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Rev.# 60~18:1-3 Political & Commercial Babylon Destroyed-Pt.1 Series
Contributed by William D. Brown on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: This economic system is a worldwide system; it’s to do with wealth and commerce. Babylon emphasized in this chapter is commerce on a worldwide scale, i.e., international or multinational organizations. Business minded people that invest money in stock
--- and the cities of the nations fell:**(Notice commercial Babylon is falling) and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. This is a worldwide earthquake; there has never been one like it before nor will there ever be another so destructive.
Babylon along with the cities that are the centers for this worldwide network of political, commercial activity will evidently burn up in the great earthquake. She will collapse suddenly, not decline gradually.
As religious Babylon included all forms of religion (non-Christian as well as so called Christian religions), also economic Babylon includes all types of economies (capitalism, socialism, communism, etc.) the riches of the world, no nation will escape.
Self-interest is at the root of this system. Whereas believers have always lived within this system, we have always known that we must not adopt the philosophy that drives it, namely, selfishness.
This system has become so much a part of life that it’s hard for us to imagine life without it, I mean if one of our 3 vehicles air conditioner goes out we think the tribulation has started, this country for the most part has really never experience major hardship like some other countries of the world, and many of our citizens have largely lived beyond our means, credit cards has ruined a-many a family, some time they do what is known as declaring bank rupcey, but now that things are becoming worse because of the crisis of having no jobs we find our selves in a bigger mess.
Because of our government doing things such as giving our jobs to foreign countries our plants are shut down and there’s less jobs, a lot of people might frown on the cotton mill idea, but all my grand parents and my parents as well as my self and my son worked in the mill about all our lives and now most 0f our cotton mill jobs are gone, a lot of our jobs went to China and our Government borrows money from these countries, they have become rich thanks to our becoming jobless, we also owe Japan who today I consider one of our allies, but these other countries will stop loaning our government money when they see they’ll never be paid back.
And the jobs that have come are not enough, I ride by mills all the time that sits idol and people that worked there are having to draw their unemployment that now has been stopped for a couple of months because our congress have not voted to restart it, if yours has not been stopped yet just hold on its on its way unless the money printing machines are speeded up and congress votes it in again.
It’s no wonder people become desperate and often get into some time of illegal business trying to survive while our Senators vote to give them selves a raise.
Listen—all of this must come in order that the mark of the beast will be administered, I mean if things were going great financially there’d be no need for the mark in order to buy sell and trade.
Have you noticed; more and more women being voted into our government, thinking they’ll surely do better?