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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Devotional: December 23rd

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Revelation 18:1-13

These visions are like a series of slides projecting the same pictures or events from different angles and in various lights. The collapse of Babylon is looked at here as having been brought about directly by "the Lord God" (vv. 8, 20). But before that, a commandment had gone out in v. 4: "Come out of her, my people" (compare the prophecy of Jeremiah against the Babylon of old: Jeremiah 51:7-8; Jeremiah 51:37; Jeremiah 51:45 . . .). That call can be heard even today: "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord . . ." (2 Corinthians 6:17). Each one of the redeemed is invited to separate himself completely from the religious world with its mixed up principles as it is presented to us here in its final state (cf. Numbers 16:26). Some people will wrongly accuse us of lacking in love, of being narrow-minded and of thinking we are superior to them. Nevertheless the essential thing is to obey the Lord.

Vv. 12, 13 draw up a long list of "all that is in the world", designed to satisfy man’s many lusts (1 John 2:16-17). The list begins with what men consider the most valuable: gold, and the list ends with what is the least valuable in the eyes of this false Church . . . but so much more valuable to God: the souls of men.

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