Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore, let us go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For we have no continuing city here, but we seek one to come.
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Billions of people accept Christianity's claim to represent Christ, in spite of the fact that it is splintered into thousands of conflicting sects and doctrines. The tower of Babel, with its mass confusion after God cursed its builders, is the perfect prophetic picture of Christianity and its thousands of sects. Those ancient builders, having been cursed with different languages, could no longer work together to construct that access to heaven to which they were committed. They all still felt in their hearts that getting to heaven was the goal, but they now spoke different languages, and the co-operative effort was frustrated. In the end, they had to resign themselves to go their own ways, divided into groups defined by the languages they spoke. Those groups then developed into the nations of earth into which God later scattered His disobedient chosen people, Israel.
Similarly, all Christians believe that getting to heaven is a desirable goal. But they cannot agree as to how to do the work to get there, they cannot understand each other, and they do not follow the same voices. Christians are divided into groups defined by conflicting doctrines, just as the ancient builders were divided into groups defined by conflicting languages. And the saints of God are now scattered among those many Christian groups.
In the Old Testament, God's chosen but rebellious people were eventually cursed to wander among the divided "nations" (Hos. 9:17), while in this New Testament, God's chosen but rebellious people have been cursed to wander among Christianity's denominations. Christianity is itself the curse with which God long ago cursed His stubborn people, when they forsook the truth and power of the gospel of Christ and began to work with the world to build another way into heaven. Thankfully, in the Old Testament, there came a time when God mercifully called His beleaguered people to their homeland again. That, to, was prophetic, for now God is calling His New Testament saints to "come out of her, My people!" He is calling us out of the mass confusion of Christianity! He is calling us home again! Do you hear the call?
One of Israel's courageous and wise prophets asked, "How can two walk together except they be agreed?" They cannot. That is why God is calling His children out of Christianity, so that they might at long last be united in Christ and "serve Him with one consent" (Zeph. 3:9).
As long as the people of God remain inside Christianity, unity among the sanctified will never be realized. Believers in Christ Jesus must come out of Christianity if they are ever to be united in Christ. May God give us the faith to obey His loving call to "Come out of her, My people!"