Babylon; Babylon the Great

The message now is that nominal Christendom is hereafter to be known as "Babylon," confusion, and that all who are truly the Lord's people are now to hear his voice and to flee out of Mystic Babylon, that they be not partakers of her sins, and that they receive not a share of her plagues from the vials of wrath which shortly shall be poured out upon her.

You have already suggested that the expression, "These are they which were not defiled by women" (Rev. 14:4) symbolically refers to earthly church organizations, represented as women--Babylon, mother and daughters.

The thrusting in of that sickle of truth has had the effect of causing all denominations or religions systems to bind themselves together in bundles; thus uniting to oppose the message of truth. This binding together in bundles, according to the parable, must take place before the destruction of the tares. That these bundles have for some time been bound together cannot be gainsaid. The tacit union of the systems is complete, all together composing Babylon, mother and daughters. The doom of Babylon is sealed and has been announced.

For this very reason, Papacy is denominated “Babylon the Great”; the Babylon of old was full of these abominations, and therefore well typified the fallen church of the gospel age.

The Lord acknowledges none of them, but describes them unitedly as great Babylon, which in due time will fall and give place to the glorious kingdom which the Lord has promised — the antitype of the Jewish kingdom under a still more favorable covenant, under a still better Mediator, under a still more grand and glorious King than David or Solomon or any other.

That the preachers generally are blind is evidenced from the fact that they cannot see that ancient Babylon was typical of modern Christianity, which has gotten so far off the track of righteousness and truth as to be a blasphemous outrage in the sight of God.

Thus the old "whore", as the Scriptures call "Babylon", which is Satan’s organization, has defiled and debauched that which is called "organized Christianity".

“Enemy” here is in the female gender in the Hebrew, showing that it applies to Satan’s “woman”, his organization Babylon, which brings forth the 'seed of the Serpent’.

Because the city Babylon became the outstanding and dominant part of Satan’s earthly organization, his entire organization of invisible and visible parts is called “Babylon” in God’s Word.

Since then Jehovah God has revealed to his studious people the clear distinction between Satan’s worldly organization foreshadowed by Babylon and the organization of Jehovah God.

Hence the Bible uses that political, religious organization of Babylon to symbolize Satan’s organization as a whole in heaven and in earth.

ANCIENT Babylon sat astride the river Euphrates and extended her imperialistic power over peoples, nations and tongues. So Satan’s woman, mystic Babylon, has wielded its oppressive power over all mankind. Only Jehovah our God the Almighty could effect their deliverance by taking to himself his great power and again beginning to rule as universal King and destroying Babylon at the coming battle of Armageddon.

We read his judgment with great interest, with a view to a consideration later on of modern-day Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion.

All the developments of these times show that the day draws near when Jehovah God will bring about the destruction of Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion.

In our twentieth century, after the end of World War I in 1918, the anointed remnant were revitalized spiritually and marched out from captivity to Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion, in order to resume their Kingdom service.

First of all, it will have the capability of destroying the whole world empire of false religion, both Christendom's and heathendom's religious organizations, called in the Bible mystic "Babylon the Great"!

In modern fulfillment of that vision the remnant of spiritual Israelites were revived in the spring of 1919 and were liberated from Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion, and from abject subjection to her political, judicial and military paramours who did her bidding during World War I.

Such will just be going into another religious system that is doomed, for they all belong to Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion.

the Lord’s people did everything they could to keep the preaching work going. There is strong evidence to support this testimony.

However, the Jewish captivity does not appear to be a prophetic type of what happened to Christians.

Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion, which the Devil has used for centuries to spread lies about Jehovah.