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THE WORLD'S "TIME OF THE END" 211
And she gave birth to a son, a male, who is destined
to shepherd all the nations with an iron
rod . That fact writes finis to the times of the
nations'. And her child was caught away to God
and to his throne . . . . And war broke out in
heaven : Michael and his angels battled with the
dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but
it did not prevail, neither was a place found for
them any longer in heaven . So down the great
dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one
called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire
inhabited earth ; he was hurled down to the
earth, and his angels were hurled down with him .
And I heard a loud voice in heaven say : Now
have come to pass the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God and the authority of
his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers
has been hurled down, who accuses them day and
night before our God! . . . On this account be
glad, you heavens and you who reside in them!
Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the
Devil has come down to you, having great anger,
knowing he has a short period of time .'"-Revelation
12 :1-12, NW.
9 There you are! It is Satan the Devil that is
responsible for the woe that torments earth and
sea! He opposed God's kingdom from its birth in
1914 . But he was foiled in his efforts to overturn
it and was hurled out of heaven down to earth .
The endless succession of woe and distress since
1914 proves the Kingdom was born, the war in
9. So what does the world woe prove? Yet why should
we rejoice?