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The European Union in Prophecy
was by departure from the Lord, and alliance with the heathen, that the Jewish
church became a harlot; and Rome, corrupting herself in like manner by seeking the
support of worldly powers, receives a like condemnation.
Babylon is said to be "the mother of harlots." By her daughters must be
symbolized churches that cling to her doctrines and traditions, and follow her example
of sacrificing the truth and the approval of God, in order to form an unlawful alliance
with the world. The message of Revelation 14, announcing the fall of Babylon must
apply to religious bodies that were once pure and have become corrupt. Since this
message follows the warning of the judgment, it must be given in the last days;
therefore it cannot refer to the Roman Church alone, for that church has been in a
fallen condition for many centuries. Furthermore, in the eighteenth chapter of the
Revelation the people of God are called upon to come out of Babylon. According to this
scripture, many of God's people must still be in Babylon.
And in what religious bodies are the greater part of the followers of Christ now
to be found? Without doubt, in the various churches professing the Protestant faith.
At the time of their rise these churches took a noble stand for God and the truth, and
His blessing was with them. Even the unbelieving world was constrained to
acknowledge the beneficent results that followed an acceptance of the principles of
the gospel. In the words of the prophet to Israel: "Thy renown went forth among the
heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through My comeliness, which I had put
upon thee, saith the Lord God." But they fell by the same desire which was the curse
and ruin of Israel--the desire of imitating the practices and courting the friendship of
the ungodly. "Thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because
of thy renown." Ezekiel 16:14, 15.
Many of the Protestant churches are following Rome's example of iniquitous
connection with "the kings of the earth"--the state churches, by their relation to
secular governm