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<strong>The</strong>re are great truths that pitch their shining tentsOutside our walls, and though but dimly seenIn the gray dawn, they will be manifestWhen the light widens into perfect day.FM464EZEKIEL 21THE THRICE-DOUBLED SWORDEzekiel 21:1, 2.And the word of the Lord came unto me,saying, Son of man, set thy face towardJerusalem, and drop thy word toward theholy places, and prophesy against the land ofIsrael,— <strong>The</strong> Lord has drawn the sword againstJerusalem and sharpened and pointed it in fury.(21:1-17.) <strong>The</strong> king of Babylon (Satan) usesdivination as to the route by which to bring thesword against Jerusalem; the Jews deride such amethod (21:18-24), but the Hebrew crown is tobe overturned. (21:25-57.) <strong>The</strong> Ammonites(aggressive worldly believers), too, are to begiven to the sword.— 21:28-32.Ezekiel 21:3.And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith theLord: Behold, I am against thee, and willdraw forth My sword out of its sheath, andwill cut off from thee the righteous and thewicked.— Jehovah is against Christendom, hasdrawn against it both the literal weapons of war,in warfare and revolution, and the Sword of theSpirit, the Word of God. (Eph. 6:57.) He willcause both righteous and wicked to die in theTime of Trouble; and by His Word He will bringabout conditions such that all wicked professingChristians will abandon all pretense ofChristianity, and the righteous will " come out ofher" (Rev. 18:4) and be gathered as wheat intothe Divine garner— Heaven.Ezekiel 21:4.Seeing then that I will cut off from thee therighteous and the wicked, therefore shall Mysword go forth out of his sheath against all

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