"God’s true church is not contaminated with the defiling pollutions of Mystery Babylon. There is a little flock, there is a body of Christ, its members are scattered abroad and almost invisible to the great religious Babylon. They are seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal, and they are the called and chosen and faithful who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. They are those who have turned to God in the spirit from all the religious idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for the glory that shall yet be revealed when God’s sons come into their own. They are those who have not the form, but the power of godliness, those who keep themselves unspotted from the world, and overcome all things by faith. Its ministers are not robed in material robes of scarlet and gold; they are robed in the righteousness of Christ. They are not trained in the seminaries and teachings of men, but by the spirit of grace and wisdom and revelation from God on High. They are not busy interpreting the creeds of the church councils of man; their very lives are the interpretation of the Christ enthroned in their hearts. They have no interest in persuading people to believe what they believe; their whole ministry is to bring people into intimacy of fellowship and vital union with God and His Christ."
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Babylon is both, influences the world through religion.
All religious organizations, and sects in Christidom are the Babylon system, because they don't follow Jesus Christ, they follow their sectarianism. Don't focus on the Babel in orher sects, focus on the Babel in you, that is the message of Revelation.
I have no "Babel" in me. I take the words of God literally. Mystery Babylon is a system that thrives on "spiritualizing," and other types of mutilations, to make it say what feels good or makes them money. For instance, praying to a saint. Or a priest forgiving sins. Only way you can put these things in the Bible is by changing the words, which I refuse to do.
Babylon is spiritual Andy.
Mystery Babylon is the One world religion, currently being mustered up by the catholic church.
This brings another thought to mind, are you going to go out on a limb and say that the Bibles never made any prophecies that came true? You're calling God a liar.
That's a sectarian teaching Andy. It is wrong, Babylon is not secluded to one sect, it runs the gambit in all religion, yours included. Why do you think you are blinded to it in you?
"The beast that thou sawest was and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is" (Rev. 17:8).
"They that dwell on the earth" are the earth-dwellers, the carnal Christians who dwell in the lowlands of spiritual experience."