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

 As was the custom in ancient Rome, this prostitute was identified by the name on her forehead. It is a long name: "Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth." That name is  "a mystery," something with hidden meaning. But in God's due time, the mystery is to be explained. In fact, the angel gives John enough information to allow Jehovah's servants today  to discern the full significance of  this deceptive name. We  recognized Babylon the Great as being of false religion.  She is  "the mother of the harlots"  because all  the individual  false relgions in the world, including the many sects in Christendom, are like her daughters, imitating her   in committing spiritual harlotry. She is also the mother of "disgusting things" in that she has given birth  to such revolting offspring  as idolatry, spiritism,  fortune-telling, astrology, psalmistry, human sacrifice, temple prostitution, drunkenness in honor of false gods, and other obscene practices. 

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