Flee the Wrath

Hard to know where to begin with this article, there is much to speak of. I am a simple guy, I like short and to the point articles and if an article is too long I tend to jump to the end, so I’ll keep this one short.

Remember Israel, how she went into captivity in Babylon for 70 years. Remember how the faithful remnant cried out in that place, they longed for Zion ;

“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” Psa. 137:1-4.

Perhaps like me, like many other Christians I talk to today, you also feel as though you are in a strange land. This is a strange time in the land of Western Christianity. Clearly we have been blessed with every good thing, we have enjoyed a time of abundant prosperity, of peace, of unmerited favour, yet something seems terribly wrong to many of us.

Yes I am thankful that I have been able to raise my family in peace, but I am in anguish over the false sense of security, especially the false sense of spiritual security that exists amongst the people of God today.

I don’t recall hearing a mainstream preacher, any western preacher speak on the subject of this thread. Perhaps what I’m suggesting may seem a little strange to you, but I assure you that I have diligently searched the scriptures, in prayer, for months and the conclusion grows stronger each day.

I am convinced that we Christians of the West are held captive amidst the spiritual kingdom of Mystery Babylon. In the very same way that the Jews endured a physical captivity, we Christians are enduring a spiritual captivity. We are surrounded on all sides by Babylon’s idolatry, by her offer of security, by her offer of comfort, and if we will keep the peace and do as she directs she will not harm us. Those of us who recognise this are like the faithful remnant of Jews, we lament, we mourn, we are sometimes in despair but not downtrodden, we look for the fulfillment of a heavenly kingdom but we find little of it here in this place. In this place which we call Christendom, held captive amidst Mystery Babylon.

Perhaps that point is not so surprising to many, but what is surprising to me and increasingly so is that Christians in general are enamored of this Babylonian culture. We are drunk and confused as a result of partaking in her sins, we no longer understand that our materialism, our love of money, our lip service to God and His Christ have brought us to the brink of apostasy. We are wallowing in a blind state of drunkeness.

Mystery Babylon has sought to usurp the worship which belongs to God alone, and succeeded. We have sat in our churches, swallowed the messages that satisfy our itching ears, and lived like kings. Happy, joyous, comfortable, secure in our Sunday worship and 10% offering.

The stumbling block of men “the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life” have enabled a tremendous deception to occur in our time. Men of carnal minds, not able to rightly divide the word of truth offer biblical text as a support of their carnal beliefs. We have accepted Babylon’s idols in our hearts, we have served with our time, with our affections and we’ve said, blessed be the Lord who gives us all of these things to enjoy. Meanwhile the world is going to hell, the gospel is not being preached, the oppressed are not being comforted, the persecuted are given little assistance, cause we’re all too busy being blessed. This is not God’s plan, it’s a human plan.

Doesn’t anyone else out there get a sense that we are supposed to mourn about all this, Like ; blessed are you who mourn….for yours is the kingdom of heaven.

Does anyone else out there get concerned about the fact that Christ pointed out the fact that the rich man had lived in comfort and security upon the earth, and so now he was to endure hell.

Luke 16:19 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.

The apostle Paul speaks of a Christian as one who “wrestles” against powers, principalities and against the wiles of the devil. The devil is a master of deception, he comes as an angel of light, his workers are disguised as workers of righteousness. His way is as a snare of the fowler, schemes of deception that will look like schemes of God to men of carnal minds.

I believe that we have failed to recognise the tremendous danger and peril of living in the midst of Mystery Babylon, for the fruit of her loins is harlotry. Yes, Mystery Babylon’s gift to western nations is her ability to produce harlots. A people who according to Hosea go after her lovers, those who offer her bread, water, wool, linen, oil and drink.

God only ever called one people group harlots, the people He set aside to Himself.

Men like John Bunyan understood clearly the fight, the struggle we are to endure. In His Biblical allegory “Pilgrims Progress” the main character Christian was compelled to flee, with barely the clothes on His back, forsaking all others, even his family. He writhed and cried out in anguish at the knowledge that his city and everything in it would shortly be consumed by fire from heaven, and having come to a certainty of this belief set upon his way of escape.

If you Christian feel like a stranger in a strange land, then perhaps indeed Christ is with you. If you are mournful and sorrowful over your own sin and the sin committed in the land, perhaps God is with you and in you. This is not our home, and like the Jews who mourned for Zion, we are looking forward to a heavenly dwelling place for there is little here we can find comfort in. If this sounds like you, then praise the Lord and rejoice in His salvation.

Come out of her My people, lest you share in her sorrows.

see “Babylonian Captivity of Christendom – Part 2, Freedom”