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(Cont. from Page
5/5/84A).
INTERNATIONAL TERROR THROUGH POLITICS
DESTROYED
BY MOUNT ZION.
"After you
there shall arise another kingdom, inferior to yours, and yet a third kingdom,
of bronze, which shall have sovereignty over the whole world. And there shall be
a fourth kingdom, strong as iron; as iron shatters and
destroys all things, it shall break and shatter the whole earth. As, in your
vision, the feet and toes were part potter's clay and part iron,
it shall be a divided kingdom. Its core shall be partly of iron just as you saw
iron mixed with the common clay; as the toes were part iron and part clay,
the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly
brittle. As, in your vision, the iron was mixed with common clay,
so shall men mix with each other by intermarriage,
but such alliances shall not be stable: iron does not mix with clay.
In the period of those kings the God of heaven will
establish a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed; that Kingdom shall never pass to another people; it shall
shatter and make an end of all these kingdoms, while it shall itself endure for
ever. This is the meaning of your vision of
the stone being hewn from a mountain, not by human
hands, and then shattering the iron, the bronze, the clay, the
silver, and the gold."
(Dan 2:39 45 NEB).
"No, you stand before
Mount Zion and the City of the Living God,
heavenly Jerusalem, before myriads of angels, the full concourse and
assembly of the first-born citizens of heaven, and God the
Judge of all, and the spirits of good men made perfect, and
Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, whose sprinkled blood
has better things to tell than the blood of Abel. See that you do not refuse to
hear the voice that speaks. Those who refused to hear the oracle speaking on
earth found no escape; still less shall we escape if we refuse to hear the One
who speaks from heaven. Then indeed His voice shook the earth, but now He has
promised, 'Yet once again
I will shake not earth
alone, but the heavens also.' The
words 'once again' and only once imply
that the shaking of these created things means their
removal, and then what is not shaken will remain.
The Kingdom we are given is unshakeable".
(Heb 12:22-28 NEB).
NON-WORSHIPPERS OF THE "IMAGE"
MADE SPIRITUALLY INACTIVE.
"It was
allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that it could speak,
and could cause all who would not worship the image
to be put to death. Moreover, it caused everyone, great and
small, rich and poor, slave and free, to be branded with a mark on his
right hand or forehead, and no one was allowed to buy or sell unless
he bore this beast's mark, either
name or
number. (Here is the key; and anyone who has
intelligence may work out the number of the beast. The number represents a man's
name, and the numerical value of its letters is six hundred and sixty-six.)"
(Rev 13:15 18 NEB).
"Then I saw a
new heaven and a new earth, for
the first heaven and the first earth had vanished, and
there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy City,
New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made
ready like a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice proclaiming
from the throne: 'Now at last God has His dwelling among men! He will dwell
among them and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them. He
will wipe every tear from their eyes; there shall be an end to death, and to
mourning and crying and pain; for the old order has passed away!'"
(Rev 21:1 4 NEB).
THE CHRIST'S 144,000 ANOINTED
BROTHERS ARE PERFECTED SPIRITS.
"After this
I saw four angels stationed at the four corners of the earth, holding back the
four winds so that no wind should blow on sea or land or on any tree. Then I saw
another angel rising out of the east, carrying the seal of the Living God; and
he called aloud to the four angels who had been given the power to ravage land
and sea: 'Do no damage to sea or land or trees until we have
set the
seal of our God upon the foreheads of His servants.' And I heard the
number of those who had received the seal. From all the
tribes of Israel there were a
hundred and forty-four thousand".
(Rev 7:1-4 NEB).
"'Thou art worthy to take the
scroll and to break its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst
purchase for God men of every tribe and language, people and nation; thou hast
made of them a royal house, to serve our God as
priests; and they shall reign upon earth'".
(Rev 5:9,10 NEB).
5/5/84B.
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