“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. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” (Rev.18: 4-5)
There is great confusion taking place in Europe right now. It seems to centre around what has been named “PIIGS,” the financial debacle of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, where runaway debt is threatening the stability and existence of the European Union itself. At the moment of this writing, leaders in Europe and America are suggesting the worst is over but the debt excess and the derivative risk is like a runaway locomotive and there is no stopping it. You can slow it down temporarily but that’s all. Here at the end of this year 2011, a remarkable prophecy recorded in Revelation 18 is beginning to unfold. “And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen …… For all nations have drunk of the wine 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…..Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins ….God hath remembered her iniquities…. Therefore shall her plaques come in one day….Alas, alas, that great city of Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come …” What we must hope for is that the Israel nations, particularly Britain realize the folly of jumping in to a vessel that was destined to fail, as surely it will.
When you think about this passage, you can’t help but look back throughout history and see nations with ambitious leaders reaching pinnacles of power through conquest of other nations, then ultimately fading into the pages of history. Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome quickly come to mind, and in modern times, there was France under Napaleon, Germany, first under Kaiser William, then Hitler, Austria-Hungary under the Hapsburg Dynasty, Italy under Mussolini and the Japanese under its military rulers. Even the British Empire, built up more through colonization than conquest, has all but disinigrated through the efforts of evil men wanting to establish the ultimate empire, a worldwide one.
The late Jim Read, president of our association, quoted from the 1953 inaugural address of incoming President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said, “the forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history……[the time had been reached] “when man’s power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the highest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.” Then, Eisenhower went on to impart sage advice as he called upon Americans to, among other things, renew their faith in their country and in the watchfulness of a Divine Providence. Of course, quite the opposite happened and as Mr. Read reported, “When David wrote, ‘the borrower is servant to the lender,’ I doubt even he could have foreseen the bondage upon true Israel today. In just a half century, we have gone from incredible wealth to staggering debt, and all sectors of the economy, government, corporations and individuals, have fallen prey. And those who have stripped us of our wealth are changing the very make-up of our nations and leading us away from our loving Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ…..” Mr. Read would be mortified to note that debt has more than doubled since his 2003 comments. In another 2003 article, Mr. Read pointed to the reason why “Evil” is making such headway, “You know, if there is one thing I have learned through my long years of life is that the further Israelites travel the path of self-deception, the more God, His Laws and His Scriptural Truth are pushed into the background. And as the chemical addition of desperation heightens, our brothers and sisters become willing soldiers in the army of the evil one, driven to support whatever cause that leads to total degradation of the Servant People. This is why there is so little study of the Scriptures; for deep down the true Israelite senses an unexplained emotion of guilt; guilt brought about because he or she is cheating on the most loyal and loving of all partners, the Almighty God.”