REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Two - "It Has Come to Pass!" -Continue

 Once again, Jehovah acts unmistakeably toward mankind, this being signaled by "lightnings and voices  and thunderss." (Compare Revelation 4:5; 8:5)   Mankind will be shaken in a way that has never happened before, as if by a devastating earthquake. (Compare Isaiah 13:13; Joel 3:16)  This blockbuster shaking will shatter "the great city," Babylon the Great, so that it splits into "three parts"-symbolic of its collapse into unredeemable ruin. Also, "the cities of the nations" will fall. "Every island" and "mountains"-institutions and organizations   that seem so permanent in this system-will go. "A great hail," much greater than that which afflicted Egypt during the seventh plague, with each hailstone weighing about  a talent, will pummel mankind painfully." (Exodus 9:22-26)  This punishing downpour of congealed waters likely pictures unusually heavy verbal expressions of Jehovah's judgments, signaling that the end of this system of things has arrived at last! Jehovah could well use literal  hail too, in his destructive work. - JOB 38:22. 23.

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