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and Job— typing here the Little Flock, the GreatCompany, and the Household of Faith— theyshould by their righteousness save but their ownlives.Ezekiel 14:15.If I cause noisome beasts to pass through theland, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate,that no man may pass through because of thebeasts.— God has caused savage governmentsto overrun Christendom with military and navalforces, and to ruin and desolate it, so that nomanly independent man can exist there.Ezekiel 14:16.Though these three men were in it, as I live,saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neithersons nor daughters; they only shall bedelivered, but the land shall be desolate.—Though these three classes be in Christendom,they shall deliver no one but themselves; theyonly shall be delivered, but Christendom shall bedesolated.Ezekiel 14:17.Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say,Sword, go through the land; so that I cut offman and beast from it: — God has broughtupon Christendom destroying weapons (Lev.26:25), and the Sword of the Spirit is to gothrough Christendom and cut off all that can becut off, and no one shall save aught but himself.Ezekiel 14:18, 19.Though these three men were in it, as I live,saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neithersons nor daughters, but they only shall bedelivered themselves. Or if I send a pestilenceinto that land, and pour out My fury upon itin blood, to cut off from It man and beast.—God will permit a pestilence, both of literaldisease and of pestilential errors in Christendom,in wrath to take away life.Ezekiel 14:20, 21.Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, as Ilive saith the Lord God, they shall deliver