Babylon...Come out of her, my people...

[thinktank]

Excellent, this shows the difference between the spirit behind mystery babylon the carnal city and zion, the heavenly city after the lords heart.

But here is some more info on mystery babylon.

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus:

This woman is responsible in some form for killing the saints and sheds blood

[micah7:9]

Very good. Good read.  :thumbsup: :bigGrin:

[Cardinal]

 :cloud9: What kills the saints is the unredeemed harlot soul (female) in union with the carnal mind (male) which produces offspring (unclean thoughts that originate in the spirit but take form in the natural).

There is something brought to "birth" out of the evil imaginations of men's hearts/souls. This "birth" results in "ritual" uncleaness of the "woman" as after childbirth, spiritually speaking.

She is "drunk" because those in the Pentecost realm that have not moved on into Tabernacles fullness, are also using the creative power of the "womb-man" to recreate in THEIR image. My  :2c: Blessings....

[eaglesway]

Yes, she(Babylon) is full of mixture, self indulgent. Whereas Jerusalem, the Bride, is the woman clothed with the sun(bride,virgin,betrothed) is giving birth to a corporate manchild(caught up to his throne, seated in the heavenly realms, unto a mature man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ). The overcomers are at the golden altar of incense, and the fragrance of their sacrifice arises before the throne. "No matter what, not my will, rather let your will be done."

[Cardinal]

 :cloud9: :thumbsup:

[marie glen]

In Revelation it states;  Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen... And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 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 onto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities... Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire...

Some say Babylon is mainstream Christianity.  Some say it's a business/world system that's somehow against God.  Some say it's generally 'confusion'.

What do you think it is?
What then do you consider the plagues of it to be; the death, mourning, and famine;  burned with fire?  Some say that it's literal, some even say it has to do with 9/11.  Many say it's all spiritual and/or figurative...if that's your take, then what do you think it means, i.e., the system, the plagues, the destruction?  Future, past, not time bound, etc?  Somehow a revelation of what Jesus is doing in each individual?

When God called me out of mainstream religion, He clearly used a writing in the Forward of the Christian Bible (1991) regarding coming out of Babylon as an institutionalized religious system, to confirm His desire for me to break away from denominationalism.  However, for all I know, it could have various related meanings, or a general meaning of anything rooted in confusion that's against God's will.  I don't know.  What are your thoughts?

I think you're right about various meanings.. For one thing, in a previous age, Great Babylon which "ruled the kings of the earth", was definitely the Roman Empire, both of them, the one of John's day and the one of Medieval days..

I think of the tatoo on the/her forehead as her root. Her mind set, perceptions, philosophy, world view, etc. "Mystery Babylon" - confusion as her forehead "responsible for all slain upon earth"  -rev 18:24 (since Cain slew Abel, before any institutions past or present) so this to me means all untruth. But the harlot herself, whose immorality, sorcery, enchantments deceives all nations - 18:23 - has to do with the spirit of harlotry which pervades modern man's secular and especially commercial world, where sex is used to sell, sell, sell, and this spirit of fornication enchants and seduces the whole world. Has seduced the world.

In Strong's Concordance, the Greek word translated as "harlot" is "pornos".
"She holds in her hand a golden$ cup of abominations"/side efffects (of murders, fornication, perversity, abortions, sex slave trade, & her dark streets and alleys, etc). - 17:4

"All who dwell on earth have drank the wine of her immorality and become drunk" (17:2). "The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her destruction for no one buys their" long "list of products and luxuries" anymore, down to the "bodies and souls of men" (and women) - 18:11-13
- The kings of the earth (and politicians) are in bed with her - 17:2.
- "All who trade became rich by her enchantments" (sorcery) - 18:19.

And, the beast (world beast, rev 13:1-10 as opposed to 11-18 a 'man'/office) she's sitting on in this vision - The world beast/body, and the ten beast's ten horns/kings (of one final hour) will hate her (say what!?) and will desolate her, eat her flesh, and consume her with fire. Aha! Socialism finally devours capitalism! "In one hour" shall her crash come - "is such wealth laid waste" - 18:10 & 17. "Babylon is fallen! fallen!" The crash comes in one hour.

"The woman whom you saw (John) is the great city which rules over the kings of the earth" - 17:18.
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