REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Forty - The Final Test - Conclusion

 "The beloved city" must be the city that is spoken of by the glorified Jesus Christ to his followers at Revelation 3:12 and that he calls "the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God."  Since this is a heavenly organization, how could thoses earthly  forces 'encircle' it?  In that  they encircle "the camp of the holy ones" must represebt those on earth outside the heavenly location of New Jerusalem who loyally support Jehovah's governmental arrangement.  When the rebels under Satan attack those faithful ones, the Lord Jesus reagards it as an assault on him. (Matthew 25:40, 45) "Those nations" will try to wipe out all that the heavenly New Jerusalem  has accomplished in making earth a paradise.  So, in attacking "the camp of the holy ones,"  thy are also attacking "the beloved city."

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