[§296] Rev 18:4-5: The Saints Are Commanded to Flee Modern Babylon

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in revelation 18:4-5, which states: “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”The other voice in heaven is God the Father. No later than the gathering of saints at Adam-ondi-Ahman, he warns his covenant people who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to come out of Modern Babylon and come to Zion in Missouri. Those who fail to heed this warning will partake of the sins of Modern Babylon and will therefore receive her plagues during the seventh vial plague of the Third Woe at the second coming. God will remember the sins of Modern Babylon and will be justified in destroying Babylon and her citizens because her sins will be like the wickedness of people in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, the days of Noah, and the days of the apostate Nephites on the American continent. The destruction of Babylon is two-fold: The spiritual fall of Babylon will occur at the time of the gathering of saints at Adam-ondi-Ahman. The physical fall of Babylon will occur during the seventh vial plague of the Third Woe at Christ’s Second Coming.