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Sins of Babylon
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ties of nature and cruelly oppress their fellow men. They can inflict
most inhuman torture with the same relentless cruelty manifested
by papists and heathen toward Christ’s followers. Said the angel, “It
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will be more tolerable for the heathen and for papists in the day of
the execution of God’s judgment than for such men.” The cries of
the oppressed have reached unto heaven, and angels stand amazed at
the untold, agonizing sufferings which man, formed in the image of
his Maker, causes his fellow man. Said the angel, “The names of the
oppressors are written in blood, crossed with stripes, and flooded
with agonizing, burning tears of suffering. God’s anger will not
cease until He has caused this land of light to drink the dregs of the
cup of His fury, until He has rewarded unto Babylon double. Reward
her even as she rewarded you, double unto her double according to
her works; in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.”
I saw that the slave master [
see appendix.
] will have to answer for
the soul of his slave whom he has kept in ignorance; and the sins of
the slave will be visited upon the master. God cannot take to heaven
the slave who has been kept in ignorance and degradation, knowing
nothing of God or the Bible, fearing nothing but his master’s lash,
and holding a lower position than the brutes. But He does the best
thing for him that a compassionate God can do. He permits him to
be as if he had not been, while the master must endure the seven last
plagues and then come up in the second resurrection and suffer the
second, most awful death. Then the justice of God will be satisfied.
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