REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Six -Passion-Arousing Wine

 The mighty angel next calls attention to the broad extent of the harlotry of Babylon the Great, proclaiming: "For because of the passion-arousing wine of her fornication" all the nations have fallen victim with her, and the traveling merchants of the earth became rich due to the power of her shameless luxury." (Revelation 18:3)  She has indoctinated all nations of mankind in her unclean righteous ways.  In ancient Babylon, according to Greek historian Herodotus, each maiden was required to prostitute her virginity in temple worship. Revolting sexual corruption is portrayed to this day in the war -damaged Buddhist sculptures Ankor Wat in Kampuchea and in the temples of Khajuraho, India, which show the Hindu god Vishnu surrounded by digusting erotic scenes. In the United States, the disclosures of immorality that shook the wold of TV evangelists  in 1987, and again in 1988, as well as the revelation of  the widespread practice of homosexuality by ministers of religion, illustrate that even Christendom tolerates shocking excesses of literal fornication. Yet, all the nations have fallen to an even more  serious kind of fornication in this 20th century.

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