DELIVERANCE INTO A RIGHTEOUS NEW WORLD - "Your Deliverance Is Getting Near"

"Your Deliverance Is Getting Near"

At that particular time, the prophecy of Luke 21:28 applies.  Jesus said:  "As these things start to occur, raise yourselves erect and lift your heads up, because your deliverance is getting near."  God's enemies will be trembling gwith fear because they will know that the supernatural events taking plane come from Jehovah.  But Jehovah's servants will rejoice because they will know that their deliverance is getting near.

Jehovah then delivers the death blow to Satan's system:   "I will bring myself into judgment with [Gog],  with pestilence and with blood; and a flooding downpour and hailstones, fire and sulphur I shall rain down upon him and upon his hands .  . .And they they will  have to know that I am Jehovah."  (Ezekiel 38:22, 23)  All vestiges of Satan's system are destroyed. The entire human society of God-ignoring people is annihilated.  That is the Armageddon climax of the "great tribulation." -Jeremiah 25:31-33; 2 Thessalonians 1:6-8; Revelation 16:14. 16; 19:11-21.

Delivered through the "great tribulation" will be the millions of worshipers of Jehovah earth wide.  These make up the "great crowd" who have come  "out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues."  Why are they delivered in such an awe-inspiring way?  Because they render Jehovah "sacred service day and night."  So they survive this world's end and are ushered into a righteous new world.  (Revelation 7:9-15)  Thus, they witness the fulfillment of Jehovah's promise:  "Hope in Jehovah and keep his way, and he will exalt you to take possession of the earth.  When the wicked ones are cut off, you will see it." -Psalm 37:34.

Next time: DELIVERANCE INTO A RIGHTEOUS NEW WORLD - The New World

The Watchtower, 1997