2nd Angel's Message - "Wine" & "Fornication"

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 14:8

II. "Wine" & "Fornication"

"The Bible declares that before the coming of the Lord, Satan will work ‘with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness;’ and they that ‘received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved,’ will be left to receive ‘strong delusion, that they should believe a lie’ 

(2 Thessalonians 2:9–11). 

Not until this condition shall be reached, and the union of the church with the world shall be fully accomplished throughout Christendom, will the fall of Babylon be complete.

The second of God’s messages strongly opposes a religion of compromise. Revelation 17 depicts spiritual Babylon—apostate Christianity—as an immoral woman (verses 1-5). She stands in contrast to the pure woman of Revelation 12 who represents the true Christian church.

The “wine” represents false teachings that do not follow the Bible.

The “fornication” represents the Christian church forming beliefs and philosophies based on human ideas and traditions rather than on God’s Word. It attempts to force these false teachings upon others through an alliance of the secular government and the church. 

God calls people to “come out” of Babylon (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. Revelation 18:4)--- He asks us to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12).

The second angel’s message is a message from God that warns against all humanly-originated forms of worship and beliefs that are not based completely on God’s Word."

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