You May Survive Into God's New World - Continue

 That revelation having been given and written down about A. D.96, it is now nineteen centuries since the warning of the war was given by name, and we are at least that much nearer it. But the passing of all of those centuries does not in itself argue that the surprise outbreak of Armageddon is near. Rather the conditions and the events of the world in fulfillment of the great prophet's predictions, the noticeable going forth of the unclean, froglike expressions inspired by the demons to the kings of the entire inhabited earth followed by the noticeable gathering of the kings to a modern Armageddon, and the irrepressible giving of a foretold witness concerning Armageddon on a globe-encircling scale, make it certain that this unequaled world catastrophe is not far off. It is a time of all times to consider the evidence at hand. 

This is not a calamity-howling. The Holy Scriptures or Bible, which contains the warning and description of the war of Armageddon, is not a calamity-howling book. God's new world, which it foretells as certain to follow Armageddon, is no calamity. Armageddon will be a calamitous catastrophe, not for the winners, but for the losers. The winners will enter into God's new world. In this sense those who examine into Armageddon need not fear like those who dread a third world war and for whom the question is, "not who will win a big war if ever there is one, but for who will be on hand-and in what condition-after such a war is over?" All will lose, they fear, winner as well as loser. But such is not the question and conclusion for those who inform themselves on the real Armageddon. They are assured that there will be people on earth after the war of Armageddon, and they will be in a blessed condition. 

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