IF WORLD religion should lose its hold on the people today, would you be financially affected? Think carefully. If religion went out of business, would it affect your business or livelihood? You have to take into consideration, especially if you live in Christendom, the Christmas shopping season, you have to consider Easter with its incentive for new attire for the “Easter parade,” you need to think of all the exchange and employment in the sale of candles, images, crosses, religious objects, church construction and furniture, church weddings, funerals and the like. In fact, what activity of life is there, from the cradle to the grave, where the church does not have some influence, and most of these things with a cost attached? Many people, merchants particularly, think of the great religious holidays first in terms of the commercial aspect, the shopping and gift-giving and the like, before they do the religious aspect.an even greater influence in a commercial way has been exercised by world religion as it has had to do with the control of business. In whole countries, states and provinces the dominant religion often holds a large share of industry and business. Religion is often the factor that determines the individual’s business opportunities and employment. There is no denying that the religion of this world has catered to those members of its churches who are most influential in business. The concern has not been ‘How did a man get his money?’ but ‘Does he have it?’ Religion of this world has always had riches. In pagan lands as well as even in some controlled by Christendom, the poor are in poverty while the temples of religion are filled with objects of gold. Many of the temples and churches have spires, domes and the like that are covered with gold, making the building the most magnificent one in the community.
With these facts in mind isn’t it more obvious that the Bible is absolutely true when it describes what the fall of this great religious empire will mean. Rev. 18:11-17?
Wow I didn’t even read that orally expulsive effuse because religion, God, ain’t going away. So it’s a useless proposition to waste so many words over
I don’t think religion is the city John talked about. But, it very well could be. Other people swear it’s America. Others people swear it’s New York or Los Angeles. Who knows? The man was dreaming for Christ’s sake. Would like to take a stab at a dream I had the other day?
No.Because to God money isn’t important or nessary.All he wants is us to worship him
John was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write, what he wrote, it was not a dream it was a Revelation, through visions that looked almost real. Those visions were symbolic, and yes I agree with you Rev. 18: 11-17 does describe the New Modern Babylon, the Empire of False Religion.
Being a servant of the True God Jehovah, I will not be adversely affected as the world of Christendom will….Jesus’ famous words at John 8:32 attests to this……he said ” you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’
We, are free from the lies and hypocrisy of the world, along with all their man made celebrations and other foolishness that robs the poor and keep them that way.
Agape
IT IS not uncommon to read in the newspapers an account about a clandestine affair in which there is a falling out between lovers and the woman is murdered by her paramour. Usually it is a love triangle and jealousy is the motive. Sometimes we read of where a harlot is murdered by her lovers, even stripped naked, tortured and thrown alongside the road. Often this is because of their disgust at her complete filthiness and degradation or because she was disloyal in some scheme of theirs.
The harlot we are discussing here, however, is no ordinary harlot. She is one that has had kings and rulers as her paramours. Nevertheless, she is executed by them, and not for reasons of jealousy, but because she has deceived them. She has made the world situation much more difficult for the rulers to handle. Actually she leads them into a position where they are found to be fighting against God. They come to the point of disgust and hatred toward her that causes them to want to obliterate her and all thoughts and memories of her.
This harlot, whose activities have affected the lives of everyone on earth, is the one that was portrayed in vision to the apostle John. She is an international harlot and her activities and her final destiny and execution at the hand of her lovers are clearly described in the record John made of the vision. We read in the book of Revelation that John saw a woman, a harlot named Babylon the Great, riding a scarlet-colored beast. He writes: “And he says to me: ‘The waters that you saw, where the harlot is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. And the ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire. For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought, even to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished. And the woman whom you saw means the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth.’”—Rev. 17:15-18.
Only whatever I have in my checking account, as my bank is B of A, which is largely owned by the Catholic Church. Happily, I K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Sam) so I don’t have much to lose.