And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Revelation 18:2
"Charles Fitch, a Millerite preacher, said it best in his call to the Christian churches.
Fitch was the first person to apply the term “Babylon” to both Rome and the fallen Protestant churches in 1843.
May these words reverberate in Adventist pulpits around the world because in times of great crisis there have always appeared preachers of righteousness who did not hesitate to proclaim the pure word of God:
"Charles Fitch, a Millerite preacher, said it best in his call to the Christian churches. Fitch was the first person to apply the term “Babylon” to both Rome and the fallen Protestant churches in 1843.
May these words reverberate in Adventist pulpits around the world because in times of great crisis there have always appeared preachers of righteousness who did not hesitate to proclaim the pure word of God:
AdventMessenger“But I do say, if you are a Christian, come out of Babylon! If you intend to be found a Christian when Christ appears, come out of Babylon, and come out Now! Throw away that miserable medley of ridiculous spiritualizing nonsense with which multitudes have so long been making the word of God of none effect, and dare to believe the Bible. It contains the wisdom of the infinite God as it is, and needs no alterations and emendations from men, as though they could tell what God means, better than He has been able to express it in his own language.” (Charles Fitch, Millerite preacher, 1843 “Come Out of Her My People”)."