“Go forth from Babylon!…With a voice of singing, declare, proclaim…to the end of the earth; Say, ‘The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!’”

Isaiah 48:20-21

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“Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, declare, proclaim this, utter it to the end of the earth; Say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!” Isaiah 48:20

The Spirit of the Lord spoke to Isaiah concerning the prophecy of the release of the Israelites from their captivity to the Babylonians. The Babylonians and the Chaldeans were one and the same, similar to how a state exists within a nation. The Lord said to the Israelites, “Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!” They wouldn’t leave their captivity with sadness and regret but with a voice of singing. The singing would not be to rejoice in their earthly liberation but to declare and proclaim, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

All through the book of Revelations, Babylon is described as the global government of the beast. Scriptures from Revelations corresponding Babylon to the global government can be read by clicking here. Here is an example of one verse, “Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.” Revelations 16:19 When this present world system collapses, and is destroyed, we will go from “Babylon” to enter into the eternal New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. We will go rejoicing as we declare and proclaim, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Revelations 7:10

“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Revelations 7:9-10

As followers of Jeus Christ, we are His servant Jacob, “This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek Your face.” Psalms 24:6

Today, we are living among those who serve the power of darkness through the beast that gives them what to say, do, think, and feel. The wheat and tares are growing together. As the “wheat”, our faith is in Jesus Christ as we exist in a world dominated by the “tares” of the culture of the beast, which is global. The Lord warns us to flee from them, to come apart from them, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.” Revelations 18:4 We do so gladly, with rejoicing, as we continue to lift up Jesus as the Christ, our Lord, and the Savior of all who calls on Him. We continue to acknowledge God as the Creator as we live in the presence of the Holy Spirit. How can we know we have the Holy Spirit? If we do not speak against Jesus and say that He is Lord then we have the Holy Spirit, “Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:3

“And they did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them; He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.” Isaiah 48:21

Who were those who did not thirst when the Lord led them through the deserts [wilderness]? They were the Israelites who had just escaped Egypt under the leadership of Moses. At first, the Israelites were thirsty and complained to Moses that they needed water, “Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, that we may drink.” Exodus 17:1-2 Then, the Lord enabled Moses to bring flowing and gushing water from a rock, “Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Exodus 17:6 All of that is described Exodus 17:1-17 and also recorded in Numbers 20:1-13.

The Rock in the wilderness that gushed with water was Christ Jesus, “Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.” 1 Corinthians 10:1-4

Today’s culture has turned the world into a spiritual desert where a wilderness has been created to promote the disbelief in God the Creator, to ignore the need for Jesus Christ, and to oppose the presence of the Holy Spirit. The fallen churches have abandoned the Gospel of Jesus Christ to form a partnership with the community. Instead of coming apart from the culture of the beast, they have become a part of them. Government lawmakers no longer integrate the values of the Bible into their laws, policies, and executive orders. The educational system prohibits the teaching of Bible values in the classrooms. And the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not welcomed in any sector of society.

The world is suffering a severe lack of Water for thirsty souls, but in the desert and wilderness, where people would not want to find themselves, there is a Rock ready to gush forth with Water. That Rock is Christ, “Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” John7:37-39

We find the Rock gushing with Living Water on the narrow and difficult path that leads to life, not on the road of mainstream society that leads to destruction, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthe w7:13-14

“’There is no peace,’ says the Lord, ‘for the wicked.”’ Isaiah 48:22

There is no peace for the wicked. The wicked are those who care more about destroying belief in God to promote belief in humanity, “How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?” John 5:44 The wicked are those who claim no need for the forgiveness of unbelief through Jesus Christ. They love the empowerment of darkness given to them through the beast that gives them what to say, do, think, and feel, “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” John 3:19 The wicked are those who oppose the presence of the Holy Spirit in order to live by Satan’s version of the Holy Spirit, which is the beast with two horns like a lamb, as described in the post on Revelations 13: 11-13

Already, we see peace being taken away from the government of the beast and its global culture through global warming. They are so concerned with global warming that combatting it is written into the “Sustainable Development Goals” of the United Nations. Global warming is a long-term worry of this present world system. Global warming is the Fourth Plague of Revelations 16:10-11, “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” Revelation 16:8-9

Global warming is just one of the Seven Plagues of Revelations 16. Then there are other events that takes away the peace from this wicked culture of the beast. There are the events of the Seven Trumpets of Revelations 8, 9, and 11. There is also the Seven Thunders of Revelations 10. “…the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.” Isaiah 57:20

“…to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish…” Romans 2:8-9

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. 
Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.’”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1