Contending With Two Ferocious Wild Beasts - Waging War Against the Holy Ones - Conclusion

 This seemed like a victory for Satan and his organization.  But it could bring them no  long-term benefits, since no one in Satan's visible organization had his name written in "the scroll of life of the Lamb."  Figuratively, this scroll contains the names of those who will rule with Jesus in heavenly Kingdom.  The first names were written in it at Pentecost 33 C.E.  And in the years since then, more and more names have been added.  Since 1918, the sealing of the remaining ones of the 144,000 Kingdom heirs has been preceeding to completion.  Soon, the names of all of them will be written indelibly in the Lamb's scroll of life. As for the opposers  who worship the wild beast, not one of these will have his name written in that scroll.  So any apparent victory these may have over "the holy ones" is simply and empty one, merely temporary.

John now calls  upon those with discernment to listen very carefully: "If anyone is meant for capivity, he goes away into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with the sword.  Here is where it means the endurance and faith of the holy ones." (Revelaton 13:9, 10)  Jeremiah wrote words quite similar to these in the years preceding 607 B.C.E., to show that there was no turning back of Jehoah's judgments for the unfaitful city of Jerusalem.  (Jeremiah 15:2; see also Jeremiah 43:11;  Zechariah 11:9.)  In his time of great trial, Jesus made it plain that his followers must not compromise when he said: "All who take the sword  will perish by the sword."  (Matthew 26:52) Simarily, now in the Lord's day God's people must hold fast to the Bible principles. There will be no final escape for unrepentant ones who worshp the wild beast. All of us will need endurance, along with unshakable faith, in order to survive the persecutions and trials that lay ahead. - HEBREWS 10:36-39; 11:6.

Next time: Contending With Two Ferocious Wild Beasts - The Two-horned  Wild Beast

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