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THE REMNANT OF KINGDOM HEIRS 235
cratic organization . Appreciating the situation
and the issue involved, they hasten to that side
like far-sighted, swift-flying eagles .
14 Those who take the other side of the issue
of universal sovereignty ignore and repel the light
which reveals that God's Kingdom Heir and Theocratic
Government are here . In willful ignorance
and scoffing they go on in worldliness and are left
or abandoned to their fate with Satan's world .
When the day and hour, known only to God and
his Executioner, come unexpectedly and surprise
them like a thief, their carcasses will drop to the
earth like carrion, along with that of their religious
friend and ally, Christendom, the antitypical
unfaithful Jerusalem . But the remnant of Kingdom
heirs will rejoice over Jehovah's vindication
and will feast like eagles upon the carcasses of his
defeated foes . Revelation 19 :17-21 In God's appointed
time and way their joy will be crowned
with finishing their earthly course faithfully in
death . But not to sleep in death . No, but they will
be changed instantaneously to spirits immortal,
incorruptible, to be personally in spirit with their
Lord in the air, to be forever with him in his
image, serving Jehovah God together . Happy are
they in this special privilege, thus to "rest from
their labors, for the things they did go right with
them" . This glorification of them completes the
144,000 in the heavenly Kingdom .
14. To what are the worldlings abandoned, but how is
the catching away of the remnant to be with the Lord
completed?