REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty - Treading the Vine of the Earth - Continue

 But what is "the vine of the earth"?  In the Hebrew Scriptures the Jewish nation was spoken of as Jehovah's  vine.  (Isaiah 5:7; Jeremiah 2:21)  Similarly, Jesus Christ and all those who will serve with him in God's Kingdom are spoken of as a vine. (John 15:1-8)  In this setting the significant characteristic of a vine is that has produced abundant fruit to Jehovah's praise. (Matthew 212:43)  "The vine of the earth," therefore, must be. not of this genuine vine, but Satan's imitation of it, his corrupt visible system of government over mankind with it various  "clusters" of demonic fruitage produced over the centuries Babylon the Great, in which apostate Christianity is so prominent, has exercised great influence over hsi poisonous vine. - Compare DEUTERONOMY 32:32-35.

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