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

 How does Jehovah execute this judgment? This may be illustrated by Jehovah's action against his apostate people in ancient times, concerning whom he said: "In the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things, committing adultery and walking in falsehood; and they have strengthened the hands of evildoers in order that they should not return, each one from his own badness.  To me all of them have become like Sodom, and the inhabitants of her like Gomorrah." (Jeremiah 23:14) In 607 B.C.E., Jehovah used Nebuchadnezzar to 'strip off the garments, take away the beautiful articles, and leave naked and nude' that spiritually adulterous city.  (Ezekiel 23:4, 26, 29) Jerusalem of that time was a pattern of Christendom today, and as John saw in earlier visions, Jehovah will administer to Christendom and the rest of false religion a similar punishment. The desolated, inhabited condition of Jerusalem after 607 B.C.E shows what religious Christendom will look like after being stripped of her wealthy and shamefully exposed. And the rest of Babylon the Great will fare no better. 

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