Chapter Thirty-Three -Judging the Infamous Harlot

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What, then, is this new scarlet-colored wild beast?  It must be the image to the wild beast that was brought forth under the urging of the Anglo-American wild beast that has two horns like a lamb. After the image was made, the two-horned wild beast was allowed give breath to the image of the wild beast. (Revelation 13:14, 15) John now sees the living, breathing image. It pictures the League of Nations organization that the two-horned wild beast brought to life in 1920. U.S. President Wilson had envisioned that the league "would be  forum for the dispensation of justice for all men and wipe out the threat of war forever."  When it was resurrected after the second war as the United nations, its chartered purpose was "to maintain international peace and  security. 

In what way is this symbolic wild beast full of blasphemous names?  In that men have set up this multinational idol as a   substitute for God's Kingdom-to accomplish what God says his Kingdom alone can  accomplish.  (Daniel 2:44; Matthew 12:18, 21)  What is remarkable about John's vision, though is that Babylon the Great is riding the scarlet-colored wild beast. True to the prophecy, Bablyonish religion, particularly in Christendom, has linked itself with the League of Nations and it successor. As early as December 18, 1918, the body now known as the National Council of the Churches of Christ in America adopted a declaration that declared  in part:  "Such a League is not a mere political expedient; it is rather the political expression of the Kingdom of God on earth. . . .The Church can give a spirit of good-will, without which no League of Nations can endure. . . . The League of Nations is rooted in the Gospel. Like the Gospel, its objective 'is peace on earth, good-will toward men.'  

Note: What peace, we haven't had much of that, if any and I haven't seen any good will with them either. We never will as long as man/Satan is ruling this world.

On January 2, 1919, the San Francisco Chronicle carried the front-page headline: "Pope pleads for Adoption of Wilson's League of Nations."  On October 16, 1919,  a petition signed by 14, 450 clergymen of leading denominations was presented to the U.S. Senate, urging that body "to ratify the Paris peace treaty embodying the league of nations covenant."  Though the U.S. Senate failed to ratify the treaty, Christendom's clergy continued to campaign for the League.  And how was the League inaugurated?  A news dispatch from Switzerland, dated November 15, 1920, read:  "Opening of the first assembly of the League of Nations was announced at eleven o'clock this morning by the ringing of all the church bells in Geneva.  

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From the book of Revelation