..."Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to
heaven, and God has remembered her crimes." Revelation 18:4
There is a day when God is going to
judge the system of Babylon around the world. What is Babylon? Babylon is a
system of doing business. The stronghold of the workplace is mammon and pride.
Dependence on money and misplaced trust are at the core of a Babylonian
philosophy of life. Revelation 18 describes a time when God will judge this
Babylonian system. It is the one place that we see a system destroyed in one
day, even one hour. I do not believe Babylon is a particular city, but a world
system. "Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her"
(Rev. 18:8a). "Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one
hour your doom has come!" (Rev. 18:10b).
As Christian workplace believers we
are called to acknowledge the signs of the times. When the Soviet Union fell,
many knew it was going to happen because they could recognize the signs of the
times. God has a way of shaking things up. These shakings force us to determine
who and what we will place our trust in. God says that we are to "Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind" (Mt. 22:37).
Are you still living in Babylon in
the way you do business? If so, expect to share in the sins of Babylon when God
decides to judge her. Ask God to show you where you might be operating in a
"Babylonian" system of work.
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