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Me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord;” “as a
wife that committeth adultery, which taketh
strangers instead of her husband!” Ezekiel
16:8, 13-15, 32; Jeremiah 3:20.
In the New Testament, language very similar
is addressed to professed Christians who
seek the friendship of the world above the
favor of God. Says the apostle James: “Ye
adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that
the friendship of the world is enmity with
God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.”
The woman (Babylon) of Revelation 17 is
described as “arrayed in purple and scarlet
color, and decked with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her
hand full of abominations and filthiness:...and
upon her forehead was a name written,
Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of
