The Kingdom Is in Place! - Beware of th Clay!

 Read Revelation 17:9-12.  The destruction caused by World  WarI led to the fulfillment of yet another Bible prophecy about the last days.World leaders wanted to ensure future world peace. So in January 1920, they established the League of nations , which was replaced by the United Nations in October 1945. This organization is called "an eighth king." But it is not a world power. Its strength and influence depend on the political powers that support it. The Bible symbolically refers to those powers as "ten kings."

Read Revelation 17:3-5. Under divine inspuiration, the apostle John saw in a vision a prostitute, "Babylon the Great," which symbolizes the world empire of false religion. hat does the vision reveal?False religious organizations have ;ong cooperated closely with the world"s political powers and have given them their blessing. Soon, however, Jehovah will put into the hearts of the political powers "to carry out his thought." With what result? Those politicsl powers, the "ten kings," will turn on false religious organizations an destroy them.  -REVELATIONS 12:1, 2,16, 17.

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