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Salvation Possible When God Takes VengeanceThe Watchtower—1989 | May 15
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The self-assuming foe that is plundering nations will not reach his goal. Indeed, the Chaldeans will not go unpunished.—2:2-5.
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Salvation Possible When God Takes VengeanceThe Watchtower—1989 | May 15
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2:5—The Babylonians were a composite man who used his war machine to conquer nations. Like Sheol and death that are always ready for more victims, he desired further military conquests. (Compare Proverbs 30:15, 16.) As if influenced by heavy drinking, he became heady with victory. But his wars of conquest ended when Babylon fell in 539 B.C.E.
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