Warning! Don’t
Drink the Wine of Babylon
Mr.
Wilson:
Revelation
14:8 indicates that all the
nations will drink the madding
wine of Babylon’s adulteries.
Who is Babylon? What is the wine of
Babylon? What is Babylon’s
adultery?
Sincerely,
Sherri
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Thank
you for your questions. I hope my
response will be helpful because the
future has a sequence of events that
few people anticipate. We have to
understand the circumstances that
will cause the formation of Babylon
before we can discuss Babylon’s
adultery and wine. According to
Wikipedia, the estimated size and
diversity of Earth’s seven
billion people currently live in
approximately 195 nations and speak
about 6,500 languages.
1.
China has a population of about 1.3
billion people – most of which
are atheists.
2.
India has a population of about 1.2
billion people – most of which
are Hindu or Buddhist.
3.
There are about 1.5 billion Muslims
and 1.2 billion Catholics living in
various countries.
4.
This leaves about 1.8 billion people
in smaller categories such as
Protestants (650 million), Jews (14
million) and various other groups.
These
statistics force us to consider the
nationalistic, linguistic, religious,
and political diversity that exists
on Earth. For thousands of years,
this diversity has been the source of
antagonism and conflict. In the past
forty years, leaps in technology have
made our world seem very small in
matters of travel, economics, food
supplies, energy, communication, and
nuclear proliferation. It seems
inevitable that one day, a nuclear
exchange will occur at some point in
the future. This oncoming eventuality
is important in this study because
the Bible indicates that life as we
presently know it will abruptly
change in a single day. (See 1
Thessalonians 5:1-6.)
God’s
Wrath Will Produce Babylon
Please
consider this short scenario that
could lead to the formation of
Babylon.* Sometime in the near
future, I anticipate a nuclear
exchange will occur. When this
happens, God will step into the
conflict with a series of apocalyptic
judgments that will be so
overwhelming that the war will cease.
Suddenly, world leaders will realize
that their greatest opponent is not
another nation having atomic bombs,
but Almighty God Himself!
When
God’s wrath breaks out, He will
get the undivided attention of all
nations. In terms of scope and
consequences, God’s wrath will
be global and totally devastating.
The Bible indicates that God’s
wrath will begin with a mighty
display of lightening, intimidating
peals of thunder, rumblings deep
within Earth, and a global earthquake
that will destroy dams, bridges,
electrical grids, and buildings. This
earthquake will make travel and
communication almost impossible; God
will put the world in a state of
lock-down because He has a message
for this rebellious planet. A few
days after the global earthquake, God
will burn up a third of the world
with a meteoric shower of burning
hail. A few days later, God will hurl
a great asteroid into an ocean. The
impact will destroy a third of the
ships as well as a third of the sea
creatures. The resulting tsunamis
will swell several hundred feet high.
Giant concentric walls of water will
rush toward coastal cities and
destroy thousands of them in minutes.
A few days after this, God will hurl
a flaming asteroid into a continent
and the shockwaves from the impact
will shatter its geological strata.
This will cause the rivers, aquifers,
and springs of water to become
contaminated and millions of people
will die from drinking poisoned
water. After this, hundreds of
volcanoes will erupt and fill the sky
with ash, soot, and debris. The jet
stream will cause darkness to cover
the middle third of Earth. There will
be no light for weeks, crops will
perish, and global famine will
follow.
God
will destroy 25% of the world’s
population (1.75 billion people)
within a period of a couple months.
It goes without saying that the
remaining 5.25 billion survivors will
be badly traumatized and scared to
death. The omnipotent power of
Almighty God will silence the whole
world in the same way that He
silenced a powerful storm on the Sea
of Galilee. The fear of the Almighty
will humble everyone and the
survivors will whisper, “What
does He want?”
When
the religious and political leaders
of the world see the fierce
destruction and apocalyptic
proportions of God’s wrath, they
too will be overwhelmed and
traumatized just like everyone else.
Since they do not know God’s
plan (even though His plans are
announced in the book of Revelation),
the leaders of the world will
erroneously conclude that God’s
wrath will continue without cessation
unless something is done to appease
Him. Furthermore, world leaders will
not be able to dismiss these
judgments as random acts of nature
because I believe God’s wrath
will target notoriously wicked places
(like Sodom and Gomorrah). Thus,
Atheists, Catholics, Protestants,
Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Pagans
will be forced to admit that a
discernable pattern of destruction is
obvious. The smoldering ruins of
thousands of wicked cities will prove
to everyone that Almighty God reigns
and He must be very angry!
Think
about this: By the time the fourth
trumpet-judgment in Revelation 8 has
ended, all of the world’s
infrastructures (communications,
banking, manufacturing, travel, and
every nation’s economy) will be
destroyed. A third of the world will
be in a heap of ashes. Thousands of
coastal cities will either be missing
or uninhabitable. Twenty-five percent
of the world’s population will
be dead. Darkness will cover Earth
24/7 and the onset of global famine
will be inescapable. These dire
circumstances and the anticipation
that more judgments are imminently
coming will motivate world leaders to
unite and do something quickly!
The
religious and political leaders of
the world will assemble, and
according to the book of Revelation,
their solution to appease God’s
awful wrath will be to form a crisis
government that will oversee every
nation, making sure every effort is
made to appease God. This crisis
government (called Babylon in the
book of Revelation) will have
authority over not only civil
matters, but also religious ones as
well. All 195 nations of the world
will humbly agree to follow the
directives of this “monstrous
beast.” (Revelation 13:3)
Babylon’s
Adulteries
Revelation
describes Babylon as an adulterous
organization because God considers
manmade church-state governments an
abomination. The church (the bride of
Christ) belongs to Christ and she is
not permitted to “get in
bed” with civil or secular
authorities. Even when God delivered
Israel from Egypt, He kept the
powers
of church (the priesthood) and state
(the king) separate. Babylon’s
function and role will appear to be a
reasonable idea to almost everyone
traumatized by the first four
trumpets. Its motto will be simple:
“The whole world must appease
God so that His wrath will cease or
we shall all die!” After
witnessing the smoldering evidences
of God’s wrath, the destruction
of thousands of coastal cities, the
slaughter of 1.75 billion people,
endless darkness, and looming famine,
who can disagree with Babylon’s
motto without insulting the Almighty?
After
the adulterous church-state
government forms, I can envision a
scenario where the leaders of Babylon
announce to the world: “Every
nation has suffered a great loss. God
is angry with the whole world for one
reason. We have become wicked,
degenerate, and violent. God is
offended with our evil ways. The
bible says that God destroyed the
world in Noah’s day because of
violence and wickedness. The Bible
teaches that God destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah because of sexual
immorality, and the Bible teaches
that God destroyed Jerusalem for
idolatry and violence. God never
changes, and now that a third of the
world has been reduced to ashes and
25% of the world has been slain, it
is absolutely necessary to change our
sinful ways if we want to survive. We
must make every effort to please the
Almighty or He will destroy the rest
of us. Given this unforeseeable
crisis, which is due to our decadent
and degenerate behavior, the leaders
of the world have established a new
organization which will lead the way
forward. This new organization will
work with the authorities in each
nation. World leaders have elected
the pope to head this new government
because the Roman Catholic Church is
unique in that it already has
diplomatic relations with 175
nations. The pope will be assisted by
an executive council of religious
leaders from every religious body.
This coalition of the world’s
religious leaders will guide us and
provide counsel as we proceed.
“All
195 nations have wholeheartedly
agreed to carry out the
recommendations that will proceed
from the crisis government. Due to
the implementation of martial law in
every nation, many new laws,
carefully designed to eliminate
offensive behaviors in God’s
sight, will be implemented without
debate or delay. People refusing to
obey these laws will be arrested and
punished because the world cannot
risk offending Almighty God any
further. We have no choice but to
appease God’s wrath if we want
to survive. Therefore, a list of
sinful behaviors will be punished and
anyone caught offending the Almighty
will be quickly punished. Did not God
say
‘Is it not better for one man to
die than a whole nations
perish?’ (See John 11:50.)”
Babylon’s
Wine
The
wine of Babylon will be a compelling
lie. It will be the biggest lie told
since Lucifer lied to Eve in the
Garden of Eden. The lie Babylon will
promote is that God’s wrath can
be appeased. The wine of Babylon will
seem reasonable and all 195
nations will drink it and do stupid
things to try and stop God’s
wrath. (This is why the wine is
called maddening wine.) To counteract
this lie, God will send 144,000
prophets throughout the world. They
will speak plainly against
Babylon’s wine. They will boldly
say, “….’Fallen!
Fallen [False! False]
is Babylon the Great [whose
plans for appeasing God is nonsense
and its presumed authority is an
insult to the Almighty], which
made all the
nations drink the maddening wine
[those nations and people who
participate in Babylon’s lies
will become delusional fools and mad
men] of her adulteries
[unholy alliance between church and
state].’” (Revelation 14:8,
insertions and underlining mine)
Getting
prepared
The
book of Revelation teaches three
facts that every Christian should
clearly understand at this hour.
First, God’s wrath is surely
coming. The book of Revelation
indicates that God is about to send
fourteen overwhelming judgments upon
Earth. (These judgments are described
as seven trumpets and seven bowls.)
These judgments will be progressively
destructive. In fact, Earth will be
totally devastated during the seventh
bowl.
Second,
Jesus said that the end of the world
will be similar to the story of Noah.
(Matthew 24:37-39) For 120 years, God
warned the people through Noah. Noah
told the antediluvians what God was
going to do and when He was going to
do it. (Genesis 6:3) The
antediluvians did not believe Noah.
They did not repent of their evil
ways and neither did God deviate from
His plan. Similarly, the book of
Revelation is speaking to the world.
It contains God’s plan and He
will not deviate from it. When His
wrath begins, God will speak to the
whole world (and its leaders of
Babylon) through His 144,000
servants, and like the antediluvians,
most of the world will not listen and
will defy God’s commandments.
Third,
every Christian should know that
there can be no appeasement of
God’s wrath during the Great
Tribulation because Earth has passed
the point of no return. When
God’s wrath begins, no amount of
appeasement can change, divert, or
altar God’s actions. This
explains why God sends 144,000
prophets to tell the world that
Babylon’s wine is a huge lie.
The truth is confirmed by the casting
down of the censer at the Altar of
Incense in Heaven’s temple.
(Revelation 8:5) When the daily
service at heaven’s Altar of
Incense is terminated, there can be
no further appeasement of God’s
wrath because 6,000 years of
corporate atonement ends when the
censer is cast down.** Salvation will
be offered to individuals during the
seven trumpets and all who are
willing to obey the eternal gospel
and put their faith in Christ will be
saved. However, it is vital to
understand that there will not be any
appeasement of God’s wrath - in
fact, His wrath will only get worse
when the seven bowls begin.
Sherri,
I know this scenario sounds like a
fairy tale. (The antediluvians also
thought a flood was a fairy tale,
until the first rain drops fell.) If
the documentation was not in the
Bible, I would not believe it.
Currently, there are many scoffers,
but when God’s wrath begins,
life will change. Babylon will
implement martial law and the
individual freedoms that we treasure
so much today will be suspended.
Constitutional rights and legislative
debate will be set aside because of
the overwhelming crisis. A day is
coming when a few “civil
servants” will rule over each
nation with absolute power, and
worse, a small group of religious
leaders will rule over these civil
servants with absolute power. The
book of Revelation predicts a future
and a one-world-church-state that is
now impossible to imagine. The Word
of God is infallible. It predicts
that Babylon is coming. Do not be
deceived with its wine.
Larry
Wilson
PS:
I hope our readers will make copies
of this study and pass them around.
Hurry. People need to be introduced
to this topic. A monstrous beast will
soon come to life and what will we
them be able to say?
*Note:
This topic is covered in considerable
detail in my book, The
Seven Trumpets, Two Witnesses and
Four Beasts. This
information can be freely downloaded
from http://wake-up.org/Revelation/RevTrumpets.pdf
**Note:
For further discussion on the Full
Cup Principle, please see Chapter 2
in my book, Warning! Revelation
is about to be fulfilled or this
information can be freely downloaded
at http://www.wake-up/warnbook/WarnBook.htm
