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At the Savior’s second coming, “all the proud . . . and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble” (Malachi 4:1) because, the Lord declared, “I will not spare any that remain in Babylon” (D&C 64:24). After the inhabitants of Judah, the southern kingdom, were taken captive by armies of the Babylonian Empire (about 605–598 b.c.), the empire’s capital city, Babylon, was figuratively used in scripture to mean the corrupt world that is ruled and influenced by Satan. The inhabitants of this symbolic worldly city are described as those who “seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world” (D&C 1:16). Therefore, the Lord declares, “Go ye out from among the nations, even from Babylon, from the midst of wickedness, which is spiritual Babylon” (D&C 133:14; see also Revelation 18:4–5).— LDS Beliefs
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