WARNING: Seductive Babylon



The last book in the Holy Scriptures, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, identifies three agents employed by Satan in his warfare against the church of Jesus Christ.

     First is The Beast Out of the Sea [REVELATION 13:1-10]. It represents anti-Christian government. This beast is active wherever governments are trying to eradicate churches of Christ.

     Second is The Beast Out of the Earth [REVELATION 13:11-18]. It represents anti-Christian persecution. This second beast is active not only where first beast is active but also in other parts of the world.

     Third is Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth [REVELATION chs.17f]. She represents anti-Christian seduction. This Babylon is active wherever you see false religion seducing people away from God and His Christ. She seduces people with a counterfeit Christianity, one that is contrary to Christ but attractive to natural men and women. She is so successful that they actually think that they are Christians serving the Lord. And she is so successful that even some true believers are enticed to join her.

Indeed, Babylon is so seductive that she has convinced many people that she and the two beasts will not exist until some time in the future. 

It therefore is with good reason that God’s messenger exhorts Christians, “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities” [REVELATION 18:4f].


– DEP
 
Printed in the Saint Croix Avis newspaper
 

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