Loyalty
he,
one’s justifiable
loyalty.
This ‘roaring lion’
laid a plan
to end Daniel’s righteous life course
in utter tragedy.
A lion’s cage
for one who prayed
Not
to a man-made deity.
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A future trap
will again exist
for those who persist
in upholding Jah Jehovah’s Sovereignty:
“It puts under compulsion all people—the small and the great, the rich and the poor, the free and the slaves—that these should be marked on their right hand or on their forehead,
and that nobody can buy or sell except a person having the mark,
the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.” Rev.13:16, 17.
Courageous
as Daniel
One must learn now to be.
For overnight will begin the ‘Great Tribulation’ culminating
into a final war
called
‘Armageddon’.
Fought,
this blessed conflict,
in behalf of obedient humble humanity.
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What entity
would have the arrogant audacity
to demand a space
where he ought not precede–
Our hearts and our total loyalty;
which belongs
only
to an
Almighty Creator,
not hater
of His righteous King Son–
Anointed
to jail the dragon
until
returned to His original purpose:
Mankind
In perfection–
as Adam and Eve’s offspring
were beautifully designed to be?
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“Next, the end,
when he (Jesus) hands over the Kingdom to his God and Father,
when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power.
For he must rule as king
until God has put all enemies under his feet.
And the last enemy, death, is to be brought to nothing.
For God “subjected all things under his feet.”
But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’
it is evident that this does not include the One who subjected all things to him.
But when all things will have been subjected to him,
then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him,
that God may be all things to everyone.”
1 Cor. 15:24-28.
While it meant risking his life, Daniel decided not to give even the impression that he was compromising in his worship. Jehovah blessed Daniel’s conscientious and courageous decision by miraculously sparing him a cruel death. In fact, the outcome resulted in a marvelous witness for Jehovah that reached the farthest parts of the Medo-Persian Empire! (Dan. 6:25-27) How can we cultivate faith like Daniel’s? The key to strong faith is not simply to read God’s Word but to ‘get the sense’ of it. (Matt. 13:23) We want Jehovah’s mind on matters, which includes grasping Bible principles. Hence, we need to meditate on what we read. Also important is regular heartfelt prayer, especially when we face trials or other challenging situations. When we pray in faith for wisdom and strength, Jehovah will generously give them to us.—Jas. 1:5. w18.02 10-11 ¶13-15.
Additionally:
During the Thousand Year Reign, Christ’s rule toward earth involves priestly action toward obedient mankind. (Re 5:9, 10; 20:6; 21:1-3) By this means the dominion of sin and death as kings over obedient mankind, subjected to their “law,” ends; undeserved kindness and righteousness are the ruling factors. (Ro 5:14, 17, 21) Since sin and death are to be completely removed from earth’s inhabitants, this also brings to an end the need for Jesus’ serving as “a helper with the Father” in the sense of providing propitiation for the sins of imperfect humans. (1Jo 2:1, 2) That brings mankind back to the original status enjoyed when the perfect man Adam was in Eden. Adam while perfect needed no one to stand between him and God to make propitiation. So, too, at the termination of Jesus’ Thousand Year Rule, earth’s inhabitants will be both in position and under responsibility to answer for their course of action before Jehovah God as the Supreme Judge, without recourse to anyone as legal intermediary, or helper. Jehovah, the Sovereign Power, thus becomes “all things to everyone.” This means that God’s purpose to “gather all things together again in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth,” will have been fully realized.—1Co 15:28; Eph 1:9, 10.
Jesus’ Millennial Rule will have fully accomplished its purpose. Earth, once a focus of rebellion, will have been restored to a full, clean, and undisputed position in the realm, or domain, of the Universal Sovereign. No subsidiary kingdom will remain between Jehovah and obedient mankind.
Following this, however, a final test is made of the integrity and devotion of all such earthly subjects. Satan is loosed from his restraint in the abyss. Those yielding to his seduction do so on the same issue raised in Eden: the rightfulness of God’s sovereignty. This is seen by their attacking “the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city.” Since that issue has been judicially settled and declared closed by the Court of heaven, no prolonged rebellion is permitted in this case. Those failing to stand loyally on God’s side will not be able to appeal to Christ Jesus as a ‘propitiatory helper,’ but Jehovah God will be “all things” to them, with no appeal or mediation possible. All rebels, spirit and human, receive the divine sentence of destruction in “the second death.”—Re 20:7-15.
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