Jer 51:49-64  Ye That Have Escaped [Babylon] Let Jerusalem Come Into Your Mind

[Study Aired October 30, 2022]

Jer 51:49  As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Jer 51:50  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Jer 51:51  We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’S house.
Jer 51:52  Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Jer 51:53  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
Jer 51:54  A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Jer 51:55  Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Jer 51:56  Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
Jer 51:57  And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Jer 51:58  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Jer 51:59  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
Jer 51:60  So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
Jer 51:61  And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
Jer 51:62  Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Jer 51:63  And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
Jer 51:64  And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

This is the Lord’s perspective of those who die at Babylon:

Rev 18:24  And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

That is not a word-for-word quote, but it certainly accords with the first verse of our study:

Jer 51:49  As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

Both verses make it clear beyond any doubt that this is not speaking of a literal city at which “the slain of all the earth… fall”.

Mystery Babylon is signified by “Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children”, and the same universal accusation is made by our Lord of His unfaithful wife, ‘Jerusalem’:

Isa 1:21  How is the faithful city [Jerusalem (vs 1)] become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Luk 13:33  Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Luk 13:34  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Many prophets have been stoned and killed outside physical Jerusalem, but “it cannot be that a prophet perish out of [spiritual apostate] Jerusalem”, also known as ‘Mystery Babylon the great’ where we are also told the saints are killed:

Rev 18:21  And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Rev 18:24  And in her [Babylon signifying apostate Jerusalem] was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

“It cannot be that a prophet die outside Jerusalem” (Luk 13:33) is not a contradiction of, “in [Babylon the great] was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” All who have the mind of Christ can see clearly that these are two types and shadows of the same rebellious man-made system of religious worship which has for centuries dominated all mankind. No one slain on earth is outside of the religions of this world, because even atheism and hedonism are religions of men which the Lord and His Christ are in the process of destroying within His elect, at this very moment. When the appointed time arrives, the Lord’s ‘Christ’, those “few elect”, will then be used by the Lord to destroy the religions of mankind outwardly.

Mat 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen [G1588: eklektos, elect].

That will be done in short order when “the kingdom of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ”:

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Isaiah informs us of the fact that the Lord wrote Israel, His unfaithful wife, a bill of divorcement:

Isa 50:1  Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Isaiah 50:1 is addressed to Jerusalem “which now is and is in the bondage with her children”:

Gal 4:25  For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Just as Abraham sent away the ‘bondwoman’ wife who was the mother of “the son of the bondwoman”, Christ also put away Israel and gave her a “bill of divorcement” because she, too, was in the bondage of sin and self-righteous rebellion against Him.

Gal 4:29  But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Gal 4:30  Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Gal 4:31  So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Freedom from the bondage of sin is what characterizes the Mother of the son of the freewoman:

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:27  For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal 4:28  Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

We are all at first the children of the bondwoman, but if we are granted to come out of her, then we begin to grow into the son of the freewoman, and that is who our next verse concerns:

Jer 51:50  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

The ‘Jerusalem’ we want to “come into [our] mind” is “Jerusalem above, the mother of us all”. It is not physical “Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children”, as so many of the ministers of Mystery Babylon would have us believe. It is just such a false doctrine as that which lying doctrines have brought us all into the idol worship of all the false doctrines of Mystery Babylon the Great.

“Remember the Lord afar off” tells us that Christ died for us while we were yet sinners:

Rom 5:8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners [afar off], Christ died for us.

Nevertheless, the Lord is married to His elect, and He will drag them out from that unfaithful divorced wife, and He will judge that great harlot and all of her idols and all of her false lying doctrines:

Jer 3:13  Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Jer 3:14  Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Our next verses are another admonition to simply acknowledge our iniquity and self-righteousness (Eze 33:13):

Jer 51:51  We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers [false, lying doctrines] are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’S house.
Jer 51:52  Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

The battle between the ten horns on the beast and the great harlot, Mystery Babylon, has already begun within the Lord’s elect. The ten horns have the same significance as the ten toes of the image in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream because it is in the days of both the ten toes and the ten horns that the God of heaven will set up His kingdom, which will never be removed:

Dan 2:42  And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
Dan 2:43  And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Dan 2:44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Dan 2:45  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Here is this very same message in its New Testament form. The clay in the feet and toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s image signifies the great harlot, the “earth, earth, earth” of Jeremiah 22:29. The iron which breaks her in pieces is the ten horns on the beast who “hate the whore”, here in Revelation 17. The stone that was cut out of the mountain without hands, which breaks in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, and becomes a kingdom that fills the earth, is the Lamb and His faithful anointed who shall overcome the ten horns on the beast:

Rev 17:12  And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Rev 17:13  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

The significance of the horns being ‘ten’ is that they signify all carnal nations. Revelation 17:14 is just confirmation of these words from chapter 11:

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

“His Christ” are the “called and chosen, and faithful [who] are with Him” when He appears to fight with and overcome the ten kings who dare challenge “our Lord and His Christ”.

Rev 17:13  These [ten horns on the beast] have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

It is a foolhardy decision, but it is the same foolish carnal mind we all have. It is the same mind which Zedekiah displayed when ignoring Jeremiah’s admonition to submit himself and his kingdom to the judgment the Lord had sent via King Nebuchadnezzar. Submission to judgment is a very important part of receiving life in this present time:

Jer 21:9  He that abideth in this city [Mystery Babylon the great] shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

Jer 38:2  Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city [Mystery Babylon the great] shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

Jer 38:17  Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

We must submit to the Lord’s judgments and “acknowledge our iniquities” and be the first to die to our old man in this life if we are to be saved in this age and be given a part in that “blessed and holy” “first resurrection” (Rev 20:6).

Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

To deny that we must fulfill the seven plagues of the seven angels is to “remain in this city” and “die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence” in the second death.

King Nebuchadnezzar signifies the ten horns of the beast of Revelation 17, who will hate the great harlot and will expose her naked hypocrisy and devour her and burn her with fire:

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

King Nebuchadnezzar burned the unfaithful harlot, Jerusalem (Isa 1:21) with literal fire.

Jer 39:8  And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jer 52:12  Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
Jer 52:13  And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

The rebellious vengeful ten toes and ten horns of the secular flesh of mankind will make the hypocritical religious systems of this world spiritually desolate and naked by exposing their hypocrisy to the whole world, and they will use her flesh, signifying her own words, to make her desolate and naked. Just as Christ called His doctrines “my flesh”, so are the doctrines of Mystery Babylon “her flesh”:

Joh 6:54  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Joh 6:56  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. [By My Words]

The ten toes and ten horns are the flesh of mankind who have before eaten and lived by the doctrines of this great religious whore, and now they begin to “eat her flesh, and burn her with ‘fire’”. It will be the fire of her own words, the words of Christ, which she has hypocritically quoted but refuses to obey:

Mat 23:1  Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Mat 23:2  Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: [Signifying the great unfaithful harlot]
Mat 23:3  All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. [They appear as an angel of light, with “two horns like a lamb”, but they speak “as a dragon”].
Mat 23:4  For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Mat 23:5  But all their [good] works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Mat 23:6  And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
Mat 23:7  And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Mystery Babylon displays the same rebellious carnal mind by opposing those the Lord sends to spoil her of all her riches:

Rom 8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Jer 51:53  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

Even a hypocritical whore will fight to preserve her life, but she is at a great psychological disadvantage because her naked hypocrisy is being exposed to the whole world as she is being made desolate and naked, being eaten, and burned with the ‘fire’ of the heavy burdens she has laid upon the beast who has now turned on her:

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Jer 51:54  A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: [The religious world]

The beast that comes up out of the earth is nothing more than a man-made religious version of the beast that comes up out of the sea.

Rev 13:1  And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

The second beast feigns fidelity to righteousness, and in the case of historical Christianity, to the words of our Lord, but this second beast merely appears to be “a lamb with two horns” when the doctrines of this beast are in fact the doctrines of the great red dragon:

Rev 13:11  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

The ten horns on the beast are the strength of this first beast and they are far more powerful and destructive than the deceptive “two horns like a lamb” which characterize the second beast which comes up out of the earth.

The second beast which comes up out of the earth identifies very well with the first beast, much more than it identifies with the doctrines of Christ. This beast identifies with the false doctrines of man’s fabled free will, as well as the unforgiving false doctrine of eternal torment.

Rev 13:12  And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

This second beast which comes up out of the earth signifies the great harlot of chapters 17-18. She eats her own meat and wears her own apparel and has no use for the meat or apparel of her true husband:

Rev 13:13  And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is the spiritual significance of this phrase “he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon”:

2Co 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Hypocrisy is characteristic of every harlot. Harlots do not see themselves as hypocrites. They take pride in their supposed honesty and deny their immorality and its destructive fruits:

Pro 30:20  Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the abominations of the world, also does many good works which she thinks will cancel out any shortcomings she may have:

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Rev 18:7  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

The religions of this world, which held us all in captivity to their doctrines, think their dominance will never end, but that’s only because they cannot even see how ‘fight for God and country’ contradicts the words of Christ who tells us to love our enemies:

Mat 5:43  Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Mat 5:44  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

The religions of this world cannot see that they did not choose to follow Christ, and they cannot choose to accept Christ unless He drags them to Himself:

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [Greek: helkuo, drag] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 15:16  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Rom 9:16  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Man-made religion cannot see, and will not agree with the Lord, that He Himself creates both the good and the evil that is in this world:

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

In commenting on this verse, the great ‘Christian’ scholar, John Gill, makes this statement:

“…nor did or does God make men wicked; he made man upright, and he has made himself wicked; and, being so, God may justly appoint him to damnation for his wickedness, in doing which he glorifies his justice.” (End Quote)

I pray we are all given to:

Rom 3:4  God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Carnal-minded Christians, who believe in the false doctrine of free will, do not believe that God is “working all things [including their will] after the counsel of His own will”.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

It is blasphemous to an orthodox Christian to simply agree with these verses of scripture:

Pro 16:1  The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Amo 3:6  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

“The preparations of the heart” are the beginnings of having a thought. No one who is sold on the false doctrine of mankind having a fabled will, free from the influence of God’s “own will”, can accept either of those verses, and indeed they do not believe any of those words of scripture even as they call themselves by Christ’s name:

Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

We could go on all day listing the doctrines of the scriptures which contradict the doctrines of man made religion claiming to be based on scripture. That is why “the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water” (Isa 4:1) has been taken away from the self-righteous religions of mankind, and that is why the Lord “will do judgment upon the graven images [falsehoods and errors – vs 17-18] of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her” (Verse 47).

Jer 51:55  Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

Right now, this great harlot still has great influence and a “great voice” in this world, as she has always had. In modern times this great harlot even has satellites which enable her ‘voice’ to be even greater as she preaches and teaches her lies all around the world. These satellites are used by her harlot daughters giving her “the great voice” she has enjoyed for so long as the master of the beast which she has long dominated. However, the time of her threshing has come, and it is time to gather the tares together in bundles to be burned:

Jer 51:33  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Mat 13:30  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Jer 51:56  Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

“Her mighty men” are all the eloquent and powerful orators and ministers who have such a strong hold on the beast. The hypocrisy of the leaders of this great harlot are expressed with these words:

Pro 30:20  Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth [her own food, and wears her own apparel], and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Rev 18:7  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

That is just how drunk on her power this great whore is. This drunkenness precedes the judgment of this great harlot just as it did with Belshazzar the night he was judged:

Dan 5:1  Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Dan 5:2  Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Dan 5:3  Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
Dan 5:4  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Dan 5:5  In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Dan 5:6  Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

It is happening again as the Lord judges the great harlot both within and without:

Jer 51:57  And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. [Not come up in the first resurrection]
Jer 51:58  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

This is the fire in which her people shall labor and be weary:

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Just as the Lord’s words are ‘fire’ in the mouths of His prophets (Jer 5:14), so the words of this harlot, words by which she does not live, will be fire in the mouths of the secular ‘ten toes and ten horns’ of the beast:

Mat 23:1  Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Mat 23:2  Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
Mat 23:3  All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Mat 23:4  For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Jer 51:59  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
Jer 51:60  So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
Jer 51:61  And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
Jer 51:62  Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

That is the future and the fate of the religions of this world. It seems as impossible at this moment as a flood in a world that had never seen rain, but it will come to pass. It seems as impossible as a nation of slaves spoiling their masters and then crossing the Red Sea on dry land, but it will come to pass, and the religions of this world will be attacked and spoiled by the very people they once influenced and controlled. That rebellion against the great whore by the ten horns on the beast will serve to prepare the hearts of mankind to be instructed and ruled over by the Lord’s elect for “a thousand years” (Rev 20:1-6).

Jer 51:63  And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
Jer 51:64  And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

The destruction of all the idols of our hearts in this present time prefigures the outward destruction of the religions of this world. That destruction within each of us was a painful but very rewarding “experience of evil” which has and is humbling us in this present time.

The kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ will also be an experience of evil insomuch as the elect will rule this world with a rod of iron. That time under the guidance of the Lord’s elect will produce the most physically prosperous time of outward prosperity this earth has ever experienced. Yet we know that the Lord has predestined the nations to rebel against Him and His elect:

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

This is the occasion the Lord is seeking to destroy death via the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death.

Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

It all sounds so negative to our carnal minded flesh. Nevertheless, it all sounds so very loving, kind, and wonderful to the new man.