Moving Day

“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 unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.” (Re 18:4-6 AV)

The context is the judgment of Babylon.  The angel is warning all those who know the LORD to come out of her.  Like Lot, they must come out because judgment is coming.  More importantly, they must come out because of the filth of the sin!  An interesting side note here is the absence of the condition of judgment upon Babylon as there was on Sodom and Gomorrah.  God could not judge Sodom and Gomorrah while Lot was there.  There is no condition mentioned above.  That is beside the point.  The point is separation.  God’s people should flee the very appearance of sin!  They should not go anywhere near it lest it touches us.  We should flee from it and ask the LORD to take vengeance upon it.

There are places a saint should not be even though he or she may not participate directly in any sin involved.  When I lived in Chicago, I became a Cubs fan.  A rather ardent one at that.  The reason why may be a little strange.  But nonetheless, goes to our point.  My wife and I enjoyed several games at the home of the White Sox.  But the inter-inning music was loud rock music.  They served beer there and it wasn’t out of the ordinary to witness drunken behavior.  But when one went to Wrigley, at the time, they did not serve alcohol.  The music was an old-fashioned organ.  It was truly family friendly.  I don’t go to hockey games anymore because of the loud acid rock music. There are simply some places that I don’t go to because of the extra-curricular activity that one is exposed to.  Just this past year, at a state fair, there was a couple who decided to make a public spectacle of intimacy right in front of a stadium of people!

It is time for the saints to separate themselves from an ever increasingly wicked world!  Not only that, but desire the judgment of God upon it!  Come LORD Jesus and establish righteousness once and for all!  Bring holiness and purity!  Bind the hands of Satan and reign in holiness!  Please, Lord, come!