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

 Add to Germany, Italy, and Abyssinia another nation that has fallen victim to the fornication of Babylon the Great-Spain.  The Civil War of 1936-39 in that land was sparked, in part, by the democratic government's taking steps to reduce the huge power of the Roman Catholic Church.  As the war got under way, the Catholic Fassist leader of the revolutionary forces Franco,  described himself as  "the Christian Generalissimo of the Holy Crusade," a title that he later dropped. Several hundred  thousand Spaniards died in the fighting. Apart from t his, according to a conservative  estimate, Franco's Nationalists had numbered 40,000 Populr Front members,  while the latter had murdered  8,000 clerics-monks, priests, nuns and novices.  Such is the horror and tragedy of civil war, illustrating the wedom og heeding Jesus' words: "Return  your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword." (Matthew 26:52)  How disgusting that Christendom gets involved in such massive bloodshed? Her clergy have indeed failed utterly to "beat their swords  into plowshares"! -ISAIAH 2:4.

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