Introductory Remarks

“I will be merciful, to whom I will be merciful…” (God).“In My Father’s House, there are many dwelling places” (John 14:1-4). Oddly, the language of this segment of the Revelation suggests strongly that there will be practically none reserved for the inhabitants of Babylon the Great (some, yes! For those who obey the call to “distance, and to distinguish themselves” from her and her brand of Christianity, but not many.). She is discarded, like a dirty, filthy, nasty white rag; a worthless, useless thing of no further value. She is proof positive that not everyone who calls Jesus “Lord,” will be saved (Matthew 7:21-23). Contrary to popular evangelical or fundamentalist thought, there is no dwelling place for her ‘religious’ remnants, in the Father’s House!“Like squeezing a camel through the eye of a needle, so is the difficulty in getting the wealthy, the intellectual, into the Kingdom of God”, Jesus said.Solomon was the legitimate son born to King David and Bathsheba, in an otherwise illegitimate, blood-soaked marriage, rooted in the shame, the sham and the sin of adultery (the illegitimate son was received into glory by God, at his birth—i.e., per the will of God, he died while still a newborn). The well-favored son of the King-after-God’s-own-heart, God’s love for this legitimate son of the illegitimate union was supreme. God showered this love freely and royally, giving the New King, not only his humble request for wisdom so that he might rule over the people of God wisely, but God gave him great wealth as well. In spite of its otherwise happy outlook, however, there is, and was from the start, a dark side to this saga of Solomon.Not surprisingly, of course, God ultimately knew Solomon better than Solomon the wise man knew himself. The problem for this neophyte King lay not at all in that God, knowing the downside, failed to inform Solomon. Rather, this incident served to dramatize and play up the fact that this, the wisest man who ever lived, was yet utterly unperceptive and lacking in understanding. With the perceptivity and immense wisdom God imparted to him, Solomon appears to have sought diligently and found out profound statements of information on every subject under the sun. The one thing he did not know early in life, however, was himself...........Similarly, in a manner mindful of the plight of King Solomon, Babylon the Great has been served notice of her status in God’s eyes—she is rejected. Although, without controversy, she is the brainchild of Almighty God (He takes full responsibility for her being), all her wealth, all of her good deeds, her appearance and the image she portrays upon the global stage will avail her nothing in terms of deliverance, in light of the awesomely awful plan of God for her. Stuffed to the brim with wealth, overflowing with prosperity untold, strutting in the stupidity of her arrogance, even as she revels in grand illusions of superiority, she is to Him like a fatted calf, built and set up only to be struck through, knocked down in humiliation and, eternal damnation. In keeping with the “Divine formula” to “…extend mercy…” where He sees fit while, by implication, withholding it as He chooses, all mercy is to be, and will be withheld from Babylon the Great.