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strangers in a country not their own, and who hated idols to conquer that place.
they will be enslaved and mistreated four Now you cannot trace Christianity there.
hundred years, But I will punish the nation
they serve as slaves, and afterward they Although the Roman Empire was divided
will come out with great possessions. You, into kingdoms, the Kings and their subjects
however, will go to your fathers in peace in the whole Europe were spiritually under
and be buried at a good old age. In the the Sovereign rule of the Pope of Rome.
fourth generation your descendants will
come back here, for the sin of the Amor- As the Word of God says that He is a jeal-
ites has not yet reached its full measure.” ous God, He is not jealous with idols and
false gods. These are nothing to Him. God
Unmistakably, we can see from the can burn these useless idols in an instant
third century when the Christian Church but God is jealous with the Christians
became a harlot and began to worship other who turned their backs from God to wor-
gods until the sixth century. This was ship and make devotion to idols and other
when Catholics were slaughtered by the gods. It took God’s enduring patience
Muslims, mathematically, it was in the third even for centuries to give His Church a
generation and continued in eradicating chance to repent but the Church did not
professing Christians to the next generation, heed to His Word that was the reason
which was the fourth. The warning from God allowed the professing Christian
the Word of God was fulfilled. Church to be ravaged by a plague.

In the reign of Constantine Christians BUBONIC PLAGUE, so called from the
began to worship the Queen of Heaven buboes or swelling on the bodies of the
who was from Babylonian religion whom victims and carried to humans by fleas
they named as Mary. They also began from the sick rats, attacked the lymphatic
to worship a child god from Babylon and gland system. From Sicily the Black Death
named him baby Jesus. The Jesus that swept the Western Mediterranean littoral
the Catholics were worshipping is not the in 1347, raged in Italy, Spain, and France
true and Biblical Jesus. It is a false god in 1348, reached Switzerland, Austria,
made of wood, stone, silver or gold. The Germany, the Low Countries, and England
Church became an idolater. God had giv- in 1349, and Scandinavia and Poland in
en the Catholics a chance to repent and 1350. Plague hammered Europe again
get rid of pagan doctrines and its practic- and again in the fourteenth and fifteenth
es through the warnings of His Word. For centuries and continued its ravages,
centuries God was patient but the though with diminished intensity in the
“HARLOT CHURCH” hardened her sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
heart. People became religious fanatics Reliable estimates of the loss of human
and superstitious that they venerate and life vary from 12 to 70 percent, on the
worship even pieces of wood supposedly region, with global loss for the years
from the original cross of Christ and even between 1348 and 1377 of no less than
bones supposedly of the dead Saints. 40 percent. For example, the population of
Idolatry was so rampant in Churches. It the rural Country side around the Tuscan
became so detestable to God and that was City of Pistoia had been about 13,000 in
why He allowed the professing Church of the mid-thirteenth century. In 1401 it was
Christ to be eradicated. The Church was less than 9,000. The number of inhabit-
annihilated and destroyed. They were ants as of the City itself feels from 11,000
massacred by the Muslims. Churches in in 1244 to 6,000 in 1351 and to 3,900 in
those places were of no use or worth to 1415. “No one wept for the dead,” wrote
God that was why He allowed Muhammad a Sienese Chronicler, “because everyone
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