Chapter Thirty-Five/Executing Babylon the Great - Carrying Out God's Thought - Continue

 Again Jehovah uses human rulers in executing judgment: "For God put into their hearts to carry out his thought, even to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished." (Revelation 17:17) What is God's thought"? To arrange for the executioners of Babylon the Great to band together, in order to destroy her completely. Of course, the rulers' motive in attacking her will be to carry out their own "one thought." They will feel that it is in their nationalistic interests to turn upon the great harlot. They come to view the continued existence of organized religion within their boundaries as a threat to their sovereignty. But Jehovah will be maneuvering matters; they will carry out this thought by destroying his age-old adulterous enemy at one stroke! - Compare JEREMIAH 7:8-11, 34. 

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