{"id":49290,"date":"2023-07-11T19:44:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=49290"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T16:05:24","slug":"babylon-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/babylon-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Babylon Now","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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THERE<\/strong> is a startling passage in the Book of Revelation, one that could easily be missed. It speaks of “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth” (Rev 17:5). Of her sins, for which she is judged “in an hour,” (18:10) is that her “markets” trade not only in gold and silver but in humans. <\/em><\/p>\n

The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because there will be no more markets for their cargo: their cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine linen, purple silk, and scarlet cloth… and slaves, that is, human beings. (Rev 18:11-14)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Addressing this passage, Pope Benedict XVI said quite prophetically:<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Book of Revelation<\/em> includes among the great sins of Babylon \u2014 the symbol of the world\u2019s great irreligious cities \u2014 the fact that it trades with bodies and souls and treats them as commodities<\/strong>\u00a0(cf.\u00a0Rev<\/em>\u00a018:13). In this context, the problem of drugs also rears its head, and with increasing force extends its octopus tentacles around the entire world \u2014 an eloquent expression of the tyranny of mammon which perverts mankind. No pleasure is ever enough, and the excess of deceiving intoxication becomes a violence that tears whole regions apart \u2014 and all this in the name of a fatal misunderstanding of freedom which actually undermines man\u2019s freedom and ultimately destroys it.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, On the occasion of Christmas Greetings, December 20th, 2010;\u00a0http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In Mystery Babylon<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>I noted how several factors point toward the United States as a strong candidate for what St. John describes as “the mother<\/em> of harlots.” It goes back to its Masonic roots and the U.S.’s role in spreading “enlightened democracies” through “ideological colonization.”<\/p>\n

I mention this because of a startling statistic that emerged at the end of\u00a0Sound of Freedom<\/em><\/a>, a new movie\"\"<\/a> highlighting the tragic truth of human trafficking, particularly that of children. According to the film, human trafficking is a 150 billion-dollar global criminal enterprise and the United States is #1 in trafficking.<\/em><\/p>\n

Other facts:[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. https:\/\/www.angel.com\/blog\/sound-of-freedom<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>