Chapter Thirty-Seven/Mourning and Rejoicing at Babylon's End - Hurling a Great Millstone - Continue

 The throwing of the book with the attached stone into the river was a guarantee that Babylon would plunge into oblivion, never to recover. The apostle John's seeing a strong angel perform a similar act is likewise a powerful guarantee that Jehovah's purpose toward Babylon the Great will be fulfilled. The completely ruined condition of ancient Babylon today testifies powerfully to what will befall false religion in the near future.  

The strong angel now addresses Babylon the Great saying: "And the sound of singers who accompany themselves on the harp and of musicians and of flutists and of trumpeters will never be found in you again, and no sound of a millstone will ever be heard in you again, and no light of lamp will ever shine in you again; because your traveling merchants were the top-ranking men of the earth, for your spiritistic practice all the nations were misled." - REVELATION 18:22, 23. 

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