CHAPTER II/The Victorious Fighters of Armageddon - Continue

 By the way men and nations carry on they deny Jehovah's sovereignty over the earth. If they could carry into reality their proposed spaceships and land on other planets they would extend their defiance of His sovereignty there also. There is one creature that has no spaceship and needs non an who had entry into the heavens, into the presence of God, and who has tried to stir up the defiance of Jehovah's sovereignty in all the heavens as well as in the earth. That rebellious creature is the "god of this system of things," Satan the Devil. It was here on earth that began his treason against the true and rightful Sovereign universe. He turned unfaithful to his trustworthy position in which the great Creator had placed him over man, and he incited the first man and woman rebelliously to break the commandment of God as not being their Sovereign. His universal sovereignty having first been in doubt here, and men and demons at this earth still challenging and defying the sovereignty of Jehovah, it is here that the chief issue must be put to rest and Jehovah's sovereignty be vindicated. The earth is now the "hot spot" of the universe, and the settling of the main question in dispute here will result in his vindication and glory and in the blessing of all men who take his side in the controversy. The six-thousand year-old issue will finally be settled at Armageddon, and that is why the battle there will outrank all previous battles. 

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