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<noinclude><pagequality level="1" user="" /></noinclude>(336) February 8 If 1 whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine enemies.-Deut. 32: 41. Christ Jesus is Jehovah's Arm and his Sword. One of his titles is "The Word of God". When the due time arrives for God to go forth to the battle, he whets his Sword and sends his great Priest forth to lead the fight. The lightnings of God proceed from and through his Word, "the sword of the spirit." There- fore at the time Jehovah whets his glittering Sword his lightnings flash, illuminating the minds of his anointed, making known God's purposes concerning them, and exposing the position and the action of the enemy. The truth and light that Jehovah sheds upon his Word today are strong corroborative evidence that we are in "that day" when the forces are gathering for Armageddon. These truths encourage and strength- en the minds and hearts of the people of God. With joy they sing forth the honor of his name. February 9 (134) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, 1 will spue thee out of my mouth.-Rev. 3: 16. If, after the lukewarm ones have due notice, they refuse to be assimilated into the active working force of God's organization and try to rest on their laurels and their past record and their own goodness, the Lord will vomit them out of his mouth as a disgust- ing and disapproved thing. Because the Lord loves those who have made a covenant to do God's will and who yet are not zealous, he rebukes them, that they may repent. Hence the inference must be indulged that if such repent and show the zeal peculiar to God's house they will be fully reinstated in God's favor. But those who are given the opportunity and who yet do not arouse themselves and change their course of action, are in the way to lose all. <noinclude><references/></noinclude>