The Lord tells us what He was going to do and why. We provoked Him with our "progressive" Babylonian ways so He allowed His Church to be defiled by Babylon. But that doesn't excuse Babylon and it certainly doesn't excuse the majority of the Church members who joined Babylon.Get down and sit in the dust,
O Virgin Daughter of Babylon;
squat on the ground, dethroned,
O Daughter of the Chaldeans…
I will take vengeance
and not be entreated of men,
says our Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
whose name is Jehovah of Hosts. (v. 1-4)
The cabal which rules Babylon is satanic and uses magic, or the power of the devil, to get it's way. It's been that way for a long, long time. It won't work this time, though.I was provoked by my people,
so I let my inheritance be defiled.
I gave them into your hand,
and you showed them no mercy;
even the aged you weighed down heavily with your yoke. (v. 6)
It's funny what you can find when you search the scriptures.9. Bereavement and widowhood
shall suddenly overtake you, both in one day.
They shall come upon you in full,
notwithstanding your many magical feats
and exceedingly strong combinations.
10 Secure in your wickedness,
you thought, No one discerns me.
By your skill and science you were led astray,
thinking to yourself, I exist,
and there is none besides me!
11 Catastrophe shall overtake you,
which you shall not know how to avert by bribes;
disaster shall befall you
from which you cannot ransom yourself:
there shall come upon you sudden ruin
such as you have not imagined.
12 Persist, then, with your combinations
and with your many magical feats,
at which you have exerted yourself since your youth.
It may still be of use to you;
perhaps you can hinder it.
13 But you are powerless, despite all your tactics.
