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| − | of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.”
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| − | Speaking of this period of waiting, Daniel, in chapter
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| − | 12, verse 12, says: ‘‘Blessed is he that waiteth, and
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| − | cometh to the thousand three hundred five and thirty
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| − | Yes, a blessing comes at the end of this waiting
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| − | period. At that time Christ will be in power. As
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| − | the great General of Jehovah, he will assume command
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| − | of Jehovah’s army and begin action against Satan.
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| − | His forces will make an assault against the forces of
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| − | Satan. That battle will be short and decisive, and
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| − | Christ will be the victor.
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| − | That victory will mean the destruction of Satan’s
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| − | organization on earth, and will result in the binding
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| − | of Satan for a thousand years so that he will deceive
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| − | the nations no more till the thousand years are ended.
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| − | (Rev. 20: 1-8) That victory will mean the deliverance
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| − | of the people from Satan and his oppressive and decep-
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| − | tive institutions; it will end all fraud, hypocrisy, in-
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| − | justice and unrighteousness; that victory will witness
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| − | the establishment of a permanent and everlasting
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| − | peace on earth, and good will toward men.
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| − | Peace can never be established by human effort.
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| − | While men recognize its necessity and will put forth
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| − | efforts to establish it, yet the Scriptures tell us that
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| − | their efforts will be futile, and the reason is that
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| − | selfishness governs their every effort and controls
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| − | their every act. In Jeremiah 6:13,14 we read of
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| − | this selfishness as follows: ‘‘For from the least of
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| − | them even unto the greatest of them every one is
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| − | tke WATCH TOWER
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| − | given to covetousness; and from the prophet even
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| − | unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. They have
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| − | healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying,
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| − | Peace, peace: when there is no peace.’?
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| − | The Scriptures assure us that when earth’s wise
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| − | men are talking about peace, and making efforts to
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| − | that end, conditions will continue to go from bad to
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| − | worse, and finally culminate in what men eall ‘‘the
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| − | battle of Armageddon’’. In 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Paul
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| − | says: ‘‘For when they shall say, Peace and safety;
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| − | then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail
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| − | upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.’’
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| − | Thus the apostle tells us that man’s efforts to estab-
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| − | lish peace in the earth are doomed to failure. The
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| − | sudden destruction foretold in this text is about to
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| − | overtake them. ‘‘The battle of that great day of God
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| − | Almighty’? will soon occur. Satan will soon be bound,
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| − | and his power to blind and deceive be fully restrained
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| − | for a thousand years,
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| − | ‘‘The Prince of Peace’’ is now on the throne, and
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| − | the announeement of this fact is going out all over the
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| − | earth. Multitudes of people have heard this announce-
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| − | ment, and hope is springing up in their hearts, The
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| − | time is near at hand when the words of the prophet
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| − | will be fulfilled as recorded in Psalm 85:10, 11, which
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| − | read: ‘‘Merey and truth are met together; righteous-
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| − | ness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall
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| − | spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look
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| − | down from heaven,’”?
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| − | THE DESTINY OF MAN
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| − | human creature has to face this question at
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| − | some time in life. Those who die in infancy
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| − | escape its consideration, and some who are suddenly
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| − | swept out of existence by accident or calamity have
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| − | never given it proper thought. In the excitement of
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| − | youth, the young do not pause to consider; in the
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| − | busy activities of manhood’s and womanhood’s estate
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| − | the subject is pushed aside, because it is an unpleasant
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| − | one, and the necessary daily duties are allowed to
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| − | submerge it; but when life’s span is measured by a
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| − | few hours, or days, or wecks, or months, it becomes
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| − | a subject for solemn consideration. Then there are
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| − | some who have dragged out long years in almost daily
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| − | expectation of death, who have had the subject forced
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| − | upon their attention for all those weary years.
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| − | With the majority of people the plunge into eternity
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| − | js taken without any very definite hope. At home and
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| − | in Sunday school, they were taught that those who
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| − | are reasonably good will somehow manage to get to
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| − | heaven, while those who are vile and degraded will
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| − | spend eternity in a place of torment. These teachings
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| − | W/ ‘iime shall I spend eternity? Nearly every
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| − | are accepted because they are taught in the creeds and
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| − | by religious leaders. Notwithstanding these facts,
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| − | when faced by death there is usually doubt, fore-
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| − | boding and dread, due to the fact that the dying one
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| − | is not sure that the creeds and the religious leaders
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| − | are right in their teachings. Ile realizes that these
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| − | teachings have never been proven to be correct.
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| − | Thus it occurs that with the majority of people the
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| − | exit from this life is accomplished with uncertainty
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| − | as to whether they will spend eternity in heaven in
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| − | indescribable bliss, or in hell in indeseribable agony.
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| − | The exceptions to this rule are a few people who have
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| − | convinecd themselves that they are so far above ‘the
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| − | common herd’ that they are sure of a place in bliss.
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| − | They have convineced themselves that they are deserv-
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| − | ing of God’s best gift, and that heaven’s portals will
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| − | swing wide open to them and that they will be wel-
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| − | comed with glad acclaim.
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| − | The fact that persons are sure they are going to
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| − | heaven does not prove a thing about the existence of
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| − | such a place or about the existence of a hell of tor-
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| − | ment. The devout Buddhist, Confucianist and Indian
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