When Michael steps in something has changed. Notice that Israel is now called a “mountain of Decoration” not a ‘land of Decoration,’ as when the King of the North first came through. You missed the point that he comes twice.
No, I alluded to the fact that he comes twice. I just don't think there is anything for me to gain by going into detail in this forum. That is a good observation on your part though about how the land of Decoration changes to a Mountain of Decoration. It does definitely denote a change.
You still seem to want to make the tribulation affect the entire world and it does not. It is strictly for God’s people. You are vacillating on this issue. It can’t be both.
I am not vacillating. The tribulation "comes in upon the entire inhabited earth." Can that be any more inclusive? No. The whole world is affected. And because Jehovah's Witnesses live in this world and support ourselves by it we, as individuals, and the Society as a printing corporation, will be impacted equally.
When the tribulation ends, the world will still be standing as it is, but a change will have occurred for God’s people.
Absolutely not true. When the initial phase of the tribulation is cut short on account of the chosen ones, the world will be gripped with deathly fear in expectation of the things yet to come upon them.
The rest of the world will have no problem acquiescing to the King of the North as they will willingly get the mark of the beast. That’s why it will be no tribulation for them.
You seem to have this idea in your mind that people are going to line up to get the mark of the beast like they would camp out to get tickets to see a U2 concert. People are not going to gladly give up their freedoms to an imperial overlord unless they are under coercion. No doubt a lot of nationalist and patriot groups and militia types will go down fighting before they accept the loss of their nation. And Jehovah's imperial tyrant will then have the disposition to annihilate any person or nation that defies it. In fact, that's what will occur. That's what the prophecy of the KON is foretelling when he says: "And he will go forth in a great rage to annihilate and to devote many to destruction."
Jehovah’s people, though, have to fight against this or loose their standing with Him. One-third will fight, the rest will not. Therein lies the infighting within the organization.
Yes, I agree. When the system collapses, the players holding the guns and food and gold will be in command. Even at this late date it is apparent that there is a move by the globalists to consolidate their grip upon the physical goods of the world. The Central bankers are trying to puff the stock markets up a little higher to draw the last few suckers into the game in order to allow the big players to quietly cash out of paper and buy up real oil, water, food, gold, drugs, etc. When the times comes to pull the plug on the whole thing, and Jehovah will let them know when it's time, then they will be in a position to call the shots and turn over the nation state system to a global empire similiar to Nebuchadnezzar's imperial Babylon.
In these last days, for you to acknowledge that there are ‘anointed’ ones acting wickedly against the covenant is definitely a bitter pill to swallow.
Not at all. We know there is an evil slave whom Christ is yet to expose and dismiss.
Calling a ‘spade a spade’ it is the leadership that is being persuaded or polluted by the King of the North. He will be dealing with the leaders in order to get the rank and file in line. And they will succeed in getting two-thirds of their followers to fall in line.
I don't doubt that there might be some very prominent and influential brothers who will fall away. It is not like that hasn't happened before. In fact I would expect it.
Don’t confuse the next war with the great tribulation. The war is the catalyst to set up the situation that allows the tribulation to occur.
It appears to me that the tribulation that suddenly comes upon the entire earth, in an instant, out of the blue, is most likely a nuclear war, which of course will vaporize the financial system along with the governments. That's no doubt how the wild beast gets the death stroke. When the trib is cut short, the beast revives under the guise of the 8th king. Then the games begin in earnest.
You Know, what kind of issue can Jehovah have with Satan, one of his creation? Satan is simply a pawn being used by Jehovah. The fact that Jehovah has already told the end of Satan shows that He is in full control.
Of course Jehovah is in control. But God's judgments have not been carried out against him yet. The Devil gets one last whack at proving God a liar if he can totally crush Jehovah's people, particularly his anointed ones after they are sealed and the anointing is through, during the tribulation. The demons must imagine that they can somehow pull it off, and so that's how it is that Jehovah puts hooks in Gog's jaws as it were. He sets before him this vulnerable and defenseless people and allows Satan the opportunity to roll over them with his imperial juggernaut. When he fails to break the integrity of God's loyal ones God is then fully justified in wiping him and his world into dustbin of obilvion.
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