NT Text: Revelation 18:4
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Jeremiah 51:45 commands, "Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of YHWH." Revelation 18:4 echoes this nearly verbatim: "Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues." The verbal correspondence is unmistakable — both use the imperative "come out" (exelthate / tse'u) addressed to "my people" (laos mou / ammi) in the context of Babylon's imminent destruction. Jeremiah called the exiles to physically leave Babylon before its fall; John calls the church to spiritual separation from the world-system before eschatological judgment. This allusion participates in the exodus-from-Babylon motif that runs through Isaiah 48:20, Jeremiah 50:8, and 51:6, 45, showing that the new exodus is also an exodus from Babylon.