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“Ancient Babylon was noted for its wickedness and cruelty among the peoples that it dominated. Therefore, it became a symbol of the wicked world of its day. The Lord uses it in revelation to typify our modern world.” (DCC, 289.) He defined the “midst of wickedness” as “spiritual Babylon” (D&C 133:14). The name Babylon is of Greek origin and signifies “confusion.” Those who choose citizenship in Babylon, loving the ways of the world in preference to the light of the Lord, are “walking in darkness at noon-day” (D&C 95:6). Is this not confusion and folly? The plea to come forth out of Babylon (D&C 133:5, 7, 14) is the clarion call to modern Israel to escape from the Babylonian bondage of wickedness to the freedom and light of the gospel of Jesus Christ (D&C 45:9; 50:24; 88:86).Share
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