From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
                     Come out of the Great Babylon!   
      
   "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and   
   that ye receive not of her plagues." Rev. 18:4. This must happen before   
   Jesus comes. After Jesus' coming it cannot happen, for then God's people   
   are home at the Lord, and there is no Babylon to come out from. 2 Cor.   
   6:14-18 contains the same message to God's people.   
      
   These bible words have been in the Bible all the time, but it seems to be   
   very difficult for God's people to understand this and practise it.   
   Nevertheless, the time is getting on, and we come to a point of time there   
   we cannot neglect this any longer. All those who believe in Jesus and   
   want to live for him, and be ready for his coming, they must understand   
   this, and practise this.   
      
   What is Babylon the Great, the great whore? From where shall we go   
   out? This ought to be an unnecessary question. Every preacher ought   
   to have preached about this, and every Christian ought to know this.   
      
   Is it God's will that his people shall take this on earnest, and do as it is   
   written in 2 Cor. 6:14-18 and in Rev. 18:4 ? The answer on this   
   question must be YES. This must imply that all Christians must leave   
   all churches and denomination before Jesus comes. Those that do not   
   obey this command of the Lord make them accessory in the sins of the   
   great harlot, and they come to get part of her plagues.   
      
   Many Christians read in newspapers and see in TV what that happens   
   in the world, and that the Antichrist and his government can appear   
   anytime. Nevertheless, they do nothing to prepare themselves. Have   
   they understood that the Antichrist also will take the control over   
   churches and denominations? How many Christians have withdrawn   
   their membership in denominations and churches and left the religious   
   harlot-being? Do they think become slaves under the Antichrist?   
      
   Churches and denominations are not from God. They have come to   
   existence through the people's lack of wisdom and disobedience of   
   God's word, and they are founded on a false doctrine. Therefore, God   
   can permit the Antichrist to take control over churches and denominations.   
   Nevertheless, God will release his people from there. It is possible to be   
   free from the religious harlot-being because God hears prayers, and he   
   can appear the truth to us. "But the anointing which ye have received   
   of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any men teach you: but as   
   the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no   
   lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."   
      
   Someone wrote and asked how the fellowship will be among those that   
   leave churches and denominations. He wondered how I shall help them   
   to get any fellowship, or shall they only sit for himself and herself?   
      
   Obviously, I cannot show them any certain place and say, go there or   
   there to get fellowship. I can refer only to God's word. If we walk in   
   the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and   
   the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-7.   
      
   Most of those who confess they are Christians do not walk in the light   
   and do not want to hear the truth about the Assembly of God. Then we   
   cannot have fellowship with them. A fellowship which does not endure   
   the light is no Christian fellowship.   
      
   The question about fellowship in this connection is stupid. When I want   
   to know something about the Assembly of God, then it is not fellowship   
   I am seeking, but just the truth about the Assembly of God. Then I must   
   count with, and accept that I can become alone.   
      
   Fellowship is easy to find. In churches and denominations the fellowship   
   is more important than God's word. All that want to have fellowship are   
   welcome to both Pentecostal churches and other free-churches. If you   
   believe on church and infant baptism, or denomination doctrines, or if   
   you are catholic, it has no importance, only you want to have fellowship.   
      
   Nevertheless, if you yearn after knowledge of the Assembly of God, and   
   ask for something concerning the assembly, then you are not welcome.   
   Such they comprehend as criticism. Instead of education about the   
   assembly of God, you get only questions to answer.   
      
   Most preachers have for a long time ago stopped struggling for the   
   Bible's truths, and their sermons have lost its salinity. The truth of   
   baptism in water that many Christians have given their life for, it   
   stands not in a high quotation at ecumenic conferences. The question   
   is, if any Baptist pastor or a Pentecostal pastor dares mention anything   
   about this biblical truth, in presence of Lutheran priests or catholic   
   priests. The ecumenicalism is a comfortable way to hell. They need not   
   exert themselves, only drift with the current as dead fish.   
      
   Those that are reading my website and understand that they must leave   
   church and the denomination in which they are members, they come also   
   to meet resistance. Pastors and denomination leaders and other members   
   try talk round them to stay left. But it is more important that you hold   
   firm   
   at God's word, and that you are "outside the camp" (Hebr. 13:13), than   
   that you have fellowship with people on whom you not can rely. It is no   
   ways that become left in a church organization and simultaneously live in   
   freedom. Leaving the organization is better, also if you must become alone.   
      
   When the Assembly of God leaves the great harlot, it will not be any   
   collective marching out. Every Christian must decide to leave church.   
   You yourself must decide to leave church. Do not wait that your friends   
   or other Christians shall go first, so that you can slink out along with   
   them.   
   For it is not only an organizing withdrawal from the church, but you must   
   be free from the catholic harlot-spirit within the church.   
      
   If you want to be free from the religious harlot-being, you have not only to   
   contend against a false doctrine. It is a struggle against the spiritual   
   powers   
   of evil. Our "coming out of the great Babylon" is in the first hand a   
   spiritual   
   release. Eph. 6:10-18. The Sword of the Spirit that we will use is God's   
   word.   
      
   If we want to come to heaven, then we may contend for the faith which was   
   once delivered unto the saints. Jude v. 3. 1 Tim. 6:12.   
      
      
      
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   (Article 81.)   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)