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(Revelation 18:4-5) A call to God’s people to separate from Babylon. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
18:4-5 I heard another voice from heaven saying: "Come out, my people, from her, lest you become partners in her sins, and lest you share in her plagues, because her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteous deeds."
Revelation 18:4. συνκοινωνήσατε ταῖς ἀμαρτίαις Participation both in the sins, i.e., in the guilt, and in the punishment, is, however, expressly mentioned. As Ebrard and Hengstenberg note, there is an explicit antithesis between ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις and τῶν πληγῶν. Besides, where there is no ...
David Guzik commentary on Revelation 18, where God calls out to His people to separate form Babylon who is left desolate and powerless.
Revelation 18:4 is God's exhortation to the churches to shun the treacherous beauty and charm of this theological and political prostitute, Babylon. God uses very specific wording in His description of her in Revelation 17, calling her a harlot or prostitute. A prostitute can have beauty and charm.
Rev. 18:4-5. The plagues that will strike Jerusalem will come after her sins have piled to the heavens. Specifically, under the rule of the Beast, the fallen city will direct the martyrdom of all those who maintain their testimony of Jesus in events known as the Great Tribulation (see Chapter 13).
Professing Christian merchants in her lived as if this world not heaven, were the reality, and were unscrupulous as to the means of getting gain. Compare Notes, see on JF & B for Zec 5:4-11, on the same subject, the judgment on mystical Babylon's merchants for unjust gain.
