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And keepeth My works unto the end.—Continues in the faith (John 6:29; 1 John 3:23),despite the unions of church and state. Christ'sworks are opposite to Jezebel's.— Rev. 2:22.FM44To him will I give THE power [over] OF thenations.— How like our God! The sacrificedChrist gets the very prize for which Satanaspired.— Isa. 14:13, 14:1 Cor. 6:2, 3; Rev.3:21; 5:10; Psa. 149:5-9 2:27And he shall rule them with a rod of Iron.—"God's Kingdom will not be established by avote of the people, nor by the vote of thearistocracy and rules. He ‘whose right it is,' Hewho bought it with His own precious blood, willtake the Kingdom.' will ‘take unto Himself Hisgreat power and reign.'" (D518)."The nations will be ruled by irresistible force—'every knee shall bow, every tongue shallconfess'— and obedience will be compulsory."(D636.) "In His day the humble and righteous,and they only, shall flourish. (Isa 28:17; Rom.14:11; Psa. 92:12, 13."— C 369.) "The onlyliberty that will be granted to any will be the trueand glorious liberty of the sons of God— libertyto do good to themselves and others in any andin every way; but nothing will be allowed toinjure or destroy in all that Holy Kingdom. (Isa.11:9; Rom. 8:21.) Because of its firmness andvigor, it is symbolically called an iron rule."— A302; Rev. 19:15.As the vessels of a potter shall they be brokento shivers.— "The stone cut out of the mountainwithout hands, which smites and scatters theGentile powers, represents the true Church, theKingdom of God. Not the people, but thegovernments, are symbolized by the Image, andthese are to be destroyed that the people may bedelivered. Our Lord Jesus came not to destroymen's lives, but to save them. (John 3:17.) Thestone does not became the mountain until It hassmitten the Image; and so the Church, in the fullsense, will become the Kingdom when ‘the dayof the Lord,' the ‘day of wrath upon the nations,'