We know that Babylon must fall after all the people of God have come out of it. God calls His people out of Babylon, so they won't have to suffer God's judgment with it when it does fall.
This is where I see us as believers today.
Through the messages Jesus has given to the seven churches in the book of Revelation, Christ empowers His people to overcome, that is, to come out of the beast system.
In Revelation 15, in contrast to the wrath of God, gaining victory over the beast is clearly connected with standing on the sea of glass mingled with fire before the throne of God. The meaning is even clearer when considering the victorious sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. The word many translations interpret as overcome is “ek” in Greek meaning out of. Those who gain the victory have come out of the wild beast and out of its image and out of the number of its name. Israel was saved out of water and through the blood of Jesus. God has delivered the victorious in such a way that they stand upon the glassy sea mixed with fire, and as standing on the sea, the overcomers reflect God’s glory.
This deliverance is all of God and is not at all mixed with man. Listen to the words of the song of salvation from Revelation 15:3–4 that the overcomers before the throne of God do sing:
Great and wonderful [are] Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true [are] Thy ways, O King of saints,
4 who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone [art] kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'
Now is the time to come out of Babylon, not as a physical coming out but as a spiritual overcoming through the power and promises of Christ to His churches, so we, too, can join in the heavenly song.
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