Hi Mike, My question is: God tells us to come out of Babylon, so why
do we have to repent, and what must we repent of? H____

Hi H____,

Thank you for your question, Babylon the great is “the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth.”

Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

This entire book is addressed to “he that has an ear” in the seven churches.” We are told so seven times in chapters 2-3:

Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Rev 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

This is a book of signs and symbols:

Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

The signifing of the number seven is the complete church system. So these words are being sent to every Christian on earth of all time.

You ask: “God tells us to come out of Babylon, so why do we have to repent, and what must we repent of?”

Read the 2nd and 3rd chapters of Revelation and you will know of what we are to repent, if you have been given eyes to see and ears to hear. What you will read in the second and third chapters is what makes God’s own people the great harlot of Rev 17 and 18. It is in God’s own church that we “lose our first love, allow the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews when they don’t even know what is a Jew, but are the synagogue of Satan.

It is in the orthodox Christian church that Satan has his “seat” or as the Greek has it, his ‘throne.’ It is in the church that we have the “doctine of Baalam who seduced Israel to commit fornication, and to “eat things offered to idols.”

In the church is “that prophetess Jezebel who does the exact same things Balaam does. Jezebel “teach[ es] and to seduce[ s] my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.” The “depths of Satan” are right in the middle of God’s own people according to this warning. If God has granted you “eyes to see and ears to hear”, then you will know that God’s orthodox church “has a name that it lives but in reality it is dead”.

To sum it all up, God’s church does indeed do and accomplish many wonderful works, all of which are named right alongside all of these sins. But when it is all said and done, God’s orthodox Christian church is neither cold nor hot. God prefers that we be either cold or hot, consequently He has spued His own church out of His mouth.

Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 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:

These are the works in God’s church for which we must all repent. If we can’t even see that this is our state, then as Christ told the church in His day, “they that are well do not need a physician.” “Why do we have to repent, and what must we repent of?” The first thing we need to repent of is our blinded condition. But only those who have been “given… eyes to see” can even see their blind condition. I pray that you can see your blindness and can see and hear what the spirit says to the chuches:

Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Rev 2:28 And I will give him the morning star. Rev 2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rev 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [ which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [ I will write upon him] my new name.
Rev 3:13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

These are great and precious promises made to “he that overcomes.” The orthodox Christian church is the largest religion on the face of the earth. They all have physical eyes and physical ears. But it is few indeed who have ears to “hear what the spirit saith unto the churches.” I hope you are just such a person, and that this has answered your question “why do we have to repent, and what must we repent of?”

Mike