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After Destruction of Organized Religion, Which Way?The Watchtower—1980 | March 1
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19. After Christendom’s downfall, will surviving eyewitnesses flock over to Jehovah’s Witnesses, and what hope do other religious systems offer for survivors?
19 We can refer to no prophetic Bible scriptures to show that, after the modern counterpart of ancient Jerusalem goes down in the oncoming “great tribulation,” unnumbered former adherents of Christendom will get converted and line up with those persecuted Christians known as Jehovah’s Witnesses. Many persons might wail over what advantages they have lost due to the fiery destruction of materialistic Christendom, like those merchantmen whom Revelation, chapter 18, pictures as wailing over the burning down of Babylon the Great. They had lost self-enriching business with her. Possibly some religiously minded persons might flock to whatever non-Christian religions outlive Christendom for a short while. Such will just be going into another religious system that is doomed, for they all belong to Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion. All parts of her are slated for destruction!
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The Right Route Needs to Be Selected NowThe Watchtower—1980 | March 1
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But when all those professing a religion are destroyed or pressured into giving up their form of worship, will it make much of a difference? Or what kind of world will this be? It will be the kind of world that the Bible predicts will shortly arrive, an unreligious world of brief existence.
2 However, it will more openly than ever worship “the god of this system of things,” and the Bible that identifies this “god” says that he is Jehovah’s great adversary, Satan the Devil. (2 Cor. 4:4) Jesus Christ called him the “prince” or “ruler of this world.” (John 12:31; 16:11)
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