Hello Matt and Scribbles
Thank you for sharing very real experiences of coming out of Babylon.
Scribbles you write :
Babylon will always love its works, laws, money, puffed up staged grand dramatic theatricals. It will bring on strife and confusion.....sure it will.... the devil loves those wiles. Worth repeating,,,,,,Everything Ray writes teaches.I so enjoy when language is used correctly, powerfully and accurately! What you wrote was really cool!
I have not looked back into TBN for a while now but it has dawned on me that once we come out of Babylon we sometimes get to revisit to compare the difference and contrast! So as I was watching this thread unfold I wondered why I had not yet experienced my "contrast" moment. WELL! Not for long was I to be experiencing not having my contrast moment.
Last night, my husband and I had the rare occasion to enjoy going out for dinner and experiencing everything as simply perfection! It was so obvious to me that this dinner was all planned from our Lord also because sitting at the table next to us were two couples speaking about Jesus! I had my contrasting moment and cringed as I heard the one person "teaching" heresy with conviction, obstinacy and very obvious blindness. My husband and I, simply acknowledged how far we are set apart from such inordinate illusions and deceptions. We knew that nothing could be said to this person to remove the blindness if it was not done by the plan and will of Jesus Christ.
I was given the opportunity to over hear some of the miserable teachings that once I adhered to and I repented again with renewed humility!
As we left the venue the owners who are friends of ours said in passing that the people at the table next to us were the same couple who had lost their 21 year old son months earlier. My husband afterwards made the observation that the clinging to Babylon is like a crutch for some peoples pain. I think he is correct. Babylon is like a pacifier that never feeds and becomes an addiction to the hurting and the lost. I think that is why Jesus visits and takes out who He chooses and that is where we have come out of which is what we have in common with each other!
Our Lord chooses us from out of Babylon and He drags us out. I realised I can drag out not even a gnat if it is not in the Plan of Jesus that a person receive their sight when I want them to!
Jesus Christ alone is our restorer and healer.
When He comes again, He has told us, it will be as the days of Noah when wickedness will be at an all time high! I believe it!
Peace to you
Arcturus