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THE KINGDOM OF A NEW WORLD 269
final fight, he and his demons inspire many warmongering
messages against Jehovah and the
Kingdom and send these forth through the mouthpieces
of Satan's invisible and visible organization
. By these they madden the "kings of the entire
inhabited earth, to gather them together to
the war of the great day of God the Almighty .
. . . And they gathered them together to the
place that is called in Hebrew Har-Ma .ged'on".
Sanguinary battles of ancient times at Armageddon
in Palestine foreshadowed the universal war
of Armageddon . Leading the holy hosts of heaven
for the vindication of Jehovah's universal sovereignty
is Jesus Christ, the Word of God, as on a
white horse.
4 Reporting long in advance the final line-up of
sides, John writes : "And I saw the wild beast and
the kings of the earth and their armies gathered
together to wage the war with the one seated on the
horse and with his army ." Not a single ruler of
this earth, no matter of what political ideology or
religious belief, is missing from that battle array
against Jehovah's King of kings and Lord of lords .
Though at odds among themselves, they are united
to a man in their unyielding opposition to Jehovah's
rule of the earth by Christ. The day and
hour known to God arrive . Signal! His Warrior
King catches it. By a move that surprises and disconcerts
all who fight for this old world he begins
the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" .
The symbolic earth flees into destruction as all
enemies of Jehovah and his Christ are annihilated
and all the visible systems of this world are
4. a What is the final line-up of sides? b Who leads
off in the fight and what results to the earth and its
works?