December 24-26, 2010
Revelation 18
Pastor Jason Yon
I don’t know which city is Babylon, but those folks are in trouble!
I’m not even going to pretend that I know what all of the imagery means in Revelation 18. What I do know (from verse 5) is that this city of Babylon represents a lot of people who denied Christ, persecuted Christians and whose “sins are piled up to heaven.” At this point, God pours out His wrath because “God has remembered her crimes.”
This scripture passage reminds me how much God hates sin. Throughout scripture, we read about how God disgusts, detests and despises all kinds of sin. Now the wrath is about to fall on all of it.
I believe that the warning requiring our obedience is found in verse 4, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues.” The Lord warns us to stay away from evil. Romans 12:9 tells us, “Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”
Although I don’t know everything about this chapter’s meaning, God warns us to stay away from evil which will be destroyed eventually. I’m glad that I’m not going to be around to see it. Yet there are a lot of lost and dying people around us and, if we don’t share the gospel with them, they will!
Let’s go get them and bring them with us.
Pastor Jason’s greatest passion in ministry is “helping parents to be the very best spiritual leaders in their home so their kids grow up with an authentic lifelong relationship with Christ.”
