In Revelation 18 an Angel gives the 'Loud Cry' and Babylon is described in detail and the call made to come out of her, and the warning given that "God hath remembered her iniquities."
Revelation 18:1-5
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.
We see the angel cry "mightily with a strong voice", and "the earth was lightened with his glory." Here is pictured the final announcement of the fall and demon possession of Babylon, accompanied by the divine call, "Come out of her, My people." The separation from Babylon is necessary in order to be emancipated from her sins and to escape her plagues.
The time of the loud cry is definitely located. It comes just before the close of probation and the falling of the seven last plagues, in which "is filled up the wrath of God." With a loud c ry or strong voice the call is given for God's people remaining in the religious organizations constituting Babylon to separate from what has "become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird." Babylon includes the mother and the large family of daughters, all of whom have fallen and been taken possession of by Satanic agencies.
The loud cry is the final message of salvation during the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as prophesized in the last days, a call which will bring every human being to a final and irrevocable decision. The latter rain furnishes the power so that the message can be quickly finished and bring any of Gods people out of Babylon.
It is evident that the purpose of the loud cry is to call out of Babylon all who had not previously made the separation. This must be done before probation closes and the plagues fall. The Lord designates those called out as "My people" to escape from Babylon, a doomed spiritual entity which is followed in wonder by the world.
Why the great urgency to come out and separate from it, because Babylon has become completely possessed and controlled by satanic forces, has fallen to an all-time low level of spiritual life, and is clearly a unfitting dwelling place for the people of God. The sins of Babylon, like the tower of Babel in ancient Babylon, have piled up until they have "reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered their iniquities." Just as the angels hurried Lot and his family out of the doomed city of Sodom before its destruction, so the saints of God must be hastened out of the final spiritual city of destruction before the wrath divine brings it to a deserved end.
When Peter wrote his first epistle, he concluded by saying, "The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you" (1 Peter 5:13, KJV). In the Roman Catholic Douay Version of the Bible, the footnote to this verse says, 'Babylon. Figuratively Rome.' During the Protestant Reformation all leaders taught essentially the same, from Luther, in 1520, onward. These men were scattered over Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. In Britain were men like William Tyndale, Bishops Ridley and Hooper, Archbishop Cranmer, Bishops Bale, Jewell, and Coverdale, and John Knox and others. Bishops Ridley's farewell letter before his martyrdom, in 1555, repeatedly referred to "Babylon," and called for separation from Rome. We see the rise of the woman on the scarlet-colored beast which is Babylon, clearly the Papacy, the doomed spiritual entity that Gods people must come out of.
Revelation 18:1-5
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.
We see the angel cry "mightily with a strong voice", and "the earth was lightened with his glory." Here is pictured the final announcement of the fall and demon possession of Babylon, accompanied by the divine call, "Come out of her, My people." The separation from Babylon is necessary in order to be emancipated from her sins and to escape her plagues.
The time of the loud cry is definitely located. It comes just before the close of probation and the falling of the seven last plagues, in which "is filled up the wrath of God." With a loud c ry or strong voice the call is given for God's people remaining in the religious organizations constituting Babylon to separate from what has "become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird." Babylon includes the mother and the large family of daughters, all of whom have fallen and been taken possession of by Satanic agencies.
The loud cry is the final message of salvation during the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as prophesized in the last days, a call which will bring every human being to a final and irrevocable decision. The latter rain furnishes the power so that the message can be quickly finished and bring any of Gods people out of Babylon.
It is evident that the purpose of the loud cry is to call out of Babylon all who had not previously made the separation. This must be done before probation closes and the plagues fall. The Lord designates those called out as "My people" to escape from Babylon, a doomed spiritual entity which is followed in wonder by the world.
Why the great urgency to come out and separate from it, because Babylon has become completely possessed and controlled by satanic forces, has fallen to an all-time low level of spiritual life, and is clearly a unfitting dwelling place for the people of God. The sins of Babylon, like the tower of Babel in ancient Babylon, have piled up until they have "reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered their iniquities." Just as the angels hurried Lot and his family out of the doomed city of Sodom before its destruction, so the saints of God must be hastened out of the final spiritual city of destruction before the wrath divine brings it to a deserved end.
When Peter wrote his first epistle, he concluded by saying, "The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you" (1 Peter 5:13, KJV). In the Roman Catholic Douay Version of the Bible, the footnote to this verse says, 'Babylon. Figuratively Rome.' During the Protestant Reformation all leaders taught essentially the same, from Luther, in 1520, onward. These men were scattered over Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. In Britain were men like William Tyndale, Bishops Ridley and Hooper, Archbishop Cranmer, Bishops Bale, Jewell, and Coverdale, and John Knox and others. Bishops Ridley's farewell letter before his martyrdom, in 1555, repeatedly referred to "Babylon," and called for separation from Rome. We see the rise of the woman on the scarlet-colored beast which is Babylon, clearly the Papacy, the doomed spiritual entity that Gods people must come out of.
