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This "Babylon the Great" is clearly a religious organization 1
Isaiah 47:1, 12, 13
| Come down and sit on the earth, maiden daughter of Babylon; sit chairless on the ground, daughter of Chaldea; for they shall no longer call you delicate and dainty. 12 Stand there with your incantations and your wholesale witchcrafts that you have toiled over from your girlhood; perhaps you can accomplish something, perhaps you will overawe somebody. 13 You are tired with your elaborate policy: let the astronomers stand there and save you, those who gaze at the stars and prognosticate the moons, from the things that are to come upon you. 2
Jeremiah 50:1, 2, 38
| The word that Jehovah spoke of Babylon, of the Chaldean country, by the prophet Jeremiah. 2 Announce among the nations and sound it abroad, and raise a signal; sound it abroad, do not suppress it; say “Babylon is taken, and Bel is put to shame, Marduk is dismayed.” Her images have been put to shame. Her disgusting idols have become terrified.’ 38 aridity against its waters, and let them dry out! for it is a country of wall carvings, and they run wild with their objects of terror. 3
Genesis 10:8, 9
| And Nubia had a son Nimrod: he was the first to become a potentate on earth. 9 He became a champion hunter before Jehovah; hence they say “Like Nimrod, a champion hunter before Jehovah.” 4
Genesis 11:2-4, 8
| And as they moved along in the East they found a river-bottom in the country of Shinear and lived there. 3 And they said to each other “Come on, let us make bricks and burn them hard,” and had bricks for stone and asphalt for mortar, 4 and said “Come on, let us build us a city and a tower with its top in the sky and make a name for ourselves, for fear we should scatter all over the earth.” 8 and Jehovah scattered them from there all over the earth, and they left off building the city. 5
Isaiah 14:4, 13, 14
| you shall strike up this lay against the king of Babylon: How slave-driving has left off,browbeating left off! 13 And you had said to yourself “I will go up to the sky, Above God’s stars I will uplift my throne, I will sit on the Council Mountdeep in the north; 14 I will go up on the heights of cloud,be the same as the Most High” 6
Daniel 5:2-4, 23
| Belshassar, inspired by the wine, ordered that the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebucadnessar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem be brought for the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, to drink from. 3 Then the gold vessels they took out of the temple at Jerusalem were brought, and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them, 4 They drank wine, and they praised the gods of gold and silver, of copper, iron, wood, and stone. 23 but set yourself up above the Lord of Heaven, and they brought before you the vessels of his house, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, drank wine from them and praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, that do not see nor hear nor know; but the God who holds your breath in his hand and all your experiences, him you did not glorify. 7
Revelation 18:23
| and there shall never shine in you again the light of a lamp; and there shall never be heard in you again the voices of bridegroom and bride; because it was the magnates of the earth who were your merchants, because by your witchcraft all the nations were misguided. |
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