Consequences of Complacency

³ For all the nations ^(A)have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, ^(B)and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the ^[a]abundance of her luxury.”

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven saying, ^(C)“Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. ^5 (D)For her sins ^[b]have reached to heaven, and ^(E)God has remembered her iniquities. ^6 (F)Render to her just as she rendered ^[c]to you, and repay her double according to her works; ^(G)in the cup which she has mixed, ^(H)mix double for her. ^7 (I)In the measure that she glorified herself and lived ^[d]luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as ^(J)queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ ⁸ Therefore her plagues will come ^(K)in one day—death and mourning and famine. And ^(L)she will be utterly burned with fire, ^(M)for strong is the Lord God who ^[e]judges her.

⁴ who opposes and ^(A)exalts himself ^(B)above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits ^[a]as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the ^(A)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and ^(B)destroyed them all. ^28 (C)Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but on ^(D)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.