Chapter Thirty/"Babylon the Great Has Fallen!" - The Wheat and the Weeds - Continue

 In the 1870's anointed Christians began to make determined efforts to disassociate themselves from the whorish ways of Babylon the Great. They abandoned false doctrines that Christendom had brought in from paganism and boldly used the Bible in preaching that the times of the Gentiles would end in 1914. The chief instrument of Babylon the Great, the clergy of Christendom, opposed these stirrings of restoration of true worship. During the first world war, they took advantage of wartime hysteria to try to stamp out that small group of faithful Christians. In 1918, when their activities were almost completely suppressed, it appeared that Babylon the Great succeeded. She seemed to have triumphed over them. 

As we previously noted, the proud city of Babylon experienced a disastrous fall from power in 539 C.E. Then the cry was heard: "She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen!" The great seat of the world empire had fallen to the armies of Medo-Persia under Cyrus the Great. Although the city itself survived the conquest, her fall from power was real, and it resulted in the release of her Jewish captives. They returned to Jerusalem to reestablish pure worship there. - ISAIAH 2:19; 2 CORINTHIANS 36:22, 23; JEREMIAH 51:7, 8. 

Next time: Chapter Thirty/"Babylon the Great Has Fallen!" - The Wheat and the Weeds - Conclusion

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