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 What, then, iss 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, that two-horned wild beast was allow to give breathto 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 Woodrow Wilson had envisioned that the League "would be a 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, it 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 subsitute 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 prophec, Babylonish religion, particularly in Christendom, has linked  itsel  with the League of Nations and its 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 poltical expedient;  It is rather the political expression of the Kingdom of God on earth. . . .The Church can give a spirit of good will, withoug which no League of Nations is rooted in the Gospel.  Like the Gospel, its objective is  'peace on eartj. good-will toward men."

On January 2, 1919, the San Francisco Chronicle carried the front page headliner:  "Pope Pleads for Adoption of Wilson's League of Nations."  On October 16, 10919, a petition signed by 14,450 clergymen of leading denominations was presented to the U.S. Senate, urging that body "to ratify the Paris 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 inauguarated?  A news dispatech from Switzerland, dated November 15, 1920, read:   "On opening of the first assembly of the League of Nartions was announced at eleven o'clock this morning by the ringing of all the church bells in Geneva.

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