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Dėl Viešpaties rūstybės ji bus negyvenama. Kiekvienas, praeinantis pro Babiloną, stebėsis ir švilps dėl jo nelaimės.
Jeremijas 50:13
The Last Judgement #53
53. IX. BABYLON AND ITS DESTRUCTION.
All the predictions made in the book of Revelation have to-day been fulfilled (see above 40-44). The last chapter demonstrated that the Last Judgment has already taken place, and showed how it took place on the Mohammedans and the heathen. The next subject is how it took place on the Roman Catholics, who are what is meant by Babylon as mentioned in many passages of Revelation, and in particular its destruction in chapter 18. This is described thus:
The angel cried out in a loud voice, Fallen, fallen is Babylon and become the dwelling of demons, and the prison of every impure 1 spirit, and the prison of every unclean and hateful bird. Revelation 18:2.
But before the story of how the destruction happened some preliminary remarks are needed:
(i) What is meant by Babylon and what it is like.
(ii) What the people from Babylon are like in the other life.
(iii) Where their dwellings have been up to now.
(iv) Why their presence there was tolerated up to the day of the Last Judgment.
(v) How they were destroyed and their dwellings turned into a desert.
(vi) Those of them who had an affection for truth arising from good were preserved.
(vii) The future state of those who come from earth from that source.
각주:
1. [In AR the translation follows the Greek more exactly in using the word for 'unclean' of both the spirit and the bird.]
Isaiah 48:14-20
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"Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.
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I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
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"Come near to me and hear this: "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I." Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
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Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
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Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:
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your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.
