1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

268 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
a period of time between the Kingdom's birth by
Jehovah's assumption of power and the kingdom
for the first thousand years of the new world .
That period in between is the world's "time of the
end", "the consummation of the system of things ."
Note : In 1914, the year of the Kingdom's birth,
the ungrateful, faithless nations of the earth with
the blessings of their religious clergy went to
war for world domination . Also war in heaven
broke out against the newborn heavenly Government
. In the fight this Government proved itself
the rightful sovereign power of the universe, and
Satan and his demons were hurled down to the
earth. This humiliating defeat of Satan and his
demons did not destroy Satan's world and consume
his wicked heavens and earth . But they
must depart forever at the day and hour fixed by
Jehovah God on his throne . With a symbolic portrayal
of that coming world-disappearance, the
apostle John writes : "And I saw a great white
throne and the one seated on it. From before him
the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place
was found for them ." Revelation 20:11, NW
Too pure of eyes than to look upon wickedness
with approval, God cannot countenance Satan's
heavens and earth. They must be obliterated .
First after that the righteous world of a new heavens
and a new earth will begin .
3 Cast down to earth, the great dragon Satan
and his demons bring all the postwar woes upon
sea and land . They persecute all representatives
of God's "woman" universal organization and
make war against the remnant of her spiritual
seed. Knowing he has but a short time before the
3. In what main activities are Satan and his demons
engaged now?