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Crosswalk.com's Spiritual Life Channel at: http://spiritual.crosswalk.com ----------- T O D A Y G O D I S F I R S T Marketplace Meditations by Os Hillman Coming Out of Babylon ..."Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins, sso that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes." - (Revelation 18:4) There is a day when God is going to judge the system of Babylon around the world. What is Babylon? Babylon is a system of doing business. The stronghold of the marketplace is mammon and pride. Dependence on money and misplaced trust are at the core of a Babylonian philosophy of life. Revelation 18 describes a time when God will judge this Babylonian system. It is the one place that we see a system destroyed in one day, even one hour. I do not believe Babylon is a particular city, but a world system. "Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her" (Rev. 18:8a). "Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come!" (Rev. 18:10b). As Christian businesspeople we are called to acknowledge the signs of the times. When the Soviet Union fell, many knew it was going to happen because they could recognize the signs of the times. God has a way of shaking things up. These shakings force us to determine who and what we will place our trust in. God says that we are to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Mt. 22:37). Are you still living in Babylon in the way you do business? If so, expect to share in the sins of Babylon when God decides to judge her. Ask God to show you where you might be operating in a "Babylonian" system of work. ----------- This daily devotional is published and distributed by Crosswalk.com. It is written by Os Hillman, president of Marketplace Leaders, located in Atlanta, GA. His email address is <os@marketplaceleaders.org<. For more articles and books by Os Hillman you may visit his web site at http://www.marketplaceleaders.org. Additional devotionals are available from Crosswalk.com: <http://devotionals.crosswalk.com<; ----------- To read the Current Feature Story from ReligionToday, go to http://religiontoday.crosswalk.com/CurrentFeatureStory/ For today's complete News Summary from ReligionToday, go to http://religiontoday.crosswalk.com/CurrentNewsSummary/ ----------- For Copyright Terms go to http://www.crosswalk.com/info/copyright Published and distributed by Crosswalk.com, this daily devotional is written by Os Hillman (os@marketplaceleaders.org). Os is president of Marketplace Leaders, an Atlanta based ministry teaching Biblical principles for career and business success. He offers a FREE newsletter and other resources at: http://www.marketplaceleaders.org Order "TGIF: Today God I s First" - 365 daily meditations to motivate and inspire for $17 for TGIF subscribers. Click here to order: http://www.marketplaceleaders.org/displayroom/skudetail.nhtml?uid=10055 To support Os Hillman & Marketplace Leaders , click: https://nhf.org/applications/donate.htm?FDN=Marketplace%2BLeaders Mail: 3520 Habersham Club Drive, Cumming, Georgia 30041 USA. ____________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO_______________________ * You subscribed to Marketplace Meditations as: < jeff.king@enron.com < * To unsubscribe from this newsletter immediately, click here: < http://link.crosswalk.com/UM/U.ASP?A3.12.261895 < If that link is not clickable, simply copy and paste it into your browser window. * To change your address: unsubscribe your old address and then subscribe your new address. * To subscribe, send an email to: < SUBSCRIBE-marketplace@lists.crosswalk.com < or go to < http://www.crosswalk.com/lists < for a complete list of our newsletters. * Copyright ? 2001 Crosswalk.com, Inc. and its Content Providers. All rights reserved. ____________________________________________________________
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