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assume that the provision will be in the hands oftheir fellows. It will be the ‘sheep' that will beespecially interested in, praying for andpreparing for, those who are in the great prisonhouseof death. And by so engaging their timeand energy these ‘sheep' will be manifesting apurpose, a will, in harmony with that of theCreator. (John 5:28, 29.) Any one not interestedin that work will be lacking in God's Spirit; andthis is what is charged against the goat-class."—Z.'14-268.[Which are] in the four [quarters of the earth]CORNERS, Gog.— Proud (Gog means high),Natural Israelites. (1 Chr. 5:3, 4.) " ‘Ye [proudand unfaithful Jews] shall see Abraham and Isaacand Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom ofGod [the earthly phase], and ye yourselves thrustout.' (Luke 13:28)."— Z.'07-302.And Magog.— Those who, during the GospelAge, were nominal Spiritual Israelites, but atheart were never anything but "tares" and alwaysremain such. Magog was the descendant ofJapheth. (Gen. 10:2.) Europe was peopled by hisdescendants, and it was to them that the Gospelcall of the Age now ending was by Divineappointment sent. (Acts 16:6, 9.) The Gospelwas sent into Europe that it might bedemonstrated that God could call and make intoChristlike characters representatives of even themost cruel, bloodthirsty, quarrelsome, rapaciouspeople on earth. Such they are. Japan is proofthat contact with Europeans will in a generationtransform a contented, peace-loving people into apeople of unbounded ambition, imbued with thespirit of the very Devil.— Ezek. 38:2; 39:1.AND to gather them together to battle.—"When at the close of the Millennial Age all theobedient of mankind shall have attained all thatwas lost in Adam and redeemed by Christ— thenall, armed with complete knowledge andexperience, and hence fully able to stand the test,will be tested severely (as was Adam), butindividually, and onlyFM308