One more thing before we leave this particular section. There is probably no more irreligious group on the face of the earth than the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Yet, in the mix of things somehow or another, Sodom and Abraham, who are poles apart, end up on the same side against the Babylonians and Assyrians. You know what? That is really not all that as strange as it seems at first look.
. . . Babylon of the worldly religious people, the Chaldeans. There is nobody that has counterfeited the truth of God any more closely than the Babylonian’s. Virtually every doctrine of the Christian church has been counterfeited by them and has been put, with a slight twist on it, into a body of beliefs that makes up the Christian religions of this world. Now, who is the great whore associated with? Sodom? No, it is associated with Babylon. Notice who it was that was bringing the persecution on Abraham’s family and who Abraham went to war with. It was not the almost totally irreligious Canaanites, it was the worldly religious Babylonian Assyrians.
Now when Jesus came, who was it that brought the persecution against Him? Again, it was the religious of the world, the Pharisees. It was not the publicans and sinners, it was not the sodomites. No, it was the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the religious people of the world. It is going to be that way again when [unclear]. Well that is not so strange, that is the way it has always been.