Jehovah's Plagues on Christendom - Conclusion of Like a Burning Mountain

Conclusion of Like a Burning Mountain

A great mountain like mass burning with fire is hurled into this "sea." In the Bible, mountains very often symbolize governments. For example, God's Kingdom is portrayed as a mountain.  (Daniel 2:35, 44)  Ruinous Babylon became a "burnt-out mountain."  (Jeremiah 51:25)  But the mountainous mass that John sees is still burning.  Its being hurled into the sea represents how, during and after the first world war, the question of government became a burning issue among mankind, especially in the lands of Christendom.  In Italy, Mussolini introduced fascism.  Germany embraced Hitler's Nazism, while other  countries tried different forms of socialism. A radical change  occurred in Russia, where the Bolshevik revolution produced the first communist state, with the result that religious leaders of  Christendom lost power and influence in what was formerly one of their strongholds.

The Fascist and Nazi experiments were snuffed out by the second world war, but government continued to be a fiery issue, and the human sea continued to  churn and throw up new revolutionary governments. In the decades since 1945, these have been installed in many places, such as China, Vietnam, Cuba, and Nicaragua.  In Greece an experiment in military dictatorship failed.  In Kampuchea (Cambodia)  an excursion resulted in a reported two million and more deaths. 

That "mountain burning with fire" continues to make waves in the sea of mankind.  Ongoing struggles over government are reported in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific islands.   Many of these struggles are taking place in lands of Christendom or where Christendom's missionaries have become activists.  Roman Catholic priests have even joined up with and fought as   members of communist guerrilla bands. At the same time, Protestant evangelical groups have worked in Central American to counter what they call the communists' vicious and relentless thirst for power.  But none of these convulsions in the sea of mankind  can bring  peace and security. -Compare Isaiah 25:10-12; 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

The second trumpet blast reveals that those of mankind who got involved in revolutionary conflicts over governments rather than submit to God's Kingdom are blood guilty. Particularly Christendom's "third of the sea" has become  as blood.  All living things therein are dead in  God's eyes.  None of the radical organizations floating like boats in that third of the sea can avoid ultimate shipwreck.  How happy we are that millions of sheep like people have now heeded the trumpet like call to separate those who are still wallowing in the narrow nationalism and blood guilt of that sea!

Next time: Jehovah's Plagues on Christendom -A Star Falls From Heaven

From the Book of Revelation