REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Seven - A New Nation - Continue

 Relief arrived  from an unexpected source: 'But the earth cam to the woman's help, and the earth opened up its mouth  and swallowed up the river that the dragon disgorged  from its mouth.   And the dragon grew wrathful at the woman, and went off to wage war with the remaining ones of her seed, who observe  the commandments of God and have the work of bearing witness to Jesus." (Revelation 12:16, 17) "The earth'-elements within Satan's  own system of things-began to swallow up "the river," or "flood." During the 1940's the Witnesses gather a series of favorable decisions in the United States SupremeCourt, and from ruling power in some other lands, that upheld  freedom of worship. Finally, the Allied nations swalled up the Nazi-Facist juggernaut, to the relief of the Witneses who had suffered  under cruel dictatorships.  Persecutions did not stop altogether, for the wrath  of the dragon has contamnated  until today, and he keeps up the war against those who "have the work of bearing witness to Jesus."  In many lands, loyal Witnesses are still in prison, and some die because of their integrity. But in some of these lands the authorities from time to time relax their pressure and the Witnesses  enjoy a great measure of freedom. Thus in fulfillment of the prophecy, the earth continues to swallow up the river of persecution.

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