heavenly bread;
I'll never go back, I'll never go back.

"The beast and his image, his mark, and his name,
My love or allegiance no longer can claim,
Though men may exalt them to honor and fame;
I'll never go back again."

The prophecies already cited make clear a mighty religious movement
before the end of time, a movement designed to triumph over the
apostasy. Since the apostasy was twofold in its nature, comprehending
a corruption of evangelical faith and the development of
ecclesiasticism, it is evident that the Last Reformation must both
restore primitive truth and eliminate ecclesiasticism, thus bringing
back to the world the original conception of the church as embracing
the whole divine family under the direct moral and spiritual dominion
of Christ. It is also evident from the prophecies that this is to be
accomplished by literally forsaking the systems of man-rule just
as ancient Israel was restored after the captivity by God's people
leaving Babylon and coming home to Zion.

Zion represents the church in its primitive, unified condition under
the government and law of Christ alone. Babylon represents a foreign
rule and another law. The two systems are fundamentally different.
This difference was true in the type and must therefore be true in
the antitype. In the old days of Israel's glory foreigners visited
Jerusalem, but their presence in the city of God did not make them
Israelites. And at one time the people of God were carried into
captivity in Babylon, but their presence in that foreign, heathen city
_did not make them Babylonians_.

This distinction is also clear in the antitypical relation. We do not
have to go to prophetic symbols to find in the New Testament clear
predictions of the rise of a false Christianity in opposition to the
true. They stand out in marked contrast in the prophecy. On the one
side there is a false religious system described as a beast power
reigning. On the other side is placed in contrast a company that have
gotten the victory over the beast and over his image and over his
mark, and they stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. The
mother of harlots appears, but in contrast therewith is seen a pure
woman, the bride of Christ. In contrast with Babylon we have Zion.

The sect system, wherein ecclesiasticism reigns and where the full
truth in all its purity can not be taught and practised, does not
represent the true church, but Babylon. The syste