The Great City Devastated -Babylon the Great Take a Tumble -Conclusion

 True, Babylon the Great was not destroyed in 1919-anymore than the ancient city Babylon was destroyed in 539 B.C.E. when it fell to the armies of Cyrus the Persian.  But from Jehovah's viewpoint, that organization had fallen.  She was judicially condemned, awiting execution; therefore, false religion could no longer hold Jehovah' people in capivity.  (Compare Luke 9:59. 60.)  These were released  to serve as the Master's faithful and discreet slave in providing spiritual food at the proper time.  They had received a judgment of "Well done"  and were commissioned to get busy again in Jehovah's work.  - MATTHEW 24:45-47; 25:21, 23; ACTS 1:8.

Millenniums ago Jehovah used other prophets to foretell this epoch-making event.  Isaiah spoke of a watchman who "who proceeded call out like a lion:  "Upon the watchtower, O Jehovah, I am standing constantly by day, and at my guardpost I am standing all night."'  And what event does that watchman discern and proclaim with lionlike boldness?   This:  "She has fallen!  Babylon has fallen, and all the graven images  of her gods he [Jehovah] has broken to the earth!" (Isaiah 21:8, 9)  This watchman well foreshadows the wide-awake John class today, as it uses the Watchtower magazine and other theocratic publications to sound abroad the news  that Babylon has fallen. 

Next time:  The Great City Devastated - Decliine of Babylon the Great.

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