Chapter Thirty-Eight/Praise Jah for His Judgments -The Lamb's Marriage Is at Hand!

 "You woman enemy of mine"! That is how Jerusalem, the location of Jehovah's temple of worship, addressed Idolatrous Babylon. (Micah 7:8) Likewise, "the holy city, New Jerusalem," made u[ of the bride of 144,000 members has had every reason to address Babylon the Great as her enemy. (Revelation 21:2) But at last the great harlot has suffered adversity, calamity, and ruin. Her spiritistic practices and astrologers have been unable to save her. (Compare Isaiah 47:1,11-13) A major victory, indeed, for true worship!

With the disgusting harlot, Babylon the Great, gone forever, attention can now be focused on the virgin-pure bride of the Lamb! Hence, the heavenly throngs sing exultantly in praise of Jehovah: "Let us rejoice and be overjoyed, and let us give the glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has arrived and his wife prepared herself. Yes, it has been granted to her to be arrayed in bright, clean, fine linen, for the fine linen stands for the righteous acts of holy ones." - REVELATION 19:7, 8.

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