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Originally Posted by aron
As you judge others, so are you judged.
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This is an interesting shorthand of an oft-quoted snippet. Unfortunately, something I recently heard seems to have captured the spirit of this particular phrase best.
The point is not as is often said, that you should not judge, but that you should judge righteously. (And it is quite possible that this is exactly what you meant to say here.) If you judge righteously and are, yourself, righteous, then you should be able to withstand righteous judgment. But if you judge unrighteously, expect that you will also be judged in the same manner and, consistent with most cases of unrighteousness, fall.
Of course unrighteousness is exactly the kind of judgment that WL and his remains have been judging the Christian community with for so many years now. They have called Christians and their gatherings whores, mooing cows, fallen, reprobate, etc. They declare that they are all part of the same church, but that church is only the one that they attend (the LRC) and not any other (those were Nee's words in
The Orthodoxy of the Church, about 9 paragraphs from the end).
As for the comments about Babylon, it would seem that if Babylon is a legitimate type, it is of a worldly system that is opposed to God and God's people. It is not and was never associated with God in any way shape, or form. It
was used as a means of discipline for wayward Judah, but it did not escape discipline itself for its part, being overrun by the Persians who eventually allowed the Jews their freedom.
No, Babylon is not a legitimate type for anything related to Christianity or the church. Babylon would be among the places from which people escape to become Christian, not the place the Christians go to congregate and escape their duty to God.
But there is another place where Christians can (and sometime do) go. That place is Laodicea. That is where they go to declare that they alone have received the best that God has to offer and that others have not. They are the kind that are enamored with remnant theology and recovery. Enamored with the idea that they have discovered what almost 20 centuries of Christians have failed to understand. That have found the decoder ring that makes red into grey and yellow into white (and, of course, they are the ones who decide which is right and which is an illusion).