Chapter 11: The Exodus Begins in Your Mind
You're not leaving God. You're finding Him.
You're not abandoning faith. You're purifying it.
You're not losing church. You're becoming it.
The hardest part of leaving Babylon isn't the physical act. It's the mental shift that must happen first.
You've been trained (conditioned through years of tradition, social pressure, theological education, and family expectations) to believe that leaving your Sunday church means leaving Christianity itself.
It doesn't.
Revelation 18:4 commands:
"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
"My people" are still in Babylon when God calls them out. You can be God's child while still attending a fallen church. The understanding changes what you're willing to participate in.
The exodus begins in your mind.
Mental Exodus: Five Steps
Step 1: Recognize the Deception
You can't leave what you don't see as wrong.
For years, maybe decades, you attended Sunday church, believed Trinity, trusted your pastor, sang contemporary worship, read your NIV or ESV, never questioned. Why would you? Everyone around you did the same.
But now you've read the evidence:
- Sunday has no biblical command (Chapter 2)
- The Roman Catholic Church admits they changed it (Chapter 3)
- The prophesied power did exactly this (Chapters 4-5)
- The Sabbath marks the remnant (Chapter 5)
- The thread survived through martyrs (Chapter 8)
- The 1,260 years proved it mathematically (Chapter 9)
You can't un-see this.
The recognition stage feels like grief. You're mourning what you thought was true. Your church wasn't teaching biblical Christianity. It was teaching baptized paganism.
Let yourself feel it. Anger, betrayal, confusion, and loss are all normal. You've been deceived. Admitting that doesn't make you weak. It makes you honest.
Step 2: Accept Biblical Truth
Recognition isn't enough. The movement is from "I see the deception" to "I accept God's truth regardless of cost."
This is where most people stall.
They see the evidence. They admit Sunday isn't biblical. They acknowledge the Roman Catholic Church changed it. They understand the prophecy. They even agree the Sabbath matters.
But they don't act.
Why? Because accepting truth demands obedience. And obedience has consequences.
"If ye love me, keep my commandments."
Jesus didn't say "understand my commandments" or "appreciate my commandments." He said keep them.
Accepting biblical truth means:
- Saturday is the Sabbath, so I will keep it
- Sunday is the Roman Catholic Church's mark
- The remnant keeps commandments, so I will join them
- I will study Scripture directly, not through tradition's filter
Acceptance is active, not passive. You don't just agree intellectually. You commit to obey.
Step 3: Count the Cost
Jesus warned:
"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?"
Count the cost before you leave. Don't romanticize it. Leaving Babylon will cost you.
What you'll lose:
- Fellowship: Your Sunday church friends will think you're deceived, legalistic, or cult-influenced
- Family approval: Christian relatives will pressure you to "come back to church"
- Social events: Church activities, small groups, potlucks, ministries you were involved in
- Pastor's guidance: You're on your own to study Scripture, no more spoon-fed sermons
- Institutional support: No church programs, no denominational resources, no seminary-trained teachers
- Theological comfort: You're now holding positions most Christians reject
- Belonging: You were part of something big; now you're part of a scattered remnant
What you'll gain:
- Truth: You're obeying God, not tradition
- Freedom: No more cognitive dissonance between Bible and practice
- Sabbath rest: Actual rest, not Sunday busyness
- Clear conscience: You're not partaking in Babylon's sins
- Prophetic identity: You're the remnant of Revelation 12:17
- Direct relationship: You and God, no intermediary institution
- Eternal reward: You kept His commandments when most wouldn't
If you're not willing to lose family approval, you're not ready. If you can't handle being called a legalist, you're not ready. If being doctrinally alone in your circle will break you, you're not ready.
Step 4: Make the Decision
The decision: Leaving Babylon. Keeping the Sabbath. Joining the remnant.
"How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him."
Elijah didn't let Israel "pray about it." He demanded decision.
You've read the evidence. You know Sunday is the Roman Catholic Church's mark. You know Sabbath is God's seal. You know Revelation 18:4 commands "come out."
Decide.
Once a decision is made, doubt loses power. Pressure, questions, and loneliness will come. But the decision becomes an anchor.
Physical Exodus: Five Actions
Mental exodus prepares you. Physical exodus completes it.
Action 1: Stop Attending Babylon
Your last Sunday attendance is a marker. After this, you're out.
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."
"Come out" and "be separate" are commands, not suggestions.
If people ask why:
- "I'm convicted to keep the seventh-day Sabbath"
- "I can't worship on Sunday anymore knowing it's the Roman Catholic Church's change"
- "I'm following Revelation 18:4: 'Come out of her, my people'"
You don't owe them more than that.
Action 2: Begin Sabbath Keeping
The same week you stop attending Sunday church, begin keeping Sabbath.
Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. Every week. No exceptions (except life-threatening emergency).
Chapter 12 covers the practical details.
You're not keeping Sabbath to earn salvation. You're keeping it because God commanded it, and you love Him.
"If ye love me, keep my commandments."
Sabbath-keeping is obedience, not legalism.
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Action 3: Find or Build Remnant Fellowship
You can't do this alone forever. And yes, I know what objection you're thinking:
"But Hebrews 10:25 says don't forsake the assembling. Doesn't that mean I should stay in my church?"
"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
The verse says don't forsake assembling. It doesn't say "stay in a church that teaches error." Leaving Babylon isn't forsaking assembly. It's leaving a false assembly to find a true one.
The verse actually strengthens the urgency: "so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." The end is near. You need fellowship with people who keep God's commandments, not fellowship that makes you comfortable in disobedience.
Leaving Babylon isn't forsaking assembly. It's obeying Revelation 18:4 ("Come out of her, my people") so you can assemble with the remnant.
But here's the warning: Don't use "I can't find a Sabbath-keeping church" as an excuse to become a hermit. Isolation is spiritually dangerous. If you can't find local fellowship, connect online. Drive two hours once a month. Start a home study with one other person. Matthew 18:20 says "where two or three are gathered." That's enough to start.
You need remnant fellowship, not Babylon fellowship. Sabbath-keeping groups exist: online, local, and home-based. Some are more doctrinally sound than others. God honors faithfulness even in isolation.
Action 4: Share Truth with Others
You can't force anyone to accept truth. But you can offer it.
"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
Most won't listen. Some will. That's enough.
Action 5: Prepare for Persecution
Jesus promised:
"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you."
You will be opposed. Not might be--will be.
Expect:
- Family rejection: Parents may disown you, spouses may leave, children may rebel
- Social isolation: Friends will distance themselves
- Economic pressure: Sabbath-keeping costs jobs (some employers fire Saturday workers)
- Theological attacks: Pastors will call you deceived, legalistic, cult-influenced
- Spiritual warfare: Satan doesn't attack lukewarm Christians; he attacks obedient ones
Persecution proves you're doing something right. If everyone approves, you're probably compromising.
"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
"All" does not mean "some" or "most." If you're not being opposed, check whether you're actually being obedient.
The Exodus Is Worth It
Leaving Babylon is the hardest decision you'll make.
It costs friends, family, comfort, belonging, and approval.
But staying in Babylon costs your soul.
"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
God calls you out for two reasons:
- So you don't partake in her sins (participating in false worship)
- So you don't receive her plagues (judgment falling on Babylon)
The exodus is worth it.
You're trading lies for truth, tradition for commandment, approval of man for approval of God.
And when Jesus returns, you'll be among the remnant identified in Revelation 12:17:
"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
You'll be standing with those who kept the commandments when the world didn't.
The exodus begins in your mind.
Questions to Answer
If all who live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution (2 Timothy 3:12), and you're experiencing no opposition for your beliefs, does that indicate obedience or compromise?
Everyone who takes truth seriously faces resistance. Prophets were stoned. Apostles were martyred. Reformers were burned. If your Christianity costs you nothing socially, financially, or relationally, what does that reveal about whether you're actually keeping God's commandments or just conforming to cultural religion?
What's staying in Babylon worth if Revelation promises her plagues will fall on all who remain?
You can keep your comfortable church, your approving family, your theological traditions. But Revelation 18:4 warns that staying means partaking in her sins and receiving her plagues. Is temporary comfort worth eternal judgment? When did God ever reward those who chose ease over obedience?
If the Israelites had to physically leave Egypt to be saved, why would your exodus be only intellectual and not require leaving false religious systems?
God commanded literal departure from Egypt, not "stay in Pharaoh's system and just think differently." Lot had to physically leave Sodom. Noah entered the ark. Abraham left Ur. When has God's call to separation ever allowed you to remain embedded in the condemned system while claiming mental exemption?
If family and friends reject you for keeping God's commandments, whose approval are you actually seeking?
Jesus said He came to set father against son, mother against daughter (Matthew 10:34-37). He warned that a man's foes would be those of his own household. Paul was rejected by his Pharisee peers. If your obedience doesn't cost relationships, are you obeying at the level that tests allegiance, or just at the level that's socially acceptable?