He Will Warn Us When We are Too Close to Babylon

 

Flood Warning

By Don L. Searle

Build above the Flood

Those houses along the Mississippi River suggest that if you choose to build a home near the river, you may escape danger for a time, but sooner or later the floods will come. Elder Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles once spoke of members who want to establish a residence in Zion while trying to maintain a summer cottage in Babylon.¹ The Lord has warned His people to flee from Babylon or risk being destroyed (see Doctrine and Covenants 64:24; 133:14). If we listen for the whisperings of the Holy Ghost, He will warn us when we are too close to Babylon.

Our only protection is to build on a firm foundation well above the floodplain.