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I BEHELD THEN, BECAUSE OF THE VOICE OF THE GREAT WORD

WHICH THE HORN SPOKE: I BEHELD EVEN TIL THE BEAST WAS
SLAIN, AND HIS BODY DESTROYED, AND GIVEN TO THE BURNING
FLAME. AS CONCERNING THE REST OF THE BEASTS, THEY

HAD THEIR DOMINION TAKEN AWAY: YET THEIR LIVES WERE
PROLONGED FOR A SEASON AND A TIME.

I SAW THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND, BEHOLD, ONE LIKE THE SON

OF MAN CAME WITH CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, AND CAME TO THE
ANCIENT OF DAYS, AND THEY BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE HIM.
AND THERE WAS GIVEN HIM DOMINION, AND GLORY, AND A
KINGDOM, THAT ALL THE PEOPLE, NATION AND LANGUAGES
SHOULD SERVE HIM: HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING
DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM
THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED. *********

SHALL WE: REACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD ? A UNITY IN ONE

WITH PEACE AND RECOGNITION OF ALL. IS IT NOT TIME ? DOES

MISERY AND DESTRUCTION STAND AGAIN BEFORE MANKIND ?

IS IT TRUE WE FORGET HITLER AND THE MANY THAT BURNED

IN HIS OVENS, AND THOSE WHO LOSE LIFE TO WAR ?

THE NEAR APPROACH OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT-

YOU HAVE WEARIED THE LORD WITH YOUR WORDS. YET YOU SAY,

WHEREIN HAVE WE WEARIED HIM ? WHEN YOU SAY, EVERY ONE
THAT DOES EVIL IS GOOD IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND HE
DELIGHTETH IN THEM; OR, WHERE IS THE GOD OF JUDGEMENT ?

BEHOLD, I WILL SEND MY MESSENGER, AND HE SHALL PREPARE

THE WAY BEFORE ME: AND THE LORD WHOM YOU SEEK, SHALL
SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE, EVEN THE MESSENGER OF THE
COVENANT, WHOM YOU DELIGHT IN: BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME,
SAITH THE LORD OF HOST. BUT WHO MAY ABIDE THE DAY OF HIS
COMING, AND, WHO SHALL STAND WHEN HE APPEARS ?

THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD -

FOR, BEHOLD, THE DAY COMETH THAT SHALL BURN AS AN OVEN;

AND ALL THE PROUD, AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY, SHALL BE
STUBBLE: AND THE DAY THAT COMETH SHALL BURN THEM UP,
SAITH THE LORD OF HOST, THAT IT SHALL LEAVE THEM NEITHER
ROOT NOR BRANCH.

BUT UNTO YOU THAT FEAR MY NAME THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

ARISE WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS; AND YOU SHALL GO FORTH,

AND GROW UP AS CALVES OF THE STALL. AND YOU SHALL TREAD

DOWN THE WICKED; FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES

OF YOUR FEET IN THE DAY THAT I SHALL DO THIS, SAITH THE LORD
OF HOST.

NOW THE BRETHREN AWAITS THE WORD OF GOD: BUT WILL
THE ANCIENTS PASS WITH REALIZATION, OR, AGAIN, FORCES OF

NATURE BALANCE WITH DESTRUCTION TO OBTAIN UNITY ?

THUS FROM THE TREE OF LIFE WE MUST USE KNOWLEDGE AND

WISDOM AS BALANCED FRUIT BEFORE BLOSSOM. THEN WE MAY

FOLLOW IN SUIT AND BLOSSOM OURSELVES IN PEACE: TOGETHER,

WITH UNDERSTANDING.

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