Today Babylon the Great hails the United Nations as she formerly did the League of Nations. She has put her trust in it instead of in God’s Messianic kingdom, the incoming world government.

6. Who now get out of Babylon the Great, and why?

⁶ How will God avenge the innocent blood with which she is “drunk”? By letting the “wild beast” organization turn upon her in hatred when He lets the “great tribulation” begin. Her destruction follows. (Revelation 17:15, 16; 19:1-3) Hence now, during this “conclusion of the system of things,” Jehovah God has caused to be sounded out world wide the urgent cry: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues. For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind.” (Revelation 18:4, 5) The remnant of Christ’s spiritual “brothers” and also the “sheep” who make up the “great crowd” have obeyed God’s command and gotten out. Consequently they will not perish with her in the “great tribulation.”

AFTER “BABYLON THE GREAT” IS DESTROYED

7. Does the “wild beast” mean to serve God by destroying her?

⁷ After the empire of false religion is destroyed, there will be no Christendom to continue calling the United Nations organization “the political expression of the Kingdom of God on earth.” The members of the U.N. and other nations not members of it will not think that they have done God a favor by destroying their former mistress who was drunk with the innocent blood of God’s “holy ones” and of “the witnesses of Jesus.” The nations do not destroy the religious “harlot” purposely to avenge God and his persecuted people. They do it as an antireligious action, with no intention of making an exception of the true religion, “the form of worship that is clean and undefiled from the standpoint of our God and Father,” as James 1:27 says. Already the more than half of the U.N. members that do not belong to Christendom disavow its being “the political expression of the Kingdom of God on earth.”

8. After destroying Babylon the Great, what will the “beast” do?

⁸ So, after their destroying Babylon the Great (including Christendom), what will the nations adhering to or cooperating with the U.N. do? The same chapter that describes the “wild beast” organization as being like a seven-headed beast with ten horns tells us, saying: “These have one thought, and so they give their power and authority to the wild beast. These will battle with the Lamb, but, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, the Lamb will conquer them. Also, those called and chosen and faithful with him will do so.” (Revelation 17:13, 14) This battle will go on at the same time as what is described in Revelation 19:11-21. All of this is the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at Har–Magedon.​—Revelation 16:14, 16.