Escape The Sins of The Cities!

Escape The Sins of The Cities                                                            Kelly Durant 9-14-14

Revelation 18:1-3 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.

 2. We are currently in the future we wondered about 40 years ago! When I was young there was a TV series called “Green Acres” and it was a comedy about a farmer man that married a lady from New York and daily they clashed over their appetites and ways of being. The farmer, for example, would be proud of his new born piglet and bring it in the house to show his wife and she would scream or faint! She was a delicate, extravagant, rich, proud woman and always upset and complainy. He was rough, humble, modest, and happy no matter what type of guy! Also, The Beverly Hillbillies, were a hit as well and these were real to life scenarios in the 30’s 40’s and 50s!

The clash between country people who depend on God, who are humble and sweet, compared to those who are ugly and proud in the cities exists in all countries, don’t you agree? Some Cubans tell me that some people from the country don’t want to be embarrassed for being from some tiny place so they often claim they are from Havana to be accepted as educated. In Colombia you have the sophisticated Bogotanos who tell jokes about the simplicity of the country people, the Pastusos. The clash between the simple with the proud in all countries is usually a parallel to the ones form the countryside compared to the ones from the city. The real issue are the sins of the people in the cities that clash with God! The question is, can you here, while living in this mega city of Miami stay free from its contamination?

In order to please God we must identify and flee from sins offered in the cities such as greed, lust, excess, intellectual arrogance, and pride. Arnold J. Toynbee stated, “Cities are a cancer on the body”, and he also said, “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” Most mega cities produce and consume physical and spiritual poison catering to people’s greed and self-destructions resulting in mega waste, debauchery, and organized circles of evil!

3. Farmers are always hard working, depending on prayers for rain and they enjoy the simple things of God, the animals, the plants, and their family. But people in the mega cities often have appetites for strange neon light entertainments, materialism, luxuries, crime and destruction. Having leisure time, people in cities incite clans of followers of diverse ideological movements and propagate support for satanic destructive ideals. To give an example of doctrines inciting hate, Google ‘humans=cancer’, and many articles will appear describing humans as a cancer, a bacteria destroying mother earth; humans, consequently then, deserve to be eliminated for their high crimes of destruction, guilty for global warming, and over population! But take note a new science report came out last week that proves the polar poles are actually growing in size! We are fed lie after lie! Over 100 Billion in our tax funds have been spent on ‘Green Initiatives”, and ironically most of the solar companies bankrupted and disappeared with mega millions!

Mega cities breed modernistic liberal movements forcing humanistic evil ideals on the masses. God owns the earth, but Satan military coup style, has taken it over temporarily.  The elimination of humankind is preached in intellectual circles as the most pious doctrine.  Shouldn't everyone harbor immense guilt for abusing the earth or because your country made wars, and in guilt shouldn't you choose suicide!? Inconvenient ideologies (not truths) are popularized and legitimatized by evil infiltrators (worldwide) so funds can be covertly diverted to support internal power struggles, civil-wars, race wars, abortions, pandemics, and population reductions by any means possible! Don’t just accept my word on this, read about Agenda 21 produced by the United Nations concerning “sustainability”. In Bolivia, in the last G77 summit statements by 100 nations confirm there is a real hatred for America just for it being rich and powerful; also hypocritically, it is hated for its moral decadence. China produces more unregulated pollution than the U.S. but yet they are praised as a global model of austerity under communism and their economy is equal to the U.S.  How can a nation that oppresses and abuses humans and animals so extremely be praised as earth’s salvation? In these circles capitalism is often compared to whoredom. What hypocrisy how Castro, and many dictators, publicly express contempt for prostitutes while daily carrying out ruthless murders to advance their own selfish power grabs in the so called defense of the poor suffering masses that under them suffer even worse conditions of oppression, persecution, and poverty!

Darwin, Marx, Lenin, Hitler and every satanic inspired demagogue provoking war, class warfare, racism, and mass murder grew up in a city full of Godless ideology! Current terrorists recruit people from the cities! Historically, from the first chapters of Genesis, one can conclude that God has never been happy with man’s creation of cities because it is in these conglomerate mega populations of confusion where ungodly pride, lustful perversions, weapons of war, and evil machinations flourish. 

4. How many cities have been condemned and destroyed by God? Sodom and Gomorrah are 2 that always come to most people’s minds, which were destroyed for their excessive lust, violence, and perversions. But consider hundreds of other mega cities have been destroyed throughout time by natural disasters and enemy armies. Archeology confirms it is more than a coincidence that evil places all perish quickly! Basically every city in the world regardless of their immense dominating power has fallen defeated due to God’s judgment on their sins! Jericho, Cairo, Athens, Rome, Pompeii, Carthage and hundreds more bear witness to this!

Destruction of cities create major power shifts; the Spanish conquerors stopped the human sacrifice of adults and children in the mega cities of the Aztecs and Incas in the Americas. An earthquake in 1907 buried and flooded the richest city in the Caribbean, Port Royal, Jamaica, the city of pirates, which was full of debauchery and wealth. Half of San Francisco was wiped in in 1906 where the Salvation Army’s disaster work began!

5. Today, however, we are focusing in on Babylon’s destruction. ‘Babel’, is a root word in English meaning confusion and we assume that this label is due to its size, languages, and diversity. The project of the first Babel, and it’s city, were abandoned by ancient man due to the language confusion sent down by God prior to 3,500 B.C. (Gen 11:4) By conclusion God zapped everyone’s brains capacities to be less intelligent so that most everyone would be stuck with the limited ability of only one or two languages in life. Later, the first city named Babylon in Iraq, fell to the Medes and Persians in 539 BC before Greece and Rome were even a world power, so what is inferred in these verses in Revelation during Rome’s reign?

Obviously the prophecy is referring to a future mega city that is horribly corrupt, sexually perverted, and drunk on the blood of the martyrs (context of whole chapter). Basically this city could represent many of the anti-christ mega cities in the world today! This one, however, was destroyed in one hour, and what is the motive for its destruction? Recall that this is within the setting of the end-time, a time when the final chapter of man’s reign on earth comes to an end and the anti-christ, or Satan in person, is consolidating his power worldwide.

6. This city was excessively rich, so if we narrowed it down to a modern day context, it could be New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, or Rome, etc. The 7^th Day Adventists believe this city is Rome but I am more open to other interpretations as Rome is not as wealthy as what is described in these chapters. Let’s not focus on the where, but rather on the how this city is to be destroyed during the rise of the anti-Christ.

Jesus is the only one with the privilege of the knowledge of future, and he gave it all to John to write down for everyone. This is a Babylon of the future and it could possibly be New York, or some other place like it, and possibly it is a city that is yet to be built in the future! Some theologians interpret this destruction to be symbolic of the sudden destruction of man’s materialistically fueled corrupted capitalistic world banking system. Certain details we do not know yet about this “Babylon’ but we can take into account that man has developed the technology to destroy the earth within one hour with nuclear bombs! Today a total destruction by a bomb or an earthquake is very probable!

Ever since the 1980s there has existed enough nuclear weapons to destroy the landmass of the earth 100 times over! We are only 10 minutes away from a strike from a Russian, Chinese, North Korean, or Iranian warhead! Actually only the destruction of one city, such as New York, would put so much debris in the air it would create a cloud cover that would create a global climate change producing the coldest winter ever on modern records! That would cause a food crisis and many more consequences!

7.  So what are the offensive sins of this city and the reason behind its judgment so we are informed to not partake of them? Babylon represents a total abomination offending God. The city is referred to as the great whore, and what is the main offense of the so called oldest profession? Unfaithfulness! A prostitute has no loyalty to anyone except to filthy money and this is an unnatural greed and selfishness, an abuse of emotions, and an abuse of the body as it transmits diseases. This choice of lifestyle contributes to family embarrassments, bitterness, anger, divorces, drug use, depression, and even murder! There is a negative guilt and shame inducted by all of the participants of whoredoms and God’s call is to be pure and free from sin and all lustful destructive activity: God wants Christians to be holy, happy, healthy, and loving!

Why does God have a disdain for the sexually perverted and commandment laws exist to punish its activity? For one, how can anyone learn faithfulness to God if a person is not practicing it amongst our own selves first? How can we as people understand and express sacrifice, pure love, protection and provision if not done under the condition of absolute loyalty? God created sex, a wonderful emotional bonding experience, but he never intended for it to be abused carnally just for a selfish abusive satisfaction which is degrading and depressing. Also, for there to exist a bonding love for a child that is a result of sex, a faithful commitment by both parties is imperative! One person can be a parent, but it is a very hard life for all involved.  

In U.S. cities today up to 72% of all babies born are born out of wedlock! Only one in 2 marriages remains together for a few decades. Our society, due to not having stable families, is consequently producing undisciplined, unloving, aggressive mentally disturbed criminal kids! Certain cultures of music genres glamorize these abuses and the gangster stripper club lifestyle. Imitation of these lustful lifestyles produces the financial and spiritual ruin of mega millions of young men and women of all races in the mega cities! Freedom from sin is a must!

8. The city mentioned in verse 1 is repeated in chapter 17 as sitting on many waters (the waters refers to the people). It mentions the merchants becoming rich by her trade, so it causes you to imagine it is possibly a port city. Wealth in itself is not an evil, but the worship of it is! The sin of the people of this city is that they had forgotten God and grown confident in their own power full of horrific sin and luxuries.

It describes the people as drunk on the wine of fornications. Drunkenness, or being drugged, is a serious problem in mega cities today. Basically this verse implicates people being addicted to porn lust, drugs & alcohol, and violence; violence including martyring Christians! The murder of Christians worldwide is horrifically being popularized as legitimate to do!

Rev 17:6 ‘And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.’ Her power seems overwhelming and this implies that not all Christians will escape the coming persecution but many will die as martyrs. Hundreds of thousands were martyred in John’s time and today some reports show up to 100,000 Christians die yearly in Africa and the Middle East! Now, here?

9. This verse will become clearer in the future; 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, ‘Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth’. We do not know specifically the full meaning of this but I think all Christians get nervous when we think of Bagdad (the original Babylon) reemerging as a world power. I doubt this refers to the modern day Bagdad Babylon but the ISIS group could overtake it soon since they are only a few miles away and for sure they would make it a world headquarters for radicals who will continue to behead those who believe in Jesus. More than a million Christians have fled their homes in Iraq and they now live in tent cities. This is very sad! The survivors are taken as slaves, and they are customarily mutilating female parts! Men, women, and children are still being slaughtered!

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

It is clear in other verses that murderers and persecutors of Christians will suffer in the lake of fire that burns for ever and ever. These murderers who continue in the future will also be those who will receive the mark of the beast, or the 666 ID. Their punishment will be extreme, the eruption of painful sores is described in Rev16:2 ‘And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshiped his image.’ The mark, being a possible RFID chip will make a torturous sore on those that get it! They will have hell now and hell hereafter!

10. So what is your response to this news that God will bring about a major catastrophe in the future and that God has always had His hand in the destruction of evil places? Rev 18: 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”. How do we interpret this? For one it may mean that in the future Christians will know which city is being described here, so at that time God is telling them clearly to move out, escape!

There is also a parallel meaning to moving out of sin cities, a spiritually one within the context of holiness: that we are not to participate in the sins of the world! We must purge ourselves with God’s word and prayer so we are not sinful and arrogant desiring lavish riches, to not be drunken by alcohol or drugs, not perverted by sexual appetites, nor lustful for blood and violence. 2 Corinthians 6:17 :Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” Sadly we all know of people that have chosen their own greed and perversions above God’s will and they left God’s ways for the sins of the cities.

Christians have the warning to escape but the wicked who never respect God, who never heed God’s warnings of punishment will suffer the consequences as in the days of Noah. Jesus return will be to take back the earth to establish purity, faithfulness, sanity, justice, peace, love and life eternal and to punish those who have their selves or Satan exalted as God being perverted by the sins and filth of an arrogant wasteful lifestyle being murderers of innocent people.

11. Our spirits are eternal and if we have the same heart as Jesus, loving God and rejecting evil, then we will go to be with Him; everyone knows that after death the spirits are judged! This message of extreme judgment on this abominable sin city of Babylon is actually about a message about how Jesus wins even though Satan thinks he has conquered by corruption! After Babylon falls, all the scavenger birds will clean up the bodies and never again will another city like this one be built. This is a lesson for all the angels and all humans resurrected for all time to observe, that the places of powerful evil will always be brought down by a quick judgment.

Are any secret sins capturing you? The fact that we live in this mega city of Miami implies we are daily exposed to the whoredoms of human trafficking, drugs and alcohol, and the death of innocent people. We fight evil and pray against abusers and open safe house for women trapped in human trafficking! Our solid faith to resist sin must be as firm as it was for Lot in Sodom, to be of a resistant breed that is counter-culture, counter to the delicacies of the appetites of the people who are enslaved to sins, passions, and lusts. Now is the time we must pray for protection, wisdom, and peace as we combat tribulations, in Jesus name, amen!