Babylon The Great Is Fallen, is Fallen!!
Romans 1: 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Babylon the Great that is fallen is the belief, the errored mind of men that had God's Word with the wrong understanding. Adam (men - serpent - satan) had God's Word, but he used It to deceive - he deceived his neighbor, his wife, his companion with the Word - Law, that God entrusted him with. He betrayed his Maker, he did not love his neighbor (Eve) as himself to want life (God) for them but wanted himself to be worshiped as god by having God's power, the WORD, but he did not bring it to others as God had given it to him so they may worship the Creator. Adam made himself equal with the God of Heaven bringing his own understanding to be worshiped! He deceived Eve when he shared God's Word with her (Adam spirit that was deceived by the physical nature was the serpent in the garden that deceived Eve). See the creation story in Genesis where God tells us that He first created Adam and all the other creation, and in the END of all His work, he created Eve. The Word-Law-Commandment was given to Adam, before God created Eve!!!! Adam was entrusted with the Word - Will of GOD and he was put in charge of the creation of GOD.
Babylon the Great that is fallen, is the carnal mind - the spiritual wickedness found in the spirits of all religious men with the carnal understanding of God’s Word, the spirits of all men that worship the creature more than the Creator.
God informs us that Babylon the Great is fallen, that Judgement Day came, and that He is calling Zion (the true believers) out from it. God commands Zion to come out of Babylon the Great.
Revelation 18: 1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 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. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
The messenger from heaven that lightened the earth with His glory is God - the Spirit - the Spiritual Truth. Today God, the Spiritual Truth, is calling Zion (the true believers) to come out of Babylon the great. God tells us that Babylon the Great has become the habitation of devils (the place where unbelievers - those with carnal understanding of the Word of God - live). How can the true believers be in Babylon the Great? Are both the true believers and the unbelievers following the Word of God? Can the house of God be made of believers and unbelievers? God tells us that His enemy has placed the unbelievers (tares) into His house and at the time of harvest (Judgment Day) they will be separated. The separation occurs now, Today, on Judgment Day. God is separating the living from the dead. He is separating between His seed and the seed of satan, between wheat and tares, sheep and goats, those of the spiritual understanding and those of the carnal understanding of His Word, between those with the spirit of error and those that have His Holy Spirit of Truth. The children of God (those with spiritual understanding of the Word) rejoice Today in Spiritual Truth (God) and proclaim the spiritual understanding of His Word which brings judgment on the world.
Psalm 149: 1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. 4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. 5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Why is Babylon the Great fallen? Babylon the great is fallen because she loves and worships the creature more than the Creator. Some people being deceived (by the spirit of satan, spirit of error - Babylon) have been teaching that Babylon the Great is America. Babylon the Great that is fallen, can NOT be America. America could not have deceived all the nations and could not have killed all the prophets from the foundation of the world until now, Judgment Day. The blood of all the saints could not have been found in her since the land of America is only known for a couple of hundreds of years ("of all that were slain upon the earth"). Only a teaching or a belief could have deceived the whole world (earth) or all men that lived in the whole world from the foundation of the earth till Judgment Day. Only a belief or a spirit which is also called satan could have deceived the spirit/soul/mind of a man, so that the Spirit of God does not live in them.
God also tells us in Revelations 18 that He will take His Spirit (Light of the candle, Voice of the Bridegroom) from Babylon the Great. God is not taking His Spirit from America or all the nations of this world but He is taking It from the "world" that had His Word (His Spirit) and was entrusted with It until Judgment Day. As national Israel was entrusted with the Word of God for a time and found unfaithful to God the Spirit, the Creator, when Christ (the Creator) came, so are Today (on Judgment Day) all they that teach and proclaim God's Word carnally/ literally- judged and found unfaithful. They are deceived as national Israel was, thinking that they were saved by the works of their own hands (by how precise and correct they kept the ceremonial laws) and not by the Spirit of God. They did not rely on the Spirit of God to make them understand what was the spiritual meaning of the things that they were doing and following. They did not understand the meaning of the written law, or of the ceremonial laws, or of the written Word.
God also calls satan the father of lies (father of liars) because he is the one that invented or created lies. God also shows us that satan (Babylon the Great) is a spirit or a belief in Matthew 16 verse 23 (But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men) and that it is the wrong belief (the wrong spirit, the spirit of error). He shows us that there are two beliefs or two spirits: one is His Spirit (Spirit of God, Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, Christ - the Spirit of God fully manifested in the Body of the True Believers, Spiritual Truth) and the other spirit is the spirit of satan (spirit of error, Adam, earthly Jerusalem, the physical, earthly representation of the kingdom of God, all that hold to the carnal understanding of the Word of God, all that worship the creature more than the Creator). The spirit of satan is the belief in earthly, physical or fleshly things, rituals that a man can do to please God, things that the human eye can see (things of the flesh).
The Spirit of God is the belief in spiritual things, things that are not seen with the physical eye, things of the mind and of the knowledge of God (the invisible things that are seen in the creation, hidden things in God's written Word, spiritual things of the Spirit of God, Spiritual Truth).
Babylon the Great is fallen because she worships and bows down to the physical parables that God created, like the written Word of God, literal historical accounts, parables, the written law which were made in order to point us to the deeper meaning - Spiritual Truth (God Himself). She worships the image of the beast that being the carnal understanding of the written Word. Man made the creation / the written word - an idol. The image of the beast is the physical representation of the ceremonial laws. The wrong belief is the beast and the physical representation of the Law is the image that was made by the spirit of satan through the spirits of the unbelievers. And it's worshiped by all the world. The beast was created by the spirit of Adam in the garden when he heard the Law (commandment). The written Word, the literal, historical accounts are parables that were created to be understood spiritually (to be worshiped in the deeper spiritual meaning that they point to). All things that are created were made by God the Spirit, in order to teach us about Himself - CREATOR - Spiritual Truth, His Purpose, His Will. Man is commanded to worship the Creator (Spirit), and not to worship anything that was created.
God gave us His Word (Sword), one side that is very helpful for the physical body. Thru the physical side we are still surviving in this world and did not exterminate ourselves. But the physical side is just for this body and this world and when our journey in this world is ended, the body becomes dust again, and we are made what we were meant to be, Spirit! The other side of God's Word is the One that we are JUDGED by, we are condemned by - if we don't know it, understand it, or follow it. The Spiritual side of His SWORD, the spiritual meaning of His Word is what stands forever and is not affected or changed by the physical or Spiritual state that we are in! The physical side of us is very short lived compared with FOREVER.
God is Forever, so in this temporary journey we need to learn about the forever side of us. Satan wants to distract us - making everything only about the body, about physical, about surviving in the physical form and forgetting about the spirit that will actually be forever. This is how satan had deceived us, using our flesh to make us think the way he wants us to think. When we are transformed in the same nature and image as God, there is no more fight against our flesh. So, is HIS Word only for this WORLD? No, His WORD is forever. But all religions in this world they teach only physical literal morals that will not PROFIT your Spirit for ETERNITY.
Christ is the Creator; He is the WORD! But He is not the written word, physical parables that are given in the Scriptures as examples. He is the deeper Spiritual Meaning of the literal, written Word. Christ is NOT the literal water baptism that religious people do, He is NOT the physical bread that they take at their communion, He is NOT the physical literal wine that you drink at your church! His actions and His parables, the words that He gave us are Spirit and are Life!
A true believer will never worship the physical bread or water even though God created them to represent Him! He will never worship, bow down, make high or important the physical creation but the Spirit. Even though the physical things are not sin as long as you don't assign spiritual power to them, and many of the ceremonial laws were given for the physical nature of our physical body that needed to be preserved. A true believer will never spiritually or physically steal, lie, deceive, fornicate (commit adultery) or show in his life that those things that God made to represent the evil (satan) are important or esteemed by him - neither in his life, nor in his spirit.
Those that receive spiritual understanding see God's face (Spiritual Truth) and worship Him only (Spiritual Truth) in Spirit and in Truth by testifying the spiritual understanding of His Word (the invisible things of God seen in the creation).
Where is the proof that Judgement Day came and that Babylon the Great is fallen? All the proofs are hidden in the Word of God. Today God reveals to His children what was sealed. The proof is the Spirit of Truth that lives Today in the spirits of the true believers and makes them understand His Word Spiritually. He tells men the end from the beginning. God makes them to know that the ones that were entrusted with His Word, the ones put in charge of His kingdom in this world (Adam, husbandmen, shepherds, national Israel, all churches/ congregations, all men that teach God's Word with the carnal understanding, all those who worship the creature more than the Creator) were and are judged and found unfaithful. All these are Babylon the great that is fallen and God makes their judgment publicly known Today, on Judgment Day. Because they have killed with the sword (the law, carnal understanding of the Word of God), they are killed with the Sword (the Spiritual Word of God, Spiritual Truth, the Consuming Fire). By worshiping the creation - the temporary things, they killed the Spirit that created them (the Spirit of God abandoned them). The Spiritual Truth is the Sword, the Flaming Fire, that torments all men that have carnal understanding of the Word of God, all who worship the creature more than the Creator.
Isaiah 46: 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
1 Corinthians 10: 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Romans 8: 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
"Babylon the great that is fallen, is fallen", those that follow the carnal understanding of the Word of God, all men that worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, are cast out now from the Kingdom of God because Judgment Day came. Their works show that they are deceived and that their beliefs are carnal and fleshly - for the physical body. The spirit of satan (Babylon) in the spirits (minds) of men with carnal understanding tried to change the Word of God, which is Spiritual and for the spirit of man, into something carnal - for the physical body. They taught God's Holy Word as rules and as rituals for man's physical body to perform, and not as Knowledge (Spiritual Truth) for the spirit of man to live forever.
We can analyze the next passage and understand that God/Christ is given glory to the spiritual side of our nature, not the physical body. He even teaches us that we do not need to fulfil the needs and wants of the physical body to have eternal life! He is teaching us by the way that He lived in the physical body, that the physical is not important as long as we understand the spiritual. But He is a merciful God and He gets us through even this physical ordeal, and we are overcoming the wants and desires of the flesh/world and so we can live with the purpose of bringing His knowledge in the world: '"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven"!
Mattew 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, IT IS WRITTEN, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for IT IS WRITTEN, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, IT IS WRITTEN again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for IT IS WRITTEN, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
As is clearly shown we see that satan is using God's written Word, God's Law to try to deceive! He used God's Word the same way in the garden of Eden when he deceived Eve trough Adam's spirit! He used God's Word with the carnal fleshly understanding to try to tempt God!
God is executing His vengeance upon the heathen (those that are not of His Kingdom, Babylon the great - the kingdom of satan) and at the same time is revealing Himself and His Kingdom to the true believers (His children - Zion).
Babylon the Great is the physical representation of the kingdom of God, the harlot woman (not a physical prostitute that stays on a corner street - but the members of all local congregations, all religions, and every man that holds onto the carnal understanding of the Word of God, anyone born by the spirit of error, everyone that worships the creature more than the Creator). She (the spirit of the unbelievers born by the spirit of error, Babylon, Babylon the Great) sat (ruled) in the high places (local congregations, churches, any religious place) and deceived men by the carnal, literal understanding of the Word (lies, gave stolen water and bread - see Proverbs ch 9).
When men believe that they follow the Word of God (Spiritual Truth, God) by doing physical actions such as giving a cup of water to someone as in MARK 9: 41 "For whosoever shall give you a CUP of water to drink in my name,” - they make God, Christ the Word, the Will of the Almighty Creator, as something physical that was created for an example. You can give a man a physical cup of water and if he dies in that day and you did NOT give him a cup of spiritual WATER then he is dead forever, and you will be judged for not caring for your neighbor! The true CUP of WATER that satisfies a thirsty soul is GOD'S PURE WORD, the spiritual deeper meaning that will save the soul forever! The Spiritual TRUTH is the cup of water that needs to be given in GOD's NAME - Jesus Christ!
God was not created neither was His Word, nor His Spirit. He is the Word - the Everlasting Father Who shows Himself to the true believers. Religious men believe that they are following the Spiritual Truth but are worshipping the law (commandment, the creation) and not the invisible things seen in the creation (Law of the Spirit - Spiritual Understanding – Spiritual Truth – the Creator). They are following the carnal understanding of God’s Word. The law, the written Word was made (created), but the Spiritual Word (spiritual understanding of the written Word) is from everlasting (God).
Colossians 1: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things CREATED, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were CREATED by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
God tells us that His wrath has come because those that use His Word know that He is Spirit (Spiritual Truth) but have changed His Holy Law into a lie (carnal understanding of the written Word) and worshiped the Idol, physical representation of His Word more than Him. They know that God spoke in parables and was referring to Spiritual water (Spiritual Truth) but teach that the parables - the physical cup of water - are the Word - the Creator. They believe that they are doing God’s Word by performing the physical action, but they are deceived and are trapped by the carnal understanding (death).
Romans 1: 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the CREATOR, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
The mystery that was hidden from the beginning of the world is now revealed! God had revealed WHO satan is, and where he is!!! GOD is revealing HIS Spiritual WORD, along with His KINGDOM and HIS people. Satan is to be destroyed by GOD'S TRUTH through the mouths of the true believers!!!!
Colossians 1: 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.