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Ezekiel 31:11.I have therefore delivered him into the handof the mighty one of the heathen; he shallsurely deal with him: I have driven him outfor his wickedness.— God will deliverChristendom into the power of the god (el,mighty one) of the heathen, the devil himself; Heshall surely deal vengeance to her; He will driveher out of existence.Ezekiel 31:12.And strangers, the terrible of the nations,have cut him off, and have left him: upon themountains and in all the valleys his branchesare fallen, and his boughs are broken by allthe rivers of the land; and all the people of theearth are gone down from his shadow, andhave left him.— The anarchists, the terror of thenations, will lay her low; upon the kingdoms(mountains), and among the people (valleys) hermembers (branches) will fall, and be broken offby her seceding denominations; all the people ofthis order of things will leave her protection, andabandon her.Ezekiel 31:13.Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heavenremain, and all the beasts of the field shall beupon his branches.— The jail-birds ofecclesiasticism, and all the revolutionarygovernments of this state of affairs, shall profitby her ruin and through her members (branches).FM513Ezekiel 31:14.To the end that none of all the trees by thewaters exalt themselves for their height,neither shoot up their top among the thickoughs, neither their trees stand up in theirheight, all that drink water; for they are alldelivered unto death, to the nether parts ofthe earth, in the midst of the children of men,with them that go down to the pit.— No otherearthly system may follow her proud example;for all of them are delivered, as systems, into