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Revelation 17:7
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There is a mild rebuke for the apostle John in his amazement. The angel feels only contempt for the harlot and how richly her forthcoming doom is deserved. Evidently John didn’t simply feel horror at what he saw, but had a kind of fascination that gave the harlot altogether too much credit. This reaction was too close to the kind of marvelling which the world feels for the harlot. It is just because men are taken in by her and admire her that they are taken in by her.
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We are commanded to hate what is evil. This is our only safe attitude towards the world. When we feel any other emotion, we can be sure that evil has already wormed its way into our hearts. But Christians are to be discerning; they are to see as the Lord sees. Scripture is given to instruct us about evil and to take away our naivety about it. It is by reflecting on the sinfulness and the deceitfulness of sin that our minds are delivered from that fatal attraction which leads us to reach out and taste it. Let believers consider carefully the end result of sin and they will shrink back from it. Let them strip away its superficial glory, and see it for what it is: an object of loathing. That too is the work of faith.
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