The Bible says Babylon is a mixture of truth and error. These errors can come from paganism, Satanism, or other false religions. But mixing these beliefs with the Bible makes it unfit for a church to be called a church. What name does Jesus give these churches? Babylon.
Babylon in the Book of Revelation: When Did This Confusion Happen?
Paul says in the New Testament that after he would die, many false teachers would come into the true church and would not spare the flock. Paul said that many Christians from the early church would pervert the truth and mix it with false teachings. What does Paul call this? Damnable heresies. Babylon in the book of Revelation is the ultimate deception for Christians.
2 Peter 2:1-3 — “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
When false teachers come into the church, the result is that Satan enters the church in a clever way, since people do not suspect those teachings to be of Satan — because they are taught by a preacher in a Christian church. This is an amazing deception. Babylon in the book of Revelation is a mixture of Bible and false teachings. Paul says the damnation of those people — not only the false teachers but those who have believed a lie — is sure. Babylon in the book of Revelation teaches paganism while making people believe it is the Bible.
Acts 20:29 — “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.” Paul says here that after he would die, which was around AD 65, false teachers would come in. And the Christian church, already by AD 65, would start to experience a division: those who teach the Bible only, and those who would introduce false teachings.
Acts 20:30 — “Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” Paul says here that even those from within the early church would start to teach false beliefs, or doctrines of demons. The best way Satan can deceive people is to introduce his teachings and make people believe they are following the Bible. Satan does not care if those teachings are mixed with truth — in fact, to deceive people, he mixes error with truth.
Acts 20:31 — “Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.” Paul warned them for three full years about these incredible events that would change Christianity forever. Two classes of Christians would be formed: those led by Satan while calling themselves Christians, and the true church. Babylon in the book of Revelation is the papacy, or the Catholic Church. Today, the Sunday-keeping churches that have rejected the first angel’s message of Revelation 14 are also Babylon — her daughters.
Acts 20:32 — “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” Here, Paul says, “I commend you to the Bible,” since Babylon teaches some verses from the Bible mixed with some teachings from Satan.
Babylon in the Book of Revelation: Advancing Satan’s Kingdom
How can a church advance Satan’s kingdom? By teaching the same beliefs that the priests of Babylon — who worshipped demons — preached in their temples every Sunday. The fact that Christians today worship on Sunday, the very day the priests of Satan used to go to the temple in the days of ancient Babylon, reveals the fascinating power of deception. Babylon in the book of Revelation shows Christians unknowingly helping Satan’s kingdom.
How can Christians advance Satan’s kingdom? When a pastor teaches that hell is forever, when the Bible says people will be destroyed in hell, he is teaching Zoroastrianism — a teaching not found in the Bible. Yet it is striking to see millions of Christians going to church on Sunday, dressed in their suits and ties, listening to a sermon with no idea they are hearing the same teaching the priests of Satan taught in the Babylonian kingdom around 650 BC, on that very same day.
Even more troubling, people give tithes to pastors who teach them this counterfeit doctrine on Sunday mornings. Of course, those pastors also teach true things from the Bible, like the truth that Jesus died on the cross. But when these pastors teach beliefs rooted in pagan tradition, they are advancing Satan’s kingdom. Babylon in the book of Revelation shows Christians unknowingly helping heresies spread.
Babylon in the Book of Revelation: What Are These False Beliefs?
- Sunday worship
- Eternal hell
- Immortality of the soul
- Secret rapture
- Ten Commandments no longer binding
- Once saved, always saved
- All Christians go to heaven
- Saved by grace without obedience
Sunday worship
Acts 18:4 — “And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.” Paul and all the apostles kept the Sabbath all their lives.
Eternal hell
Matthew 10:28 — “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” God is able to destroy people in hell — they do not burn forever.
Immortality of the soul
John 11:14 — “Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.” When people die, they sleep until Jesus resurrects them from the grave.
Secret rapture
Matthew 24:40 — “Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”
Luke 17:37 — “And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.” Those who are “taken” are taken to be destroyed — taken to the supper of the birds.
Revelation 19:17-18 — “And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.” When Jesus returns, birds eat the bodies of the wicked, who will have been destroyed at the brightness of His coming.
Ten Commandments no longer binding
Romans 7:12 — “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” If there are sinners today, it means the Ten Commandments are still valid. Jesus died on the cross because we break the Ten Commandments.
Once saved, always saved
If Jesus could delete the law, breaking it would no longer be sin — so why did Jesus die on the cross, if He could simply delete the law?
Hebrews 10:38 — “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” Many Christians will not enter heaven, even while claiming to belong to Jesus.
All Christians go to heaven
Matthew 7:19 — “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”
Saved by grace without obedience
Most Christians, like most human beings, bear evil fruits: pride, selfishness, rudeness, unkindness, lying, seeking the first place, intolerance. These fruits prove that such persons are controlled by demons.
Babylon in the Book of Revelation: Leave Babylon
Do you think it is important to obey Jesus? In Revelation 18, Jesus commands us to leave Babylon. These are all fallen churches. The Catholic Church is the mother; the Sunday-keeping Protestant churches are the daughters of Babylon. They fell when Revelation 14’s first angel’s message was given, and they rejected it.
Revelation 18:1-4 — “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 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. 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. 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.”
What is keeping you from leaving those fallen churches and following Jesus’s end-time movement? The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the true last movement of Jesus. Will you enter now?
Repeat after me: Father God, please help me to study this message deeply and to know who Babylon is and who the true remnant church is. Father God, please help me to leave Babylon and accept the end-time truth of the three angels’ messages, in the name of Jesus. Amen.