(Cont. from Page 2/11/84A).
 

"Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground."  (Isaiah 21:9 NEB).

"Down with you, sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Down from your throne, sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldaeans; never again shall men call you soft skinned and delicate. Take up the millstone, grind meal, uncover your tresses; strip off your skirt, bare your thighs, wade through rivers, so that your nakedness may be plain to see and your shame exposed. I will take vengeance, I will treat with none of you, says the Holy One of Israel, our Ransomer, whose Name is the Lord of Hosts. Sit silent, be off into the shadows, daughter of the Chaldaeans; for never again shall men call you queen of many kingdoms. When I was angry with My people, I dishonoured My own possession and gave them into your power. You showed them no mercy, you made your yoke weigh heavy on the aged. You said then, 'I shall reign as queen for ever', while you gave no thought to this and did not consider how it would end. Now therefore listen to this, you lover of luxury, carefree on your throne. You say to yourself, 'I am, and who but I? No widow's weeds for me, no deaths of children.' Yet suddenly, in a single day, these two things shall come upon you; they shall both come upon you in full measure: children's deaths and widowhood, for all your monstrous sorceries, your countless spells. Secure in your wicked ways you thought, 'No one is looking.' Your wisdom betrayed you, omniscient as you were, and you said to yourself, 'I am, and who but I?' Therefore evil shall come upon you, and you will not know how to master it; disaster shall befall you, and you will not be able to charm it away; ruin all unforeseen shall come suddenly upon you."  (Isaiah 47:1  11 NEB).

"At that time tribute shall be brought to the Lord of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, (1) dreaded near and far, a nation strong and proud, whose land is scoured by rivers. They shall bring it to Mount Zion, the place where men invoke the Name of the Lord of Hosts." (Isaiah 18:7 NEB). These (1) are Ethiopians and the people of surrounding lands.

"But the woman (2) was given two great eagle's wings, to fly to the place in the wilds where for three years and a half she was to be sustained, out of reach of the serpent." (Rev 12:14 NEB). This "woman" (2) are faithful anointed members of spiritual "Mount Zion" on earth.

The Christ said of those opposing heavenly "Mount Zion": "In her hand she held a gold cup, full of obscenities and the foulness of her fornication; and written on her forehead was a name with a secret meaning: 'Babylon the great, the mother of whores and of every obscenity on earth.' The woman, I saw, was drunk with the blood of God's people and with the blood of those who had borne their testimony to Jesus."  (Rev 17:5,6 NEB).

"Then he said to me, 'The ocean you saw, where the great whore sat, is an ocean of peoples and populations, nations and languages. As for the ten horns you saw, they together with the beast will come to hate the whore; they will strip her naked and leave her desolate, they will batten on her flesh and burn her to ashes. For God has put it into their heads to carry out His purpose, by making common cause and conferring their sovereignty upon the beast until all that God has spoken is fulfilled. The woman you saw is the great city that holds sway over the kings of the earth.' After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven; he came with great authority and the earth was lit up with his splendour. Then in a mighty voice he proclaimed, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, for every vile and loathsome bird. For all nations have drunk deep of the fierce wine of her fornication; the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and merchants the world over have grown rich on her bloated wealth.' Then I heard another voice from heaven that said: 'Come out of her, My people, lest you take part in her sins and share in her plagues. For her sins are piled high as heaven, and God has not forgotten her crimes. Pay her back in her own coin, repay her twice over for her deeds! Double for her the strength of the potion she mixed! Mete out grief and torment to match her voluptuous pomp! She says in her heart, "I am a queen on my throne! No mourning for me, no widow's weeds!" Because of this her plagues shall strike her in a single day     pestilence, bereavement, famine, and burning     for Mighty is the Lord God who has pronounced her doom!'"  (From Rev 17:15 to 18:8 NEB).

"There is a land of sailing ships, a land beyond the rivers of Cush (Ethiopia) which sends its envoys by the Nile, journeying on the waters in vessels of reed. Go, swift messengers, go to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and proud, whose land is scoured by rivers. All you who dwell in the world, inhabitants of earth, shall see when the signal is hoisted on the mountains and shall hear when the trumpet (3) sounds."  (Isaiah 18:1-3 NEB)  (The "seventh trumpet" (3) of Rev 11:15).

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