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the Sword which is perplexing and wounding theheads over many countries." (Psa. 110:6; B101.)Not until great Babylon is utterly overthrownand her influence over the world broken— willthe great mass of mankind come to realize thetrue state of the case. Then they will see that thegreat trouble through which they will havepassed was that symbolically termed ‘The battleof the great Day of God Almighty;' that inproportion as they have aided error and wrong,they have been battling against the law andforces of the new Empire and the new Ruler ofearth; and that in proportion as their tongues, andpens, and hands, and influence, and means, wereused to support the right and the truth on anysubject, they had been to that extent fighting onthe Lord's side. And during all the trouble therewill be in the world those who will bear witnessto its cause, declaring the Lord's presence andthe setting up of His Kingdom which is inopposition to the powers of darkness to be thereal cause of the trouble and shaking and overturningof society.'— B141.Revelation 16:15.Behold, I come as a thief.— A thief comesunexpectedly, for the purpose of securing jewelsonly.— Mal. 3:17; 2 Pet. 3:10; Rev. 3:3; Matt.24:42-44; 1 Thess, 5:2.Blessed is he that watcheth.— "Because notheedless, careless, indifferent servants of theKing, but faithful and earnest ones, the Watchersdiscern that there are three words or distinctlydifferent signification, used in respect to theLord's Second Advent; namely, parousia andepiphania and apokalupsis. Parousia is used inrespect to the earliest stage of the SecondAdvent, while apokalupsis relates to the sameAdvent later." (Z.'02-86.) "The Greek wordsapokalupsis and apokalupto signify revealment,uncovering, unveiling (as of a thing previouslypresent but hidden). The name of the last book ofthe Bible is from the same root— Apocalypse orRevelation."— Z.'02-92; 1 Cor. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:7;Luke 17:29, 30.