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shall be fully accomplished throughout Christendom, will the fall of Babylon be
complete. The change is a progressive one, and the perfect fulfillment of Revelation
14:8 is yet future.
Notwithstanding the spiritual darkness and alienation from God that exist in
the churches which constitute Babylon, the great body of Christ's true followers are
still to be found in their communion. There are many of these who have never seen
the special truths for this time. Not a few are dissatisfied with their present condition
and are longing for clearer light. They look in vain for the image of Christ in the
churches with which they are connected. As these bodies depart further and further
from the truth, and ally themselves more closely with the world, the difference
between the two classes will widen, and it will finally result in separation. The time
will come when those who love God supremely can no longer remain in connection
with such as are "lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of
godliness, but denying the power thereof."
Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the result of rejecting the threefold
warning of Revelation 14:6-12, the church will have fully reached the condition
foretold by the second angel, and the people of God still in Babylon will be called upon
to separate from her communion. This message is the last that will ever be given to
the world; and it will accomplish its work. When those that "believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thessalonians 2:12), shall be left to receive
strong delusion and to believe a lie, then the light of truth will shine upon all whose
hearts are open to receive it, and all the children of the Lord that remain in Babylon
will heed the call: "Come out of her, My people" (Revelation 18:4).
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