Partly correct, but partly not. “Babylon the Great” is Satan’s world empire of all anti-Scriptural, God-disobedient FALSE religions; and FALSE “Christianity” is one of the top-two entities of “Babylon the Great”, along with Islam, number-wise. God’s metaphor of “Babylon the Great” is right-on, because the demonic lie-teachings and practices of demon worship common to the world’s FALSE religions were present in ancient Babylon. After Jehovah stopped the building of Nimrods Tower of Babel, by confusing most people’s languages, He dispersed most people out of Babylon. When they left, they took their new languages, legends (including information about the Flood and pre-Flood world from Noah and his family), and spiritual lies and practices of demon worship with them, and spread out over the earth. This is why demonic teachings of “immortality of the soul”, “Hell” as a place of “afterlife” torture/torment, the idea that good people (in general) go to heaven after they die, that God is a duo or triune godhead, that their is a “mother of God” (resulting in goddess worship), etc. The use of crosses and other Scripturally-forbidden idol images and icons; the beating on ones chest in contrition; the use of prayer beads, etc. In worship all stems from ancient Babylon (with “immortality of the soul” and lies and slander against God also coming from the Devil in Eden). Astrology and other various forms of God-forbidden spiritism-demonism - including those who try to make contact with spirits of “the dead” (which puts them in contact with and under the influence of demons instead), originated in Babylon too. World-over, both anti-whole scriptural, apostate “Judeo-Christianity” and other FALSE-to-God religions carry on with the spiritistic (demonistic) lie teachings and practices of ancient Babylon, thus serving Satan (the root of all spiritual lies and God-rebellion), NOT Jehovah the Creator God, in this world. As wickedness grew again, just like it did in the pre-Flood world, from most people following the lies of Satan, instead of listening to God’s words - and then also those of His Son, Jesus Christ, when God sent him to earth - Satan utilized and manipulated his tools of the world’s false religions (and “godlessness”), based on his lies and led-along by his spirit, and also the various kingdoms of man, which are largely under his control. When the first two humans fell for Satan’s bait, and agreed that yes, they would like independence from God-Rule, that it would be “better”, this is what happened. Satan and themselves became their gods. This is what brought all death and trouble onto this world to begin with. Jehovah largely stepped back - to teach the sentient beings He created a once for all time lesson of what happens when the beings He created wrongly throw-off His rightful rule over them. Satan became the acting ruler among mankind. He largely runs and manipulates this world’s political system, his global empire of FALSE religion (“Babylon the Great”), and the large commercial elements. He and his demon princes back and largely control and manipulate various nations. Most people of the world are under at least some mind control by Satan - by way of temptations and propagandized desires to sin/ engage in evil and God rebellion, by practicing such sin and evil; and by way of sin and evil- “permissive” spiritual LIES from Satan, largely pumped out by his spiritual whore-to-God, hypocritical FALSE religious entities of “Babylon the Great”, which includes modern Judaism and doubly-blasphemous, apostate, FALSE “Christianity”. Just as God prophesied in Revelation, the FALSE religions of “Babylon the Great”, yes, in a political-religio form similar to the false religious epicenter of Babylon in Nimrod’s day; and Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar’s day, has formed whore-like alliances with “the kings of the earth.” That was starkly seen in the apostasy that followed Jesus’ death - with those with political interests hijacking and corrupting the popular wave of the teachings of the Christ - and ever since. The world’s FALSE religions, including anti-Scriptural, FALSE “Christianity” at the forefront, illicitly partner with “the kings of THE EARTH”, in whore-against God, spiritual fornication with them, serving the interests of Satan and “the kings of the earth” - and their kingdoms, NOT the scriptural Kingdom of God. These illicit relationships - between whore-like FALSE religions (and ALSO Satan’s “godless”, atheist, etc. drones, Satanists, really) and the world’s governments - the “kings of the earth” bolster the power of each “partner” over the people, to their harm, and to the effect of more fighting against God and the persecution of those who are true to Him. Though spiritually “fornicating”/ partnering with “the kings of the earth”, for being of spiritual control, the world’s Satanic FALSE religions also TOP the world’s governments/ “kingdoms” of men, forming as if “a great city” over them. The world’s FALSE religions also influence and push governments to do their bidding (as do atheist-Satanists) no matter how unconscionable or anti-Scriptural it is. (Much of the foregoing is prophesied in the Bible Book of Revelation, chapters 17 and 18.) An example of a more modern, devastatingly demonic partnership between “Babylon the Great” and “the kings of the earth” occurred with the Catholic Church in Germany boosting (actually godless and Satanic) Hitler into power, and the Catholic Churches in Germany and Austria supporting his murderous and Satanic regime, which also targeted true Christian worshipers of Jehovah in those areas. A current example of this is the illicit relationship between the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church, the leaders of which are even so close in some photographs that they could kiss lips. They service each other. That FALSE “Christian” religion acts to encourage/ recruit soldiers for the Russian government (in all-out disobedience and defiance to the scriptural teachings of God and Christ), and also “blessing” and extolling the Russian heads of state and military efforts of the government, “in the name of God” before the people. Priests of the ROC can even be seen “blessing” bombs and other military equipment, with their spiritistic/ magic, also God-forbidden idol crosses, in videos on YouTube - along with “blessing”soldiers, in their military gear, as they line up for “holy communion”, etc. In exchange, the Russian government has worked the bidding of the Russian Orthodox Church, to BAN the TRUE, Scriptural Christians in Russia - the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who uphold God and Christ’s teachings, including by being conscientious objectors to war. Those of the Russian Orthodox Church have persecuted the Jehovah’s Witnesses there for decades, working legal mischief and even direct physical attacks against them and their property, slander campaigns, etc. The Russian Orthodox Church hates that the true Christian worshipers of Jehovah preach His SCRIPTURAL truth to the world, because that scriptural truth EXPOSES the lies and practices of that ROC (and other FALSE religions) as being what they are: demonic, spiritual LIES and works of God-defiant, Satanic EVIL. So, along with pushing the government to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, they also even had them ban the accurate, scholarly, well translated to Russian (and other languages) BIBLE they carried. This is how Satan has a heyday, with both his “godless”, false religionists; and the governments and their partnerships with FALSE religions - all largely under his manipulative control, for all of them failing to listen to the Creator and His words. Soon, however, by Divine intervention, the “lover” relationships between the world’s FALSE, anti-Scriptural, whore-to-God religions and “the kings of the earth will END. All of the sudden, the "kings of the earth" will simultaneously get the same thought in their heads, to turn against “Babylon the Great”, to destroy it, and that will be God’s long warned-of punishment against the world’s Satanic FALSE religions. The "kings of the earth" will suddenly give their power and authority to an idolized, multi-national political entity of men - the "scarlet-colored beast", and "image of the beast" (an "image" such which represents the "10-horned beast", which symbolically represents all of the world's governments - such as the UN). As it is even now, "Babylon the Great" rides on the back of that scarlet-colored beast such as by how many FALSE religious leaders gather each fall, before the UN General Sessions, to idolatrously pray for the "success" of the UN, which itself blasphemously claims to be the highest ruling authority over the affairs of mankind. But suddenly, that scarlet-colored beast will turn right around against Babylon the Great, and bring it to its final end. This is why God is having the whole world warned now, for people to "Get out of" the world's FALSE religions of "Babylon the Great: (Revelation 18:4,5,20-24) But leave - "repent and turn around" from atheism-Satanism/ "godlessness" too!! That ALSO has incurred the Creator's rightful wrath - and He must bring His vengeance with those stubbornly staying in that mode of God-defiance too! After the end of FALSE religion; Satan (Gog) and those with him (Magog) will try to use that same entity to destroy the Creator God Jehovah's own true and loyal, scriptural Christian people. When that happens, Jehovah will then unleash Armageddon itself, in its full fury; removing all stubbornly and heinously evil and God-insolent, God-fighting persons from existence. (Revelation chapters 18 and 19; Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39) All indicators are that this will happen SOON, so be ready.
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That was done to demonstrate to mankind what sort of anguish and turmoil it would cause Jehovah, for His only Son to ACTUALLY be sacrificed to pay for the sins of mankind. Jehovah had His angel STOP any actual sacrifice of “Abe’s” son because Jehovah DETESTS human sacrifices, and only allowed for such in the special case of His own perfect Son, who was to pay the Ransom from enslavement to sin and death that Adam brought upon the human race. God knew this example, of Abraham, with his only son, would be preserved in His words, for the world and generations to read, so that people would hopefully understand what such a sacrifice was like for God and His only Son. Don’t listen to FALSE, pseudo-spiritual “teachers”, who demonstrate NO scriptural understanding at all, and who SLANDER and blaspheme the Creator God and His Scriptural words of truth, for the sake of evil atheist agendas. They tell many people the sin-“permissive” LIES against God that they WANT to hear, but they are Evil-producing and DEADLY LIES. (Romans 1:18-32; Jude 7,19,14-19; 2Timothy 4:3,4)
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That’s the primary, deadly deception and SLANDER against God of SATAN HIMSELF. Jehovah has always had one true religion, one true form of worship of Him, for humans, by His own terms of worship, His own words.
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____, I feel for you. I was once Catholic. I can’t teach you much here while I’m fighting atheists. I guess the reason why I’ve been doing this, for the past 8 months, is so that somebody might see some light, truth, and hope. Find a Kingdom Hall there, under “About us”, at jw.org. Go to “meetings,” “find a location near me”, and proceed. [Actually, I see that an invitation to the following is on the front page now, so just click “Learn More”. ] It would be GREAT for you to attend the yearly Memorial celebration of the Lord’s Evening Meal (which replaced the yearly Passover) which will be this Friday night, after sundown, April 19. (Check the time for the Memorial at your preferred location though, because it’s a shorter meeting - under about an hour. ) That’s the date for Nisan 14 this year - the same date Jesus had this meal and died, according to the ancient lunar calendar in place at that time. There’s always a good summary of what all of this means for us today, and for our future, then. This is a global, yearly event. It’s totally free, as always, of course, as it should be - with NO collection taken. Bring everyone and anyone along who you think might be spiritually appreciative of it. If the sky is clear, you can even see the same full / near full moon that Jesus and his disciples prayed and sang Psalms under, on his last night on earth as a human. God also told David that moon was like a reminder of the promise that His Kingdom, to be headed by the Messiah (Christ), to save this world - who would come though the lineage of David, too - would surely come, just like that moon is a steady, reliable feature. The saving of God-obedient mankind, from this crazy, evil, messed-up world - and the way to everlasting life, by means of God’s Son - is as sure of a thing as that moon in the sky....and it will be, SOON. Always keep in mind that God’s own words of His Holy Scriptures remain supreme - His own scriptural words are the ultimate Authority for spiritual truth that mankind has in its possession. Don’t be afraid to test anything and everything against the Authority of God’s own words. That’s how you make His truth your own. I hope you can go - it’s really worth it. You can ask someone there to study the Bible with you at your convenience too. Take Care. P.S. In God’s coming true new world here, everyone will be healed. (Isaiah 33:24) Better days are coming, for sure.
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I’m 2 years (going on 3 years) older than you. We are the rocking, power generation that demands truth, so don’t you worry about it! The literal KJ versions are okay - the ones in understandable, modern English are much more digestible. There’s little difference in the literal translations today. The KJ version isn’t the best though, because it was put together in a hurry, for that King. It only retains the holy name of God, Jehovah, in 3 places. The New World Translation - in particular, the 1984 large Study Edition, is the best, most scholarly literal translation available. It’s been translated into many languages. (Russia recently banned it.) Not only does it restore God’s Holy name, Jehovah/ Yahweh to the more than 7000 places men have removed it (replacing it with TITLES, like LORD and GOD); but it also utilized a greater number of and older texts in the making of it, including significant textual variations and notes regarding such in its footnotes and appendices. Further, it contains cross-references, which are extremely helpful, in seeing how the Bible basically interprets itself. You can find an online version of the 1984 edition on that website I gave you. I strongly prefer it to the latest revision of the NWT, although I understand that latest revision is easier to translate into the hundreds of languages on earth - and the whole world needs to know! You can pick up a free one of those at the Kingdom Hall. In CONTRAST, waste no money: There are some AWFUL paraphrase translations out there now, which change the meanings of God’s words terribly. Although the man who translated this one, “The Message” seems to be a very nice fellow, according to a video interview I saw of him, sadly, that “translation” was so extremely loose and omissive that even though I paid 30 bucks for it, it was so insulting and misleading as to God’s words that i pitched it in the trash. (It also contained the name of God zero times.) When you’re studying, besides the NWT, it’s nice to have other translations around to compare verses to once in a while too. You can probably find an 8-translation of the “New Testament” (The Christian Greek Scriptures) book online, used even, like at Amazon...Not to overwhelm though! Just start reading daily. The Psalms are a great place to start. Read Psalm 83:18 - even in the KJ - ‘cause there you will see God’s Holy name.
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Armageddon Day from a rightly angry Creator God Jehovah, more than fed-up with all of the crimes against God and humanity worked for the past 6000 years and counting - by BOTH the Satanic “godless” (Romans 1:18-32; Jude 7,10,14-19) and the world’s also scripturally-defiant FALSE religionists of “Babylon the Great”. (Revelation chapters 17 and 18). Jehovah has been giving the entire world His Scriptural warning messages; before He soon brings the biggest Divine cataclysm ever - His destruction of “Babylon the Great”, followed by Armageddon Day itself. This can happen at any time now - don’t expect those “200 years”, of this Satanic, God- rebellious world system to last that long. The prophetic indicators are all there, that these are the last of the pre-Armageddon days. Even the contents of this video and many of the comments below it are in shocking FULFILLMENT of PROPHESIES. (Romans 1:18-32; Jude 7,19,14-19; 2Timothy 4:3,4; more.) Soon, the stubbornly and heinously evil and God-insolent, etc, persons of this earth will be gone forever; and then there will be true peace on earth. (Psalm 37::10,11) So, start learning required scriptural-spiritual truth (John 17:3) ; and “repent and turn around”. (Acts 3:19) What you are suggesting above, to burn the Holy Scriptures, words of God’s truth, CARRIES THE DEATH PENALTY from the Creator. He equates it to murder. Those who are guilty of “suppressing the truth in an unrighteous way” are deemed “ deserving of death” from God (Romans 1:18,32, exactly); and He Himself will be meting- out that punishment to everlasting death, in His hard rage, on His Armageddon Day, SOON. Also, burning/ banning "all religious books" - particularly Bible study aids which teach truth, and ESPECIALLY the Bible - A VIOLATION OF GOD-GIVEN HUMAN RIGHTS TO BEGIN WITH (a crime against God and humanity) HAS ALWAYS PRODUCED MORE EXTREME HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, and CRIMES AGAINST GOD and HUMANITY - INCLUDING DEMONIC MURDER. Perhaps you did not learn from history that persons were burned at stakes, etc. for possession of the Holy Scriptures? Russia has recently banned TRUE, scriptural Christianity in its nation, and has banned Bible study aid literature and EVEN THE HOLY BIBLE carried by true Christian worshipers of Jehovah the Creator in that land too. Those with Bibles are tortured/ tormented. and shot dead/ executed in North Korea; and they have been demonically tortured and slaughtered in China (and other places notorious for their deplorable lack of God-given human rights). So, its NOT cool. If people stubbornly work, promote or support the violation of the God-given human rights of others, God will take His vengeance out on THEM (the perpetrators). Armageddon's soon.
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You really, really need to research that again. That the Great Flood happened is OVERWHELMINGLY supported by "historical facts" - the out of place and oddly placed fossils; the major alteration of the atmosphere and land masses; cultural anthropology; linguistics. ETC. Archeology makes distinctions between and describes antediluvian, deluvian, and post-deluvian. Carbon dating drops off in reliability for fossils from before approximately 2370 B.C.E., the year of the Great Flood, because of the drastic change in the earth's atmosphere - because the water canopy surrounding the earth suddenly dropped down as the first rain; and exposed the surface of the ground to much more direct sunlight. (Also, with the Flood, there were drastic upheavals, depressions and cracks, etc, in the land masses, throwing-off dating items by sedimentary core samples, etc; relative locations, etc.) Every major culture has its version of the Great Flood story, pulling its original information from Noah and his family after the Flood, when people were gathered in ancient Babylon, but then spread out over the earth from there (in 2269 B.C.E.), along with their God-caused new languages. The Great Flood was in the fall of 2370 B.C.E., approximately November 2 of our calendar year. As a rebellion against this needed action Jehovah the Creator took, to rid the earth of the stubbornly-wicked, though warned people then, including the human-demon hybrid sons of demons, the Nephilim (the violent giants of old); Satan and his hordes have instigated demonic memorials of this day, in many cultures - all falling around the approximate date of the Flood, November 2nd. In the U.S. and some other places, it is Halloween (October 31st). In Ireland, it is Samhain. In Mexico, it is "the Day of the Dead." Anti-scriptural, God-disobedient FALSE "Christianity" again tried to attract pagans by "Christianizing" this celebration, and so they came up with the falsely "holy" days of: "All Saints Day" and "All Souls Day" (November 1 and 2). Yes, only 8 people survived, with Noah's sons named. Even the Chinese symbol for "ship" shows 8 persons in a vessel.
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