6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

ANCIENT BABYLON

Flee out of the midst of Babylon; "Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up to the skies."—(Jer. 51:6, 9, 45.)

MODERN BABYLON

Come out of her my people, for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.—(Rev. 18:5.)

20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

Yahweh Tz'vaoth hath sworn by himself

...when the Lord appears in his little kingdom of Judea, he will undertake to deliver every Israelite in bondage, establish David's kingdom to its full extent, overturn all kingdoms and dominions among the Gentiles, abolish all their superstitions, enlighten them in the truth, and bring them to submit to him joyfully as their lawgiver, high priest, and king. He will begin this mighty enterprize with Judah for

"he hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle. And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded" (Zech. 10:3-5).

"And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God. In that day," saith the Lord, "I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left" (Zech. 12:6).

Such is the illustration of their prowess. The nations shall be as wood, or as sheaves, subjected to the action of fire. They may resist, but they are as certain of being subdued without further power of resistance as a lighted torch thrust into a sheaf of grain is of consuming it so that nothing be left.

"They shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of their feet" (Mal. 4:3).

Their conquests will begin with the countries contiguous to Judea. For when the Assyrian

shall invade their land, the judge of Israel having caused him to fall,

"Judah shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof, thus shall he "that is to be ruler in Israel" deliver them from the Assyrian when he cometh into their land, and when he treadeth within their borders. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord" (Mic. 5:1-7).

Having thus conquered the land which God promised to Abraham and his seed for an everlasting possession, and made Judah as a bent bow in the hand of the king, the next thing is for the Lord to fill it with Ephraim as his arrow-headed weapon of war (Zec.9:12-16). In other words,

"the Lord will seek to destroy all the nations that came against Jerusalem" (Zech. 12:9)

under the banner of Gogue; and to accomplish this so as at the same time to bring back the ten tribes to the land of Canaan, he will cause Judah to make war upon Greece, and blow the trumpet to war against the ten kingdoms of the habitable, and the populations of the west among whom "the remnant of Jacob" is dispersed.

These scattered tribes will have been "hissed for" or invited to leave the lands of their oppressors, and to make common cause with Judah. They will respond to the invitation; and as

"the arrow of the Lord they will go forth as lightning; and they shall devour and subdue" (Zech. 9:14-16).

"And they shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine. And I will bring them, saith the Lord, again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and Ephraim shall pass through the sea with affliction and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down; and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away" (Zech. 10:7-11; Isaiah 11:15,16).

Elpis Israel 3.6.

In Zech. 4. the prophet, after the angel had

"waked him, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep;"

that is, after he had been figuratively raised from among the dead; he saw in a vision a Lamp with Seven Burners, Two Olive Trees, and Two Olive Branches; the last being representatives of

"the Two Anointed Ones that stand before the Ruler (Adon) of all the earth."

This was the Spirit of the Only Potentate, organized and manifested, in the Sons of God; that is, in the Saints, subsequently to their resurrection, or

"awakening as a man waking out of his sleep;"

and styled by Yahweh in the sixth verse of the chapter, "My Spirit," upon the principle, that

"that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

Now, while the prophet was contemplating this symbolical representation of Yahweh's Spirit in manifestation, he heard the Angel say,

"This is the word of Yahweh unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, said Yahweh of armies. Who art thou, O Great Mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain, even to cause to go forth the Head Stone with acclamations of Grace, grace unto him."

In hearing this, the attention of the prophet was directed to a great crisis, which may be termed, the Fall of Gentile Dominion, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God.

...The "Great Mountain" is named, and its reduction to "a plain" is declared; but no particulars concerning it had been revealed in the vision. We proceed, then, to remark in illustration of the subject that contemporary with the times of Zechariah, the great Gentile dominion that dominated Jerusalem and Judah and all the rest of "the Earth" from India to Ethiopia, being one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, under the three presidencies, or

"ribs in the mouth and between the teeth of it;" (Dan. 7:5.)

was that of the Bear under the dynasty of Darius the Persian. Zechariah knew from Daniel, that this was not the "Great Mountain" to be destroyed before Zerubbabel, but by the Leopard power that would succeed it. He also knew from Jeremiah, and the history of his own times, that the Lion, standing upon its feet, with a man's heart, was not the constitution of the Mountain Power under which it is to

"become a plain before Zerubbabel."

This Lion-manifestation of the great mountain had passed away before Zerubbabel had become Governor of Jerusalem. Yahweh had said concerning the Chaldean Babylon that had done evil to Zion in the days of Jeremiah,

"Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Yahweh, which destroyest all the earth, and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a Burnt Mountain. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolations of an Olahm, saith Yahweh." Jer. 51:25, 26.

In this decree was the sentence which has been practically illustrated for the past 2400 years. From the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, the Chaldeans and their city began to decline, until the two have ceased to have any more existence socially, politically or architecturally, than if they had never been.

The site of the old city of Nimrod on the Euphrates is literally "a burnt mountain"—a mound of ruins made by fire; and a type of the dominion peculiar to the Chaldee race and dynasty, in all the countries where they formerly ruled in power and great glory.

Architecturally, a stone of the ruins has not been taken for the corner and foundations of any new edifices; nor has a Chaldean by his own prowess, nor by the voice of a people, been made the corner, or foundation stone of a new political institution. This is what has not been known for 2400 years; and the prophecy decrees the continuance of the same condition without limit, in saying to the Burnt Mountain,

"desolations of an Olahm shalt thou be, saith Yahweh"

—an Olahm which began with the building of Babel, and ended with the fall of Belshazzar, Lucifer Son of the Dawn, who was hurled from the heavens by Yahweh's "sanctified ones," the Medes and Persians under Cyrus his Anointed Shepherd.—Isa. 13:14: 44:28, 45:1–4.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, June 1858

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.

MODERN BABYLON

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great mill-stone, 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. 18:21.)

The Christadelphian, Nov 1872

Jeremiah's prophecy in writing against Babylon was bound to a stone and cast into the Euphrates... she sank from the rank of the Queen of the Nations, the capital of the greatest power of the world, to a city without power, and at length without inhabitants, and to such extreme desolation that no material for building should be found upon her site, as at this day (verse 26).

...More than two thousand years have elapsed since this decree was registered. In all that time she has never risen, nor will she ever rise again "she shall be desolate forever"

The Chaldean Babylon was brought to ruin for its sins against Yahweh in making his temple desolate, oppressing Israel, and intoxicating the nations.

Eureka 18.6.