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fulfillment, that while the revolutionoverthrowing ecclesiasticism will make quite aclean sweep, there will still remain some of themore lowly adherents of ecclesiastical systems,who will imagine that they and their ideals are toprosper and spread even to the control of therevolutionary order of things.Ezekiel 33:25, 26.Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith theLord God; Ye eat with the blood, and lift upyour eyes toward your idols, and shed blood;and shall ye possess the land? Ye stand uponyour sword, ye work abomination, and yedefile every one his neighbor's wife; and shallye possess the land?— But God knows theirhearts, and is against them, for their continuancein the evil ways of ecclesiasticism.Ezekiel 33:27.Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the LordGod; As I live, surely they that are in thewastes shall fall by the sword, and him that isin the open field will I give to the beasts to bedevoured, and they that be in the forts and inthe caves shall die of the pestilence.— A sadawakening awaits them. As Jehovah lives, thosetares then surviving the ravages of revolutionshall be slain by the sword of anarchy, and shallhave taken away all pretense of being Christians.Those that have the spirit of earthly ambitionshall be given to be destroyed by the savagery ofanarchy; and those in the strongholds and in theprotected conditions of revolution shall dieliterally of pestilence and be destroyedreligiously by the pestilential teachings of thoseevil days.Ezekiel 33:28.For I will lay the land most desolate, and thepomp of her strength shall cease; and, themountains of Israel shall be desolate, thatnone shall pass through.— God purposes toutterly desolate this evil order of things and tocompletely abase the last vestiges of its pride andpomp, and to cause the governments of this Age,