There are principles in the Bible that the Apostle Paul understood. Principles like the fact that God caused the Bible to be written so that only sincere honest people seeking him for the truth can understand it. It was written line upon line, line upon line; precept upon precept, precept upon precept; so that people otherwise will fall and be broken snared and taken. Yeshua (Jesus) told parables for the same reason; because to the one group it is given to understand and to some it is not. This has nothing to do with how much zeal you have for your beliefs. You can be sincerely wrong and hold unto things that make no sense. That has happen to many in the various professing churches for generations. This was predicted by both Paul and Peter, how so much of the professing Churches would turn their ears away from the truth to FABLES, by which THEY would cause the real truth to be routinely evil spoken of.


Many of you are keenly aware of how the Apostle Paul indicated that a lot of what is reported in the Bible represents the Old and New covenants.  Now the Apostle Paul did not just make up something to SPIRITUALIZE it like many do today in order to make up a sermon. It means that the stories like that of Ishmael vs Isaac; and Esau vs Jacob was intended by God to predict or show as shadow pictures what was going to be in the future. Yet when you read the words of the story before the New Testament came about, hardly anyone would have known it before the time that it was revealed.

There is an interesting Parable in chapter 23 of the Book of Ezekiel. It tells the story about two women called in King James language, Aholah and Aholibah.  It is not just what they did but even their names indicate the two covenants.
1. AHOLAH means (Her tabernacle)
2. AHOLIBAH means (My Tabernacle is in her)

Yes I know like the examples the Apostle use, the wording also fits the day and time in which it was written. Samaria was separated from Judah and set up their own places to worship in which they set up calves and worshipped Baal and Easter. And Jerusalem had the Temple of God. 

Yet Yeshua (Jesus) brought us an understanding that it is the People of the Body of Christ who are in fact the TEMPLE of God. As it is written, I will live in them and walk in them. But we know also that Mystery Babylon is associated with the Church in the last days.  And that God is pictured as calling his people out of Mystery Babylon. That is out of the doctrines that these two women learned in Egypt and Babylon. The professing churches are full of the doctrines from these places but like ancient Israelites, they feel that because they mean well it will be ok. Well, if it was ok, God would not have sent the Israelites into exile; nor would he have to call professing church members out of Babylon in the last days.


Now you can read all of Ezekiel 23, about Aholah and Aholibah but here I will present only a portion of what was said to the second and last woman, Aholibah; whose name means My Tabernacle is in her.


EZEKIEL CHAPTER 23:
11     ¶ And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. 
12     She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 
13     Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 
14     And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 
15     Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 
16     And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. 
17     And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 
18     So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. 

IT HAS BECOME popular for people to claim that the USA is Mystery Babylon. Although the USA like many nations in history has played the harlot, Mystery Babylon is pictures as riding the 4^th beast of Rome's Seven Revivals (7 heads). She is the little horn that arises after the 4^th Kingdom is wounded, and is from then on exercising all the power of the first iteration of the beast. It is in charge and thus has the power of church and state. Thus it could not be America. It persecuted the church (the inquisition) and will persecute one final time leading the final and seventh head. All her daughters that have come out of her are vying to get back together with her. As it is written that she says, I will not know the lost of my children (the Protestants) and will not be a widow (will remarry the beast and have temporal power). If in fact it appears that God allowed people to use America as a place (not the wilderness of the people) but a real wilderness where people separated this church / state power; and it became a refuge for freedom of worship.