REVELATIONS ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Eight -The Death Stroke - Conclusion

 Worship in what sense? In the sense of putting love of country ahead of love of God. Most people love the land of their birth. As good citizens, true Christias also respect the rulers and the emblems of the country where they reside, obey the laws, and make a positive contribution  to the welfare of their community and their neighbors. (Romans 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13-17) They cannot, however, give blind devotion to one country as against all others.  "Our country, right or wrong" is not a Christian teaching.  So Christians who worship Jehovah God cannot share in giving prideful patriotic worship to any part of the wild beast, for this would amount to worshiping the dragon-the source of authority of the beast.  They cannot ask admiringly: "Who is like the wild beast?"  Rather, they follow the example of Michael- his name meaning "Who is like God?"- as they up Jehovah's universal sovereignty. At God's appointed time, this Michae, Christ Jesus, will do battle with  the wild beast and conquer it, even as he triumphed in expelling Satan from heaven. - REVELATION 12:7-9; 19:11, 19-21.

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