"After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. With a mighty voice he shouted: Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird. For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries."  "The kings of the earth committed adultery with her and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries. Then I heard another voice from heaven say: Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven and God has remembered her crimes." Revelation 18:1- 5.

A few days before Christ was crucified  He cried out, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings ,but you were not willing.  Look, your house is left to you desolate."  History is repeating itself.  A desolation is occurring in the modern churches of our day. Matthew 23:37, 38.  If God were inside the churches of modern "Babylon" and he wanted His people out of those churches He would say--"Go out." God is in the process of leaving those churches and that is why He says --"Come out."  

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Will You Obey Jesus?   Will You Come Out?

Dear Reader, if you are in one of the churches that are part of "Babylon" will you not obey God and "come out" of Babylon. Those who remain in Babylon will receive the wrath of God and the plagues of God. God loves you and wants you to be safe. Soon there will be no safety in the churches that make up Babylon, Protestant or Catholic. Because of their sins, they will receive the seven last plagues.

Man will say "Conform--or die"

"All, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave," will be forced to conform to the standards of the church by the honoring the false Sabbath. Revelation 13:16. The world will be united in boycotting, fining, punishing, and finally deciding to kill all who refuse to honor the false Sabbath.  

God says  "Those who do conform

will receive the seven last plagues!"

"If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on the forehead, or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury." Revelation 14:9, 10.

The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially disliked and debated. When the final test will come to all people everywhere, the line of contrast will be drawn between those who serve God and those who do not serve Him.  Religious discrimination will gain control in the United States. Church and state will join hands in persecuting those who keep the commandments of God.

People everywhere will, hear in amazement that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins. God calls His people out of her because of her neglect and rejection of the truth sent to her from heaven.

Everyone who will not listen to Christ's last call of mercy will be extremely angry with those who obey God and keep His commandments. They will boycott God’s children, fining, imprisoning, bribing, and disinheriting them. They will drive them from home, exile them, and treat them as slaves. Then we will truly understand the words of the apostle Paul. "Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." 2 Timothy 3:12.

The defenders of truth refuse to honor the Sunday-Sabbath. Though threatened with destruction they will say, "We dare not change God's word.  We cannot say part of God's Law is important but the other part is not important."

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There are still a few godly people who have governmental power at this time and they are able to prevent an entire collapse of society until this last warning message is carried to all the world.  It is not by chance that you are reading these words.  God plans to fill you with His Holy Spirit and use to welcome others into the family of God.

The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Have you ever planted a garden?  It takes plenty of water to make it grow and prepare it for harvesting.  The same principle applies in planting the Gospel "seed"--God's word.  Remember, God compares His word to "seed" planted in the minds of men, women, and children.  "The harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the angels."  The outpouring of God's Holy Spirit compares to the watering of the seed and the plants. Matthew 13:39, KJV.

God gave the "former rain," the outpouring of His Holy Spirit at the opening of the gospel, to cause His precious seed, His truth, to grow. God will give the "latter rain" at its close for the ripening of the harvest.  "The harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are angels."  Matthew 13:39.

"If we follow on to know the Lord: He shall come unto to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hosea 6:3, KJV.

"Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you--the former rain and the latter rain in the first month."  "In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people."  "And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Joel 2:23, NKJV; Acts 2:17, 21.

Your prayer might be: "Dear Father in heaven, You promised to give me Your Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth.  You said it is as simple as asking, and so I am asking for the power of Your Holy Spirit in my life right now.  Thank you for this wonderful gift, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Jesus will answer your prayer. He says:  "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.  Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?  Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?  If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy spirit to those who ask him!"  Luke 11:  9-14.

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In the closing of the gospel God plans to demonstrate His great power.  You will see many signs of God’s power; If you are wondering what you might see, read the fifth book of the New Testament, the book of Acts.  The apostle said: "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you--even Jesus."  Acts 3:19, 20.

God will use you reader.  He wants to use you to rapidly hurry from place to place sharing God’s last call.  It will be similar to the time when Noah made his last appeal to the people to enter the ark. Thousands of people around the earth will give this last warning message. Miracles will be done, the sick will be healed, and signs and wonders will follow the believers. Satan will be busy also.  He will also work miracles, even bringing down fire from heaven in the sight of men. Revelation 13:13. Everyone must make a choice. On which side of will you stand?