You May Survive Armageddon Into God's New World - Continue

 Faced with what the world faces from its own mad course, even men of this world take seriously their ideas of what Armageddon means and talk about it without embarrassment. Into the pages of the very Congressional Record of the United States Congress there have gone these words uttered on the Senate floor by the junior senator from the state of Vermont under date if March 9, 1954: "In the very truth the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon. Now is a crisis in the agelong war between God and the Devil for the souls of men." (Pages 2726-2727) 

Such men of this world, politicians, military men, and religious leaders, have not tole the true facts about Armageddon, but have merely made the people familiar with the name as meaning something frightful that is stealing up on human race. Long ago a prophet from heaven, the greatest prophet ever on earth, name this all-surpassing war and warned of its thief like coming in a revelation to his faithful follower, who wrote: "And I saw three unclean inspired expressions that looked like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the wild beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.  They are, in fact expressions inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. "Look! I am coming as a thief. . . And they gather them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har-mageddon [or, Armageddon]." That revelation was given in order to show "the things that must shortly take place." - REVELATION16:13-16; 1:1, NW. 

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