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 Christendom tried and tried again to repeat her triumph od 1918. She resorted to mob action, legal maneuvering, imprisonment, even executions-all to no avail! After 1919, the spiritual domain of the two witnesses was of out of her reach. In that year Jehovah said to them: 'Come on up here,' and they had ascended to an elevated spiritual state where their enemies could see them but not touch them. John describes the shocking effect their restoration had on the great city: "And in that hour a great earthquake, and the rest became frightened and gave Glory to God of heaven." (Revelation 11:13) There were truly great convulsion in the realm of religion. The ground seemed to move under the leaders of the established churches as the body of revivified Christians got to work. One tenth of their city, figuratively 7,000 persons were so profoundly affected that they are spoken of as being killed. 

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