Come out of Her My People
By
James Scott Trimm
We read in the Book of Revelation of a last days call to come out of Babylon:
[2] And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
[3] For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
[4] 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.
[5] For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
(Rev. 18:2-5 KJV)
This passage is repeating a call to come out of Babylon which appears several times in the Tanak:
Go you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say you, YHWH has redeemed his servant Jacob.
(Is. 48:20)
Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of YHWH.
(Is. 52:11)
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
(Jer. 50:8)
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of YHWH’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
(Jer. 51:6)
My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of YHWH.
(Jer. 51:45)
[6] Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, says YHWH: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, says YHWH.
[7] Deliver yourself, O Zion, that dwells with the daughter of Babylon.
(Zech. 2:6-7)
We can see from these verses that this call to come out from Babylon has some meaning beyond the return from the Babylonian Captivity under Ezra and Nehemiah, which had already occurred by the time of Zechariah.
In Revelation, Babylon is pictured as a great whore, riding a scarlet beast:
[1] And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
[2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
(Rev. 17:1-5 KJV)
It is actually Paul who reveals to us, just who this great whore is. He writes:
[14] Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
[15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
[16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[17] Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
[18] And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
(2Cor. 6:14-18 KJV)
In the Greek text of 2Corinthians 6:14 the word which the KJV renders “unrighteousness” is actually ἀνομίᾳ (anomia) (Strong’s Greek number 458) which combines the Greek prefix “a” meaning “there is not” or “without” with the Greek word for Torah: νόμος (nomos). So that this word literally means “without Torah” or “Torahlessness”.
So if being in Babylon is being in Torahlessness, then being out of Babylon is being in the Torah.
Much has been written to demonstrate that the customs and practices of Torahless Christendom, are the same as the customs and practices of the ancient Babylonian religion. Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter have their roots in Babylon, as do such Christian symbols as steeples, crosses, doves and fish.
Lets look again at Rev. 18:4:
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.
(Rev. 18:4 KJV)
This term “my people” is also very important. This refers back to a prophecy in Hosea:
[2] The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
[3] So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
[4] And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
[5] And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
[6] And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
[7] But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
[8] Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
[9] Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
[10] Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
[11] Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. (Hosea 1:1-11 KJV)
[23] And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. (Hosea 2:23 KJV)
In these verses the “children of Israel” (1:10) and the “children of Judah” (1:11) are treated as separate entities. The House of Israel (Ephraim) is told that Elohim will call them “not my people” (1:9-10) until a future day when He shall call them “my people” again (2:23). This day of which Hosea was speaking, was the time of the call to Ephraim to come out of Babylon (Torahlessness), in which he calls “my people” to come out of Babylon.
This brings us to a prophecy in the Book of Baruch:
[30] For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
[31] And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:
[32] And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
[33] And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
[34] And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
[35] And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
(Baruch 2:30-35 KJV)
Finally let us look again at the passages of Jeremiah about the call to come out of Babylon (Jer. 50:8; 51:6, 45) which encompasses Jeremiah 50-51. Here we read:
[6] Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
[7] Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
[8] Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.
[9] We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
(Jer. 51:6-9 KJV)
Here we read of a prophetic warning of those who hear the call to come out of Babylon but instead choose to stay in Babylon and heal (reform) Babylon. Elohim’s response is to effectively say, “I didn’t tell you to try to heal Babylon, I told you to GET OUT OF HER!”
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