Are you influenced by and living in Babylon? Revelation 18-22

Revelation 18:4
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;

As the book of Revelation comes to a close God begins to pour our judgment on the earth and to set up His eternal reign with those who have placed their faith in Him.   In the above verse we have John talking about Babylon, which can be interpreted as a place, a system and a way-of-life.   Babylon was the place that God sent the nation of Israel for punishment of their sin of disobedience.    God used Babylon and they abused their use and become the object of God's wrath themselves.   But, Babylon is also a system and way of life in Scripture.  It stands for everything that is against God.   It holds to everything human and refutes and rejects the glory of God and His majesty.   Babylon is the picture of sin; as is Egypt, in God's Word.   These are places God redeemed Israel FROM.   He used His power to bring them OUT of Egypt and Babylon.   Symbolically speaking, these two nations and systems are sin and Satan's domain of ruin and self-promotion.   Therefore when we read the above passage we must see it in this context.   God is about to judge Babylon and He wants His people to stay clear and out of the way.   We are told to "come out of her" rather than to dwell with her.   John gives two reasons for us to do so:  So that we don't participate in her sins and so that we don't receive her punishment.   God has redeemed us FROM the world and the world's system.   In Colossians 1:12 we are told by Paul that God, through Christ's work, has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His Beloved Son.   We are to be different now that we are part of the family of God.   We are not to be trapped in the mind of the world.  Paul also tells us to "renew our mind" and to not "be conformed to the world" (Romans 12:1-2).   We are to be unique in the word and "come out" of it.    Peter tells us we are a "royal priesthood and a peculiar people" (1 Peter 2:9).   God does not want us to join in the sins of the world.  This might be one of the major dangers of the today's media and how it sucks us into the worldly system.  We are entertained through our senses and influenced in our mind.  We are desensitized by the world's philosophy.   You might think of the man Lot and his wife as an example, here.  Lot became attracted to this city of lights in the desert.   He saw the lights and was drawn there.  Eventually he and his wife became attached.  His wife was so attached she long for the city even after being told to run away from the plague that was about to fall down on the city.   She couldn't help but look back in desire and that turned her into a pilar of salt.    Love of the world (Babylon) will always cause us to partake in some aspect of their plagues.   If we wish to avoid that, "come out of her."