REVELATION ITS GRAND CIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty FIve - Carrying Out God's Thought

How does Jehovah execute this judgment? This may be illustrated by Jehovah's action against his apostate people in ancient times, concerning whom he said: "In the prophets of  Jerusalem I have seen horrible things, committing adultery and walking in falsehood; and they have strengthened the  hands of evildoers in order that they should not return, each one from his own badness.  To me all of them have become li ke Sodom and Gomorrah."(Jeremiah 23:14)  In  607 B.C.E., Jehovah used Nebuchadnezzer to 'strip off the garments, take away the beautiful articles, and leave naked and nude' that spiritually adulterous city.  (Ezekiel 23:4, 26, 29) Jerusalem of that time was a pattern of Christendom today, and as John saw earlier visions, Jehovah will administer to Christendom and the rest of false religion a similar punishment  The desolated, uninhabited condition of Jerusalem after 607  B.C.E. shows what religious Christendom will look like after being stripped of her wealth and shamefully exposed. And the rest of Babylon the Great will fate no better.

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