REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Seven - Merchants Weep and Mourn - Continue

 Yes, Babylon the Great was a close friend and a good customer of wealthy merchants.  For example, the monasteries, nunneries, and churches in Christendom have over the centuries  acquired huge amounts of gold, silver, precious stones,  valuable woods, and other forms of material wealth. Further, religion's blessings has been bestowed on the lavish  buying sprees and drunken orgies that accompany the celebration of the Christ-dishonoring Christmas and other so-called holy days.  Christendom's missionaries have penetrated distant lands, opening up new markets for "the traveling merchants" of this world.  In the 17th- century Japan, Catholicism, which had come  with the traders, even  became involved in feudal warfare.  Reporting on a decisive battle under the walls of Osaka castle.  The Encyclopedia Britannica states:  "The Tokugua troops  found themselves  fighting against a foe whose banners  were emblazoned with  the cross and with images of the Saviour   and St. James, the patron saint of Spain."  The victorious faction persecuted and practically wiped out Cahtolicism in that land.  The churche's participation in worldly affairs today will likewise bring her no blessing. 

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