By Pastor Flemons
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Rev. 14:8 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.
Here’s a quotation that you will probably never hear anywhere else.
“We are in danger of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing our churches to become corrupted, and filled with every foul spirit, a cage for every unclean and hateful bird; and will we be clear unless we make decided movements to cure the existing evil?” Manuscript 21 p. 380
In this recorded message, Pastor Flemons proves that any church can fall and become a part of Babylon. All of the Stanton letters, which tell us not to call the church Babylon, had clarifiers. If an organization does not meet the conditions of the clarifiers, we cannot say that it can never become Babylon. The operative word in the quotation above is “allowing.” How was the church in danger of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon? It was in danger of “allowing” the church to become corrupted.
It would be antithetical to the principles of Protestantism to teach that a church organization could not fall under any circumstances. The statement above proves that keeping Sunday and teaching that the soul is immortal are not the only criterion that makes a church become part of Babylon. It can “allow” corruption.
There will always be a faithful people; and therefore it can be said that God’s true church will never become Babylon. This is true of faithful people, but cannot be applied to an organization.
In conclusion, Pastor Flemons is not declaring that the SDA organization is Babylon. However, he is warning us not be led into carnal security that no matter what it does, says, and decides, that it can never become a part of Babylon. This is Protestantism. Please listen to the message to get the rest of the story.