"Then Is Finished The Mystery Of God"

Chapter 24

The Finished "Mystery of God" and You

THE FINISHED "mystery of God" stands revealed today! The all-wise God who formulated the mystery almost six thousand years ago has now solved it for us. That mystery, couched in language that breathed the only hope for all mankind, is the enthroned kingdom of God as exercised through the royal "seed" of God's "woman," that is, the kingdom of God by means of his Messiah, his Christ or Anointed One. (Genesis 3:15; Revelation 12:1, 2, 5-10) According to his own will and purpose God announced the mystery at the first crisis in human history; and, nearly six thousand years later, the same ever-living God finished it, in the world-shaking year of 1914 C.E.

In that year, when those long-lasting "times of the nations" that allowed for uninterrupted rule of the earth by the political "wild beast" ended, the glorious moment had arrived for Jehovah God the Almighty to finish his "mystery." He finished it by bringing to birth and enthroning his Messianic kingdom in the heavens. He did this by installing his self-sacrificing lamblike Son in the Messianic throne in the heavens. In such a way this one was authorized to serve as the reigning Messiah or Christ and to rid mankind on earth of all their enemies. — Revelation 10:7; 11:15-18; Psalms 2:1-9; 110:1-6; Luke 21:24.

You, the reader, stand to benefit everlastingly from this finished "mystery of God." We all stand to benefit everlastingly from the finished "mystery of God."

Will we peacefully, gratefully accept the benefits of it? It is well to do so, for the operations of this finished "mystery of God" extend to the four corners of the earth; they touch upon your life, our life, and the life of every human creature on earth. You cannot, we cannot, escape its marvelous operations. We are simply obliged to reckon henceforth with this finished "mystery of God." For us to do so in a right way means benefits unending for us. The former less responsible state of the world of mankind is gone forever! We are living in a changed situation in the "time of the end," the urgent time for making right resolves. We cannot move time backward to the easygoing past. Nor can we stop time from moving forward closer and closer to the disastrous end of all enemies of both God and man and then to the glorious realization of God's further purposes respecting his Messianic kingdom. For the soothing blessings from that perfect, righteous Messianic government over mankind our troubled hearts yearn, do they not?

Already the finished "mystery of God" has performed magnificent exploits, to its own credit and to the vindication of Jehovah God as Sovereign Ruler over all. In the year 1914 its crowned king, Jesus the Messiah, "went forth conquering and to complete his conquest." (Revelation 6:1, 2) Under his heavenly title, Michael the archangel, he led his holy angels in victorious warfare against the "great dragon," Satan the Devil, and his demon angels. Down he hurled them to this earth, where then the "heads" and the diademed "horns" of the symbolic "wild beast" were fighting for world domination in World War I of 1914-1918 C.E. That abasement of the "dragon" and his angels — what a victorious salvation it meant for all those who were on the side of Jehovah God and his reigning Messiah, Jesus! — Revelation 12:7-12; 6:3-6; 13:3.

Now we are in that "short period of time" during which the abased "dragon" and his angels are restrained to the neighborhood of our earth until they

are removed from our vicinity to that prisonlike "abyss" of deathlike impotency and inactivity. Meantime, the victorious Messianic King has been gathering the remaining ones of the 144,000 spiritual Israelites that they may be sealed in their foreheads with the "seal of the living God" as his special possession. (Revelation 7:1-8; Matthew 24:31) But besides this remnant who are to be joint heirs with him in the heavenly Messianic kingdom, he has, even since before World War II broke out in the year 1939, been gathering also earthly subjects to the side of his Messianic kingdom. — John 10:16.

Already, despite all the "woe" that the abased "dragon" is angrily bringing upon both earth and sea, these earthly subjects have steadily increased in number to the point of becoming a "great crowd" made up of hundreds of thousands of dedicated, baptized disciples of the Messianic King, Jesus Christ. He promises to bring them miraculously out of "the great tribulation" into a new order on earth, free from trouble. — Revelation 7:9-17; 12:12.

The gathered remnant and the increasing "great crowd" all stand forth as a visible living evidence to all the world that the "mystery of God" has been finished and is irresistibly in action for carrying out its Messianic role. That is why they, although being "in the world," are different, for they are "no part of the world." (John 15:19; 17:14, 16) In this world of growing discontent and rebelliousness, persons are heard to say: "The words that I hate most are 'You must!'" But we are not here telling anyone, 'You must do this,' or, 'You must not do that.' It is other things that are putting all the peoples under compulsion, obliging them unwillingly to do something, even under sheer force of circumstances. It is the invisible "dragon," Satan the Devil, with his demons, who is exercising superhuman influence and saying to all people, 'You must!' These malicious intelligent spirit personalities are using the political "wild beast"

to say, 'You must! if you are to survive under my rule.'

Look all around you! How many persons are there whom you find displaying the "mark of the wild beast" in their "right hand" or upon their "forehead"? They cannot deny whose slaves they are or who is their owner and master that says to them, 'You must!' The telltale "mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name," betrays those having it beyond all denial by them. (Revelation 13:16-18) If anyone because of his spiritual blindness does not discern the "mark," Almighty God does! Are these 'marked' worshipers of the political "wild beast" happy? Are they secure? Do they have peace of heart and mind? Do they have a promising future before them at the paws of the "wild beast," the Devil's visible worldwide organization of politics? No! And consider just why not.

Of what benefit is it for any human to bear the "mark" as a worshiper of the "wild beast" and of the "image of the wild beast"? Like it or not, such a worshiper now finds himself drinking a bitter potion, "the wine of the anger of God" from the "cup of his wrath." Along with that, he is "tormented with fire and sulphur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb," even now before the utter destruction of all false worshipers in the not distant future. (Revelation 14:9-12) Also, today there are other things to consider, the "seven bowls of the anger of God" that are being poured out into all the earth by God's unseen "seven angels." The first "bowl" poured out affects the "men that had the mark of the wild beast and that were worshiping its image." Upon them there comes what corresponds to a "hurtful and malignant ulcer," a certain token that their idolatrous worship is leading to a painful, unpleasant death. — Revelation 16:1, 2.

Things of that kind that are pictured under such painful symbols in the Revelation could never stand for anything but something disagreeable from the

hand of the living and true God, Jehovah the Almighty. It is very evident that he is not well pleased with those people that have the loathsome "mark." This brings up a serious question that deserves our consideration now, and that is, Where will all these 'marked' people be when the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" bursts forth at the approaching world situation that is significantly called Har-Magedon (Armageddon)? It is well for us to reflect that such people could be nowhere else but on the wrong side of the battlefield.

For years now the people have been greatly affected by what has been going forth from sources visible and invisible. One visible source has been the political "wild beast," which the people bearing the "mark" are worshiping, so patriotically. The other visible source has been the political "false prophet," making impressive predictions in favor of the "image of the wild beast." Still another source, the invisible one, has been the "great dragon," Satan the Devil, who is the mighty spirit creature that gave to the "wild beast" its worldly power, its throne and its authority over all mankind. What goes forth from these three sources is propaganda, talk, decrees, "inspired expressions," but not expressions inspired by the spirit of Jehovah God.

God's inspired Word pictures those "inspired expressions" as being unclean "frogs" hopping out of the mouths of the symbolic dragon, wild beast and false prophet. To whom, though, is it that those "unclean inspired expressions" are directed? To the political rulers that govern you, the reader! What can you do about this? Will you do as the people do? Today the rulers lead; the people follow. Such lead-taking rulers are being gathered by the three "unclean inspired expressions" to — where? To a final war against God the Almighty at the battlefield of Har-Magedon. — Revelation 16:13-16.

BATTLE LINES FORMING

How close are we to Har-Magedon? The march of the nations thither has been going on now for some time. The world situation that must finally be reached will call for divine action. That situation spells Har-Magedon (Armageddon)! Do not grow impatient. It will at last be here and we shall be there!

In view of the way that you, the reader, are living your life today, on which side are you logically bound to be at that battlefield? There will be only the two sides, and our course in life now bears us undeviatingly along to the one side or to the other side. Where do we desire to be — then? Will you be where you had never thought you would be — against "God the Almighty"? Has prejudice against his name, Jehovah or Yahweh, affected you? Whose name is better, God's name or the "name of the wild beast"?

Those bearing the "mark" symbolically branded in their right hand or on their forehead will find themselves where their present-day choosing will have brought them, onto the side of the symbolic dragon, wild beast and false prophet, hence against God the Almighty and his finished "mystery." Religious Babylon the Great will be of no spiritual aid to them then. That worldly empire of false Babylonish religion will already have been wiped out immediately preceding the "war of the great day of God the Almighty," her surprise destruction coming at the hands of her own former friendly political patrons. (Revelation 17:1 to 18:24) Religious hypocrisy, including that of Christendom, will have been openly exposed. No religious front will be a safe disguise then.

At the world situation of Har-Magedon the symbolic wild beast and false prophet will be fighting in battle array against the finished "mystery of God," God's empowered Messianic kingdom. That is against what the "dragon," Satan the Devil, wants them to fight, that he may boast before Almighty God of having the majority of the race of mankind on his side. The slogan of Satan the Devil is, Rule or ruin!

If he himself cannot rule them after his "short period of time" is up, he will ruin them. (Revelation 12:12) No person on earth should ever think that maybe the political "wild beast" whom he is now worshiping under the encouragement of the "false prophet" can win or fight to a stalemate. There is no chance of this! There can be only one outcome to the "war" at Har-Magedon, namely, that described under divine inspiration at Revelation 19:20, as follows:

"And the wild beast was caught, and along with it the false prophet that performed in front of it the signs with which he misled those who received the mark of the wild beast and those who render worship to its image. While still alive, they both were hurled into the fiery lake that burns with sulphur."

No gradual dying process for the "wild beast" and the "false prophet"! While "still alive," as functioning political organizations, they will speedily be plunged into everlasting destruction, as in fire and sulphur. But what about the individual political rulers and their armies and subjects who support the "wild beast" and "false prophet" to the last in a fight for their perpetuation? God the Almighty, then victorious, will not swerve from what he foretold as to the disposal of these individuals:

"But the rest were killed off with the long sword of the one seated on the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth. And all the birds were filled from the fleshy parts of them." — Revelation 19:21.

No decent burial, no burial with military honors, for those slain at Har-Magedon at the command that projects like a sharp long sword of execution out of the mouth of the victorious Warrior, Jesus Christ, the King of kings. Despised, their carcasses lie exposed on the ground for unclean carrion birds, on which carcasses they can gorge themselves as "the great evening meal of God," in response to the invitation issued by the glorious angel:

"Come here, be gathered together . . . that you may eat the fleshy parts of kings and the fleshy parts

of military commanders and the fleshy parts of strong men and the fleshy parts of horses and of those seated upon them, and the fleshy parts of all, of freemen as well as of slaves and of small ones and great."  — Revelation 19:17, 18.

At that time where is the benefit that today comes from worshiping in a patriotic, nationalistic manner the "wild beast" and its "image" at the urging of the political "false prophet"? Yes, at that time what about the badge of honor, of respectability and of public spiritedness that people think it is today to bear the "mark," that is, "the name of the wild beast or the number of its name," six hundred and sixty-six? Ah, then such present-day glamorous things prove to be all in vain!

During the "short period of time" before that disaster, the symbolic "great dragon" and its demon angels have great anger because of having lost the war in heaven and having been hurled down to the earth's vicinity. During this same "short period of time" the "dragon" has crowded in a lot of "woe" for all mankind dwelling on sea and on land; but shortly, at Armageddon, he counts on realizing his malicious intention of bringing upon the vast majority of humankind their greatest "woe" — their utter destruction at Almighty God's hands. O what satisfaction he will have at the fact that he will have brought down in irreparable ruin all these human creatures rather than let any other spirit person rule over them! But he and his demon angels are not given much time in which to gloat over the human wreckage that they have caused. For down from the holy heavens comes Jehovah's angel who is stronger than the "great dragon" and his demon angels, those wicked spirits in the heavenly places that have long wielded invisible power and might over all misguided humankind. The dreaded moment promptly arrives, the moment that they have long been awaiting — the solemn time when they are to be plunged into the abyss of total restraint! — Luke 8:29-31.

Who is Jehovah's angel that, unaided, comes down to perform the superhuman task? He is Jehovah's Key Keeper, "the angel of the abyss," the starlike one who has the "key of the pit of the abyss." (Revelation 9:1, 11) He is the one who, when on earth as a perfect man, had a personal experience in the "abyss." (Romans 10:7) He is the Principal One embraced in the millenniums-old "mystery of God," that is, the Principal One of the "seed" of God's "woman," who was foretold to be the Bruiser of the serpent in the head. (Genesis 3:15; Romans 16:20) Resistance to this mighty executive angel of Jehovah God is all for naught. "The dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan," is seized, together with all his demon angels, and they are bound with an unbreakable "great chain" and hurled into the abyss, all exit out of which is locked with the "key" and then officially sealed shut. For how long? "For a thousand years."

Their being released at the end of those thousand years will be that they may have just one more brief try at again corrupting earth's inhabitants. After that malicious effort they will be eternally destroyed.  — Revelation 20:1, 2, 7-10.

NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH

After the abyssing of Satan the Devil, what beautiful heavens there will be to smile down benignly upon the jubilant survivors of the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" at Har-Magedon! What a beautiful "earth" will then be ushered in for the Edenic pleasure of mankind! The old "heavens" and the old "earth" will have been put to flight into oblivion, never again to appear before the face of the Creator of heaven and earth, Jehovah God. (Revelation 20: 11) First to be put to flight will be the old "earth" by the divine destruction of all wicked human society at Armageddon or Har-Magedon. This will wipe out the man-made political, religious, social system of things that has held human society captive since

shortly after the earth-wide deluge of the prophet Noah's day. To the happy satisfaction of the Creator the ground will have been cleared down here for the bringing in of the long-awaited new system of things, ideally suited for a "new earth." — 2 Peter 3:13.

Amid loud Hallelujahs ringing through all creation under radiant azure skies the "new earth" starts off with the divinely protected survivors of the "great tribulation," an "earth" that will never be replaced in mankind's future history. (Revelation 7:15; Matthew 24:21, 22) Theocratic organization reigns supreme upon all this terrestrial globe. Imprisoned in the securely locked abyss, the "great dragon," "the original serpent," cannot interfere with the theocratic arrangement for humankind. No longer does the "wild beast" out of the sea stalk through the earth, thrusting its seven heads of imperial world powers into human affairs. It is no longer necessary to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, but all things must now be paid to God, the Great Theocrat. (Matthew 22:21) Worshiping of the "wild beast" and worshiping of the "great dragon" indirectly through the "wild beast" are stamped out, forbidden, shunned. All the ground is sanctified as the place for the worship of Jehovah God alone. His name is sanctified; his will is done on earth as it is fully done in heaven.  — Matthew 6:9, 10.

Brought to ruin are those of today who are "ruining the earth." (Revelation 11:18) The debris resulting from the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" at Har-Magedon must be removed. The time has come for beautification of the whole earthly sphere as a paradise, of which the Garden of Eden of six thousand years ago was the original God-given model. (Genesis 1:26-31; 2:7-14) Mankind, redeemed with the sin-atoning blood of the Lamb of God, deserves to have a perfect garden home in which to enjoy life and the service and praise of Jehovah God forever. The soil beneath man's feet must be made productive to sustain human life in perfect health

and in ageless bloom for all time to come. The "new earth" of organized human society must flourish amid a true terrestrial paradise. Vibrant with inexpressible joy and eagerness, the Har-Magedon survivors set themselves to the challenging task, taking the lead for all mankind. They need to get things ready for the arrival of other redeemed ones. There is no time to lose!

Listen now! The precisely exact time clock of the purpose of Jehovah God strikes the wondrous hour! It is the hour for all those in the memorial tombs to begin hearing the voice of the Son of God and to come forth from the dead. (John 5:28, 29) The Son of God uses the "keys of death and of Ha'des." Look! Death and Ha'des begin giving up the dead that are in them, to continue doing so until Ha'des, mankind's common grave, gives up the last redeemed one found in it. Even the sea gives up the dead in its watery depths. (Revelation 20:12-14) Can we believe our eyes? There is the first martyr, Abel! There too is Enoch, yes, and Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, Rachel, Moses, David, Daniel, Malachi, John the Baptist, O "so great a cloud of witnesses," all of whom preceded Jehovah's greatest witness of all, his beloved Son Jesus Christ. (Hebrews 11:1 to 12:2) And there —  O how delightful to the Har-Magedon survivors —  there are many of the "other sheep" whom Jehovah's "fine Shepherd" began gathering into his earthly flock in this "time of the end." With clear powers of identification the Har-Magedon survivors recognize them, and with these they proceed to renew their united service to the Most High God! — John 10:16.

When, in the "new earth," you see the dead raised out of their death sleep in Ha'des to life in the terrestrial paradise, how do you think you will feel? Really, how could you feel differently from those of the people who saw the Lord Jesus Christ raise the son of the poor widow of Nain in Galilee to life and restore him alive to his mother? Awesome fear should

seize you as it did those resurrection witnesses! But more than that! "They began to glorify God, saying: 'A great prophet has been raised up among us,' and, 'God has turned his attention to his people.'" (Luke 7:16) More intimately than that, when you become witness to the resurrection of the first one of your own earthly relatives, how could the emotional effect of this upon you be otherwise than that upon the parents who saw the same Lord Jesus Christ restore their twelve-year-old daughter alive to their yearning arms? "At once they were beside themselves with great ecstasy." (Mark 5:42) Ah, indeed, unspeakable joy will be yours at the resurrection of the dead from Ha'des and the sea. Heartfelt comfort will be yours! O what a glorious tomorrow that will soon be here!

In view of that approaching hour of resurrection of the redeemed earthly dead, what loving preparations the Har-Magedon survivors will make toward receiving back all these who are in line for a resurrection through the redemptive perfect human sacrifice of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ! How diligently they will cultivate the ground for the extending of the terrestrial paradise in which to provide living room for the resurrected ones! What preparations they will make to be faithful witnesses of Jehovah God and of his Lamb regarding all the words and works of God of which the restored dead will be ignorant! What a life-giving educational work they will carry forward in behalf of the returning dead ones, that they may live in an earth filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea basin! (Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14) Serving as guidance, information and textbooks in this worldwide educational work will be the messages and decrees from God, concerning which Revelation 20:12 says:

''And scrolls were opened. . . . And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds."

GOVERNMENT DESERVING OF MAN'S CONFIDENCE

Back to our ears come now the words of the announcement made after the blowing of the trumpet by the seventh angel: "the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great." (Revelation 11:15-18) Perfect confidence is what you and the resurrected dead can have that this judgment, rendered according to one's deeds in the "new earth," will be fair, just, unprejudiced, flawless! Why so? Because over the Eden-like "new earth" there will reign the "new heavens." No longer is it necessary to wrestle with the invisible "great dragon" and his demon angels, "the world rulers of this darkness," "the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places," these perverters of justice. Those old 'former heavens' have been consigned to the abyss. (Ephesians 6:12; Revelation 21:1) They have been replaced with the God-given "new heavens," the finished "mystery of God."

What a personnel that heavenly government will have, to inspire the full confidence of the Har-Magedon survivors and of those resurrected from the dead! Chief One in that celestial capital organization is the Lamb of God, the resurrected, glorified Jesus Christ, the one who is "called Faithful and True," and who "judges and carries on war in righteousness." (Revelation 19:11) He is the principal or essential one of the "seed" of God's wifelike heavenly organization, for bruising the Serpent in the head, that thus he might "bring to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is, the Devil." (Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 2:14) Associated with the righteous Lamb of God in the heavenly capital organization are the 144,000 faithful anointed followers as "priests of God and of the Christ," who are to reign with Christ for a thousand years. This "little flock" of sheeplike followers are married to him and are lovelily spoken of as "the bride, the Lamb's wife." (Luke 12:32; Revelation 21:9) Inasmuch as that heavenly govern-

ment will have as its officers the life-giving Bridegroom and his beloved Bride, it will be a paternal government caring for its subjects like its own children.

The Bride class is just as deserving of the confidence of all people on earth as is the Bridegroom, the King Jesus Christ. She is likened to an eye-entrancing city of beauty and is called "the holy city, New Jerusalem." In her all membership is debarred to "the cowards and those without faith and those who are disgusting in their filth and murderers and fornicators and those practicing spiritism and idolaters and all the liars." Indeed, "anything not sacred and anyone that carries on a disgusting thing and a lie will in no way enter into it; only those written in the Lamb's scroll of life will." (Revelation 21:8, 27) Nothing else but a clean, righteous, godly rule can be expected from such a government, one so carefully prepared by Jehovah God, the Holy One.

The "glory of God" lights up the citylike government, and the Lamb of God is as its "lamp." All earth beneath this citylike government will be lighted up, knowing the way to go in the paradise earth to gain the brilliant prize of everlasting life and happiness, with glowing perfect health. With proper confidence regarding this, Revelation 21:24 says: "The nations will walk by means of its light."

How heartwarming is the change that the "new heavens" bring to our earth! When the Satanic 'former heavens' were cast down from the holy realm of God's faithful angels and thus the "great dragon" and its angels came down to the vicinity of our earth, it was to mean "woe for the earth and for the sea!" And this has been so. (Revelation 12:7-12) But when the New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven from God in a beauty like that of a radiant bride adorned for her husband on her wedding day, it will be a time for blessing upon all the redeemed ones of mankind, the Har-Magedon survivors and the dead who are to be resurrected.

God's protection is spread over earth's inhabitants

like a tent, and by means of the Messianic government that he puts in power over them God resides with mankind. "And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be any more. The former things have passed away." The death that we all inherited from Adam after his fall into sin and condemnation will be wiped out by the "life-giving spirit," the self-sacrificing Lamb of God. (Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:24, 25, 45) All the bad effects of the reign of sin and death will be undone forever!  — Revelation 21:1-4.

Refreshingly new — that is what everything on earth will then be for redeemed mankind who were never inside the paradise garden of Eden where human life started out in beautiful perfection! And yet this newness is absolutely certain to be, for Jehovah God on his heavenly throne has unchangeably said: "Look! I am making all things new." And to the apostle John he said: "Write, because these words are faithful and true." (Revelation 21:5) God does not lie. God cannot possibly lie, either in spoken word or in inspired writings of his Holy Bible. His kingdom by means of his Messianic King, Jesus Christ, will bring to amazing reality all the divine promises.

CONSOLATIONS FROM THE FINISHED
"MYSTERY OF GOD"

The "throne of God and of the Lamb" is established in the heavens since the year of change, 1914 C.E. The "throne of God and of the Lamb" stands as the symbol of the installed Messianic kingdom of God, the finished and finally realized "mystery of God." Out from that heavenly throne through the "holy city, New Jerusalem," will flow to the "new earth" the divine provisions for redeemed mankind to partake of for everlasting life. Like an irresistible, never-exhausted river of water of life, "clear as crystal," those life provisions will flow to humankind on the cleansed earth. — Revelation 22:1, 2.

Poor afflicted humankind of today! For almost sixty centuries you have suffered outside the lost Paradise of Eden. Bitter have been the tears that have streamed burning down your cheeks at the loss of loved ones in death. Piercing has been your irrepressible outcry at all the pain that has racked your body because of sickness, disease, decrepitude and crippling accidents. Anguished has been your sobbing at all the brutality and havoc of ungodly wars between your own members, brother men. Deep has been your mourning over all the religious hypocrisy and the perversion of truth and righteousness, resulting in the misrepresentation and reproach of the one living and true God, man's loving Creator. "How long, O God, how long?" you have moaned. How long will this divine permission of wickedness continue on among earth's inhabitants? Yet now lift up your drooping head. Let your tear-bedimmed eyes see all the evidences in world events and conditions that the end of the permission of diabolical wickedness is immediately upon you!

Turn your ears away from all the noisy tumult of clashing parties of men and open them wide to hear the cheering news that tells how we are living in the "time of the end" of this doomed system of things. Give ear to the joyful sound, "this good news of the kingdom." Can you not hear it? O you must be hearing it, for this consoling news is now being preached by the Christian witnesses of Jehovah God in "all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations." (Daniel 12:4; Matthew 24:14) Let the Lamb of God, like a Fine Shepherd, guide you to "fountains of waters of life," as he has already done in the case of the international "great crowd" of his "other sheep" all this earth around, in order that from now onward God may "wipe out every tear from [your] eyes."  — Revelation 7:9-17.

Even now, as a foretaste of the fullness of God's provisions for everlasting life in the "new earth," soul-satisfying "water of life" is made available for you. The Lamb's Bride, of whom a faithful remnant

are yet preaching on the earth, is joining with the spirit of divine prophecy in calling out: "Come!" You are athirst for the life that is real life, are you not? You wish to come, do you not? Ah, then, come and "take life's water free," for the invitation is extended to "anyone thirsting" and to "anyone that wishes." And do not be one who hears and comes mindful only of oneself, but follow the unselfish request: "Let anyone hearing say: 'Come!' " (Revelation 22:17) Lovingly point out to others the way to the "water of life" and spread the heavenly invitation to others. Drink and live — forever!

Make no secret of these things long ago foretold but now being marvelously fulfilled, "for the appointed time is near." (Revelation 22:10) Share the blessed information with others. These are the days in which the seventh angel of God has sounded the trumpet. Blessed are your ears in hearing the meaningful sound, for thereby you know and understand that the Messianic kingdom of God has been established in the heavens and is gloriously fulfilling the grand prophecies about it. With heartfelt devotion take your stand openly for this reigning kingdom of God by his Christ for the eternal blessing of all mankind. Hail this finished "mystery of God"! — Revelation 10:7; 11:15-17.