According to Jesus, men are literally going to become faint out of fear when the conclusion begins to unfold upon this wicked system. Without question, a handful of strategically placed nuclear devices could fulfill Christ's prophecy on any given day. Perhaps as an approximation of the sort of knee-buckling terror Jesus had envisioned, simply multiply 9-11 by 1,000 or even 10,000 if you dare!

One the other hand, Jesus Christ offers his true followers the encouragement that when we see these same fear-inspiring events that cause the children of this system to melt with fright, that we ought to raise ourselves upright in anticipation of God's promised deliverance.  The difference between the two reactions is a result of the power of our faith.

We ought to appreciate that the end of the world is really the time when Jehovah God steps onto the world stage, not as the mere Destroyer of worlds, but more especially as the Savior of mankind—the faithful ones at least. After all, Satan has empowered men to destroy the world—so destroying the world is not really all that impressive. The Proverb says that 'merely one fool can destroy much good.'  Considering that one man can give the order to launch a thousand nuclear-tipped Inter-continental ballistic missiles, we certainly can appreciate the truth of that verse.

On the other hand, only Jehovah God has the power to deliver people through death, doom and destruction, unscathed. He has demonstrated that in the past on numerous occasions. Take, for example, the three Hebrews and the fiery furnace. Even Nebuchadnezzar was forced to recognize that there was no god that could deliver like Jehovah. And what is perhaps most relevant to remember, is that those three Hebrew princes were captives in Babylon because Jehovah was punishing his wayward nation. But, God did not abandon his loyal ones.

That is something to remember going forward, because as the prophecies indicate, Jehovah is similarly going to initially express his displeasure upon his spiritual organization centered around the Watchtower. It may outwardly appear as if all has been lost and that our faith is worthless. However, that will not mean that Jehovah will have discarded us entirely. If our knowledge of God's Word and faith in him is worth anything, we ought to appreciate that Jehovah only intervenes to save his people when all hope seems lost. Think about it. If we can save ourselves from calamity, then we don't need God. It is only when we are faced with overwhelming forces of destruction that we really appreciate the salvation that only our God can provide. So, it helps to know these things going in to the furnace of trials so that we are not in doubt about what God's will is.

Up to the present moment there are many competing gods who all advertise that they provide salvation for their worshippers. For example, Allah promises suicide bombers and other combatants their own harem of virgins in paradise.

Christendom's Trinity offers a multitude of low down-payment easy installment plans of salvation too.

A few years back the lunatic Heaven's Gate suicide cult believed they were going to hitch a ride into the heavens on a passing comet. And on-and-on it goes. It seems that everyone is getting into the salvation business these days.

But what will happen when things really get ugly—really, really ugly? Well, what happened to the multitude of Egyptian gods when Jehovah challenged them? They proved to be completely impotent. In fact, the Bible record shows that Jehovah wasted all the gods of the ancient peoples, just as he will humiliate the modern gods of the nations—including Christendom's three-headed god. Jeremiah 10:11 assures us of this very thing where it says: "The gods that did not make the very heavens and the earth are the ones who will perish from the earth and from under these heavens."

What we should take to heart is that Jehovah has all along been preparing a people to survive the end of the world. He has been doing that by helping us, primarily through the Watchtower Society, to know him and to understand the complexities of the underlying issue of his universal sovereignty and how that issue is going to be decisively resolved during the oncoming tribulation and war of Armageddon. Jehovah's Witnesses are to play a central role—from the greatest to the least—because we have had instilled in us the fear of Jehovah, and the faith of Jehovah, so that our calling upon the name of Jehovah will provided Jehovah the opportunity to show his power in our behalf. And Jehovah's assurance is that "everyone who calls upon the name of Jehovah will get away safe."

The 91st Psalm offers us God's encouraging reassurance. While the Watchtower has applied the 91st Psalm to spiritual protection from faith-destroying influences, the context indicates that it applies primarily to the direct salvation from God during the end of the world. That is evident from the 8th verse that reads: "Only with your eyes will you look on and see the retribution itself of the wicked ones." Since the day of Jehovah's retribution has not arrived, we cannot say that the 91st Psalm has really found its true application yet. But, when the time arrives we may be sure that we will see a literal fulfillment of God's Words such as the following:

"You will not be afraid of anything dreadful by night." (Including the next round of "shock and awe" induced by panic-stricken demons on the edge of the abyss)

"Nor of the arrow that flies by day." (Bullets, cruise missiles, rockets, ICBMs etc, etc.)

"Nor of the pestilence that walks in the gloom." (Perhaps a mutated form of SARS gone pandemic or the unleashing of the tons of man-made, industrial-strength, biological and chemical weapons)

"Nor of the destruction that despoils at midday. A thousand will fall at your very side and ten thousand at your right hand." (War, anarchy, starvation from global financial collapse; genocide when the king of the north goes berserk and devotes many to annihilation)

"Because you have said: "Jehovah is my refuge," you have made the Most High himself your dwelling." (Only Jehovah's Witnesses have truly done this; as will become evident during the calamity when we invoke the name of Jehovah en masse.)

"No calamity will befall you, and not even a plague will draw near to your tent." (Just as Jehovah protected the Israelites from the plagues that befell the Egyptians, so too Jehovah's loyal ones will be protected from pouring out of the symbolic deadly bowls of God's wrath that will plague the worshippers of the wild beast with malignant ulcers—however that manifests itself. See Revelation 16)

"For he will give his own angels a command concerning you, that you may not strike your foot against any stone." (Jesus said his presence and the conclusion would be like in the days when Lot came out of Sodom, which was a result of the angels literally taking Lot and his family by the hand and leading them out of the doomed city. We may therefore expect the angels to be very active in their support of Jehovah's loyal ones during the desperate days to come, so that we do not give way to panic and terror.)

"Upon the young lion and the cobra you will tread; and you will trample down the maned young lion and the big snake." (Like Daniel in the lion's den, Jehovah's spirit will make his loyal ones absolutely fearless in the face of Satan's, mortally- wounded, ferocious, last-gasp attack of the wild beast)

"Because on me he has set his affection,

I shall also provide him with escape.

I shall protect him because he has come to know my name.

 He will call upon me, and I shall answer him.

I shall be with him in distress.

I shall rescue him and glorify him.

With length of days I shall satisfy him,

And I shall cause him to see salvation by me."

Jehovah has sons and daughters on the planet who have the same relationship with Jehovah as did Jesus Christ. They are called the body of Christ. Even though Jesus was put to death in a disgraceful manner, Jehovah saved him out of death. Collectively, Jehovah's anointed ones are unconquerable because they have the faith of Christ. John 2:13 says: "I am writing you, young men, because you have conquered the wicked one. I write you, young children, because you have come to know the Father."

But it is necessary for Jehovah's organization to go through a faith-testing, Christ-like agony, in order to provide Jehovah the opportunity to demonstrate his great love and power. If you have been taught by Jehovah's faithful slave and have come to know Jehovah, then you have been given the opportunity to develop a similar unconquerable faith that can stand up to anything the Devil throws at you when the time comes for him to go.

Obviously Jesus was not roasting in some subterranean inferno. He was simply dead for parts of three days until Jehovah brought him back to life. But the Scriptures unmistakably say that Jesus was in Hades or hell during that period.

Back during the early days of the Watchtower, when these and other basic Bible truths first began to be rediscovered and published, those early witnesses of Jehovah were dubbed "No- Hellers" by their opponents. Now, though, it seems that even some segments of Christendom are coming to the same conclusion that Jehovah's Witnesses have; namely that hell is merely the common grave of mankind. You would do well to educate yourself regarding hell. Jehovah's Witnesses would be happy to help you.

The Watchtower, though, maintains that such prophecies were fulfilled back in 1919 and that now we are already a holy people and do not need Jehovah's correction. However, it should be clear that that prophecy has never been fulfilled; not upon the repatriated Jews, and certainly not upon the spiritual Israel of today. So, if Jehovah is yet to cleanse his organization of unrighteousness, including the use of a tricky tongue, then it stands to reason that there is a considerable amount of deception in the organization, which must yet be purged.

For instance, a recent Watchtower study article made some vague reference to apostate-inspired "media lies." There were no details given to the reader specifying what lies they might be referring to; but, the inference was clear, that the Watchtower considers the recent, highly-publicized, child abuse allegations by the Silentlambs, to be nothing more then media lies. But is that really honest?

Has the Watchtower disfellowshipped abuse victims who refused to suffer in silence after they were denied justice? For those of us who have had first- hand knowledge of some of the victims and seen the way the Watchtower has directed that child abuse cases be handled, we know that the Watchtower is not being honest and straightforward with Jehovah's Witnesses in this regard. It is not a matter of a few elders not following the Watchtower's direction—as we have been told by the Society's official spokesmen. The problem is a result of the elders following the direct counsel of the Watchtower's legal department!

To the Watchtower's shame, while they are giving trusting brothers and sisters the misleading impression that the child abuse controversy is mere religious persecution, all-the-while the legal department has been secretly paying out-of-court settlements to abuse victims and binding abuse survivors with gag orders that prevent them from revealing how much the Watchtower Society paid them not to publicize their grievance against the organization. There is no possible way that the Watchtower cannot know what their lawyers are doing under the table.

But of course, Jehovah knows. And Jesus assures us that there is nothing that is carefully hidden that will not be brought to light during the judgment.

Just because the educational system and popular media all refer to evolution as an established fact doesn't make it so. In reality there are many scientists who do not accept evolution, but the same mentality exists in academia and in the scientific community as existed in Galileo's day—so that those who resist mainstream opinion are punished in various ways. That's why there is no debate allowed in school regarding evolution or creation. Students are basically brainwashed by the system and ridiculed if they dare to believe that God created life directly.

The truth is, though, that all life comes from other life. That is an observable fact. No life has ever been observed spontaneously generating itself from some bubbling mud hole. Nor can life be produced even in the most scientifically advanced laboratory. Life begets life. Jehovah claims to be the ultimate source of life, and there is no valid reason to dispute his claim.

Furthermore, no one can produce one shred of evidence that over time creatures evolve into other kinds of creatures. When God created life on earth his law stated: "Let them reproduce according to their kinds." That's still the way things are. And even though each kind is genetically endowed with the potential for great diversity within its kind, the fact is that dogs only reproduce dogs; cats reproduce cats, etc.

While evolution is not real, that so many unreasoningly accept evolution as the truth, is merely one more line of evidence that the influence of the one whom Jesus called the father of the lie is real.