Chapter Thirty-Two/God's Anger Brought to a Finish - The River Euphrates Dried Up - Continue

 Babylon the Great "sits on many waters." According to Revelation 17:1, 15, these symbolize "peoples and crowds and nations and tongues"-hordes of adherents that she has regarded as protection. But the "waters" are drying up! in Western Europe, where formers she had great influence, hundreds of millions have openly ignored religion. In some Eastern European lands, there is a declared policy to try to destroy the influence of religion. The masses in those lands have not risen up on her behalf. Similarly, when the time comes for Babylon the Great to be destroyed, the dwindling number of her adherents will prove to be no protection at all. (Revelation 17:16) Though she claims a membership of thousands of millions, Babylon the Great will herself defenseless against "the kings of the rising of the sun." 

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