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<noinclude><pagequality level="1" user="" /></noinclude>Jlti SheWATCHTOWER them." (Isa. 19: 22) This Jehovah does in vindication of his holy name, that all may know that he is God and has sent Christ Jesus as the Deliverer; as stated: "That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee [the Greater Moses] ."-Ex. 4: 5. In 1914 Christ Jesus began to exercise his power to cast the enemy to the earth. From and after 1918 he executes judgment, which will terminate in the great battle of God Almighty. Since the beginning of his exercise of judgment the faithful remnant have learned that Christ Jesus is at the temple and that the name of the Almighty God is Jeho- BROOKLYN, N. Y. vah, and have been advised as to the meaning of that name It is since 1918 that the remnant have learned the meaning of "evil" and why Jehovah does "create evil" like a serpent. For the first time, in May, 1930, The Watchtower published the Scriptural proof of this, under the title "Peace and Evil", and this is a confirmation to the remnant that Jeho- vah has sent his Vindicator, his Great Prophet Christ Jesus. who was foreshadowed by Moses. The remnant therefore see why these things "written aforetime" are for their com- fort, and now also their earthly companions, the "great multitude" of the Lord's "other sheep", draw comfort and strength therefrom. END OF WAR IN HEAYEN " A N D there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not j neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." These are the words of an eyewitness, who foresaw the events of our modern years in prophetic vision and sym- bolisms, and recorded them at The Revelation chapter 12 verses 7-9. He that began the war against Satan is identified by the name "Michael", which means "Who is like God Y" and which name designates the great Godlike Prince, Christ Jesus, who is "the brightness of [God's] glory, and the express image of his person". (Heb. 1: 3) The manifest purpose of the use of this name is to call attention to the corroborative prophecy of Daniel, thus furnishing two witnesses to this important fact. The only place in the ancient Hebrew Scrip- tures where the title Michael is applied to God's great Prince, Christ Jesus, is in Daniel's prophecy, chapter 12, verse 1, where it is written: "And at that time [at the birth of the man child or kingdom of God described in Revela- tion 12: 1-5] shall ~ichael stand up, the great [heavenly] prince which standeth for [is ruler of] the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble [in heaven and also on earth], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time [A.D. 1914, when the World War on earth began]." In heaven the trouble ended with the casting out of Satan and his demons; and the time of trouble on earth was halted in 1918 for an interval in which the witness work by Jehovah's witnesses must be done, and then shall come the final end of Satan's world organization.- See Matthew 24: 14, 21, 22. This and other scriptures prove that Satan had a place where he was permitted to be in heaven. Probably God con- fined him to a certain zone, but that he was permitted to appear in the presence of God is made certain by other scriptures, such as Job 1: 6; 2: 1-5; Zechariah 3: 1,2. Four names, to wit, Dragon, Serpent, Satan and Devil, God gave to the great adversary as a means of identification, and those names symbolize the wicked work in which he engages. It is stated that he "deceiveth the whole world", but evidently what is meant is 'the whole inhabited earth'; and this meaning is in harmony with the American Revised Version and the Emphatic Diaglott translation rendering of the text. It would not apply to God's anointed witnesses and their "great multitude" of companions, who are not 11 part of the "earth" under Satan. When Christ, the great Prince, was placed upon his throne as the world's Rightful Ruler, in A.D. 1914, the first work was to oust Satan from heaven. Satan assembled all his host of powers and principalities and angels, sym- bolized under the figure of the "seven heads" of the dragon. as described at Revelation 12: 3. Then Satan and all his associate demons resisted the new king, and war followed It was a war between Satan's heavens and the "new heav- ens" under Christ the Messiah. The "kings of the earth" were not in that fight, because they could do nothing in a heavenly battle to assist their father Satan. But every head or prince in Satan's invisible organization would be in- volved. These would induce the visible organization of Sa- tan on earth to war against the members of God's organi- zation on earth, which did take place. On the side of Christ in this fight were his myriads of holy angels, but none of the Christians who make up the anointed "body of Christ" were involved. Christ Jesus had not yet come to God's temple for judgment of Christians, and hence those Christians who had died faithful had not even been resurrected, and none of the members of the anointed servant class on earth could render any aid in that warfare in the invisible heavens. The strength of the enemy was no match for Christ, who has all power in heaven and earth This is proof that the former interpretation by men of Mat· thew 12: 29 is wrong and that Jesus does not have to first bind Satan before his demons can be cast out of those demon-possessed or before Satan's earthly organization can be destroyed. We may expect the Lord to give Satan full opportunity to fight all he can and then bind him when he is thoroughly whipped. Satan and his forces in that fight were completely defeated and cast out of heaven, and this is proof that in God's due time Christ will completely de- stroy Satan's orgamzation and then put Satan into the pit. -Rev. 20: 1·3. It was not Jehovah's due time to kill Satan; therefore he had Satan and his angels literally thrown out of heaven. Speaking of things certain to be as though they had already occurred, Jesus had prophesied: "I beheld Satan as light- ning [that is to say, with lightning speed] fall from heaven." (Luke 10: 18) The time arrived for Jesus to do that very <noinclude><references/></noinclude>