Revelation 18:4 And I heard
another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and
God hath remembered her iniquities. 6
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 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. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,
death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for
strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Persecution, early as per the
account in Acts, and divine revelation late according to Eusebius, drove the
Christians from Jerusalem before the destruction of the temple during the
general, and future Roman emperor, Titus’s siege and conquest during the
rebellion of the Jews in 70AD. But here is another declaration of the
translation of the church as I have reported in my comments on chapter 4 was
held by many early church leaders as happening before the terrible destruction
to come. God’s people are removed.
Notice for verse 7, this cross
reference.
Isaiah 47:1 ¶ Come down, and sit
in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no
throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender
and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and
grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over
the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be
uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not
meet thee as a man. 4 As for our
redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people,
I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst
shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
7 ¶ And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever:
so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember
the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear
now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that
sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a
widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a
moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon
thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great
abundance of thine enchantments. 10 For
thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom
and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I
am, and none else beside me. 11
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it
riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it
off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thine enchantments,
and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy
youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy
counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire
shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou
hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one
to his quarter; none shall save thee.
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