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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 204
Chapter 9
The Merchants Of The Earth Profit
Through Their Slaves
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of … slaves, and souls of
men.
Revelation 18:11 & 13
Jesus clearly states that at the time Babylon is destroyed, the merchants of the earth will
be profiting from selling the bodies and lives of their fellow man to Babylon. They will be
weeping and mourning at Babylon’s destruction only because of their lost profits. A full
understanding of what God is revealing is not obtained from any of the English translations. A
better understanding is obtained from the Greek.
The King James version reads: “And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn
over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of… slaves, and souls
of men” (Revelation 18:11-13). “Slaves” is translated from the Greek word “soma”. Soma
literally means body. It appears in the New Testament 146 times and is translated as “body” 144
times, “bodily” once and “slaves” only once.
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“Souls” comes from Greek word “psuche” and it appears 105 times in the New
Testament. Fifty-five percent of the time “psuche” is translated as “soul” and thirty-eight percent
of the time it is translated as “life.”
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“Life” has a wider application and I believe it is a more
appropriate translation. As I shall show, it gives the text a multidimensional meaning. With these
two changes the text becomes: And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her;
for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of… bodies, and lives of men.
Merchandising in the bodies and lives of men can be interpreted in several different
ways. As I researched these different interpretations I found that all of them where applicable to
the United States of America. The U.S. imports from nations where sweatshops are common.
The U.S. is also a heavy importer from the nation with the largest slave labor force, China. And
it is a little known fact that there is an active slave trade in the U.S. These are all examples of the
trade in lives of men. But astoundingly, I will show evidence that there is an underground U.S.
market that deals in body parts.
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