Chapter Thirty/"Babylon the Great Has Fallen!" - Endurance for the Holy Ones

 Now the third angel speaks. Listen! And another angel, a third, followed them, saying in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the wild beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehe3ad or upon his hand, he will also drink of the wine of the anger of God that is poured out undiluted in the cup of his wrath.' " - (Revelation 14:9, 10a) At Revelation 13:16, 17, It was revealed that during the Lord's day those who do not worship the image of the wild beast would suffer-even to be killed. Now we learn that Jehovah has determined to judgment those "having the mark of the name of the wild beast or the number of its name." They will be forced to drink a bitter 'cup of wrath' of Jehovah's anger. What will this mean for them? In 607 B.C.E., when Jehovah forced Jerusalem to drink his "cup of rage," the city experienced "despoiling and breakdown, and hunger and sword" at the hands of the Babylonians. (Isaiah 51:17, 19) Similarly, when idolizers of earth's political powers and their image, the United Nations got to drink the cup of Jehovah's wrath, the result will be calamity for them. (Jeremiah 25:17, 32, 33) They will be utterly destroyed.

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