At 1:45 PM -0700 6/14/04, Patti Goebel wrote: >Several years ago I noticed the allegorical use of the term "merchant" in >the Book of Revelation to refer to religious leaders who use religion to >satisfy their own quests for either the physical riches of the earth or to >feed their vanity and egos on the souls of men. > >Speaking of Babylon, the symbolic city of corrupted religion, John writes: >" . . . thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries >were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and >of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." 18:23-24 > On what basis do you say this? It seems to me that this chapter can be taken fairly literally concerning the materialistic society which revolves around a decaying religion.
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