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Friday, March 6, 2020

The Knowledge of God [] The Abomination of Desolation

EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER I RECEIVED:

 Dearest sister Pearl, 

I continue studying articles at your Blog, but my fleshly sisters are not as eager to look into the scriptures. When the three of us had gotten together, they had not read over the material I sent them and so had not even prepared for studying. As JWs, they just want to be told what to do. They essentially have said that the information I shared is too deep, and focuses more on those anointed who rule with Jesus. Although I’ve asked both of them to do personal study and then to reconvene, neither of them responded with interest saying basically that it’s too deep and that the Bible shouldn’t be complicated. How can I respond with scriptures?

In addition, have two questions that I hope you will address. First, as I feel like I’ve read something on your blog about 2 Peter chapter 2 but now cannot find it. It asked you about that chapter and particularly verse 21 (2Pet.2:21). Do I understand correctly that this verse is essentially speaking about leaving the teachings of the false prophet after being given true understanding, but then returning to that false prophet? Would this basically be applied in our day, as leaving the organization, finding the truth, but then returning to that organization? 
My younger sister wondered why it would be imperative for “good” people to leave the organization when God can read their hearts. 
She referenced a friend who is trying to get reinstated (after 2 yrs being df’d), only so that she can talk to her family again. 
I don’t have a clear understanding on how to respond to my sister about the command at Rev.18:4-5 and the judgment of God resulting in destruction. We don’t want to have the mark of the beast, but is the penalty death? 

My second question. When sharing with a friend who is an elder, the understanding regarding the inappropriateness of anointed feeding spiritually from the Gentiles, there is great likelihood the elder will respond that it is not they who feed the anointed but that they are helpers and more or less servants helping the GB dispense “food at proper time.”  Now, to me, it is clear that the GB are false prophets and thus the “food” is not healthy (rotten fruit), but am just wondering about a concise and simple response to the likely aforementioned rebuttal an elder might give.  

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MY REPLY:

First, perhaps you could show your sisters these few scriptures:
1Cor.3:1-2; 2:10; Rom.11:33; Heb.5:11-14; Mark 4:33; Matt.7:7; Eph.4:13;  2Pet.3:15-16,17-18
Persistent effort is needed to gain an understanding of the deep things of God. If we gain and heed that knowledge, the reward, is everlasting life (John 17:3).

Your first question:
Here is the context of 2Pet.2: 
"20 For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them. 22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”

Both fleshly Jew and Gentile, escape Satanic darkness/deception, when they are enlightened by the truths of Jesus Christ. 
Many Jews returned to a practice of the Law (see Gal.4:9). Many Gentiles too, found it difficult to keep away from their previous idolatry (1Cor.10:14-15,16-17,18-19,20-21,22). Think of how may xJWs who have lost family, have returned to get re-instated, so that the shunning would stop. Jesus told us this circumstance would happen (Luke 12:51-53; Mark 13:12-13; John 16:2).....
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.....and he told us how to handle it (Matt.10:36-37; Luke 14:26; 17:31-32,33).

How many anointed, have received "the holy command" (2Pet.2:21), to love their brothers in Christ (John 13:34), only to later command that they be persecuted (Luke 12:45; Rev.13:11,15)?
Even many who profess having been anointed and are out of the WT, have entered into envy, competition, and strife (1Cor.1:10; 11:18-19)... nurturing the very WT spirit of dominance they left behind.
Christ cleanses his bride members from all sin (1John 1:7; 4:16-18,19-21) which affords love, fellowship, and unity amid his faithful body members (Eph.4:3;  1Cor.12:12,25-26,27; Eph.4:11-12,13). 
But there are those who succumb to pride, and return to not being cleansed of sin or falsehood (a "sow, who returns to wallowing in the mud" -2Pet.2:22). Many anointed who had rejected falsehood, founded in the unloving pride of the steward above them... retain and return to false teachings (even false WT doctrine -Mark 2:22; Luke 17:31-32), stubbornly refusing to be mild and humble in considering direction by scripture and spirit (Rev.5:6; 1:20; Jer.25:4; Matt.5:15; Rev.22:16; John 13:20; Matt.10:20;  1Cor.14:32,3,29; Eph.2:20-21,22;  1Cor.4:1; Amos 3:7).

All anointed have been given a testimony as to the love of God and his spirit and truth. ANY of them, can later reject that testimony, reject the unity of the body under Jesus as head, and not realize that they have resumed walking in darkness (John 12:35). 
That also ties in with Luke 17:31 and Matt.9:17, which I cited above in the first section of this letter. 
If, upon their exodus from the WT, one does not get a clean slate mentally; that old false doctrine may creep back into their spiritual perception, and prevent them from being clean. Like a lens that is smudged with dirt, their "eye" is unhealthy, and light cannot reach their body (Matt.6:22-23). 
They can return and resort to eating that which they had previously rejected (dog,vomit).
If that does not address your question, please respond.

Regarding your question about your sister's thought that there are good people in the WT, who do not deserve to be condemned.... consider 2Thess.2:9-12. Those inside believe "the lie"... that their leaders, who confess being uninspired and fallible, who continually change their teachings, who trample down the brothers of Christ, condemning many of them to death... is an organization directed by the spirit of God. 
Why do they believe this obvious lie? 2Thess.2:10,12 told us that they do not have sufficient love of truth, and that they enjoy unrighteousness. How? 
Do they not enjoy feeling superior, when someone faithful is vilified and expelled? I have seen it (Rev.11:7-8,9-10; Matt.5:10-11,12).

Please consider Gen.18:32 and Jer.5:1.
Do you see that God will not even abandon one single person to destruction, if they are righteous? Why are we told with urgency, even by Jesus, to flee? (Matt.24:15-16; 18:4-5; Jer.51:6; Luke 17:26-37). All those of righteous heart, will be "taken" and invited to feast upon the slain. The rest will be abandoned to what they have chosen....
....Because the destruction of the corrupt, blasphemous, throne of Satan... Must go Down... along with everyone who is a coward or loves a lie (Rev.22:15). 
Those who slave for the false prophet and it's Beast, have succumbed to the agents of the "last enemy, Death" (1Cor.15:24-25,26; Rev.6:7-8).
This links to follow may also help with this part of your questions. 
It is a search result, and contains many posts on a few pages. You should read at least the first few results: 
NOTE: When God abandons the wicked to Destruction... He is not destroying them. He is accepting a surrender to the god, lord, and father they themselves have chosen, which is, the Destroyer.

Your second question...
It is asserted that the elders are helpers to the anointed, because there are not enough anointed to care for the flock. Perhaps you could ask how the elders help anointed, that are not the GB. If a lesser anointed one, disagrees with the GB in favor of scripture; What do the elders do to them? 
Yet what did Jesus say, at Matt.25:45-46? 
Why do the elders condemn such ones to death? Is it not because the GB has ordered this policy, to "beat" any who do not submit to them? 
Yet Jesus said at Mark10: "42 Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and their men of high positions exercise power over them. 43 But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to all."
It is up to Jesus upon his return, to reveal which of his slaves have proven to be genuine, faithful, and discreet slaves of all (Matt.25:19,21; Rom.8:19). But Jesus did give us guidance, to help us to find the answer to who is working faithfully (Matt.7:20).

It must also be asked... in what capacity do the elders, serve? What is their job description, so to speak?
Do they not preside over cases of sin... pray in behalf of sinners, and do the teaching in the congregations?
They may not recognize it, but that is serving in the capacity designated to God's priests (1Cor.6:1-2,3). The NWT translates Gal.6:1 as "those with spiritual qualifications", which allows the original words to be lost. Literally, it reads... those who are 'inspired by/walk/are lead, by spirit'. 
It is pneuma (breath/spirit) -tikos (to own) (John20:22) and is G4152 in Strong's Greek dictionary.

The Bible defines such ones (who "re-adjust" a sinner), as "God's sons" (Rom.8:14-15,16-17; John 20:21-22,23). Those who are designated by God to teach God's nation, are His priests (Mal.2:7;  1Cor.4:1;  1Pet.2:5,9; Rev.5:9-10).
In fact, Eze.44:6-7,8-9 and  2Chron.13:9 condemned the leaders of Israel, for letting others serve as priests. 
---(The Hebrew interlinear should be consulted for the verses in Eze.44:6-9, or any other Bible but the NWT, because they changed the wording of Eze.44:6-9).---[Since this lack of translation fidelity was exposed, the new NWT has corrected Eze.44:6-9. To see proof of their past error, consult a copy of their earlier translation.]

Do you remember the lesson of this account?

God's anointed priesthood and spiritual Temple (Eph.2:20-21,22;  1Pet.2:5;  1Cor.3:16;  2Thess.2:1-2,3-4) is not to be performed by any who are not so consecrated (2Chron.23:6-7). 
This is the very definition of the "disgusting thing/abomination"... standing in the "holy place/Temple" which "causes desolation" to that priesthood/Temple (Mark 13:14; Rev.11:2; 13:7).
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Jesus said that when we are able to perceive those circumstances, we are to Flee!
(Mark 13:14; Rev.18:4-5; Jer.51:6; Luke 17:26-27,28-29,30-31,32)
The elder in question, may not be granted to have that perception (Mark 4:12).
If you try to impart it to him, he may fulfill his actual place, which really is, to uphold the idolatry toward the Image of the Beast (Rev.13:15; 11:2-3,7; John 16:2)... 
...not to assist, serve, and support, the least of Jesus' anointed brothers... who are now being trampled down into powerlessness, and condemned to death, by Gentile, so-called, "elders". 

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Please let me know if my reply, and especially the scriptures I have cited within, are of sufficient number to care for your need.
Love in Christ,
Pearl

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

How is the Kingdom like fish caught in a net?

Matt.13:
47 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. 48 When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous 50 and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The "net" is the means by which all sorts are gathered together.
This net is meant to "catch", ensnare (Job 18:8; Ps. 9:15; 10:9; 35:8; 140:5; Ec. 9:12; Isa. 19:8; Isa. 51:20).
God allows it...these Gentile agents of Satan are being used to catch, ensnare and discipline the "chosen ones" (net of deceptive doctrine). (Lam. 1:13; Hab. 1:15-17 (NIV) ; Eze. 21:21; 29:3-5; Isa. 27:1; Ps. 74:14; Eze. 38:4; Rev. 9:7,3; Jer. 51:14; Deut. 28:42; Joel 1:4; 2:25; Rev. 9:7; 13:7). 
As a result, those chosen ones who learn from that period of captivity, are disciplined and refined, so that those who pass this test may become sealed. 
The net is Satan's power of deception. Those who haul up the fish are Satan's "Gentile" servants, his false prophets, and their supporters (Jer. 16:16,17,18,15; 5:26; Hab. 1:14,15,16,17). 
Those deceived are trapped in Satan's net.
       Fish in the ocean are free and unattached to any religious affiliation (Hab. 1:14). Satan can ensnare minds with religious lies. Satan uses those who teach his deceptive doctrine, to ensnare. 
On the other hand; 
Jesus assigns fishermen to set fish free from Satan's "net". Disciples of Christ teach divine truth from Christ (John 8:32). By the response of those captive, they are gathered into containers (Luke 17:34-35), or discarded as unsuitable (Luke10:16; Matt.13:47-48).

Those who rescue them from that net, are servants of Christ (Matt. 4:19). Those servants "haul that net onto land" where the captives are separated. The fish are sorted according to their response to the gospel.
By their preaching, all fish (Ecc. 9:12) who are still under Satan's power (net), are forced to be sorted by means of their response 
to the truth (which the fishermen/angels, preach)(Matt. 13:47-49).

Today, the Satanic net/captivity/ensnaring/catching, is being accomplished by means of organized religion, prominently being "Jehovah's Witnesses", due to having a steward over God's Chosen, who was genuinely assigned by Christ (Luke 12:42). Revelation describes the final snare as having a genuine Chosen leader who proves rebellious and unfaithful (Rev. 8:10,11; 1:20; Jer. 51:7)(Eze. 26:5,14; Amos 4:2)
(Link: "The-Fallen-Star").
--(http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-happened-in-1914.html)
----(Link: "All-Slain-on-Earth")
All the fish are under the power of Satan, who is Lord of the Sea (Leviathan) (pearl-leviathan.blogspot.com) (Isa. 27:1; Ps. 74:14; Rom. 16:20).
His final deceptions are like a net (Ec. 9:12). This also is symbolized by Leviathan's barbed scales (Eze. 29:4).

Unknowingly, while mankind (anointed and others) believe Satan's lies (Rev. 12:9,15,16; 16:14; 2Cor. 11:3; Matt. 24:24,25; Rev. 13:11; 2Cor. 11:20), they are like fish stuck to Leviathan's barbed scales (see Ezekiel 29:4; 38:4; Job 41:1,2; Isa. 43:16,17).
All chosen anointed must go through this captivity, in order to be tested by Satan.
Satan demands it (Luke 22:31).
God allows it as He did with Job (Job 1:8,12), because it is justice to test those who are chosen to inherit the Kingdom (1Pet. 5:8,9,10; 1Pet. 4:1,13; 2Cor. 4:17; Jer. 17:10; Luke 16:10,11; Heb. 5:8; Phil. 3:10; Rom. 8:17).
If they fall like Adam, Eve, and Satan, they are proven unfit (fish that are "thrown away").
Since God is allowing this just testing, He asks Prov. 27:11 of his chosen "sons" (Gal. 3:26).

The time arrives for all these "fish" to be "hauled up" by fishermen, to face a sorting harvest.

The chosen anointed are subjected to this testing according to perfect justice...
to prove that they are legally entitled to strip Satan of his dominion and rule (Rev. 12:10,11; Dan. 4:17; 2:21; 7:18,22,26,27).
Yet for a time, they are engulfed in Satan's deceptions (Rev. 13:7; 11:2; 6:10; Dan. 8:12,13; 11:31; Luke 21:20,24; Dan. 12:7). 
(This corresponds to their time in the abyss/Babylon, under the power of the covenant with death (Babylon the Great) Psalm 18:3-19 (click on to read)
and the period of "5 months" when they are subject to the agents of the abyss (the locust-scorpion elders -Rev. 9).
This is the testing/net/Great Tribulation/being hooked, by Satan.
What will they do? Will they overcome it and prove victorious?
Will they emerge from it, due to a desire to worship God alone,
and hold up an uncompromising loyalty to Truth?

Their only hope is to follow exactly the example of Christ.
He too was subjected to this test. It was symbolized by his 40 days in the wilderness,
being tempted by the devil
without "food" or "water" (Matt. 4:1) ("righteousness" Matt. 5:6)
just after his anointing.
(Yet we know his trials continued until his death).

In following the exact path of Christ, the chosen perfect their faith (1Pet. 2:21; Heb. 12:2; Luke 22:28; Matt. 16:24; Rev. 14:4).
They are tested under the affliction of Satan, and if they prove loyal to God through it, they are washed clean and refined...accepted as sons and daughters to God (Isa. 48:10; 1Cor. 6:11; John 13:10; Eph. 5:25,26,27; 2Cor. 6:17,18; 7:1; 2Thess. 1:5; Isa. 48:10).
These are the fish which are "suitable" for their inheritance, and are "taken" and not "abandoned".

These are the same ones who are considered "eagles" and as belonging to the sealed "woman" (Rev. 12:14; Luke 17:37; Matt. 24:28),
(http://eagle-or-vulture-obadiah.blogspot.com/)
who is now seen "in the wilderness" on earth...[no longer a promise/symbol in heaven (Rev. 12:1,2)].
This transformation represents the change in those becoming sealed.

Perfect imitation of Christ is the only path that leads them out of Satan's dominion and power, and on to life.
This corresponds to the "sorting" of fish. It also corresponds to Luke 17:34 and Matt. 24:40.
Those who endure this Tribulation/sorting and prove "suitable", will be taken by God to a place prepared for them (Rev. 12:6; John 14:2,3)...
a place in the wilderness to be "fed" by truth, coming from the "two witnesses", for a symbolic 1,260 days (Rev. 11:3; 12:6).

The "fishermen" pull the net up onto the shore (Matt. 4:19; Eze. 47:10; 29:5; Matt. 9:37,38).
Those caught will no longer feel false peace and security (Eze. 30:9,10,11,12,20-26)
        (all these verses are very symbolic as to their fulfillment. 
          I do realize that many things need to be explained in these scriptures).

The "fishermen" are those who have already proven obedient (2Cor. 10:6; Eph. 4:20,21). These are used by God to gather together any others who may "hear what the spirit says to the congregation" of anointed chosen (as yet unsealed as faithful slaves -Deut. 11:18; Rev. 14:1) (Rev. 9:13,14; Mark 4:8,20; Matt. 28:19,20; Luke 22:32) and "sort" them by means of their response to declarations of Truth (Matt. 13:41,42,49,50). Any (anointed or not) who receive the initial message of these representatives of Christ, are taken to these further provisions (Matt. 13:12; Luke 8:18; 12:37; Matt. 22:8-10; Rev. 22:17).

Here is an interpretation by means of scripture:
Matt.13:
47 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net (Ps. 124:7; 25:15; 91:3; Prov. 6:5) that was let down into the lake (sea/deep/abyss, belonging to Satan/Leviathan --Eze. 32:2; 34:18,19,22 pearl-leviathan.blogspot.com) and caught all kinds of fish (Eze. 29:4; 38:4; 47:8,9,12; Rev. 22:2). 48 When it was full (Gal. 4:4; Acts 3:20,21; Eph. 1:9-14; Rev. 14:15,18; Matt. 13:39), the fishermen (Matt. 4:19) pulled it up on the shore (the "border" between earth and sea -Rev. 13:1; Rev. 10:2,5). Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets (John 6:9,11,12; Eze. 39:28), but threw the bad away (Matt. 25:41; 7:23; Rev. 22:15). 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age ("harvest"/conclusion). The angels ("messengers" Rev. 12:7; Eph. 6:12; 2Cor. 10:4; Rev. 1:20 -human sealed anointed) (same as "fishermen"), will come and separate the wicked from the righteous (John 4:35-38; 2Cor. 2:15,16) 50 and throw them into the blazing furnace (Matt. 7:19; Jer. 23:29; 20:9; Eze. 30:8; Luke 12:49; Rev. 8:7; 18:8; 11:5; Deut. 32:22; Amos 7:4; 2:5; Isa. 66:15,16; Rev. 2:16  ETC.) , where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matt. 24:51; Hosea 6:5)


I know this is incomplete. It is hard to know where to slice the truth, since every piece of it belongs to a larger picture.
I hope this answers for you, at least in part,  the meaning of this illustration.

Summary:
The kingdom of heaven (meaning those who inherit it, and the reason behind those who don't)
is due to the testing (net). By means of allowing this testing tribulation, God draws up from these (those who reside amidst Satan's testing/sea), all sorts of men (unsealed good and bad). When the full limit of time arrives (net full)(harvest), Christ's ambassadors cause a decision to be thrust upon them...a decision "on the shore" (border between "earth" and "sea")(valley of the decision) (Joel 3:2,12,14; Eze. 36:5). All good fish will be collected into "baskets" ("saved"/"salvation"--just as Moses was saved from the Nile by a basket.) (the "Nile" is Satan's river of lies -Rev. 12:15; Eze. 29:3)
Those unsuitable to reign in the kingdom, will be thrown back to the sea...Satan's abyss of darkness and death, unsaved, unrescued. (Matt. 24:40)
This segregation/harvest, will be done by means of the faithful bearing witness ("messenger"="angels") to Jesus and prophesying (Rev. 11:3; 8:6; Joshua 6:13; Rev. 1:20; Phil. 2:15; Dan. 12:3).
Those who do not respond to the "fire" (Jer. 5:14 (NIV) ; Rev. 11:5; Luke 12:49; Rev. 2:16), will be consumed, condemned and judged by means of it (Matt. 3:12; 25:41; John 15:16  --"fruit that will LAST"/"inextinguishable eternal fire").
Those who do respond will be refined by it, and it will not suffer permanent harm (Isa. 48:10; Mal. 3:3; Prov. 3:11,12; Heb. 12:10; Jer. 31:2,10,11,16,28; Eze. 11:17; Jer. 16:15,16; Isa. 54:7; 10:20,21,22,23; 1Pet. 5:10).
Those who reject the cleansing fire of God's mouth, will suffer condemnation and shame (Matt. 24:51; Hosea 6:5; Isa. 26:5; 25:12; Isa. 40:4; Zech. 4:7,6; 2Pet. 3:10; Nahum 3:5; Jer. 13:26; Rev. 17:16).

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Why does God allow Suffering?


Hello Pearl,
 Why does God allow all the bad things in the world to happen? Surely He has the power to put an end to it.

Reply:

This is a thought provoking question.
If you are one of Jehovah's Witnesses, you have heard it said that the reason why the God of Love (1John4:8) has not yet ended the groaning of all creation (Rom.8:22), is because mankind has not yet suffered long enough under Satan's rule, in order to learn that we need God's sovereignty. 
Think about what a contradiction that is! It asserts that God IS Love...and yet He is leaving us to suffer, until we finally get it through our thick skulls, that leaving Him hurts us (Rom.8:20; Gen.3:17-18,19,24); and that having Satan's dominion over us (which Adam and Eve chose Gen.3:13,17) is a failure. 
Hmmm. That may seem like a reasonable explanation to many. But, what is reasonable to men, is irrelevant (Prov.14:12; Isa.40:13-14;  1Cor.2:14). All that matters is what God Himself says (John 17:17; Rom.3:4).

If we return to Romans 8:22...
"FOR WE KNOW that the whole creation has been groaning together in pain together until now."
In truth, is there anyone alive that really needs to be told that life today is frustrating and futile?

When God told Adam and Eve that they would have a horrible life, and then die;
didn't they and their children, see it happen?
Is not the miserable existence and death of each one of us, proof enough that Satan is an unfit sovereign?
What does God's Word say?

Rom.8:22
"FOR WE KNOW that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now."

Do we really need 6,000 years to realize that life is futile?
...that man/Satan rule is a failure?
Please, look again at the first three words of Romans 8:22.


Certainly, Satan's advice in Eden, was a lie,
-AND WE ALREADY KNOW IT.
Wow.....it wasn't bad enough for Satan to bait our original parents into a death trap with his lies,
but now that we are all ensnared in the same deceptive web,
we are believing him again.......that things are so good that we actually need 6,000 years to prove otherwise.

If you can just choose one human being on this whole planet that you think has a great life, even from all of history,
do you think that by the end of their life,
they would still claim that life is perfect?
Even if they were rich and beautiful and smart and powerful,
.......they had family problems, or body guards, or their little girl died of leukemia.

"FOR WE KNOW that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now."

Satan would have us believe otherwise, wouldn't he?
So would the Wicked Steward (Matt.24:45,48-49,50-51; Luke 12:45-46)
They paint YHVH as a spiteful God, who is deriving some sort of satisfaction from watching us suffer without him.
That is the subconscious message that reaches our mind,
when we accept the false God-dishonoring, blasphemous doctrine:
...that the reason the end is not here yet, is because Satan's rule needs to be proven a failure...
...that we need to realize our reliance on, and need for God enough....
...that we have to see that the "knowledge of good and bad" really results in pain and death.
...that God is not yet satisfied that we have suffered enough.

Really?

Do we really doubt the reality of the bad consequences of sin?
Satan surely wants us to believe that we do.
He wants us to believe that God is delaying the end, because God thinks we need to suffer long enough....
 to get it through our thick skulls that we need Him,
 and that life without him ends in futility.

The universal mind of humanity is being crushed under anxious care.
NO ONE needs to be told that we are "enslaved to futility" (Rom.8:20)....and this we know since Adam and Eve.

"FOR WE KNOW that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now."
ACCORDING TO GOD....Do we now already "know", or not?

SATAN certainly doesn't care if we suffer while he keeps his hold on the world.
He wants us to believe that our heavenly Father is just like him.
Another lie.

Our Father was and is, greatly grieved at mankind's fall and it's consequences.
Don't you hear His tone of voice when He said, "What is this you have done!?!?" Gen.3:13
His heart is in constant grief, each and every day since then,
as He observes all the suffering and deaths of every living thing, including all the human friends He has come to know (Gen.6:5-6; James 2:23; John 16:27; Matt.10:29).

WHAT IS GOD WAITING FOR???
(pearl-waiting.blogspot.com)

Satan wants us to believe that
all the guiding truths which God has given us within prophecy, (which show us the end of all matters)...
will be revealed within Satan's own realm, the world.
Here Satan is, creating a phony drama on a stage he has total control of (1John5:19; Rev.12:9)....
to distract us away from the reality of the truth.......once again.
https://pearl-anillustration.blogspot.com/

God is not waiting for activity within the Nations, Politics, False Religion, or Commercial economics.
This is not what the Bible teaches us.
https://pearl-sign.blogspot.com/

"For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God." Rom.8:19

Can you see that what we are all waiting for, is the Kingdom Heirs to be made complete in number, refined, sealed, perfected, unveiled, and installed?
Rev.6:9,10,11,reads:
"When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. 10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been."

"The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying, "Rule in the midst of your enemies! Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." (Ps.110:2,1)
"For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power." (1Cor.15:25,24)
There are still enemies of Christ (Phil.3:18;  2Cor.11:13; Rev.2:2;  2Thess.2:2-3,8).
All his enemies, have not yet been subjected to Christ (2Cor.10:5; Rev.19:11,14,8; 12:11).

Once this happens,
it can finally end!!!
Yes, that is what GOD tells us!

  "And I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God! 11 And THEY (the sealed anointed) CONQUERED HIM (Satan) because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death." Rev.12:10-11; Mark 8:35)

Do you see what we are really waiting for, according to God?
The "Watchtower" teaches that Mankind has tried every possible form of government, and that this was necessary for the reality of Jer.10:23; and Ec.8:9 to be proven. They assert that since each form of government has been proven a failure, the judicial basis was set for the arrival of Christ's "Thousand Year" kingdom, in 1914. 
Not so.
Ps.110:1-2 reveals that Christ rules "in the midst of his enemies". He has been ruling since his ascension into heaven 
(1Cor.15:25; Mark 16:19; Luke 22:69; Ps.110:1; 1Cor.15:25; Matt.28:18). 
Through the kings of Zion...
 (Ps.110:2;  2Cor.10:3-5; 6:7; Rom.13:12; Isa.2:3; Mal.2:7; Eph.6:10-12,13-15,16-17;  2Tim.2:12; Rev.5:9-10), 
...Christ has been "subduing his enemies" of truth, by the truth (Gal.4:16; John 8:40; Mark 8:35;  2Thess.2:8; Rev.19:14-15; Prov.2:6; Eph.6:17; Heb.4:12; Rev.19:15), which is also spoken through his ambassadors (Phil.3:20-21;  2Cor.5:19-20,15; 3:6; 6:1-2; Mal.2:7;  1Cor.4:1;  1Pet.4:10; Titus 2:11;  1Tim.2:4). 

All forms of religious deception over God's people 
(John 8:44; Rev.12:7; Heb.1:7,14; 2:16; 1:7; Rev.11:5; Jer.5:14; Luke 21:15; 10:19;  1John2:13; Rev.12:11), 
must be subjugated under Christ's feet (1Cor.15:24-25), after which, he hands his own kingdom, over to God. 
Only then, does God's eternal Kingdom, commence (1Cor.15:27-28). 
God entrusts His eternal Kingdom, into the hands of Christ and his chosen and faithful kings (Luke 22:29; Rev.3:21; Matt.28:18; Dan.7:13-14,22), including those who have fought and won the last of Christs battles, Armageddon (Rev.17:14; 19:11,14,16; Luke 10:19; Matt.23:33).

Which is the last kingdom to fight against Christ at Armageddon... his last enemy?
There is one more form of government Satan is now empowering, that is "different" from those prior to it. 
It is able to "trample" and cause spiritual death, to God's own people 
(Dan.7:23; Luke 21:24,22) 
(1Cor.15:26,55; Rev.9:10,7; Eze.2:6;  1Cor.15:55-56,57-58; Rev.12:11). 
The "difference" within that last lethal kingdom, is depicted, at Dan.2:33,41-42. 

All the previous kingdoms which persecuted God's people, symbolically consisted only of metal (Dan.2:32).
The "difference" which the last kingdom possesses, is that the fourth kingdom/Beast, also contains "clay", along with the metal, iron. That alliance contains God's sons (Isa.64:8), helping to rule over and persecute their brothers in Christ (1John4:20; 3:12; John 16:2; Luke 12:45; Rev.17:6; 13:11,15; 11:7).
It is only after this final type of kingdom is conquered (Rev.12:10-11) and meets with failure, that the eternal Kingdom of God, arrives (Dan.2:34,44; 7:14,18,22).

The fourth spiritually lethal kingdom arises, after Satan's release from the Abyss.....
(Rev.20:7-8; 16:13-14; 17:14; 12:7,11; 11:7; 6:9-11; Rom.6:5).
  - (satans-short-period-of-time)
Through the fourth and last kingdom, Satan successfully tramples God's Chosen people. They are trampled into submissive captivity and slavery to the Beast during the Great Tribulaltion. Upon awakening, they need to repent, slave for the truth of Christ, and join him in righteous Battle.
(Col.2:8; Rev.13:7-8,10; Luke 21:24; Rev.11:2; Matt.5:13; Luke 18:8; 17:26-27; Rev.12:15;  1Tim.4:1; Rev.16:13-14) 
(Eze.22:30; 13:5; Jer.5:1; Isa.59:16; 64:7; Job 14:6-9; Eze.17:21-22,23-24,23; Mark 4:30-32; Zech.4:10; Eze.36:8; Dan.2:34,45; Zech.4:7) 
(Dan.8:25;  2Thess.2:8; Rev.17:14; Matt.10:20), 
<<(In response to Satan's release and successful deceptions; 
Christ, and then his faithful "woman"/"two witnesses"/angel messengers/faithful witnesses to follow, 
will also arise 
Rev.11:3-4; 12:15-17,6,14,7; 17:14) (earth-swallows-satans-river)
---- [For understanding about the woman being in the wilderness, 
       please see Part A, paragraph 4, at this link: baptism ]

It is the fourth kingdom, initially consisting of Iron (Dan.2:33), that tramples the holy ones into subjection, in the time of the end (Dan.2:40). The fourth kingdom develops into a combination, within it's feet and "toes", iron and clay (Dan.2:33,42). 
The ten "toes" of it's feet, are also the "ten kings"/"horns", belonging to the symbolic Beast of Revelation (Rev.17:12-14). 
The "kings of the earth" (Greek meaning "Earth") are kings which should belong to Christ (Rev.1:5; 5:10; 19:16; John 18:36; 17:16) (kings-of-earth), but they have rebelliously surrendered their royal authority and power, to the Beast (Rev.17:12-13; Jer.9:25-26; Amos 9:7;  1Cor.10:11).

By these things, we begin to learn why this Beast is "different" (Dan.7:23).
It's horns, are the ten "kings of the earth"/clay (Rev.16:15-16; Dan.2:44), some of whom have accepted official position as commanders within the Iron/Gentile Beast, supporting it's blasphemies 
(Rev.13:1,5-6; Rom.2:24; Isa.52:5;  2Pet.2:1-2,3).

Both terms.... "clay", and "kings of earth", reveal the "difference" which the last kingdom power possesses (which power, successfully tramples God's people, causing them to become dead in their sins (Eph.2:1-2,4-5; Col.2:13; Rev.3:1-3; 11:11-12; 4:1; Eze.37:3-8,9-10; Rev.7:9; Matt.5:19).
   After God's refining discipline (Zech.13:9; Mal.3:1-3), "one-third" of them repent (and are killed for their faithfulness Rev.11:7)...
 (Rev.7:3; 9:4; 3:19; 14:1; 22:3) (Zech.13:9; Rev.9:18,20), 
The repentant and victorious over the mark of the Beast, 
then battle along with Christ at Armageddon Rev.17:14; 19:11,14,8; 7:14) 
  - (mark-of-beast).

When that decisive battle which is now being fought is won, the final foe of Christ will be "brought to nothing" (1Cor.15:24-25,26,54-55,56-57,58).
The final powers of death will themselves be consigned to the "second death", the "lake of fire" (Rev.20:10,14-15). The last four entities of power who resist God's Kingdom, will be destroyed forever (1Cor.15:24-25,26).

So, how do the terms, "kings of the earth", and "Clay"
reveal what is unique to the last kingdom?
Please consider the following links to find out.

CLAY:
(See: https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-jesus-came-to-earth-last-world.html)
and (https://Iron&Clay.html)

KINGS OF EARTH:
pearl-kingsofearth.blogspot.com

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Satan has been ruling the world since Eden.
He is still ruling the world, and so, he is
"deceiving the entire inhabited earth" (Rev.12:9).
Within that deceived "earth", are "Jehovah's Witnesses" (Rev.17:8,13; 13:8).

Only the anointed, even have a chance of seeing truth through the darkness....

 see Isa.43:
10 “YOU are my witnesses,” is the utterance of YHVH, “even my servant whom I have CHOSEN, in order that YOU may know and have faith in me, and that YOU may understand that I am the same One. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none. 11 I—I am YHVH, and besides me there is no savior.”
12 “I myself have told forth and have saved and have caused [truth] to be heard, when there was among YOU no strange [god]. So YOU are my witnesses,” is the utterance of YHVH, “and I am God.
(see 1Pet.2:9; Rev.11:3)

Can you see that God MAKES his CHOSEN WITNESSES hear the TRUTH.....WHEN THEY ARE NOT BUSY WORSHIPING  someone or something else? (that is a requirement for receiving freedom from Satan's deception -John 8:32; Matt.13:11)

More proof of this, regarding the "CHOSEN" as being the ones given the truth:

1John2:20-21,27:
20 And YOU have an anointing from the holy one; all of YOU have knowledge. 21 I write YOU, not because YOU do not know the truth, but because YOU know it, and because no lie originates with the truth.. 27 And as for YOU, the anointing that YOU received from him remains in YOU, and YOU do not need anyone to be teaching YOU; but, as the anointing from him is teaching YOU about all things, and is true and is no lie, and just as it has taught YOU, remain in union with him."

Can Satan ever deceive these ones also?
  "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones.  Look! I have forewarned YOU."   Matt.24:24-25

The "Chosen Ones" can also be deceived by Satan, if they do not have the protection of God's Spirit....
which He will remove, if we are worshiping something else.... looking to those "great signs and wonders" which are a part of
Satan's "misleading" deceptions (2Thess.2:9-10,11-12; Rev.13:13-14,15; Matt.7:15,21; Rev.9:1; 17:15).

One of those "wonder"ful lies, is the doctrine that the reason the end has not yet arrived,
is because God is not yet satisfied that we have suffered long enough and
that Satan's rule actually has to be proven a failure.

And where are we supposed to watch to see that prophetic proof unfold?..."Keep a close eye only on the unfolding drama of Satan's world",
which he has total control of!
ALL LIES!

We all must learn to look to God's Word for the truth,
not look to Satan's world.
Jesus gives us the signs of the end that tell us how, why, and when (Matt.24:3; Rev.1:1,3).
They are in the Bible, not the evening news.
(pearl-laborpains.blogspot.com)
(pearl-sign.blogspot.com)

"FOR WE KNOW that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now."
"For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God." Rom.8:19,22
1Cor.15: "25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death."
(Ps.110:1-2;  2Cor.10:3-5; Eph.6:12)
Why does Satan not want us to get the sense of Romans 8:19,22?
Because then we will be mesmerized by his tumultuous world, rather than helping the least of Christ's brothers to reach their goal (Matt.25:40)
Heb.6:10 reads:
"God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have ministered to HIS HOLY ONES, and continue to HELP THEM."

We saw at Matt.24:24, that Satan is going to try to mislead the Chosen in the time of the end, by means of Powerful, prominent, "fallen" anointed (Rev.8:10-11; 13:11;  2Thess.2:1-2,4; Luke 12:45). What would such a wicked Steward be teaching?

They teach the sheep to look to Satan's world for a premature, counterfeit fulfillment of Prophecy (2Thess.2:1-3; Matt.24:23; Luke 12:45).
They help Satan grab everyone's attention away from the Truth (2Cor11:3,13; Col.2:8; Rev.13:10,7).
They have become Satan's ministers, prompting the sheep to look to Satan's world for the "signs". They are lying signs! (2Thess.2:9) (https://pearl-sign.blogspot.com)
...and they prompt God's people to seek salvation through slavery to THEM (John 7:16-17,18; Rev.13:12,16; 2Thess.2:4), rather than from God (Rev.14:1; Exo.20:5; Psalm 146:3; 118:8; Rev.7:10) and the faithful (Rev.11:3,7-8,9-10; Rev.20:4).

2Cor.11:13-14,15:
 "For such men are false apostles (2Thess.2:2), deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ (Rev.13:11).  And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light.  It is therefore nothing great if his ministers also keep transforming themselves into ministers of righteousness (Rev.13:1-2,8). But their end shall be according to their works."

The truth will not be gleaned from the information coming from Satan's world, nor in it's current events (1John4:1; Rev.16:13-14,15;  1Tim.4:1-2).
John 17:17-19:
17 Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth. 18 Just as you sent me forth into the world, I also sent them forth into the world. 19 And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, that they also may be sanctified by means of truth.

"FOR WE KNOW that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now."
"For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God." Rom.8:19,22
In the time of the end, the faithful sons of God will be enduring the most intense form of persecution during the Great Tribulation. They will be cast out as evil (Isa.66:5; Matt.5:11-12; Rev.11:7-9). Their being revealed, is when they will be vindicated, by the arrival of the revelation of truth (Rev.20:12; John 15:26; 16:13,8; Mal.3:1; Rev.11:11-12; Matt.23:12; Zech.4:10,14; Rev.11:4)
Learning to ignore Satan's world and looking to scripture for fulfillment of prophecy is a challenge, even for many anointed.
Yet the book of Revelation unveils the Truth, to those faithful anointed who are blessed with insight (Luke 12:35-36,37; Rev.3:20; 1:1,3).
Pray for Spirit, and I also pray for you (Luke 11:13). It is true, the entire inhabited earth is being deceived by Satan. Only the faithful chosen have a chance at being set free by truth (1Pet.2:5,9;  1John2:20,27; John 8:32; Rev.12:15-16,14; 9:14)...along with those who accept and feed on their sayings (Matt.10:40-41,42)....

Luke17:35-37NKJV :
"There will be two [women] grinding at the same mill; the one will be taken along, but the other will be abandoned.”  So in response they said to him: “Where, Lord?” He said to them: “Where the body is, there also the eagles will be gathered together.”
  - (https://eagle-or-vulture?)
Those who are "abandoned"/"left behind" in the field (Matt.24:40-41; Joel 1:10; Micah 3:12; Eze.33:27;  7:15; Jer.14:18),  will be swept away by the river of lies coming from Satan's mouth, just as the earth was drowned in the days of Noah (Matt.24:39; Rev.12:16). All others will be "taken along" on the wings of the anointed "eagles" of the "woman" (Rev.12:14), to feed on the "body/"slain" "two witnesses", instead (Matt.24:16,28; Luke 17:37) in the "Wilderness".
  - (https://earth-swallows-satans-river.html)

Matt.10:40 “He that receives YOU receives me also, and he that receives me receives him also that sent me forth. 41 He that receives a prophet because he is a prophet will get a prophet’s reward....And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink because he is a disciple, I tell YOU truly, he will by no means lose his reward.”
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I have written a few articles on this subject, if you would like to consider more scriptures related to it:
pearl-dayandhour.blogspot.com/
pearl-faithfulslave.blogspot.com/
pearl-waiting.blogspot.com/

as well as the current full Directory of Articles:
www.blogger.com/profile/13281232149590681155
LINK TO MAIN HOMEPAGE

So, a succinct answer to your question is;
God will use His power to end Satan's world, when all His Temple priesthood, become sealed.
He does not delight in the suffering of Creation, but rather, is awaiting the just basis to end all suffering (Prov.27:11; Rom.8:21,18,25; Luke 22:31; Rev.2:10; Gen.3:15; Eph.2:21-22)
Once all enemies of Truth and Life are conquered through those proving faithful to the death, God's eternal Kingdom will arrive, the faithful will be revealed, and every tear will be healed (Rev.21:4-5; Rom.8:19).

Thank you for your excellent question Samantha. I apologize for widening out my answer....
but the hour is quite late, and I hope to open many eyes as much as possible.

May our Father in heaven, bless your search for life and truth,
Pearl

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