The Church

In The book of Revelation we see the future of the church, the judgment of God, and the marriage of the Lamb with His Bride. Though the judgments seem harsh, God’s requirements of His people are commensurate with what He gives. Of whom He has given much, the more will be required (Lk 12:48). When Jesus brought the Kingdom of God to the sons of Man, He set the souls of the unsaved in their hands, and the outcome of the whole world. The following is a prophecy and a lesson concerning the content in Revelation chapter 18, and addresses the statement that Babylon, the Church, will be judged for “all who have been killed on the earth.” (Rev 18:24b).

The men of the world do not require much from the Church. Their standards are set by permissiveness and ingratiation of their lusts. These men have been happy for the fellowship with the church, and so was formed the liaison of adultery. For, being God’s wife, the Church made a friendship with the world, and thereby became an enemy of the works of God (Jms 4:4).

The Church had been entrusted with the salvation message for the world, and through her pollution with the world, she corrupted the message so that men felt comfortable in their sins. Because of her corruption, men were no longer able to reason. Therefore they lost discernment between good and bad, right and wrong, justice and injustice, light and darkness. This blurring of their integrity with the world overtook them like a drunken stupor, for just as a sailor needs a compass to find his path through the sea, men need a standard to live by.

When the worldly men awake from their intoxication they will hate the Church’s impurity. So grave is her pollution that she is no longer able to save men with her message, the gospel, but instead has become corrupt. They are no longer set at ease by her royal decrees of grace in their sins, for she has lost her authority and place with God. Her words are empty.

These worldly men, formed in the full image of their flesh unrestrained and perfected in pride, no longer feel the need for absolution for their sins. Indeed, the men of the last hour will believe themselves to be as God. Therefore they hate the whorish wife of God, for the standard of purity she once brought to the earth hangs over them as an awaiting judgment . . . yet she has no real concern for their souls and has lost the message of salvation. Therefore it is apparent that the Church has no real love for the lost souls of Mankind.

The Church was given God’s golden cup of truth in her hand whereby to teach men the way of God. Because she has polluted the truth with abominable lies, the world has lost its way. Therefore, she is charged with the souls of men, for as the church goes, so goes the world. God entrusted the Church with His power, wisdom, and knowledge, and gifted her as one bedecks His beloved bride with gold, jewels and pearls. All that is precious in her was given because of God’s great love for her. And all that was given to her, every gift, was for the salvation of souls.

As a watchman is accountable for the souls he warns, to turn them away from the sword (Ez 33), so the church is accountable for the souls of the earth. God has no pleasure over the loss of souls; the Church was to be a light that would cause men everywhere to see the truth entrusted to her by God. God gave much to the Church, therefore He requires much from her. Amen.