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ecause thou art polluted with their idols.—God will do this because Protestantism hassought and made church-state unions, and hasbeen polluted with worldly ideas and practices.Ezekiel 23:31.Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister;therefore, will I give her cup into thinehand.— She has walked in the way of Papacy;therefore will God give to her also Papacy's cupof tribulation.— Jer. 25:15.Ezekiel 23:32.Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink ofthy sister's cup deep and large; thou shalt belaughed to scorn and had in derision; itcontaineth much.— Protestantism shall drinkdeep and large the measure of Romanism's cupof trouble; it contains much. As a result of warsand devastation brought on by worldliness, in theface of boasted godliness, Protestantism shall bescorned and derided by the whole world.— Rev.9.Ezekiel 23:33.Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness andsorrow, with the cup of astonishment anddesolation, with the cup of thy sisterSamaria.— Protestantism shall be intoxicatedwith the war spirit (Jer. 13:13), and laterstupefied with amazement at the ruinous resultsof her own course, ending in the same cup oftrouble, utter ruin, as confronts her sister-church,Catholicism.Ezekiel 23:34.Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, andthou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluckoff thine own breasts: for I have spoken it,saith the Lord God.— Protestantism shall drainthe cup of desolation and sorrow and shall suckout the very dregs. (Isa. 30:14.) It shall be brokenup in anarchy, and shall lose all the features thatmade it attractive to this world's governments forpurposes of union of church and state.