1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

234 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
issue there is a division and those who belong to
the remnant choose one destiny but the rest a
different one . So one is taken along, but the other
abandoned .
13 One's being taken along corresponds with being
received with Noah into the ark he built or
the angel's taking Lot and his family out of Sodom
to escape to the mountain . It means being taken
to the place of safety in the Theocratic organization,
safe from this world and its calamitous
fate . It is because the remnant love Christ's appearing
and kingdom and watch for the sign in
evidence . Till the close of World War I in 1918
they were in forced bondage to this world, like the
ancient Israelites when captive in Babylon. In
1919 their invisibly present Lord opened their
eyes to the sign and made plain God's commanding
call in his Word and brought them out of this
prison condition . Rejoicing in his presence in the
Kingdom which was shining like lightning that
flashed light from east to west, they fearlessly
took their stand on the side of the established
Theocratic Government . They rejoiced that the
battle of Armageddon was approaching and that
there the King with iron rod would reduce the
Devil's world organization to a carcass and so
vindicate the universal sovereignty of the Most
High God . The Lord, in view of the shortness of
the time, quickly separated them or caught them
away from the doomed organization and united
them as a free people with himself in the Theo-
13. How have the remnant been gathered like eagles
to a carcass?