REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Five - The Trampling of the Courtyard

 Why was John forbidden to measure the courtyard?  He tell us  in these words:"But as for the courtyard that is outside teh temple sanctuary, cast it clear out and do not measure   it, because it hs been given to the nations, and they will trample  the holy city underfoot for forty-two months."(Revelation 11:2) We have noted that the inner courtyard pictures the righteous standing on earth of spirit-begotten Christians. As we shalls see, the reference here is to the literal 42 months extending from October 1914 into 1918, when all professing Christians were put to a severe test.  Would they uphold  Jehovah's righteous standards during those war years.  Most did not. Enbloc, the clergy of Christendom put nationalism ahead of obedience to divine law.  On both sides of the war, which was fought mainly in Christendom, the clergy preached the young men into the trenches.  Millions were slaughtered. By the time that judgment started with the house of God in 1918,  the United States also entered  that blood-spilling, and the clergy  of all Christendom  had incurred a bloodguilt that still cries out  for divine vengeance.  (1 Peter 4:17)  Their being cast out has become permanent, irreversible. - ISAIAH 59:1-3, 7, 8; JEREMIAH 19:3, 4.

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