Psalm 16:9-10. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
Psalm 30:3. You, LORD, brought me up from the realm of the dead; you spared me from going down to the pit.
Endnote 97 (back): Isaiah 49:5-6. And now the LORD says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength— he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”
Endnote 98 (back): Psalm 22:27-31. All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him, for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations. All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—those who cannot keep themselves alive. Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!
Endnote 99 (back): Luke 15:11-32.
Endnote 100 (back): 1939, MGM.
Endnote 101 (back): Matthew 22:37. Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Deuteronomy 6:5. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Endnote 102 (back): Matthew 22:39. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Leviticus 19:18. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Endnote 103 (back): Matthew 22:40. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Endnote 104 (back): Micah 6:6-8. With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Endnote 105 (back): Isaiah 1:18. “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
Endnote 106 (back): Luke 23:42. Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
Endnote 107 (back): Luke 23:43. Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Endnote 108 (back): See John 11.
Endnote 109 (back): Daniel 9:27. He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ [That is, a treaty between Israel and the many, i.e., the rest of the world through the UN.] In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. [In the middle of the seven — that is after 3 ½ years — the antichrist will end the daily sacrifice and offering.] And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation [that is, the statue of Christopher at the Temple in Jerusalem], until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
Endnote 110 (back): Revelation 10:6-7. And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There will be no more delay! But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet [in which are the seven last plagues mentioned in Revelation 15:1], the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.” [Reference to “no more delay” indicates there has been delay — some period of relative calm — between the sixth trumpet and the events of the seven last plagues. To allow time for the fulfillment of the other prophesied events, the seven last plagues will occur in rapid succession toward the end of the Tribulation period.]
Revelation 15:1. I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed.
Endnote 111 (back): Zechariah 12:10. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 112 (back): Hebrews 9:27. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment…
Endnote 113 (back): Numbers 35:19. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.
Deuteronomy 19:6. Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.
Deuteronomy 11-12. But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities, the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die.
Endnote 114 (back): Joshua 20:2-3. Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.
Endnote 115 (back): 2 Samuel 14:11. She said, “Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed.” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
Endnote 116 (back): Matthew 13:55-56. “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”
Endnote 117 (back): Genesis 3:15. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” [This prophecy has always been considered by the rabbis to refer to the Messiah. For examples, see Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix 9 (Peabody, Massachusetts, Hendrickson Publishers, 1993 pp. 981).]
Endnote 118 (back): Revelation 17:8. The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.
Contrast Revelation 17:8 with Revelation 1:8. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” [See similar in Revelation 1:4 and 4:8.]
Endnote 119 (back): Revelation 14:2-3. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Endnote 120 (back): Revelation 12:6. The woman [Israel] fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
Endnote 121 (back): Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles is a week-long annual holiday during which Israel is commanded to live in tents or “booths.”
Leviticus 23:42-43 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. (KJV).
Endnote 122 (back): Isaiah 41:17-20. The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on ba
rren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it. [See in context]
Endnote 123 (back): Romans 1:20-25. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
John 6:45. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
Endnote 124 (back): Revelation 16:1-2. Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.” The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
Endnote 125 (back): Revelation 13:16-17. It [the second beast] also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Endnote 126 (back): Revelation 16:3. The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.
Endnote 127 (back): 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
Revelation 13:13-14a. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth.
Endnote 128 (back): Revelation 16:4-6. The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: “You are just in these judgments, O Holy One, you who are and who were; for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.” And I heard the altar respond: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.”
Endnote 129 (back): The Masai natives in Kenya frequently drink a mixture of milk and cow’s blood.
Endnote 130 (back): Mark 6:4-6. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith.
Endnote 131 (back): Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:10-16; Acts 15:20-21, 15:29, 21:25.
Endnote 132 (back): This view, known as Preterism, is commonly held by many churches who trace their origins to Calvinist Reformed Theology. I am not suggesting that Preterists are not Christians and will be left when the Church is raptured; rather that this will be a convenient argument following the Disaster/Rapture.
Endnote 133 (back): The name Nero Caesar (like the name Christopher Goodman) when written phonetically in Hebrew produces a series of letters, which when their numeric value is added, yields 666.
Endnote 134 (back): Carl G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.
Endnote 135 (back): Revelation 16:2. The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
Endnote 136 (back): Revelation 16:3. The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.
Endnote 137 (back): Revelation 16:4. The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
Endnote 138 (back): Revelation 16:8-9. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 139 (back): Revelation 16:9. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
Endnote 140 (back): Revelation 20:4. …And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands…
Endnote 141 (back): Revelation 12:11. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
Revelation 14:13. Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”
Endnote 142 (back): Revelation 14:12. This [the requirement to take the mark] calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
Endnote 143 (back): Matthew 24:9. Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
Endnote 144 (back): Revelation 13:9-10. Whoever has ears, let them hear. “If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.”
Endnote 145 (back): Revelation 16:10-12. [Quoted in text.]
Endnote 146 (back): This is similar occurrence to God’s provision made for Israel in the wilderness as described in Deuteronomy 8:4; 29:5; and Nehemiah 9:21.
Deuteronomy 29:5. Yet the LORD says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.
Endnote 147 (back): Isaiah 26:21. See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
Endnote 148 (back): Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice.
Endnote 149 (back): Matthew 24:22. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Mark 13:20. If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them. [As depicted throughout the trilogy, followers of Christ (the “elect”) are not immune to the effects of the plagues. Had this plague not been cut short, all would have died from dehydration or other causes.]
Endnote 150 (back): Joshua 6.
Endnote 151 (back): Revelation 16:13-14. Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
Endnote 152 (back): Harold Camping said that the Rapture would occur in September 1994 and later asserted that the Rapture and Judgment Day would occur on May 21, 2011, then again changed the date to October 21, 2011, each time excusing away his predictions when they proved false.
Endnote 153 (back): See David A. Reed, Index of Watchtower Errors (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1990).
Endnote 154 (back): Studies in the Scriptures, vol. 3 (Allegheny, PA: Watch Tower, 1891).
Endnote 155 (back): “Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?” Watchtower, August 15, 1968, pp. 494-501. Also, The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life (Brooklyn: Watch Tower, 1968), p. 95; Awake, October 8, 1968, pp. 13—14; and Man’s Salvation Out of the World Distress at Hand! (Brooklyn: Watch Tower, 1975), p. 75.
Endnote 156 (back): Golden Age, (Brooklyn: Watch Tower, 1930),
p. 503.
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