What does the word "Babylon"  in the book of Revelation mean and what is meant by "come out of her my people"
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Babylon pictures the world empire of false religion. To be in a saved position, a person must get out of any religious organization that practices false worship.\n\nIn the light of the Bible, those in false religion: \n\nBelieve that all good people go to heaven.\n\nTeach that hell is a place of burning torment.\n\nTeach the pagan doctrine of the trinity.\n\nCelebrate pagan holidays like Christmas and Easter.\n\nGo to war and slaughter their fellowman.\n\nVenerate pagan symbols like the cross.\n\nTeach the immortality of the human soul.\n\nPermit immoral people to remain in their ranks, like homosexuals and fornicators.
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You are right.\nSay: "O People of the Book! come to common terms as between us and you: that we worship none but Allah; that we associate no partners with Him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than Allah." If then they turn back, say ye: "Bear witness that we (at least) are Muslims (bowing to Allah's Will)." \nIt is not (possible) that a man, to whom is given the Book, and Wisdom, and the Prophetic office, should say to people: "Be ye my worshippers rather than Allah's": on the contrary (he would say): "Be ye worshippers of Him Who is truly the Cherisher of all: for ye have taught the Book and ye have studied it earnestly." \nThere is among them a section who distort the Book with their tongues: (as they read) you would think it is a part of the Book, but it is no part of the Book; and they say, "That is from Allah," but it is not from Allah: it is they who tell a lie against Allah, and (well) they know it!
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Interesting, but my translation says "God takes his stand in his own congregation".  (New American Standard).  We would need to discuss it with an expert in ancient hebrew to form an informed opinion, so take it easy.
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Here is a site that explains it. It is from the bible.  http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c017.html
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For those who did not have a Methodist Sunday school teacher for a mother, here it is:  "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."\n\nLike any other Bible passage, it needs to be read in context.  So starting from verse 1, we find that the jews were captives in Babylon.  Jeremiah was a prophet sent to console them in their captivity, so far away from their homeland.  He says go ahead and live your lives here, marry and have children.  Pay no attention to false prophets.  After 70 years in Babylon, God will visit you and if you are faithful, He will remove the burden of captivity and take you all out of Babylon.  If it had not happened roughly like that, Jeremiah would not be one of the books of the Bible.\n\nP.S.  I'm not a Christian myself, but well educated.  My momma gave me a Bible without demanding I make any promises.  I have always respected that.
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It is interesting how people with no understanding of Bible prophecy try to explain the book of Revelation. One person said that the church will be raptured prior to the time of the antichrist, How does he explain these verses in\n2 Thessalonians 2:1-4?\n\nNow we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God\n\nNotice the timing of the rapture. Even a child would understand that the man of sin must first be revealed, then the rapture takes place.\n\nIn addition, the mark of the beast issue is about worship not ID numbers. The beast in Revelation 13 wants our worship, our obedience. He wants to be as God. ID cards or chips have nothing to do with worship or obedience. In fact, there is nothing religious about them. They are purely secular in nature, having much more to do with security. The real issue is over allegiance to God and His law, versus allegiance to Satan and his law.\n\nThe booklet, The Beast, the Dragon, and the Woman explains the issues surrounding the final conflict between Christ and Satan as it relates to God's people and the mark of the beast. It can be found at the following website.\n\nhttp://www.amazingfacts.org/items/Read_Media.asp?ID=668
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Revelations 20:11-15\n"Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
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HAD EXCELLENT STUDY TODAY ABOUT THIS, IT SAID TO GET OUT OF HER, UNLESS YOU WISH TO END UP THE WAY FALSE RELIGION WILL END UP.  ALSO I AM NOT INVOLVED IN BABYLON THE GREAT, EXCEPT TO TELL OTHERS THAT IT IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED.\n\nThis harlot takes her name from ancient Babylon, the proud city established in Mesopotamia more than 4,000 years ago by Nimrod, the “mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah.” When the Babylonians started to build a pagan religious tower, Jehovah confused their language and scattered them to the ends of the earth. They took their religion with them, and that is how a world empire of Babylonish religion got started. Truly, it is Babylon THE GREAT. (Genesis 10:8-10; 11:1-9) Down to our time, the mysteries of ancient Babylon are reflected in the beliefs and practices of the world’s religions. (Revelation 17:7) The Hebrew name for the city, Babel, means “Confusion,” a fitting label for today’s hodgepodge of false religion!\n\nAncient Babylon became a pile of rubble—uninhabited except for reptiles and wild beasts—exactly as foretold!  \nHowever, that other Babylon, modern-day Babylon the Great, lives on. As the world empire of false religion, she perpetuates the original Babylon’s teachings and haughty spirit. She is Satan’s chief instrument for blinding the people to God's  Kingdom purposes
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Where is "the powerful ones" translation coming from?\n\nEl in hebrew means god\nElim is hebrew for gods.\nEloha is also an hebrew word for god\nElohim is the hebrew plural meaning gods.\n\nYou can find babylonia murals with all the gods represented in the sense of elohim (the gods).\nWhen the hebrews went mono, they kept the word.
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Read the book of Revelations with a concordance. There's mentions of "the dragon of the East". And there's referrences of Assyrian armies attacking Israel. All in all, it's not a pretty picture for the future of our world.
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Larry is correct. It's in the Bible.
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Not too hard to understand..\nThe two angels went into sodom to bring Lot and his family out so that God could destroy the city...\nGen 19:5 The men of the city wanted Lot to bring the 2 men out so that they could have homosexual sex with them.\nGen 19:9  They are saying that Lot came in to visit and live in Sodom and now he was trying to become a judge, or change the customs of the people there..  \nGen 19:11,12  The two angels (were in the form of men) and they pulled Lot back inside the house and made the people outside of the house blind.  V12 they are telling Lot that they are going to destroy the city and that he needs to get his family together and go with them..  \n\nLev 18:22  It is an abomination to God when men have homosexual or sodomite sexual relations..  Man was made for woman not man for man..  \nThis is pretty straightforward and I just preached on the whole theme two sundays ago.\n\nGen 13:13  But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. \nTHIS throws a little light on Sodom, they were wicked people and their sin was so bad that their wickedness had come up to God, and he had to deal with it..  I also take this to mean that they had some understanding of what God's rules were and just didn't care..
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I think you're reading too much into this. And Daniel is not the same as Revelation - some say the prophecies of Daniel have already been fulfilled by the Persian Empire.\n\nLion: at various points in time, symbolic of several men and families (ie, Medieval heraldry); also of Jamaica, Rastafarianism, several African nations, the Dreyfus Financial Group.\n\nEagle: Symbolic of the U.S. as well as of Germanic states (during its incarnation as the Holy Roman Empire, German Empire, Prussian Empire and Austrian Empire), certain Roman generals, to name a few.\n\nBear: Symbolic of Russia, poor financial markets, Norse tribes, many Native American tribes, Spain (particularly Madrid), and several groups within China.\n\nLeopard: Many nations in Africa (as well as Shamanism in general, where the leopard-skin man is the healer) as well as European powers that colonized those lands.\n\nUnknown Beast: well this could be anything from the Leviathan to the Juggernaut.\n\nI've often thought that symbolism within Scripture must be viewed in context to the original audience (Israel during the Babylonian captivity), since it makes little sense for God to prophesy to peoples living 3 millenia hence but leave everyone in-between mystified. Consider Hebrew culture at the time to be a reference point.
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In the bible, in the book of  Revelations, the number sixhundred and sixty six is the mark of the beast.
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It is hard to say for sure exactly what this meant.  Jesus seemed to believe that there would be coming very soon a "Son of Man" in glory on the clouds of heaven.  And he seems to be some sort of cosmic judge.  Of course, it was later understood by Jesus's followers that he was speaking of himself.  \n\nSon of Man seems to have been used in Judaism to refer to the Messiah or some sort of a cosmic judge of the earth that would come in apocalyptic times.  It is used in the book of Daniel in this way.  \n\nSon of Man actually can be argued to have almost a MORE divine connotation than Son of God.  Everyone is a son or daughter of God.  And also everyone is a son or daughter of man.  But to become a true Son of God, one must make himself subservient to his fellow man, thus becoming a son of man.  \nSo when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he was making himself a son of man, a servant of man.  And in so doing, he precisely shows himself to be a true Son of God, because to become great, one makes oneself lowly.
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Revelation 13:16 \n\n"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six."
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The scripture of truth is sealed to the time of the end (Dan.12:4, Dan.12:9 below).\n\n\nDan.12:4  But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.\n\nDan.12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end (Dan.12:4 above).\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa)