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FULFILMENT OF REVELATION 10:7 to 11:18 "You must prophesy
again with regard to peoples and After saying that "the sacred secret of God according to the good news which He declared to His own slaves the prophets" would be brought to a finish during "the days of the sounding of the seventh angel", the heavenly "voice" then gives the command to take the already opened scroll and "eat it up". (Rev 10:7-11). This "little scroll" is described as "bitter". It is not the entire holy written Word from God, for the Bible is not in all its parts bitter. Indeed, to faithful servants of Jehovah who first receive the teachings of this "little scroll" it is "sweet", but for disobedient ones its Spirit content and consequences are bitter. Of those "called" to the heavenly "City" of God but act unfaithfully in His service on earth, seven thousand persons (their names and glory) will be killed by a spiritual "earthquake", as prophesied by the bitterness of the "Little Scroll". The rest will be "awe struck" (Moffatt) and give glory to the God of heaven. (Rev 11:13. Matt 22:14 RSV). The faithful anointed
"sanctuary" class of God and their followers are true worshippers of
God, and so as approved ones of God are "measured" in. (Rev
11:1). But as for those in the "courtyard" "outside",
these unfaithful Gentiles are cast "clear out". Why? Because, as
prophesied, the "courtyard" has been given by satan to those
acting wickedly against the holy covenant. (Rev 11:2. Dan 11:31,32). They
have been "trampling" the holy "City" of God by
"standing in a holy place" (the "temple sanctuary") and
ruling from a place "outside" the "sanctuary"
of Jehovah Because of the apostate activities of covenant-leavers* and unsealed 'elders' proceeding from them* appointed to act as priests (as their "arms": unsealed apostates with their* teachings. Dan 11:30,31 & 12:11), the "two witnesses" of God (The Christ in heaven and his anointed brothers on earth) are having to prophesy in a "sackcloth" condition because of them for 1,260 days. (Dan 11:33. Rev 11:3). When these 1,260 days have expired and the subsequent 3½ "days" (years) of Revelation 11:11 have elapsed, these "two prophets" who by their testimony have "tormented those dwelling on the earth" will go "up into heaven in the cloud" to receive further heavenly knowledge and wisdom. This will be realized and "beheld" by their enemies. Of those laying claim to the
holy "City" of God, a tenth will be killed for their apostasy by a
spiritual "earthquake". (Rev 11:13). And because this tenth
are 7,000 persons, the remaining 9/10th must be 63,000 men, of the
total 144,000 anointed sons of God. (Rev 7:4). In 1977, the number reported as
anointed ones among apostate JWs was over 10,000. Apostate teachings of JWs
ascribing the fulfilment of Revelation 11:13 to Christendom is proven
false because its members belong to another city: "Babylon the
great".
(Rev 18:1 According to the Holy Word of
Almighty God conveyed in Revelation 10:7 to 11:18 (and not the
word of apostates), the Kingdom Rule of God and His Christ will not begin until
the "second woe" is past, and the "seventh angel"
blows his "trumpet" to herald the "third woe" The "City" of
Revelation 11:13 is not Christendom as stated on pages 280-282 of the
JW book 'Then is Finished the
Mystery of God', but are 144,000 Spirit anointed sons. The tenth who
were once of the "City" are those refined out for their apostasy
by the contents of the bitter "Little Scroll" sometime after the
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