A Crumbling State

Revelation 18:4
4Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"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;

At the fall of the once mighty empire Babylon, the Israelites were not to be present. The Lord freed them from captivity before he brought judgement to Babylon. But if they chose to stay, then they would have suffered the same fate.  John did not encourage the worship of emperors. So to deter he reinforced the prophecy given by the Old Testament prophets on what would happen if idol worship continued. Walking as the world does gets one result, death. The death can be physical and spiritual . If we continue to live like the world then we reap the consequences of the world. If we live as the Lord calls us to live, then we reap abundant life. We always have a choice but the choice we make determines our outcome. If we want better outcomes, make better choices. There are things and people we must let be. If not, we go down with them just as the prophecy states. The idols can be anything but we are never to make them more important than our Lord. He is jealous and by right. He created us for His pleasure and anything that takes away from it He has a right to crumble it. He crumbled the great Babylon which was once considered the most powerful. He can bring anything to a crumbling state.

P.S. Join me this Saturday, November 19th at John 3:16 Christian Bookstore in Lanham, Md from 1-4pm for their anniversary celebration as I will be signing books and hugging necks!! Photos will be taken by Lisa J. Monroe of Photographic Expressions. It's a great gift for friends and family!!