March 21.
Flirting And Fiddling

Revelation 14:8

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Babylon is fallen. Whenever the Bible talks about Babylon in the New Testament, it is actually talking about the condemnation of the world. Babylon is considered as being the world. Babylon the great city is fallen because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of fornication which means fiddling and flirting with the world. It is the idea of a street woman or a prostitute walking the street, wearing a short dress, looking in cars, licking out her tongue. Along comes a family man just trying to live a life that will be pleasing in the sight of God, ambushed by the unexpected. This sister sees him and gets his attention, enticing him to turn aside. She starts off by giving him a sip of wine. He gets to grinning and laughing, enjoying the festivity. She pours him a little more wine. He drinks a little more and finally crawls into bed with this prostitute who has already been with thirty or forty other men all of whom had been with other women. And some of them had different diseases. Now since he crawls in the bed with her, he picks up some of the diseases, creating a problem back home. His marriage starts going down and before long there is a divorce with the children going one way and the family going another way. The man gets embarrassed and leaves the church of the living God because he doesn’t want to show his face. It all started by flirting and fiddling around with this woman.

Well you see that’s what the text is saying. Don’t fiddle with the world because the world doesn’t like you. The world is carrying some diseases. You can’t bow to the world without getting some diseases from somewhere. It starts off with just a sip of wine, but then you start having a relationship with the world. That’s fornication!