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are brought forth and exposed to the view and exhibited before the drunken revelers of "Christendom". The purpose of this part of the conspiracy is to make Jehovah's witnesses the center of ridicule and reproach by centering attention upon them while the revelers attempt to make them appear ridiculous. The king, and his princes, wives and concubines, drank wine out of the golden vessels; showing that the entire crowd of modern times indulge in overt acts in furtherance of their wicked conspiracy. The revelers, both ancient and modern , being drunk with the wine of Babylon, they get cheer and hilarity out of mis-using Jehovah's witnesses. In this manner those of "Christendom" show themselves as being on the side of God's vilifiers; and thus they don the garments of Baal and mark themselves for the slaughter that must shortly follow at Armageddon. (2 Ki. 10: 18-27; Jer. 25: 33-36) All nations of "Christendom" now are engaged in a conspiracy and are doing what they can to bring reproach upon Jehovah's name by ill-using such witnesses.
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The wicked one Satan, who commercialized the human race and debauched the whole world, has poured the potion for his earthly representatives who are doing his will by persecuting Jehovah's witnesses. "They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone." (Dan. 5: 4) It is the wine of Babylon that is being drunk out of the golden vessels from Jehovah's temple, and this adds to the hilarity of the rulers, and they get a great thrill out of it, and this induces them to praise everything except Jehovah and those who are on his side. The language of this part of the prophecy further identifies the revelers as the 'seed of the Serpent' alia the worshipers of the Devil and his organization. In the divine record concerning the dream of Nebuchadnezzar recorded and interpreted by Daniel (see Daniel, chapter two) the organization of Satan was pictured by a great metallic image, the gold thereof picturing the Devil himself, while the other metals, in their order, pictured other portions of Satan's organization; hence these revelers at Belshazzar's feast give praise, while drinking, 'to the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone,' and thus they identify themselves as a part of Satan's organization that is fighting against Jehovah and his kingdom. The modern "Chaldeans", that is to say, "Christendom," revere and worship the strong ones of the world organizations, and with trembling voice and hypocritical hands uplifted they cry out concerning the League of Nations, 'It is the only light that there is'; and thus they' change the truth of God into a lie, and worship and serve the creature more than the Creator', even though outwardly, hypocritically and fraudulently they claim to represent the kingdom of Christ.-Rom_ 1: 25.
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It was in 1928 that the seventh "plague" was poured out, and in the year following the great commercial
crash began; and yet the Babylonians, that is, those of "Christendom", have not changed their worship nor repented of their wicked works. "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." (Rev. 9: 20, 21) Now, with the ever increasing proclamation of the truth, the rulers in "Christendom" have an opportunity to see what is right, but they continue the persecution of those faithful and true witnesses of Jehovah. Those composing "Christendom's" organization like to pose as the law-abiding, peace-making and prosperity-making crowd, and to this end they seek and use the law-making and law-enforcement powers to bring the anointed ones of God into disrepute and to subject them to great humiliation. They take this course of action upon the false pretext and false claim that Jehovah's witnesses are a menace to the peace of the existing governments. The truth of God's Word when told reflects very unfavorably upon the iniquitous doctrines and work of those who rule in "Christendom", and in their auger and in furtherance of their conspiracy they enact laws to prevent the telling of such Scriptural truths to the people, and take whatever course they can to cause the truth to be suppressed. They conspire together to destroy freedom of speech, freedom of press, and the free expression of one's understanding of God's Word; and all of this they do upon the wrongful claim that such is necessary in order to maintain the peace of the state. They wrongfully use Jehovah's anointed vessels of gold, that is to say, his witnesses, and they would prevent the delivering of the testimony of Jesus Christ which God has commanded now must be delivered. They are foolish in believing that they can defeat Jehovah and put him to greater shame. Jehovah now has the entire drunken crowd in derision. (Ps. 2: 4) It is time for the handwriting concerning the wicked crowd of "Christendom" and their end to appear upon the wall. It does appear!
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Men sometimes make themselves drunk to drive away distress and perplexity; and for some years last past there have been great distress and perplexity among the ruling elements of the world. But a dreadful shock will bring even a drunken man to his senses to some degree. That was the effect upon Belshazzar, and the picture will be fulfilled. Belshazzar and his lords were in distress concerning the approach of the Medes and Persians, and they were drunk, and continued to drink out of the golden vessels in order to bolster themselves up. Likewise the rulers of modern "Christendom", which is Satan's organization, mis-use God's anointed in their attempt to give themselves
