One of the first things I was taught in Mystery Babylon was, don’t criticise the hierarchy. Agree with everything they say and bow to everything they teach even if you do not agree. In short they taught double standard, two faced hypocrisy.
This was how Mystery Babylon disarmed opposition and put a guilt trip on anyone who would expose them. The guilt trip was so heavy; I felt that even to think bad thoughts about a person preaching heresy was going to send me to hell. The influence was paralysing and this was part of the bondage because Mystery Babylon taught me not to think but to rely on the opinion of their “holiness” . Excuse me! This practise is like anesthetising a person so they can not move against the deluge of deception that follows through their assumed piety.
The leaders in Mystery Babylon have got idols of the heart. They KNOW the truth and have turned away in order to glean the merits from making merchandise of the sheep.
The sheep in Mystery Babylon have learnt double standards, are bound in fear, lead by attachments to the external and carnal niceties and are addicted to the traditions of man and the social gleanings that such practises offer to the flesh. I used to be a highly esteemed Minister of the Word in the Roman Catholic Church and then after leaving the Church I rapidly became a Cell Leader in a Pentecostal Church .
Little by little I came out of hypocrisy and idolatry of my own heart. This happened because Jesus caused it to happen. I could do nothing to make it happen.
God created the division between me and Mystery Babylon. The process through which I have come to be where I am now took all of my nearly 50 years and had nothing to do with any merit I can have claimed. Everything is of Christ who caused me to experience the many things I have passed through. It is a process. There is no quick fix but when the fix comes it can be quick and hard painful and beneficial at the same time like pulling off a plaster, that has been covering or protecting a wound, with a rapid and deft authority to open it up to the light. That is what Bible Truths has been for me. A beneficial, rapid and deft authority!
Peace to you
Arcturus