Escape from Babylon

Then I heard another voice

from heaven shout,

“My people, you must escape

from Babylon.

Don't take part in her sins

and share her punishment.

Her sins are piled

as high as heaven.

God has remembered the evil

she has done.

Treat her as she

has treated others.

Make her pay double

for what she has done.

Make her drink twice as much

of what she mixed

for others.

That woman honored herself

with a life of luxury.

Reward her now

with suffering and pain.

“Deep in her heart

Babylon said,

‘I am the queen!

Never will I be a widow

or know what it means

to be sad.’

And so, in a single day

she will suffer the pain

of sorrow, hunger, and death.

Fire will destroy

her dead body,

because her judge

is the powerful Lord God.”

Revelation 18:4-8

If you look around and discover that the nation in which you live is "Babylon" what should you do? How can you escape from Babylon? Where would you go?

Of first importance is that you not "take part in her sins."

Does your culture call something "legal" that God says is sin? If the laws of your land declare that stealing is legal, God would still maintain that it is sin to take something that belongs to another man.

In some places killing an unborn child is permitted and even encouraged. Some countries officially stand against the recognition of the existence of God.

So your options are to please your culture or please your Creator. If you stand against your culture you will suffer persecution for a while, but if you stand against your Creator you will suffer forever!

"Lord, help me to identify the sins of my nation and give me the wisdom and courage to stand against those sins and walk in the righteousness that only comes from Jesus Christ. Amen."