REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Three - A Name, a Mystery - Conclusion

 Over the centuries, the world empire of false religion has shed oceans of blood. For example,  in medieval Japan, temples in Kyoto were transformed into fortresses, and warrior monks, involing "the holy name of Buddha," battled  one another until streets ran red with blood. In this 20th century, the  clergy of Christendom have marched with the armies of their respective countries, and these have slaughtered  one another, with the  loss of at least a hundred million lives. In October 1987 former U.S. president Nixon said:  "The 20th centurty  has been the bloodiest  in history. More people have been killed in the wars  of this century than in all the wars fought before this century began." The religious of the world are judged adversely by God for their share in all of this; Jehovah detests   "hands that are shedding innocent blood." (Proverbs 6:16, 17)  Earlier,  John heard a cry  from the altar: "Until  when, Sovereign Lord holy and true, are you refraining from judging and avenging  our blood upon those who dwell on the earrth?  (Revelation 6:10) Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots  and of the disgusting things of the earth will be deeply involved when the time comes to answer that question.

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