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 Jesus Christ quoted this psalm to his enemies and said: "Is it not written in your law, 'I said; You are gods'? If he called 'gods' those against whom the word of God came and yet the Scriptures cannot be nullified, do you say to me whom the Father sanctified and dispatched into the world, 'Blaspheme,' because I said I am God's Son?"  (John10:34-36, NW) Different peoples may have their particular gods, but to the adherent of the Holy Bible Jehovah is the one Most High and Almighty God.  "There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called 'gods', whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many 'gods" and many 'lords', there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are and we for him, and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and we through him.(1 Corinthians 8:4-6, NW) So at Armageddon Satan the Devil, the mighty god of this system of things," with al his host of so-called "gods," will face Jehovah the Almighty God of the new world.

All the earth will be the scene of action. The more the astronomers with their mighty telescopes peer toward the outward reaches of our visible expanding universe, now reckoned to about 4,800,000,000 years old, the more our tiny planet earth shrinks in size by comparison; the more, too, its main inhabitant man shrinks in importance. How is it, then, that the Most High and Almighty God, who alone bears the name Jehovah, tangles with the mighty adversary Satan the Devil in battle with reference to our earth? It is not because earth or man up0n it is so important, but because the chief issue of all, the issue of universal sovereignty, is tied in this earth and must be settled one and for all time. "Sovereignty" means more than supremacy. It means supreme and independent in government and thus one's dominating all below as sovereign lord Jehovah Go dis the Creator of all things seen and unseen. The opening chapter of the Holy Bible says: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," and then goes on to give us a day-by-day description of the ordering of our planet and of all life upon it, including man. (Genesis, chapter 1, NW) The earth and its inhabitants belong to Jehovah God. So his universal sovereignty rightly extends to earth also, by reason of his being Creator. He is the great Sovereign, A-do-nay' or "Lord" over all, including this earth, no matter how small it is.

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