Page 24 - The Road from Babylon to Zion

Chapter 3 - Ambushed Outside the Gates of Babylon

I had barely exited Babylon when I was met with the first ambush of Satan. I
encountered some brothers and sisters who had also come out of Babylon, but they
had fallen into a snare of the enemy, and to this date I don’t know whether they have
escaped. But let me back up and give a few details leading up to this encounter.

My own departure from Babylon was very painful. The Father had told me to stand
in faith in some matters and to also defend some foundational principles relating to
the government of God among the flock of which I was a minister. This stand of faith,
and stand upon the principles of Yahweh’s kingdom, brought me into conflict with
the other ministers and their wives. People who I had once shared intimately with,
prayed with, fellowshipped with, broken bread with, and had walked in love with,
began to call my actions and motives into question.

I was accused of very base motivations, of being prideful and arrogant, of being a
gold digger, of being unloving and lacking compassion. All of this antagonism arose
because I was urging others to stand in faith and because I was teaching the
scriptural principles of divine government.

I experienced some very painful times and they culminated in an elders’ meeting one
Sunday after services where I was rejected by the consensus of the other ministers,
and I was put out of my place of ministry. The words spoken to me during this
meeting were unkind and filled with anger and venom. They were not words of love
between friends.

Even though the Father had prepared me for this moment by telling me that it would
happen, it was still a painful experience and one which left me wounded in my
emotions. I have since found that this is typical of the manner in which many of the
saints have departed from Babylon, and it can make the saint susceptible to an
ambush of Satan if they do not choose to put on a heart of forgiveness and love
toward those who have wounded them. Only a few weeks after being put out of the
fellowship of which I had been a part, I encountered some saints through the
Internet who had also experienced separations, yet they had left with bitterness and
they wanted to entice others to share in expressions of anger, denouncement, and
reviling towards Babylon.

I am not sure how I came across the website of which I speak, but I was initially
drawn to it because of some insights of the Web page’s creator. In many ways this
brother had been given insight into the separation that is occurring among the
children of God in this day. He had some thoughtful teaching, and he created a
forum where people could gather and discuss topics relating to the work of God in