Chapter Thirty-Five/Executing Babylon the Great -Devastating the Harlot - Continue

 Certainly, the immense material wealth of Babylon the Great will not save her. It may even hasten her destruction, for the vision shows that when the wild beast and the ten horns vent their hated on her they will strip off her royal robes and all her jewelry. They will plunder her wealth. They "make her . . . naked, "shamefully exposing her real character. What devastation! Her end is also far from dignified. They destroy her, "eat up her fleshly parts," reducing her to a lifeless skeleton. Finally, they completely burn her with fire."  She is burned up like a carrier of the plague, without even a decent burial! It is not the nations alone, as represented by the ten horns, that destroy the great harlot, but the "wild beast," meaning the UN itself, joins them in this rampage. It will give us sanction to the destruction of false religion. A majority of the 150-and- more nations within the UN have already displayed, by their voting pattern, a hostility toward religion, especially that of Christendom. 

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