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I think the cross of Christ will and is drawing His people out of babylon.
In scripture, Babylon isn't just a physical, ancient city; it is a spiritual archetype. It represents the ultimate human system of self-sufficiency, pride, commercialism, and, most dangerously, counterfeit spiritual authority. It is the system that tries to build a tower to heaven on human terms, using human organization, human power, and human glory.
When you look at the fractured, institutionalized state of Christendom, it becomes clear that the "Babylonian spirit" didn’t stay outside the church gates. It snuck inside. It’s what convinces us to build our own little theological empires, brand our ministries, and value institutional security over the unpredictable, disruptive movement of the Holy Spirit.
But the good news is that the Cross Destroys the Currency of Babylon because Babylon operates on the currency of human achievement, performance, image, and control. It asks, "Look at this great city I have built by my own power" (Daniel 4:30).
It is leveling the ground completely, the cross says that all human achievement and corporate status are worth nothing when it comes to righteousness. It strips leaders and institutions of their self-made resumes.
You cannot boast in your theological fortress or your flawless execution when standing before a crucified Savior. It forces us to drop our building materials.
The Cross Demands a Relocation of Citizenship. To come out of Babylon means to stop looking to the systems of this world, and the worldly systems within the church, for identity, protection, and validation.
Stop worshiping special doctrines that are seperating people from the body of Christ into just a collection of body parts at war with eachother.
The Cross acts as a radical boundary marker. In Galatians 6:14, Paul writes, "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." The cross makes a believer fundamentally incompatible with the Babylonian spirit of self-preservation and control. It ruins us for the empire.
The Cross Swaps Control for Surrender. The entire foundation of Babylon is building a system so secure that you don't need to rely on a volatile, unseen God. It is the ultimate manifestation of the "boxed-up" life on a corporate scale.
The cross is the place of total, agonizing, beautiful relinquishment of control. It is Jesus saying, "Not my will, but yours be done." When the cross truly takes root in a person's life, it shatters their need to manage God. It makes us willing to let our own tightly-wound plans be wrecked so that a higher kingdom can be established.
There is a profound shaking happening when people look at the division, the political maneuvering, and the dead institutionalism of modern religious structures and find themselves deeply grieved. That grief isn't a sign of backsliding; it's often the Holy Spirit creating a holy homesickness.
The call in Revelation 18:4 "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins" isn't a call to leave a physical building. It is a call to leave behind the mindset of control, the pride of intellectual supremacy, and the fear of supernatural dependence.
It is a scary thing to step out of the fortified walls of a predictable, human-engineered "Babylonian" way of doing church, because outside those walls, you have nothing to lean on but the Spirit of God. But that is exactly where the true, unfractured Body of Christ is found, clinging to the cross, out in the open air.
In scripture, Babylon isn't just a physical, ancient city; it is a spiritual archetype. It represents the ultimate human system of self-sufficiency, pride, commercialism, and, most dangerously, counterfeit spiritual authority. It is the system that tries to build a tower to heaven on human terms, using human organization, human power, and human glory.
When you look at the fractured, institutionalized state of Christendom, it becomes clear that the "Babylonian spirit" didn’t stay outside the church gates. It snuck inside. It’s what convinces us to build our own little theological empires, brand our ministries, and value institutional security over the unpredictable, disruptive movement of the Holy Spirit.
But the good news is that the Cross Destroys the Currency of Babylon because Babylon operates on the currency of human achievement, performance, image, and control. It asks, "Look at this great city I have built by my own power" (Daniel 4:30).
It is leveling the ground completely, the cross says that all human achievement and corporate status are worth nothing when it comes to righteousness. It strips leaders and institutions of their self-made resumes.
You cannot boast in your theological fortress or your flawless execution when standing before a crucified Savior. It forces us to drop our building materials.
The Cross Demands a Relocation of Citizenship. To come out of Babylon means to stop looking to the systems of this world, and the worldly systems within the church, for identity, protection, and validation.
Stop worshiping special doctrines that are seperating people from the body of Christ into just a collection of body parts at war with eachother.
The Cross acts as a radical boundary marker. In Galatians 6:14, Paul writes, "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." The cross makes a believer fundamentally incompatible with the Babylonian spirit of self-preservation and control. It ruins us for the empire.
The Cross Swaps Control for Surrender. The entire foundation of Babylon is building a system so secure that you don't need to rely on a volatile, unseen God. It is the ultimate manifestation of the "boxed-up" life on a corporate scale.
The cross is the place of total, agonizing, beautiful relinquishment of control. It is Jesus saying, "Not my will, but yours be done." When the cross truly takes root in a person's life, it shatters their need to manage God. It makes us willing to let our own tightly-wound plans be wrecked so that a higher kingdom can be established.
There is a profound shaking happening when people look at the division, the political maneuvering, and the dead institutionalism of modern religious structures and find themselves deeply grieved. That grief isn't a sign of backsliding; it's often the Holy Spirit creating a holy homesickness.
The call in Revelation 18:4 "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins" isn't a call to leave a physical building. It is a call to leave behind the mindset of control, the pride of intellectual supremacy, and the fear of supernatural dependence.
It is a scary thing to step out of the fortified walls of a predictable, human-engineered "Babylonian" way of doing church, because outside those walls, you have nothing to lean on but the Spirit of God. But that is exactly where the true, unfractured Body of Christ is found, clinging to the cross, out in the open air.
