WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF RELIGION? -What Is Religion's Future?

The Bible speaks of "pure religion," or "worship that is clean and undefiled." (James 1:27a; see also King James Version.) As noted in the preceding article, the Bible describes the world empire of false religion as a "great harlot . . .with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication." This symbolic harlot-"Babylon the Great" -is said to be "drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus." -Revelation 17:1-6

How aptly this description fits religion that has worked closely with the political leaders of the world to preserve its own position of privilege!  Yet, the future of this great symbolic religious harlot is sealed.  "In one day," the Bible says "Her plagues will come, death and mourning and famine, and she will be completely burned  with the fire, because Jehovah God who will judge her, is strong." No wonder the angelic warning is urgent:  "Get out of her . . . if you do not want to receive part of her plagues"! -Revelation 18:4, 7, 8. 

When the disciple James described "pure religion," he identified it as being "without spot from the world." (James 1:27b)   (Note: That means that we are not to celebrate birthdays,holidays, spend more time with other things than we do with God, no going to mediums or fortune tellers, no sleeping around with someone you are not married to; we are not to wear crosses or use rosaries or have pictures of God or Jesus, simply because no one knows what they look like. We are to follow the Ten Commandments, the Statutes that God wants us to follow, that is why they are in the Bible. They are God's Words written down by his faithful apostles, that he trusted to put in the Bible. They are the truth. We are suppose to live  and go by God's  words and his words only, not by the traditions that we are taught by all this false religion today,  called Babylon the Great, which, by the way, are all the places title churches.  They only teach tradition not the truth; we do not fight in the war. We are suppose to get along with everyone and let God protect us from our enemies.)   Moreover, Jesus Christ said of his true followers:  "They are no part of the world, just as I am  no part of the world." (John 17:16) Can you see, therefore why Jehovah's Witnesses keep free from the corrupting influences of this world's political affairs?  They do so because of their complete confidence in  God's promise in the Bible:  "The world  is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever." -1 John 2:17. 

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