Concerning Jesus and organized religion who rejected Him, it is written:

So we must go to Him outside the camp and endure the insults He endured. (Hebrews 13 verse 13)

When the Holy Spirit first called us to “flee Babylon”, I remember asking “who or what is Babylon?” It was nearly 2 years before we understood enough of what the Lord had shown us to hear and obey His call to leave man’s Laodicean church and to join Him outside the camp where He was waiting for us .

The ensuing years were humbling and wonderful as Jesus taught us through the Holy Spirit, corrected and freed us from the manipulative and errant doctrines of men, and led us into home-based fellowship with a few believers. When we retired, the Lord called us to move back to the Pacific Northwest where He led us to attend a small country church. We had visited them 6 months earlier while staying with my father and found the people to be warm and friendly and we looked forward to their fellowship.