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any one who has become spiritually dead. Thepriests and Levites alone might enter the priests'court; and this types that many professing to beconsecrated Christians will lose all claim tobeing followers of Christ— be slain religiously.So many will thus lose belief that Christendomwill be filled with them. Literally the sanctuariesand the streets of Christendom will be filled withthe slain of the Time of Trouble.Ezekiel 9:8.And it came to pass, while they were slayingthem, and I was left, that I fell upon my face,and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt Thoudestroy all the residue of Israel in Thypouring out of Thy fury upon Jerusalem?— Itwill almost seem that none in Christendom willescape alive; and,indeed, "Except those days be shortened, noflesh should be saved."— Matt. 24:22.Ezekiel 9:9, 10.Then said He unto me, The iniquity of thehouse of Israel and Judah is exceeding great,and the land is full of blood, and the city fullof perverseness: for they say, The Lord hathforsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.And as for Me also, Mine eyes shall not spare,neither will I have any pity, but I willrecompense their way upon their head.— Onaccount of the light of the Gospel of Love theypossess, both Romanism and Protestantism areguilty to an extraordinary degree before God.Christendom, through its savage wars, isdrenched with blood. Churchianity is full ofwilful sin. God will seem to have left the socialorder to its own destruction.Ezekiel 9:11.And, behold, the man clothed with linen,which had the inkhorn by His side, reportedthe matter, saying, I have done as Thou hastcommanded me.— Pastor Russell was faithfulto his great task of writing and publishing theTruth and imprinting the "tav" of Present Truthin the minds of the spirit-begotten. In October,