Chapter Thirty-Six/The Great City Devastated - "Get Out of Her, My People!"-Continue

 Is it really so urgent to flee out of Babylon the Great, withdrawing from membership in the world's religions and making a complete separation? It is, for we need to take God's view of this old-age religious monstrosity. Babylon the Great. He did not mince words in calling her the great harlot. So now the voice out of heaven informs John further concerning this whore. "For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind. Render to her even as she herself rendered, and do to her twice as much, yes, twice the number of the things she did; in the cup in which she put a mixture put twice as much of the mixture for her. To the extent that she glorified herself and lived in shameless luxury, to that extent giver her torment and mourning. For in her heart she keeps saying, 'I sit as a queen, and I am no widow, and I shall never see mourning.' That is why in one day her plagues will come, death and mourning and famine, and she will be completely burned with fire, because Jehovah God, who judged her, is strong" - REVELATION 18:5-8.

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