Ellen G. White and Her Critics

Babylon and Probation’s Close

The context immediately suggests that Babylon represents a religious organization, for God’s people are commanded to “come out of her.” The classic Protestant position is that Babylon represents a religious body, Rome. The Millerite movement in general took the position still held by Seventh-day Adventists and some others, that Babylon finally comes to include, not only Rome, but all apostate Protestantism as it refuses to advance in the light that God has revealed. The one point we here wish to make is that the Bible teaches that in the days just preceding the Second Advent some class or group described as Babylon will fall and come under the fearful judgment that God reserves for those who have forfeited grace. EGWC 208.5