|
|
(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 POLITICAL
"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).
PERFECTED
SPIRITS ARE
THE CHRIST'S 144,000 ANOINTED BROTHERS.
"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. |
|