of scarlet color which, as we know, is the League or League of Nations ascended from the abyss with the name U.N. Israel exists, thanks to the push of the Anglo-American empire, thanks and through the United Nations, since 1948. Historical events prior to and following the creation of the state of Israel confirm that the Jewish people have ridden the scarlet-colored wild beast even before returning to being a nation (I invite you to do a research on Balfour and all the historical background before 1948). Mother of all prostitutes. Revelation 17: 4-5: "And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and she was adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls, and she had in her hand a golden cup full of disgusting things and the unclean things of her fornication. on his forehead was written a name, a mystery: 'Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth' ". If we accept the possibility that a nation is compared to a prostitute (just like Tire), then the nation of Israel is the "mother of all prostitutes" because it has committed greater fornication than any other nation in the world. How can we say it? If the prostitute rides the scarlet-colored wild beast, which, as we know, is the League or League of Nations, is supposed to have committed fornication with all the nations adhering to the United Nations. Indeed, its very existence as a nation is due to his political lovers so, to continue to exist, must commit prostitution in excess and continuously. No other nation can compare itself to her as acts of prostitution because no other nation has the urgent need to please the UN to continue to exist. it is also possible that in the Bible it is described as a prostitute because it is not a real "queen" but a forcing. It is an empire carved out of art for a prostitute. The woman is also "dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stone ..." so she is simply dressed like a queen but the purple and scarlet colors are still the colors of luxury and royal power and this would strengthen the idea that we are talking about a kingdom, a literal nation. In the same way the beast that the prostitute rides is scarlet in color and the beast, as we know, is the League or Society of Nations (all members of the United Nations represent literal nations). The scarlet color, color of both the wild beast and the harlot, is significant. Drunk with the blood of the saints. The writing continues saying "And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and of the witnesses of Jesus". Israel has an enormous blood fault and Jesus referred to this very nation when he said: “so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel+ to the blood of Zech·a·ri?ah son of Bar·a·chi?ah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar” - Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:50, 51 So Jesus himself identifies Israel, not another nation, as responsible for the payment of "all the right blood" (compare also the words of Stephen recorded in Acts 7: 51-53). The book "Insight", under the heading "Babylon the Great", correctly points out that not all Christians were persecuted by the Pharisees and the Jews themselves have suffered, in turn, a great persecution. However, even Abel was not killed by a Pharisee or even by any religious minister. Moreover, the millions of deaths caused by the communist, atheist empire, could hardly be pointed to false religion. Can we hypothesize that Jehovah and Jesus hold particularly responsible those who have "known God" and, despite this, commit unspeakable crimes? The nation of Israel fits perfectly in this context. - Hosea 8: 2 - Amos 3: 2 It should also be said that the blood of "all those slaughtered on earth" is referring to the last war (which is yet to come) and therefore is saying that Israel will be the real behind-the-scenes cause of this war. However, this last parat needs other explanations for which, for the moment, omit it. Condolence for the end of Babylon. Revelation 18: 9-14 says: “And the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality* with her and lived with her in shameless luxury will weep and beat themselves in grief over her when they see the smoke from her burning. 10  They will stand at a distance because of their fear of her torment and say: ‘Too bad, too bad, you great city,+ Babylon you strong city, because in one hour your judgment has arrived!’ 11  “Also, the merchants of the earth are weeping and mourning over her, because there is no one to buy their full cargo anymore, 12  a full cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, and scarlet cloth; and everything made from scented wood; and every sort of object made from ivory, and from precious wood, copper, iron, and marble; 13  also cinnamon, Indian spice, incense, perfumed oil, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and human lives.* 14  Yes, the fine fruit that you* desired has left you, and all the delicacies and the splendid things have vanished from you, never to be found again”. As we saw at the beginning, both the kings of the earth and the travelers traders suffer for the demise of their lover. Unlike any other nation, the destruction of Israel would bring desperation and "misfortune" between rulers and traders all over the world. Why? Because the Jewish people are owners of the world's largest banks, almost all of the gold, oil, the largest multinationals and everything that can be imagined. The largest world powers (including the US, USSR and China) have benefited from copious loans to wage war on other nations and to build massive and colossal structures (such as the Suez Canal). Just do some research to find out how and how many owners of the world's largest banks have been involved in almost every wars of the last two centuries and probably far back in time. The words of Revelation 18: 11-14 that speak of 'full of gold and silver and precious stone and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and each smelling wood and all sorts of ivory objects and all sorts of precious wood and copper and iron and marble, and cinnamon and Indian spice and incense and fragrant oil and olibanum and wine and olive oil and flour and wheat flour and cattle and sheep and horses and carriages and slaves and human souls' are significant. Imagining the global economic consequences for the collapse of 80% of all the existing banks and therefore the immediate and simultaneous failure of thousands of companies spread all over the world ... one could conclude that a crisis of this size would not be reflected in all the history of man - Matthew 24:21 Really the kings of the earth and travelers traders around the world would be right to beat their chests, to mourn and cry, "Woe!" "Get out of her, my people". Revelation 18: 4 says:And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people,+ if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues”. If Babylon the Great is the modern nation of Israel then it is easy to understand to whom this urgent appeal is addressed: to our dear brothers present in the nation of Israel who are also "a remnant to be saved". If they stayed there, they would receive part of his wounds as a result of the United Nations' furious attack. This possibility is to be evaluated very seriously. This would also mean that the destruction of Jerusalem, occurred in 537 a.E.V. and then in 70 E.V. would have a further and definitive fulfillment. The third (Revelation 4: 8; 8:13; 16:13, 19 - Ezekiel 21:14). Question two asked: "Does the literal people of modern Israel match the description that the Bible makes of Babylon the Great? Whether we like it or not, and as much as it can constitute a "domino effect" on other interpretations, this is in harmony both with the secular history and with the Scriptures. So the answer is yes. Question 3 Which of the two subjects, in the light of the Scriptures and not of desires or personal ideas, is more likely to be? Honestly, the whole description that the Bible makes of Babylon the Great corresponds very well to false religion and so it is very difficult to understand if the Bible wants to point us to a literal nation or the false religion as a whole. The shameless immorality, extreme violence, the desire for domination, spiritual prostitution, arrogance and presumption ... are all characteristics of the worldwide empire of false religion as well as of present-day Israel. The clues, however, should be more than enough, if seen without preconceptions, to understand the subject. Reflections As written at the beginning of this treatise, hundreds of parallels are found in the Bible between Babylon and unfaithful Israel. Even the cup "full of disgusting things" from which the harlot gets inebriated recalls the utensils of Jehovah's temple. The problem is to understand what we must understand when we read these parallels. All of Jehovah's judgments, reported in the Scriptures, have fallen upon peoples and literal nations and even the wounds sent to the land of Egypt, which served to destroy / humiliate their false gods, however, had to fall upon a specific nation. In the book "The prophecies of Isaiah" volume 1, page 202 paragraph 28 (Italian edition) reports Isaiah 19: 3 and we read ... "Likewise, on the day of judgment, the false religion will be unable to save this corrupt system of things". But if Egypt represents the world as a whole, we are already at Armageddon (in Isaiah 19: 2 Jehovah puts "Egyptian against Egyptian") and the world empire of false religion (if it is Babylon the Great) has already been destroyed . Now, if the world empire of false religion has already been previously destroyed, in what sense will "people resort to worthless gods, to spellcasters and spirit mediums"? Only a world still imbued with religion, after the destruction of Babylon the Great, could "resort to worthless gods". The above could be in harmony with the writing of Zechariah 13: 4-6, which speaks of the "prophet" who will deny ever having been? The Watchtower of 15 July 2015, under the heading "The beginning of the great tribulation", says ... "It seems therefore that even some members of the clergy will abandon their religious career and deny ever having been part of the false religion". Yet if for the adherents of Babylon the Great enough to "change coat" to save their lives (which would make the majority of them, not having a true faith), one would not say that it was "torn and completely burned with fire". It is also difficult to imagine this "great mourning" since the majority of the clergy, especially that of Christianity, would still be alive after the destruction of Babylon the Great. The book "Revelation", in chapter 19 paragraph 29 says ... "Neither the caverns of the literal mountains nor the political-commercial organizations comparable to the mountains will offer economic security or help of another kind". However, even false worship in the Bible is related to "high places" for example in Ezekiel 6: 1-5 (high places that did not protect unfaithful Israelites from Jehovah's wrath). Is it possible to hypothesize that on the day of Jehovah's wrath (hence after the Great Tribulation) human beings will seek protection in political, commercial and religious institutions? If we accept the possibility that Babylon the Great is a literal place (and be modern Israel) we must consider that even the mountains, above which the woman sits, are literal mountains. There is always talk of the seven world powers of biblical history but we never talk about the seven mountains. We never talk about the seven mountains because the political powers, they say, are the seven mountains. Yet the writing of Revelation 17 explains that there are seven kings ... and (joining, in my language, that is "and there are also") seven mountains and this conjunction could suggest that even though the mountains depict powers as we know , there are actually seven mountains as objects of similitude with the number of kings. It would seem a literal clue useful for identifying Babylon the Great. Now the question is ... Which and how many mountains are indicated in the Scriptures that were part of the Promised Land? 1) Mount Moria 2) Mount Zion 3) Mount of Olives 4) Gilboa 5) Gerizim 6) Ebal 7) Mount Tabor. N.B. Mount Nebo and the others, also mentioned in the Scriptures, were part of the territory of Moab and Edom and are therefore excluded. This parallel is simply impossible to do with the world empire of false religion. Revelation 3:12 and other scriptures that are fulfilled after the Lord's day, which mention the New Jerusalem, seem to emphasize a distinction with Old Jerusalem. In chap. 18 of Revelation, Babylon the Great is destroyed. In chap 19: 7, 8 the marriage of the lamb is prepared, so ... The prostitute dies as a bride and the marriage can finally begin. Marriage takes place with the "New Jerusalem"; was the prostitute is maybe the "Old Jerusalem" that is the carnal, impure, disobedient, idolatrous? - I Corinthians 9: 6-8; 10:18 - Galatians 4: 26-29 I would like to point out to you that the book Revelation, besides having the symbols, also has contrasts. For example you can see that the beast with two horns of lamb is set against the real Lamb. The mark of the wild beast is set in contrast with the name engraved on the forehead that the 144,000 have - see Revelation 13:11, 16; 14: 1 Now in Revelation you will see that there is a pure woman who is the legitimate bride and then there is a woman who, on the contrary, is a prostitute. So the question we should ask ourselves is: if Babylon the Great is a nation, which is the only nation in the whole world, that would have the qualifications to pass itself off as "legitimate bride" when, in reality, she prostitutes herself with other nations ? - Babylon is also called "the great city" and the only biblical reference is Nineveh, the "city of bloodshed". This seems to be in harmony with the fact that Babylon is drunk with the blood of saints, prophets and everyone. However, in Jeremiah chap. 22 Jehovah condemns Judah, which is the city of Sallum and Ioiachim, and people call this city "the great city". Thus, even the city that once belonged to Jehovah is called the "great city". Of the two clothed witnesses described in chapter 11 of Revelation it is said that, once killed, "their corpses will be on the wide street of the great city which in spiritual sense is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was put to the stake "- Revelation 11: 8 In which "great city" did the Lord Jesus have been killed? Finally we could ask ourselves why, the writer of Revelation, after having seen frightful wild beasts, incredible celestial visions both beautiful and terrifying, thundering declarations and many other things, only at the sight of the woman he is "marvels of great wonder" - Revelation 17: 6 , 7 Could it have "marveled of great wonder" for having seen its own people and its own nation (which at the time of the writing of Revelation no longer existed)? When in 70 E.V. the first Christians received the command to "flee to the mountains" in view of the destruction that would have occurred through the "disgusting thing" (represented at the time by the Roman Empire) they understood it as "separating from Judaism" or this was a consequence natural of the Teacher's teachings? Did not they understand it as literally to get out of the city? Jeremiah 25:10, 11 and Revelation 18:22, 23 are very similar to each other, yet Jeremiah speaks of Israel while Revelation speaks of Babylon the Great. In Revelation 18: 5-8 it is said that "God has remembered his acts of injustice". Why did God "remember"? False religion has not always done evil, in 6,000 history, without stopping a moment since the days of Nimrod? Or, if Babylon were "the world", did God forget the actions of the world? Could it not be because "Babylon" has not existed for many years, as a nation, but appears again after the "Lord's Day" by another name? In Revelation 16: 16-21 we are now in Armageddon, the great city is divided into three parts, the nations fall and Babylon "was remembered". So Babylon is related to the fall of other nations as if it were a "special" nation, something to remember, but still a nation. Which, among all the nations of the earth, could it be considered "special" by Jehovah God? Could the golden cup full of "disgusting things" held in the hands of the great harlot remember the utensils of the temple of God? - Compare Daniel 5: 1-4 Question one. According to the explanation of the book "Revelation: its climax" it is appropriate that the great harlot sit on the wild beast of scarlet color because, the false religion, has always had power over the kings of the earth even coming to name and oust them. We know that the League or League of Nations also has representatives as "old nations" mentioned in the bible as Rome, Media-Persia and others but it would not have been more logical to see the "great whore" ride the first wild beast and that which ascends from the sea, since the false religion exists since the days of Nimrod? Instead the great harlot sits on that beast that "was, but is not, and is about to ascend from the abyss, and will go into destruction" - Revelation 17: 8a What rode the world empire of false religion (or Rome, or the world) when the beast was not? Question two. As has been pointed out, in the Bible Israel is compared to a wife and Jehovah to the marital owner. When it showed itself unfaithful, allying itself with other nations and mixing with the false adoration, Israel became "infidel" and even "prostitute". Christianity claims to serve God but, in reality, prostitutes itself with the nations and with every false doctrine of pagan origin. However, if Babylon the Great is the world empire of false religion (and therefore also includes religions such as Buddhism, Shintoism, Hinduism, tribal religions, etc.), why is it considered, as a whole, a prostitute? Jehovah has never identified himself as the "marital owner" of nations like Ammon, Moab, Egypt, or others (not even in Rome or the world). So if we applied the concept of prostitution exclusively in the spiritual-religious (or politic) sense, it would seem that this infamous prostitute is exclusively Christianity. Throughout the entire Bible, what is the only nation that Jehovah considers responsible for his prostitution? - Amos 3: 1, 2

I never could get my head around our previous take on the Babylonian exile. Or care. I mean, a one-year period representing such an event? But the new package revealed Sunday makes so much more sense. 'That new point the Governing Body wrote about?' said Mike Tussen's years ago. 'You may have already noticed that point in your studying. And if this were Christendom, you'd run out and start your own religion over it.' The uppity people take no interest in that new religion of Jesus because it is carpenters, fishermen and shoemakers. But then they figure out how to monetize it. All the highbrow people jump in, bringing all the highbrow ideas they love so, ideas from Aristotle and Plato. photo: Carla216 Tom Irregardless and Me 30% free preview. After that, we'll talk, your people and mine.

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