Revelation 18

Brain Damage said:

So what do think is going on here ?... on the surface it appears to be normal everyday trading , but for some reason God is not happy about this.

What is this Babylon doing with these goods , is she consuming them or is she re-selling them or what?

There is one unusual thing that I did notice here , and that was the sale of all kinds of ivory to Babylon . Today the culling of elephants is illegal , but it appears that it won't be illegal at time of the end .

Has anyone else noticed anything abnormal or unusual going on here other than what appears to be normal trading ?

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frankDH said:

God is upset that they see everything as merchandise and they value trade more than him. It has become their god. It was a “multitude of thy merchandise” that revealed imperfection in Satan [Eze 28:16]. It is the root of their power that enables them to oppress others [Hos 12:7]. There is no difference, for them, between a sack of flour and the souls of men they enslave and trade [Rev 18:13].

Frank

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Brain Damage said:

So what do think is going on here ?... on the surface it appears to be normal everyday trading

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, but for some reason God is not happy about this.

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Brain Damage said:

So what do think is going on here ?... on the surface it appears to be normal everyday trading , but for some reason God is not happy about this.

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Rev 18:2-11 said:

And he called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living." Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed. As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.' For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her." And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come." And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,

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