Babylon in Scripture is the epitome of wickedness, idolatry, and gross indulgence of every kind. No wonder when the Lord pictured Rome in the Book of Revelation, he called it by its code name Babylon. Peter, writing from Rome, did the same.
The exhortation everywhere—whether it be in the Old Testament when speaking of literal Babylon, or in the New when using the code—is “Come out of her!” When God was through using her to punish His people, He warned against remaining in Babylon. God’s people belonged in the holy land once the seventy-year captivity was finished. They no longer had any reason to remain in Babylon! The tragedy is that some stayed!
So, today, every wicked and disgraceful place is a Babylon so far as the people of God are concerned. They have no business being there unless it is to testify to the way of salvation and/or to warn other believers to leave.
Are you living in a modern Babylon? Are you enmeshed in the wickedness and immorality that characterized old Babylonian in the time of Nebuchadnezzar? Or are you engrossed in a modern Babylon of slick business practices and white collar crime? It makes no difference in
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