#70 REVELATION SERIES
COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!
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▪▪Revelation 18:4 And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.
▪▪Revelation 18:5 For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.
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The cry of the angel of God saying, "COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE", tells us that God has some people who had been carried away in her captivity whom He was warning. They must flee from her midst before His judgment comes upon her and all that were within her confines.
WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE?
If you remember in the Old Testament the nation of Israel had been led captive into natural Babylon. This Babylon no longer existed when John was receiving The Revelation of Jesus Christ......So, it is evident that the Babylon of Revelation is used symbolically. That which befell Old Testament Israel was a type and shadow of those things that would confront God's New Testament people down through the Gospel day to the return of the Lord at the sunset of time.
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Remember if you will, the words of Paul to the Corinthians....
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. ▪▪1 Corinthians 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
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Recall one of the keys of interpretation given to us by Paul in
▪▪1 Corinthians Chapter 15▪▪
▪▪1 Corinthians 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
▪▪1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.
▪▪1 Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
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Historical research on the ancient city of Babylon is very valuable to us to help understand a deeper truth. In all these things there is an eternal truth that must be told. It is the TYPE AND SHADOW form of understanding!
The natural and the spiritual comparison, and the "things that were written aforetime" have been fulfilled IN A REALITY OF FACTS. What is told in the morning of creation, literally, is fulfilled in the evening of time, in a "spiritual fashion".
I think it is very important we see why "Babylon" is so important in the natural sense and in the spiritual sense. In The Old Testament, the Babylonians hoped to build a tower that would reach to heaven, and hoped for it to be a place of their own safety in case of another flood. By constructing the tower to a much greater height than was reached by the waters of the flood, gave them the feeling they were beyond the possibility of danger, A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY. Many began to deny the existence of God, others sought a material way to reach heaven by their own means. (DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR IN OUR CHURCH WORLD TODAY?)
WE WILL CONTINUE WITH BABYLONIAN CONFUSION IN OUR NEXT SERIES.
COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!
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▪▪Revelation 18:4 And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.
▪▪Revelation 18:5 For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.
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The cry of the angel of God saying, "COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE", tells us that God has some people who had been carried away in her captivity whom He was warning. They must flee from her midst before His judgment comes upon her and all that were within her confines.
WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE?
If you remember in the Old Testament the nation of Israel had been led captive into natural Babylon. This Babylon no longer existed when John was receiving The Revelation of Jesus Christ......So, it is evident that the Babylon of Revelation is used symbolically. That which befell Old Testament Israel was a type and shadow of those things that would confront God's New Testament people down through the Gospel day to the return of the Lord at the sunset of time.
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Remember if you will, the words of Paul to the Corinthians....
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. ▪▪1 Corinthians 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
▪▪1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪
Recall one of the keys of interpretation given to us by Paul in
▪▪1 Corinthians Chapter 15▪▪
▪▪1 Corinthians 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
▪▪1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.
▪▪1 Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪
Historical research on the ancient city of Babylon is very valuable to us to help understand a deeper truth. In all these things there is an eternal truth that must be told. It is the TYPE AND SHADOW form of understanding!
The natural and the spiritual comparison, and the "things that were written aforetime" have been fulfilled IN A REALITY OF FACTS. What is told in the morning of creation, literally, is fulfilled in the evening of time, in a "spiritual fashion".
I think it is very important we see why "Babylon" is so important in the natural sense and in the spiritual sense. In The Old Testament, the Babylonians hoped to build a tower that would reach to heaven, and hoped for it to be a place of their own safety in case of another flood. By constructing the tower to a much greater height than was reached by the waters of the flood, gave them the feeling they were beyond the possibility of danger, A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY. Many began to deny the existence of God, others sought a material way to reach heaven by their own means. (DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR IN OUR CHURCH WORLD TODAY?)
WE WILL CONTINUE WITH BABYLONIAN CONFUSION IN OUR NEXT SERIES.
