God is not speaking about individuals, but a system. God loves every individual who may have become entangled in false teachings. In love He sends them the message to come out of Babylon. It is only because of God's great love and concern for us that He has warned us so explicitly about false religious systems. God does not want us to be deceived.
Truth can be painful at times, but deception is even more painful in the end.
With eternity at stake, our only safety is to rely not on what man says but on what God says in His Holy Word, the Bible. Daniel 7 builds on what Daniel 2 has revealed, using different symbols to portray the first four empires and adding details about the behavior of each of these powers. The power of the little horn is introduced in Daniel 7. Just as gold, the choicest of metals, was chosen to represent Babylon, so the king of the beasts, the lion, represents Babylon in Daniel 7. The prophecy begins where the prophet is living. since Daniel lived in ancient Babylon, it is logical to begin the prophecy with Babylon.