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

 One way is that many wars are related to religious differences. For example, the violence in India between Muslims and Hindus in 1946-48 was religously motivated.  Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost.  The conflict between Iraq i 1980's  was related to sectarian differences, with hundreds of thousands being kiled.  Violence between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland has taken thousands of lives.  Surveying this field columnist C.L. Sulzberger said i 1976: "It is a dismal truth that probably half or more of the wars now being fought around the world are either openly religious conflicts or involved with religious disputes."  Indeed, it has been so throughout the turbulent history of Babylon the Great.  What is the second way?  From Jehovah's viewpoint, the world's religions are bloodguilty because they have not convincingly taught people that God's  true worshippers must imitate  Jesus Christ and show love toward others  regardless  of their national origin.  (MICAH 4:3, 5; ACTS 10:34, 35; 1 JOHN  3:10-12) Because of the religiouns making  up Babylon the Great have not taught these things, their adherents  have been drawn into  the vortex of the 20th century.  Both of which started in Christendom and resulted in fellow religionists ' slaughtering one another!   If all who claimed  to be Christian had adhered to Bible principles, those wars could never have take place.

Jehovah lays the blame for all this bloodshed at the feet of Babylon the Great. - the great harlot ad world empire of false religo-mus anwser   to Jehovah not onl for teh "blood of the prophets and of holy ones" whom  she has persecuted and killed but for  "the blood  prophets and of holy ones' whom she has persecuted  and killed but for the blood "of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth." Babylon the Great does indeed carry an appalling bloodguilt.  Good riddance when her final destruction takes place!

Next time: Praise Jah for His Judgments!

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