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Audio of the sermon on Mystery Babylon by Rev. James C. Gallagher.

Transcript

In this last instalment on the series on the Israel of God we come to where the rubber really hits the road and why it is that this subject is so important for modern day Christianity to understand. In a sense we reach what I think is the last vestige of resistance to this truth, the truth that says that the promise is given to Abraham are still being fulfilled when men received Jesus Christ as their Saviour and that there was a remnant from the descendants of Abraham that continued in the faith of Abraham by believing on the Lord Jesus. They are the true Israel of God.

And then the mystery of the gospel was that the Gentiles would be fellow heirs with them and be partakers of the same body. Not that a new body would be created at Pentecost, which is separate from Israel, but that we would join and become a part of the Israel of God and the promises given to the fathers. That was the mystery hidden in ages past that we would join them. That we would be a branch that is grafted onto that olive tree that God has been cultivating all these years based on His promises to the fathers.

And so that we are a chosen generation a royal priesthood, a holy nation, the Israel of God in Christ. This is a Christ-centred gospel that does not repudiate the promises given to the fathers, which shows how their fulfilment is in the true seed of Abraham who is Christ and if you’re in Christ, you’re Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. This is all the orthodox Christian doctrine that has almost been forgotten. It is reviled. It is hated and we’re here to stand for it.

Now if people don’t understand why it’s so important to get this straight they may understand by the time we’re done talking this morning. The last vestige of resistance by those who want to say that the Jews are God’s chosen people even in their unbelief and that fanatically support Zionism through their dispensational theology they may not be able to argue against Galatians 3, they may not be have any answers for Ephesians 2. But doesn’t God still have something for the Jewish nation? What do you do with 1948?

Okay the kingdom of God was taken from Old Testament Israel and given to another nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. We can’t deny that God justly judged Jerusalem for her sins in 70 AD. You’re right on that score and the kingdom you said, the Bible said, was taken from them and given to somebody else. Yeah we have to deal with that but what do you do with 1948 and the restoration of the Jewish state?

Does it just mean nothing is it just a big coincidence? Isn’t this the fulfilment of Bible prophecy? And my response would be yeah it is. But not the way most are thinking. And the jolting conclusion, the shocking conclusion, that they will have to come to, if they can bear to hear me out, is that Jerusalem is not the Holy Land, but that Jerusalem is Mystery Babylon.

Now right away they’re angry at me. As soon as they hear that … that’s anti-Semitism. Well I would say to a dispensationalist who do you think Mystery Babylon is? Well it’s Rome. Well maybe you’re anti-Italian or, you know, your anti-Roman. Well, it has to be someplace. So if it’s illegal to make that interpretation because it seems to throw a bad light on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, well no matter what city we pick, it’s going to appear to throw a bad light on its inhabitants. So that’s not the gauge that we use to determine whether or not this is the truth. We have to use the Bible, not our emotions.

And the Bible is explicit, beyond any controversy that Jerusalem is Mystery Babylon. And I intend on proving that by very simple means first of all through the Bible and the Bible alone. And secondly we won’t go into complicated passages, where I’m not going to be interpreting seven heads and ten horns for you, and going back into Daniel and talking about lions, tigers and bears. No this is going to be very simple. If you want to interpret prophecy, understand the obvious and plain spoken first. Then you can go on to the other things but you can’t contradict the obvious and plain-spoken and that’s where I want to keep it for today’s message.

Rome is not Mystery Babylon.  Jerusalem is.

Now one of the first things they’ll say is. But Mystery Babylon is the city set on seven hills and everybody knows that it’s Rome that was the city set on seven hills. In fact, I have a quote from Dave Hunt, a nationally-known dispensational Christian Zionist minister, teacher. And Dave Hunt made this statement. He tries to say, well Rio de Janeiro is famed to be built on seven mountains or seven hills. So maybe that’s what he said, being a wise guy. And he says though it is built on seven hills there would be no reason to accuse Rio de Janeiro of spiritual fornication because Mystery Babylon is guilty of spiritual fornication. We saw that in in Revelation 17. It makes no claim, that is, Rio de Janeiro makes no claim of having a special relationship with God. Now listen to this “and though Jerusalem has that relationship it cannot be the woman riding on the beast”. He’s saying that Jerusalem cannot be Mystery Babylon for it is not built on seven hills. Powerful, you know! Nor he says does it meet the other criteria by which the woman is to be identified. Wow!

Against only one other city in history could a charge of fornication be levelled. That city is Rome. More specifically Vatican City, end of story. Now that’s not the end of the story. Let’s tell another story and let’s tell a Bible one. I’m not going to spend my time talking about a city on seven hills. We can do something more basic than that. But let me address it briefly because I brought it up, I guess.

First of all, I would say three things. Jerusalem is also claimed to be built on seven mountains or seven hills. And I’m not going to get into it. I could read you the list of the names of the hills and the mountains and the names changed through the course of time, just like real estate, the names change so dependent on era you’re looking at you’ll have different lists. But if you just google on your computer the seven mountains are the seven hills of Jerusalem, you’ll find all sorts of people talking about it, the list of it. You’ll find Jewish publications that say that Jerusalem was built on seven hills and mountains.

So to say that in Rio de Janeiro said the same thing. And even Babylon and literal Babylon itself was built on seven mountains and seven hills. And then we can say, what is a mountain? What is a hill? Over what elevation? Does 500 feet qualify as a hill or a mountain? Or does it have to be a thousand or is it twelve hundred and fifty? Who really knows? So this is not really a hard rock material upon which we can lay a foundation. There’s an indication here, but I don’t think we want to make our argument this way. Let them do that. But be that as it may, you can claim that Jerusalem, and many have, is built on seven mountains.

Secondly I would remind them that the beast, not the woman, the beast has the seven hills. Turn to Revelation 17. I’ll show you what I mean. This is worthy of notation and there’s some arguments we can use here, and I’m not going to involve myself with. Just skimming the surface here.

The woman is Mystery Babylon right? In this imagery. And she sits on the seven hills. This is true, but the woman is not the seven hills. The seven hills are associated with the beast, not the woman. If you look at verse 7 of Revelation 17:

7 And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17:7

The seven heads are part of the beast, not part of the woman. She sits on them. In the imagery the hills are the heads of the beasts. And if you jump down to verse 9.

9 And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.

Revelation 17:9

So I would simply say that the seven hills are part of the beasts and not part of Mystery Babylon. Now as far as why she’s sitting on them we don’t even have to go there. We don’t need something so vague in order to come to a proper biblical conclusion. So, it’s worthy to maybe explore this further but I’m not going to take the time to do it. And lastly as far as the seven hills are concerned I would remind you that Mystery Babylon is a harlot and she’s guilty of even, as Dave Hunt said, spiritual fornication and adultery. In order to be guilty of spiritual fornication and adultery that means that that city must have had a legitimate connection to God. In order to commit adultery against God, she had to be married to the Lord. She had to have had a formal connection. Rome has never had that.

Who is the City of God? Where is the City of God? According to Scripture, it’s Jerusalem. That’s the city of the Living God. And not only is she a harlot, she’s described as the mother of all harlots. Now Rome can’t be the mother of all harlots when Jerusalem has played that role and Jerusalem is the only city in the world that has ever had a formal connection to God Almighty. She is the mother of harlots, not Rome. Rome never had a legitimate connection to the Lord God. She may claim it but claiming it and having it can be two different things.

And if you’d look up Ezekiel 16. I’m not going to take the time to do it now. I would have loved to have done it. The whole chapter of Ezekiel 16, Jerusalem is being addressed and she’s described as a harlot and a whore and is being unfaithful and how God will judge her and her sisters Sodom and Gomorrah are not as sinful as she is. God Himself describes Jerusalem as a harlot. For example in one place, Ezekiel chapter 16. And it’s Jerusalem and Jerusalem alone that can play the harlot with God because she’s the only city who’s ever had a connection with God.

Plymouth may have been the work of the Lord but Plymouth was never the city of the Living God. Neither was Providence or New York or Baghdad or any other place. Jerusalem alone and if Mystery Babylon is the mother of all harlots, just by implication we have to understand it must be Jerusalem.

So I think making your argument on the seven mountains or seven hills is not going to bring you any place if you’re trying to argue Rome. And I think we can argue from something more substantive and rather than having to interpret symbols we can deal with what is plainly stated and let that be the foundation upon which we can study down the road these symbols and allegories. And first of all recognize one simple fact and that is that Mystery Babylon is a city.

Now Mystery Babylon is described in the analogy here. She’s described as a woman. We see that in verse 4 who was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. And then on this woman’s forehead and verse 5 we’re told there was a phrase that was written “Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.” So she’s portrayed as a woman but this woman that sits on the beast, this Mystery Babylon represents not a person. She represents a city. We saw that in verse 18.

And the woman which you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.

Revelation 17:18

So without controversy, Mystery Babylon is a city. This city has to also be capable of spiritual fornication and adultery and as we’ve already made the point Rome is not capable of spiritual fornication and adultery, not like Jerusalem is. She is the mother of harlots. She has that formal connection with God but more than that. Mystery Babylon has the guilt of murdering people and herein lies the key to unlocking this mystery. Mystery Babylon is guilty of murdering specific classes of people according to the Scriptures. Amongst the classes are the prophets of God. One thing that Mystery Babylon is guilty if she is guilty of murdering the prophets.

And secondly she is guilty, and this is the phrase used in the Bible, ‘of all that were slain upon the earth’. You say well what one city can be guilty of all that was slain upon the earth? Well there is a meaning to that. I’m not going to take time to explore that. Let’s just see what the Bible says. Not so interested in coming up with interpretations to satisfy our curiosity at this point. Our focus is narrow this morning and that is, who is Mystery Babylon? And the scripture says that she, first of all, murdered the prophets.

Well in Revelation 18 we have the destruction of Mystery Babylon when the Lord returns. And when she has destroyed this observation given to us in Revelation 18 verse 24.

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain on the earth. Revelation 18:24

Now regardless of what that means, we know one thing is true, according to the Bible, this evil city that will be the centre of global anti-Christianity, is guilty of the blood of the prophets, number one and number two of all that was slain upon the earth. If you back up to verse 20, we see a confirmation of that. Again speaking of the destruction of Babylon, Mystery Babylon, verse 20,

20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.

Revelation 18:20

God will avenge the blood of the prophets when God destroys Mystery Babylon. Why? Because Mystery Babylon killed the prophets. It’s right there in verse 24 and also implied in verse 20. In her was found the blood of the prophets. So if we can find out what city is guilty of murdering the prophets then we know the identity of the city of Mystery Babylon. It really is that easy.

You say but how can we know for sure what city is guilty of murdering the prophets. Testimony number one is God Himself. We will read what God said about who killed the prophets. God actually speaking. Jeremiah chapter 2 and verse 1,

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 2:1-2a

I’m reading that for context. Jeremiah had a job. He is a prophet and he speaks on behalf of God and the Lord said to Jeremiah, go cry in the ears of Jerusalem. And what is it that Jerusalem needs to hear? Well, jump down to verse 29.

29 Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, said the LORD.  30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 2:29-30

Turn to 1 Kings 19. We’ll hear another witness and we’ll hear, Elijah, the prophet’s commentary.

I think the prophets are keenly aware of who’s trying to kill them. If someone’s trying to kill you you’re all over that subject. I’ll tell you that much. And verse 10.

10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Kings 19:10

Elijah was feeling a little despondent, because they’re trying to kill me too. They killed my brethren in the ministry that came to Israel but he tells us who killed the prophets. I believe God and I believe Elijah. See?

I don’t care what Hal Lindsey says. I believe God. You know when Hal Lindsey was, you know, on what is it, wife number 3 or wife number 4. I think was wife number 4 and his third Jaguar, you know, there’s something wrong. There’s something wrong.  I believe Elijah. I believe God.

Let’s go to the New Testament Acts chapter 7. You’re going to hear the testimony of a man who is absolutely filled with the Holy Spirit because we’re told that he is. Being filled with the Spirit of God he tells us likewise who killed the prophets. Stephen is about to be stoned to death and murdered by the Jews, And Stephen has just given them the history of the nation. And he’s reminded them of the fact that they’ve not had such a great history. It’s been a pretty checkered career. And they don’t like what they’re hearing from Stephen. They didn’t like what they heard from the prophets either. Well Stephen says in verse 51,

51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?

Acts 7:51-52a

Can you name one that wasn’t persecuted by the nation of Israel?

52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One;

Acts 7:52

The Just One is Jesus and who was it that showed before of the coming of the Just One? The prophets, the prophets prophesied of the coming of Jesus. They killed the prophets is what Stephen said. And speaking of those prophets he says of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers. Not only did they kill the prophets but they killed Christ.

So we’re told by Stephen that indeed the children of Israel killed the prophets, which agrees with Elijah and also agrees with what God said in Jeremiah. In 1st Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 14 the Apostle Paul, he’s going to add his testimony.

14b … for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

1 Thessalonians 2:14b-15

So the whole idea that ‘I bless him that bless thee and curse him that curses thee’ applies to all Jews universally based on their race and that’s what most people think nowadays. Then that means God’s obligated to bless those who don’t please Him, and to bless those that are contrary to all men. Does God bless the wicked? Is God somehow obligated to bless those who are his enemies? No but one thing’s for sure, Paul being Jewish himself, but being a true Jew, because he confesses that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and now is a recipient of the promises given to Abraham. Paul speaks with authority. And he says that the Jews killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets. Paul agrees with Elijah and Paul agrees with God Almighty and Paul agrees with Stephen.

Turn to Revelation 17. You want a little further identification this way and verse 18 ‘And the woman which you saw is that great city’ Mystery Babylon, which we’re saying is Jerusalem, is that great city ‘which reigns over the kings of the earth’.  

Now go to revelation 11, now that you’ve seen that. She is that great city. Revelation chapter 11 and we have the two witnesses here that bear a testimony for Jesus Christ and they’re abused and they’re killed for doing that and I want you to see their murderers. Verse 7.

7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city.

Revelation 11:7-8a

Well, Mystery Babylon was described as that great city. Here the definite article is supplied, the great city. What city is greater than Jerusalem, in the eyes of God? And Mystery Babylon is described as that great city and this is referring to the great city, the same one.

8 Their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom in Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Revelation 11:8

And as I said. We didn’t have time to look at it. Go read Ezekiel 16. She is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt ‘where also our Lord was crucified’. This city is the city that murdered Christ. Now I’ve got news for you. Jesus was not crucified in Rome. I don’t know a person on the face of the Earth that claims that. He was crucified in Jerusalem. The identification has been spelled out for us. It’s not complicated. We can read about lions, tigers and bears but we really don’t get hand-delivered the interpretation. In these places we’re looking at we’re being hand-delivered the interpretation. So these are things we can’t let go of. Whatever lions, tigers and bears mean, it can’t contradict that which is hand-delivered to us by the Lord and He must have hand-delivered it to us to sure our feet on something firm so that we can wade through the balance of prophecies in Scripture. Not that you’ll always have an immediate answer. You won’t. I think we see through a glass darkly. But there are certain things we can know and those we should know and hold to.

Now I’ll give you one more testimony and that’s in Luke 13. Most of you here know what’s in Luke 13 because now we’re talking about the interpretation supplied to us by Jesus Himself. Starting at verse 31.

31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying to him, Get you out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill you. 32 And he said to them, Go you, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. 33 Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out [side] of Jerusalem.

Luke 13:31-33

And then Jesus says, as if you can’t understand that,

34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets. 

Luke 13:34

There’s no argument. It is impossible. It cannot be that a prophet perish in any other place, other than Jerusalem. There’s nothing more simple than the lesson I’m giving you right now. So if we went back to Revelation and we read that Mystery Babylon is guilty of the blood of the prophets. I haven’t given you anything complicated. In fact, what I’ve told you is so simple you say well why isn’t every minister saying that? You know I’m not God. I don’t have the answer to that but I know that many, most, are not saying it. And even after they would hear a message like this, you know what, most of them still wouldn’t say it.

There’s no reason to have an argument against it. If you say the Bible is the basis of my belief system; you say well it’s such a negative message. Somebody has to be Mystery Babylon. It’s some city. Now let God tell you what city it is as opposed to Hollywood or some other entity. Jesus said it’s impossible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem. That’s the end of the story.

Say but didn’t Revelation 18:24 we’re told that Mystery Babylon was guilty of the blood of the prophets. Didn’t it also say that she was guilty of all the bloodshed upon the earth? Yes. Mystery Babylon is guilty of all the blood shed upon the earth. Jesus tells us what city is guilty of murdering the prophets and that same city is guilty of all the bloodshed upon the earth.

Turn to Matthew 23, and by the way if it cannot be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem, then of necessity it is impossible for any of them to perish in Rome. Christians died in Rome, but none of the prophets of God.

Now Matthew 23 and we’ll start at verse 34, Jesus speaking to the Jews and the scribes and the Pharisees. He’s reproving them and He says in verse 34.

34a Wherefore, behold, I send to you prophets,

Matthew 23:34a

Now someone to say, well, Mystery Babylon is guilty of killing the Old Testament prophets and we agree that Jerusalem killed the Old Testament prophets. But Mystery Babylon is going to kill the prophets that the Lord sends in the future and that doesn’t have to be Jerusalem. Really? Well Jesus says here,

34 Wherefore, behold, I send to you [this is the future I send to you] prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge [whip] in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city.

Matthew 23:34

You are going to kill the prophets that I will send to you in the future as well. Still Jerusalem. Nothing’s changed. In verse 35,

35 That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth,

Matthew 23:35a

Now again, how do we understand the fulfilment of that? That’s one question that it’s Jerusalem fulfilling it is not in question. So I think it’s pretty easy to see that Rome is not guilty of the blood that the Bible says singularly and exclusively belongs to the domain of the conscience of Jerusalem. There’s no running from it. But here Jesus says that Jerusalem indeed did kill the prophets and that they are guilty of all the righteous blood shed upon the earth.

So let’s review. Rome cannot be guilty of spiritual adultery because Rome was never married to the Living God. Only Jerusalem can be the mother of all harlots because Jerusalem is the city of the Living God.

Secondly Jerusalem is responsible for murdering the prophets. It can’t be any other city. Jesus said so. So if you want to put a bumper sticker on your car. God said it! I believe it! That settles it! Well, let that apply here.

And thirdly Jerusalem is also guilty of all the blood shed upon the earth. And Jesus qualifies it as all the righteous blood shed upon the earth. And so the identifications been made. There’s no argument, but I’ll give you one more, because of time one more proof, piece of evidence, I’ll offer for you is the idea of Jerusalem’s doctrine. If the debate is well, some think that Rome is Mystery Babylon, and others think that Jerusalem is Mystery Babylon, then what we should do, if that’s the debate between those two cities, what we ought to do is examine the doctrines of both cities, because Mystery Babylon is a city that is working hand-in-hand with the beast. It is going to be a city from which global anti-Christianity will permeate and so if anti-Christianity is pouring forth from the beast it is likewise pouring forth from Mystery Babylon, the city tied in with the beast. In other words, this city will be associated with the doctrines of anti-Christianity. Now if we can understand what the exact doctrine of into Christianity is it may go a long way in helping to identify the city of Mystery Babylon. It’s not a hard thing. Turn to 1st John chapter 2 and verse 22.

22a Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ?

1 John 2:22a

Christ, the Greek word being Christos, meaning ‘The Anointed One’, the One who would sit on the throne of David and rule and govern God’s nation His people Israel. No one’s going to argue that’s what the meaning of Christ is, not His last name. Jesus is His first name, Christ His last name, Christ is a title, the Messiah.

22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ, He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 2:22

Now someone will say, yes but Judaism doesn’t deny the Father. They may deny that Jesus is the Son but they don’t deny God the Father. Well look at the next verse!

23 Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

1 John 2:23

If you deny the Son you deny the Father. Jesus said so. The doctrine of anti-Christianity is that Jesus is not the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. When Peter was asked who do you say that I am? And they say Peter’s confession is the confession of the universal Church. Well what did Peter say? Peter said, ‘Thou art the Christ thou art the Messiah the son of the Living God.’

Thus anti-Christianity the doctrine of Antichrist is the exact opposite of the truest and most accurate confession given to us, Peter’s confession. ‘Thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God. Thou art the Messiah the Son of the Living God.’ That’s Christian doctrine. Anti-Christian doctrine is Jesus is not the Christ and He’s not the Son of the Living God. Spelled out here. Antichrist doctrine is the doctrine that denies that Jesus is the Christ and in so doing denies the Father and the Son. Now let me make an observation, the Roman Catholic Church in its official Dogma has never denied that Jesus is the Christ.

I believe that Rome has been and will be used by the forces of anti-Christianity and a good case can be made for the beast in the book of the Revelation being Rome, but Rome is not Mystery Babylon. There is going to be a union in a wedding of Rome and Jerusalem for the purposes of anti-Christianity, but the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church has never been to deny that Jesus is the Messiah. That’s never been their doctrine. They may have lots of error. They may have done great harm to the cause of Christ and have promoted and made possible the efforts of anti-Christianity in many levels, yeah, but their doctrine has never denied that Jesus is the Messiah.

Judaism has. And Judaism in its many varied forms; you’ve got the Orthodox, you’ve got the conservative, you’ve got the reformed, and it’s pretty hard for them to come to an agreement on a lot of things. The one thing that unites the whole of Judaism is that Jesus is not the Christ and that He is not the Son of the Living God. And if there is a city that embodies that anti-Christian doctrine more than any other city in the world, its Jerusalem. More so than Rome ever could. It is Jerusalem that is Mystery Babylon and that has the doctrines of Satan.

Now someone can say, well, that’s anti-Semitism. No it isn’t. Well, Paul was Jewish and he’s one of the children of Abraham. He’s our brother in Christ. He walked with the same faith that Moses would have walked in if Moses was alive in our day. There’s nothing to do with anti-Semitism. It has to do with making a biblical identification based on the principles of God’s Word that, as far as I’m concerned, is beyond controversy.

Now let me say this, because time is short. Christian Zionism is very popular today. It sort of governs in so many assemblies. They’re thinking as part of their eschatology, they think they’re doing God a service, when they support the causes of Zionism and they say, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Do they realize they’re saying to themselves, pray for the peace of Mystery Babylon? You say well the Bible does say pray for the peace of Jerusalem. You know the scripture speaks of us as the new in heavenly Jerusalem. We are the true Mount Zion because we are in Christ.

A definitive identification of Mystery Babylon has been made by the scriptures in plain language and Jesus said to the woman at the well the time is coming when the true worshippers of God will no longer go to Jerusalem to worship but the true worshipers of God will worship Me in spirit and in truth. They’ll no longer go to Jerusalem! And what are the Christians doing now? They’re going to Jerusalem. They’re sending their money to Jerusalem. They’re acting as though it’s a holy city and the city of God. And they’ve turned it into a sort of shrine and they mock the Roman Catholics for having shrines and making pilgrimages and they do the same thing. They do it to a piece of real estate over in the Middle East that is in its doctrine anti-Christian.

Go and try and witness for the Lord Jesus Christ on a street corner in Jerusalem. Start passing out tracts. See what happens to you. Then try and do it in Rome. There’s going to be a difference.

Now turn to Revelation 18. We’ll close with this thought. In light of the Christians now all going to Jerusalem, and being bound up with Zionism, we have this exhortation from our Lord and He’s talking about the destruction of Mystery Babylon. If you read the first 3 verses you’d see that. But for time, just read the 4th verse. He’s destroying Mystery Babylon and in verse 4 we read,

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.  

Revelation 18:4-5

Read the context. That’s about Mystery Babylon. And the Lord says, ‘Come out of her My people!’ It’s Christian Zionism that has thrown smoke into the eyes of God’s people and I believe many think they’re doing God a service. They’re not! They need to come out from among them and be separate don’t be guilty of the sins of Mystery Babylon. The Christians today Christian Zionism is actually helping to rebuild Mystery Babylon, which ultimately will be the persecutor and enemy of God’s people.

Let’s bow our heads in prayer. Heavenly Father we pray that Thou would open the eyes of many, that Thou would allow them to be Bereans and to weather through this teaching, which is devastating to the cause of Christian Zionism, but by the same token it re-establishes us all the more in the truth that all the promises and hopes given to the fathers are fulfilled in Christ Jesus our Lord and in Him alone. May we never leave that position as the people of God in Christ, the Israel of God in Christ, who we are. And we pray that in Jesus name our Saviour, Messiah and our King. Amen.

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