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 Further, Babylon of old was describes as "a golden cup in the land of Jehovah, she making all the earth driunk." (Jeremiah 51:7)  Ancient Babylon forced neigboring nations to swallow expressions of Jehovah's anger when she conquered them milirtarily, making them as weak as drunken men.  In that respect, she was Jehovah's instrument.   Babylon the Great, too, has made conquests to the  point of becoming a worldwide empire. But she is certainly not God's instrument. Rather, she has served  "the kings  of the earrth" with whom she commits religiou fornication.  She has gratified these kings by using her lying doctrines and enslaving practices to keep the masses of the people, "those who inhabit the earth," weak as drunken men, passively subservient to their rulers.

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