Posted by
The Chiefest of Sinners on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:00:00 PM
BABYLON THE GREAT
"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." (Revelation 18:2).
I thought about this scripture and its reference to birds and I remembered another place that Jesus made reference to birds, speaking a parable about the Kingdom of God. "It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it." (Luke 13:19). And again Abram, "And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away" (Genesis 15:11).
The Revelations of St John was written to the Church, the Bride of Christ, as represented by the seven churches in Asia. The churches were admonished "or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." (Revelation 2:5). God always considered his people to be guilty of spiritual adultery when they refused him and followed after their own heart and the ways of the world, therefore he also called the Woman named Babylon the Great "The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth" (Revelation 17:5).
What has this to do with birds? Consider the news reports and you will realize that the Kingdom of God has been overrun with unclean and hateful birds: among others, those who ordain homosexual priests, perform and condone same sex marriages, and refuse to call an abomination for what it is. We as Christians are charged to keep ourselves "unspotted from the world" (James 1:27) and to "yield yourselves unto God...and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God" “For sin shall not have dominion over you…”(Romans 6:13,14) and “...they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the Spirit” and further “To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:5,6)