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Jones helps us see that Paul’s teaching is still relevant for today’s culture. The Apostle also confronted a culture much like ours—sports-mad, deep into Eastern spirituality, religious syncretism—where society was overrun by sexual deviancy. Paul was able to minister to people in this type of culture and his words ring true for us today. Paul was able to reach the people in his time for Christ,...

I call Rome “the Beast” because the early church described the Roman Empire that way—as “the Beast and the Prostitute.” In the X-rated language of the Bible, the risen Lord gives John a vision of “the great Prostitute” with whom “the kings of the earth committed adultery” and by whom “the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries” (Rev. 17:1–2). This “loose woman” rides on the back of the beast.3 The picture is vivid: (a) powerful religious deception allied to and
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