REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Nine -Avoid Sectarianism!

 Any who waver because of apostate influence should be swift to heed Jesus' call to repent! Apostate propaganda must be rejected as the poison that it is!  Its basis is envy and hatred, in contrast  with the righteous, chaste, and  lovable truths that Jesus feeds to his congregation. (Luke 12:42; Philippians 1:15, 16; 4:8, 9)   As to those who refuse  to repent the Lord  Jesus does indeed "war with  them with the long sword of [his] mouth."  He is sifting his people in order to preserve the unity for which he prayed during his last evening with his disciples on earth.  (John 17:20-23, 26)   Since apostate ones refuse the loving counsel and help offered by the stars  in his right hand, Jesus judges and punishes them "with the greatest severity," consigning them to "the darkness outside."  They are disfellowshipped, no more to act as leaven among God's people. - MATTHEW 24:48-51; 25:30; 1 CORINTHIANS 5:6, 9, 13; REVELATION 1:16. 

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