Come Out of Babylon: Christian Journeys, #9

By David Avoura King

A lot of Christians think they are saved, or they think that they are doing the right thing. Some don't think they need to do much to be saved. Some will act like a Christian when at a Church service, but then be very worldly away from Church. Some love this world so much, that they cannot bear to come out of it. But God does tell His people to come out of Babylon. What does that mean? Who needs to come out of Babylon? What does it mean for you?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Global Think Publishing
• Release date: May 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393145684

David Avoura King

David A. King lives in England, enjoys technology, reading and writing, being creative, as well as foreign travel, and is a company director.

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Come Out of Her

We live in difficult times. Bible prophecy tells us about the end times, that time period in this world just before Jesus Christ returns to the Earth.

The Bible tells us that there will be a time of great tribulation before Christ’s Second Coming, and it will last for three and a half years.

But are we in that time yet? In 2020 the world is experiencing a global pandemic because of the covid-19 virus, which has also given rise to a global panic. Wherever the virus came from, however many people are dying from it or not, there is panic.

Governments have enacted rules to keep people from travelling unless it’s essential. Before this, people were panic-buying various items. Their fear levels rose very high, and as we see in the news more people dying, apparently from coronavirus, the fear levels stay high for most people.

Eventually this panic will pass, and things will return to some degree of normality, but some things will be changed forever. It is a prelude to the Great Tribulation, a time when the Beast of Revelation will rule much of the world, and Christians will be persecuted.

These things happen because mankind as a whole is going away from God. The sins are increasing, and making the world a worse place to be.

So first we have to consider are we in the Great Tribulation yet? Some people might think we are, but the Bible is clear that during that time, there will be Two Witnesses who will preach from Jerusalem. That is not happening yet. And there will be two other characters on the world scene who will deceive the whole world, i.e. the Beast and the False Prophet. We have yet to see that, although some might look to certain people as fitting those roles.

We might be moving a step closer to that with the recent world situation, but it is not yet the end of the world.

After the Great Tribulation, we read in Revelation 18, an instruction from God to His people, which is worth looking at now.

Read in Revelation 18:4–5 (NKJV):

4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.’ 

God tells His people to come out of her — but who is this her? Is it a woman? Or some organisation? Or a country? Or a system? Or a religion?

We can look at what is meant in the preceding verses, 1–3 of Revelation 18 (NKJV):

1 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, ‘Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.’ 

Here we see that it is Babylon that is personified as a woman, with the nations and the merchants having become drunk on her wine and spiritually immoral.

If we go back to Revelation 17:4–6 we read about Babylon as a specific type of woman (MEV):

"4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filth of her sexual immorality. 5 On her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY,

BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."

Babylon is referring to a religious system, one based on mystery, and which hates God and hates all of God’s people. It has wealth, being adorned with gold,