Thursday 26th November

 Thursday 26th November

Rev 18: 1-2, 21-23; Psalm 100; Lk 21:20-28

 

The memory of the siege of Jerusalem by the forces of the Babylonian empire is long and powerful in the scriptures. Babylon serves a type of all oppressive empires since. What signs of empire grip the vulnerable of the world today?

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