Position 3

GOD will not let the desolations of Zion remain forever; but he will again Psalm 102:16 build up Zion, and appear in his glory." He will set his Psalm 2:6; king upon his holy hill of Zion. The Revelation 21:2; new Jerusalem shall again come down from heaven. The man-child," which was taken up, "shall come down again, Revelation 6:2; conquering, and to conquer; and the Lamb shall get the victory" over the whore, and over all her apostatized nations and churches, that have a name and not the life; and he shall Revelation 19:15; "rule them with a rod of iron," and make them a desolation which have made his holy city desolate, and trampled them down which have trampled upon it.

Isaiah 26:5-6; "The lofty city he will lay low; he will lay it low, even to the ground: he will bring it even to the dust; the foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy." The whore shall be judged, with the beast whereupon she rode. The life, which they trod upon, shall rise up in the mighty power of the Lord, and overturn them. Revelation14:6; "The everlasting gospel shall be again preached to them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people." Rev 14:6.

Mark: the gospel that was preached to the nations all the time of the apostasy, was not the everlasting gospel; that gospel did not 2 Timothy 1:10; bring life and immortality to light; but they were hidden from men's eyes, and men had only a sound of words instead of the thing.

And thus poor Revelation 13:7; nations, kindred's, people, tongues, were everywhere bewitched with a form of things; with an outward knowledge, a perishing knowledge in the perishing part; a vain, traditional, invented worship, which stands in the wisdom and will of man; but had no union and fellowship with what is everlasting. And thus all the nations, in the smoke of the bottomless pit, ran into the pit from where the smoke came. But the Lord has a time to pity the poor nations, and to send forth his true everlasting gospel again, to deliver the nations from that witchery and sorcery and spiritual enchantment which got up in the dark.

And as this everlasting light springs up, then down goes Babylon; down go all invented doctrines, all invented forms, all invented worships, and that wisdom and evil spirit that raised them up. "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! that great city! because she made all nations drunk of the wine of the cup of her fornication." Rev 14:8. And now the new wine of the kingdom, which is tasted of in the everlasting gospel, purges out the old wine; and the drunkenness which thereby came upon the nations. And those who have tasted of this life, and know this life, can never be bewitched back again by the whorish spirit, to dead forms and likenesses without life. No, when Babylon falls, she can rise no more.

Though the life falls often, it can rise again; but when the witchery from the life is discovered and cast into the pit, it can get out no more. Indeed the beast has had all the strength of the nations, and the whore has had all the wisdom, all the esteem, all the honour. - Revelation 13:4; Who can make war with the beast?

Who can Revelation 16:14; show miracles and wonders like the false prophets? Who can teach, but the wise, learned, orthodox men, that have the arts, and know the original (Latin, Greek, Hebrew)? Yes, there is another that can make war, and a prophet that can preach better than they; one that can preach life; one that can preach the everlasting gospel, and knows the original of it; one that is wiser and stronger than the whore, and by his wisdom and strength is able to judge her, and cast her out of the nations, though she has gotten very strong possession. Rev 18:8.

Now learn wisdom; Matthew 24:31-33; "know the parable of the fig-tree;" come to the life that is arisen, and abide not in the death that is passed and passing away. You have heard the voice of the whore, you have drunk of her cup, you have been bewitched, you have set up her inventions; but have wanted the thing which cannot be invented, and which the invented understanding cannot comprehend.

But if the force of the wine shall remain upon you, so that you cannot seek after, or let in, what is everlasting, assure yourselves, as the life rises, you will meet with plagues and wraths from it, instead of the refreshments it brings to others; and know what it is to sit down under the dead talk of, without feeling, the living power of redemption. Therefore be wise, and know the times and seasons. That will not be borne with now, which was borne with formerly; but as the love and power of God to salvation have more appeared, so the severity against those who now resist will appear more also; and death shall have its sting, which those who will love darkness, and hate the light, shall feel.