Mourning and Rejoicing at Babylojn's End - An Appallijg Bloodguilt

 In  conclusion, the strong angel tells why Jehovah judges Babylon the Great so severely. "Yes," says the angel, "in her was found blood of the prophets and of holy ones and of all those who have been slaughtered  on the earth. (Revelatio 18:24) When on earth, Jesus told the religious leaders in Jerusalem that they were accountable   for  "all the righteous blood spilled on earth,  from the blood of righteous Abel" onward.  Accordingly, that crooked generation was destroyed in 70 C.E.  (Matthew 23:35-38)   Today another generation  of religionists bears bloodguilt for its persecution of God's servants.  

In his book The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, and Guenter Lewy writes:  "When Jehovah's   Witnesses  were suppressed  in Bavaria on April 3m [1933} the Churchy even accepted the assignment given it by  the Ministry of Education and Religio of reporting   on any member of the sect still practicing   the forbidden religion."  The Catholic Churc thuse shares  responsibility for consigning thousands of Witnesses to concentration camps;  its hands are stained with lifeblood of hundreds of Witnesses who were executed. When young Witnesses, such as Wilhelm Kusserow, showed that they could die courageously by a firing squad, Hitler decided that the firing  squad was too good for conscientious objectors; so Wilhelm's brother Wolfgang, at 20 years of age, died by the guillotine. At  the same time, the Catholic Church was encouraging you German Catholics to die in the army of the fatherland, the bloodguilt of the church is plai to see!

However, the prophecy says that the blood of "all those who have been slaughtered on the earth" must be charged to Babylon the Great.  That has certainly been true in modern times.  For example,  since Catholic intrigue helped us to bring Hitler to power in Germany, the Vatican shares in a terrible bloodguilt  with regard to the six million Jews that died in Nazi programs.  further, in our time, well over a hundred milliom people  have been killed in hundred of wars. Is false religioj to blame for this connection? Yes, in two ways.

Next time: Mourning and Rejoicing at Babylon's End - An Appalling Bloodguilt

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