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Friday, July 7, 2023
The Coming World Religion
The Coming World Religion – Pastor Skip Heitzig - https://www.charismanews.com/world/92712-the-coming-world-religion
Karl Marx was right when he called religion the opiate of the masses. He discovered the truth that man is incurably driven to worship something, somewhere. If humans do notbow before the holy and true God, then they will devise their own method, their own system, their own god, and they will worship their own creation.
While the coming world religious system in some ways resembles Christianity, John calls it "Babylon the Great"—a monstrous, ecumenical combination of everything that peopleconsider "spiritual." And the world will buy into it—hook, line and sinker.
Mostly sinker.
Whenever God's people turned from the true and living God, or when any group of people worshiped anything other than God, the Bible consistently labeled it as harlotry.
For example, at one point in Israel's history, God asked Jeremiah, "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under everygreen tree, and there played the harlot" (Jer. 3:6). The wayward people of Israel made it a habit to visit groves of false worship, where out of tree trunks they would carve statues to worship. And so God said, just a few verses later, "So it came to pass,through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees" (v. 9).
The entire book of Hosea is built upon this metaphor of an unfaithful wife who plays the harlot. Just as Hosea repeatedly tried to reach his wayward wife, so God tried againand again to draw His people back to Himself; and yet Israel was consistently unfaithful to Him. She played the harlot by following after other gods.
I find it interesting that Jesus would choose to use the metaphor of a woman for His church. As the British novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon asked in the late 1800s, "How areour churches beautified, our sick tended, our poor fed, our children taught and cared for and civilized?
"Women are the church's strong rock. As they were the last at the foot of the cross, so they have become first at the altar."
So here in the book of Revelation 17, we have a deeply unfaithful woman whom an angel calls "the great harlot." She represents a religious system that claims to be joinedto God but, like a prostitute, is unfaithful to God. Her sin is spiritual fornication, the sin of turning from God and refusing to remain spiritually faithful to Him.
In Genesis 10, a man by the name of Nimrod is mentioned (vv. 8-9). He is four generations removed from Noah; his grandfather was Ham, the wicked son of Noah. After the Flood,God told Noah's family to multiply and cover the face of the earth. But some of Noah's descendants, including Nimrod, thought they had a better plan. When they came to a plain in the land of Shinar, they said to one another, "Come, let us build ourselves acity and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth" Gen. 11:4). Notice their rebellion: Whereas God had told them to "fill the earth" (Gen. 9:1), they decided to sticktogether in their city, "lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." They acted in direct disobedience to a clear, divine command.
These people, led by Nimrod, conceived their city in open rebellion against God. Their whole philosophy was built on the idea of exalting themselves and degrading God. Wecould say it was the first human city built on the philosophy of secular humanism. They called it Babel, which later became Babylon.
And they didn't stop with philosophy. They also decided to create a new religious system. They said, "Let us build...a tower whose top is in the heavens." They recognizedtheir spiritual need, but they sought to fill it with do-it-yourself religion. The tower they decided to build probably took the form of a ziggurat, a stepped platform with a shrine at the very top. Normally a priest officiated at the shrine, using the signsof the zodiac to try to predict the future for his people.
History tells us that Nimrod had a wife named Semiramis. Before her marriage, she had a son named Tammuz, whom she claimed was not fathered by a man, but rather was conceivedwhen a sunbeam from heaven shone on her belly. And so, she said, she conceived Tammuz, whom she and others declared to be the savior of the world—a virgin-born savior who would overturn the curse of Genesis 3.
There's an ancient story that says one day, Tammuz was gored by a wild boar while playing in a field. He died. For 40 days, Semiramis wept over her son's death. Then he suddenlyrose from the dead. So we see that, even way back in the early days of Genesis, Satan was busily creating a false religion. He cleverly concocted a counterfeit faith about a virgin-born savior of the world who died and rose again. As people scattered overthe face of the earth (after God put an end to their experiment at Babel), Semiramis and Tammuz began to be worshiped as mother and child. In fact, she later came to be known as "the queen of heaven."
Many ancient cultures worshiped this mother-son pair. In Nineveh, she was called Ishtar. In Phoenicia, they called her Ashtoreth and her son, Baal. In Egypt, she carried thename Isis, while her son was known as Osiris. Later, in Greece, she was called Aphrodite, while he was called Aras. In Rome, her name became Venus, and her son, Cupid. The cult finally ended in Rome, according to Alexander Haslett in his classic work The TwoBabylons. The cult died out with the empire; but remember, that empire will be revived during the Tribulation.
Why is Mystery Babylon called the mother of harlots? John gives it this name because it has spawned a host of other false religious systems throughout history. That systemwill reach its peak during the Tribulation. No doubt the final version will incorporate some elements of the church—Christianity in a perverted and apostate form. Paul the apostle wrote, "The Spirit expressly says in latter times some will depart from thefaith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons" (1 Tim. 4:1).
At the time of the end, this religious harlot will have established a worldwide reign. In Revelation 17:1, the phrase "who sits on many waters" refers to all the people ofthe earth. This meaning becomes especially clear in verse 15, when an angel tells John, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues."
We live in an age when the lines of truth are becoming increasingly blurred. It's become fashionable to refuse to take a dogmatic stand about anything, especially Jesus Christ.And so, people everywhere are drifting from the truth.
I want to exhort you to cling to the truth at all costs.
The world is fast coming to a point of abandoning the truth. Don't go along with the crowd—stand up for the truth! It might cost you everything. But one day, if you standfast, you're going to hear some beautiful words from Jesus' own lips: "Well done, good and faithful servant."
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