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"YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN" BUT WHY?
THE FULFILMENT OF REVELATION 8:11 BY
MEANS OF THE "LITTLE SCROLL" OF 10:8-11.
"These then are the words of the
Lord of Hosts concerning the prophets: I will give them
wormwood to
eat and a bitter poison to drink; for a Godless spirit
(apostasy. NWT)
has spread over all the land from the prophets of Jerusalem." (Jer 23:15
NEB).
"The name of the star was
Wormwood; and a third of the water turned to wormwood, and
men in great numbers died of the water because it had been poisoned."
(Rev 8:11 NEB).
"And I went away to the angel
and told him to give me the
little scroll.
And he said to
me: "Take it and eat it up, and it will make your belly
bitter,
but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."" "And they say to me,
"You
must prophesy again with regard to peoples and nations and tongues
and many kings.""
(Rev 10:9,11).
The Christ Michael is the
"star" called "Wormwood" who gives spiritual illumination
to prophecies of God and reveals His denunciations of apostasy by means of the
"Little Scroll". In it are corrections of teachings ("waters")
made bitter by apostates whose teachings were crafted to kill holy ones. In
fact, apostates corrupted a third of the Word of God for man. By restoring these
spiritual teachings of the Word of God, the "star" then becomes as
"wormwood" to apostates and their false teachings
causing their
deaths. (Rev 16:4-7). The prophecy of Jeremiah 23:15 and Revelation 8:11
are scripturally a pair. (See Isaiah 34:16).
THOSE EMPLOYING THEIR TONGUE
THAT THEY MAY PROPHESY FALSEHOOD.
"These are the
words of the Lord of Hosts: Do not listen to what the prophets say, who buoy you
up with false hopes; the vision they report springs from their own
imagination, it is not from the mouth of the Lord. They say to those who
spurn the word of the Lord, 'Prosperity shall be yours'".
(Jer 23:16)
(Read verses 17 40 NEB).
The sect falsely calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses (a name dreamed up by
Rutherford, a
false prophet of this sect. 23:25-31) have, since the
time of their inception, uttered many prophecies by a "vision of their own
heart" and from "their own imagination". (23:16 NWT & NEB).
With worldwide apostate proclamations made to sound as though "Jehovah
has spoken" they have published such false
visions as: The
indecipherable calculation of their
'Gentile Times';
that
'Many Now Living Will Never Die';
that 'The Princes of the New World are here among you';
and their eight false
predictions that the world would end in 1874, 1878, 1910, 1914, 1918,
1925, 1975 and 1984. The reason for the anger of God against these
false prophets is that they refuse to turn "from their evil course and
their evil doings." Jehovah has said: "I did not send
these prophets, yet they went in haste; I did not speak to them, yet they
prophesied." (23:21,22 NEB).
It is because of their fabricated prophecies and apostate public declarations
that the "Little Scroll"
must be prophesied again, which shall cause
great bitterness to apostates, and their deaths!
THEIR AIM AND THEIR DESTINY.
So what inspires
apostates to falsely proclaim they are witnesses of God? Answer:
"By these dreams which they tell one another these men think they will
make My people forget My Name". (23:27 NEB).
Spirit disciplines from our Lord, including corrections revealed through His
anointed servants, denounces the spirit waywardness of apostates and is recorded
in the
"Little Scroll" corrections which they look upon
as "the burden of the Lord". (23:36 NEB).
But to those who "have changed the words of the Living God" (23:36 NWT)
Jehovah has said: "I will inflict on you endless reproach, endless
shame which shall never be forgotten". (23:40 NEB).
(Cont. on Page
21/6/90).
20/6/90.
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