Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, we come today to the next-to-last message in our look at the Bible’s Big Picture. We have traced the theme of dwelling in God’s presence from the garden through the exile and then the Incarnation and outpouring of the Spirit. We have seen that at the beginning God scattered people away from Babylon so that they would not succeed in attaining Heaven without His help. Now, at the end, we see that once more and climactically He scatters and destroys Babylon — for the same reason. You see, brothers and sisters, our God is so intent on dwelling with His people forever that He jealously destroys any possible rival for their affections. The biggest and baddest of those rivals is described in Revelation 17-18. It is described as a woman who is a city, a woman who is a clever parody of the true church but is really a faithless whore. Not only does she represent the power and allure of false religion, however. She also stands for the power and allure of wealth. This woman is involved in all kinds of global trade and economic activity. In short, we see here that the twin allurements of false religion and wealth will both be destroyed by our jealous God so that He can unite us to Himself. The best way to describe this union is by looking to marriage. God wants to take us, the church, as His bride, and to do so He will utterly obliterate all that competes with Him for our affections and all that tries to be for humanity what only He can be.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
