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The Revelation of Jesus Christ extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting right eousness." This refers to the return of Christ to establish His throne on earth; and the significant thing here is that, just prior to that glorious event, Moab will be a place of refuge for His people, Israel. The great wilderness on the east of Jordon will in all prob ability be the place of refuge. From Dan. 11 :41 we find that some lands are going to escape out of the hands of the Anti christ, and that Moab is among them. Now the marvelous thing is this: If you should go to Moab now, you would find great cities with beautiful homes, with doors on their hinges, and not a solitary inhabitant. They are the remarkable cities of Petra, hewn out of the rock; and apart from the outside world. Why is God keeping them there? Why is it that places such as Samaria, Jerusalem, and Capernaum have been liter ally reduced to ashes, while these cities have been marvelously preserved? I believe that in that hour, obedient to His Word, the Jewish remnant will obey the instructions of the Lord and fly to the wilderness as He allures them there. And they will make their homel! there during these three and one-half years of the tribulation. Goo's PROTECTING CARE "And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a Hood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth" (verses 15, 16). Whatever the "water as a flood" may mean seems difficult to determine. The Bible speaks of the enemy as one who comes in "like a flood," and the statement may refer to some tremendous organized effort on the part of the Antichrist to locate this sheltered people with the view of destroying them. Or it may refer to some evil teaching that he shall disseminate among them to destroy their faith in the atonement, which alone can save. This he may do, with the view of bringing
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