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From: Ron Beaulieu
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:25 AM
Subject: Like Mother, Like Daughter
I would like to point out something of extreme importance
regarding Babylon, Revelation 18, and the daughter of Zion. They have the
very same words applied to each of them.
And the daughter of Zion is not Zion. In Isaiah 62:1-5, Zion is married.
Further along in that chapter it says she has sons and daughters.
The following is from The Great Controversy, Chapter
1. Compare the red print emphasized part with these words from Revelation 18,
describing Babylon:
7How much she
hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give
her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see
no sorrow. Revelation
18:7.
The fallen daughters are sisters and that is how the word
sister to fallen Babylon applies. All the fallen sisters are daughters of
Mother Rome. So any sister to fallen Babylon is one of the fallen daughters of
Mother Rome. Chapter 1 of The Great
Controversy, below, is speaking of Jerusalem as sitting as a queen that
will see no sorrow. That is the peace and safety lie believe by professing
Seventh-day Adventists today, for the experience of the Jews was a PREFIGURE
type of the SDA experience at the end of time. (See ibid. p. 25). That is why
what occurred as a literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9 then, is a literal type for
what will occur in the next literal fulfillment of Ezekiel 9 BEGINNING AT HIS
SANCTUARY. 5T 211 and Ezekiel 9:6.
The Destruction
of Jerusalem
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"If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy
day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine
eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench
about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall
lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not
leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy
visitation." Luke 19:42-44.
From the crest of Olivet, Jesus looked upon Jerusalem. Fair
and peaceful was the scene spread out before Him. It was the season of the
Passover, and from all lands the children of Jacob had gathered there to
celebrate the great national festival. In the midst of gardens and vineyards,
and green slopes studded with pilgrims' tents, rose the terraced hills, the
stately palaces, and massive bulwarks of Israel's capital. The daughter of
Zion seemed in her pride to say, I sit a queen and shall see no sorrow;
as lovely then, and deeming herself as secure in Heaven's favor, as when, ages
before, the royal minstrel sang: "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the
whole earth, is Mount Zion, . . . the city of the great King." Psalm 48:2. In full view were the
magnificent buildings of the temple. The rays of the setting sun lighted up the
snowy whiteness of its marble walls and gleamed from golden gate and tower and
pinnacle. "The perfection of
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beauty" it stood, the pride of the Jewish nation. What
child of Israel could gaze upon the scene without a thrill of joy and
admiration! But far other thoughts occupied the mind of Jesus. "When He
was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it." Luke 19:41. Amid the
universal rejoicing of the triumphal entry, while palm branches waved, while
glad hosannas awoke the echoes of the hills, and thousands of voices declared
Him king, the world's Redeemer was overwhelmed with a sudden and mysterious
sorrow. He, the Son of God, the Promised One of Israel, whose power had
conquered death and called its captives from the grave, was in tears, not of
ordinary grief, but of intense, irrepressible agony.”
—rwb