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7. How have “those kings” shown determination to keep ruling?
7 In that war-shocked year of 1914 there were more rulers sitting on thrones as kings than at present. There the circumstances existed for the words of Daniel 2:44 to be true: “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin.” Those “kings,” or whatever political rulers have since come to power on earth, have refused to pay attention to the “good news of the kingdom” that has now been given a worldwide publication. They, or their governments, have opposed or even violently persecuted the Christian preachers of the “good news” of Jehovah’s established Messianic kingdom. This, such “kings” have done as an expression of their being determined to hold on to their earthly sovereignties. What, then, has to be done with regard to such rulers who refuse to cede their sovereignties to the Messianic kingdom that God has put in power? Daniel 2:44 gives us the answer:
8. The thing done to the “image” means what for our system?
8 “And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite.” Such a thing will mean the total end of this system of things. It will mean the everlasting disappearance of the symbolic “image” of man-made political world powers. This is just ahead, nearer now than ever before since 1914 C.E. The removal of the idolized “image” of human rulership will not be a peaceful one. There will be a crushing and grinding of it to powder.
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13. In what way will this be a stable government, and why?
13 The seat of government will be in the heavens, where the enthroned, crowned Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of God, but it will extend its superhuman power toward the earth, not now for destructive purposes, but for the perfect rulership and blessing of all the obedient inhabitants of “the whole earth.” This will be a stable government, immune to any overthrow by revolutionary uprisings. It “will never be brought to ruin,” nor will it have a human successor. It “will not be passed on to any other people.” Unlike the kingdoms of dying human rulers from Babylon of Nimrod’s day onward, “it itself will stand to times indefinite,” forever. (Daniel 2:44, 45) Its heavenly Ruler, the Messianic King Jesus Christ, upon whom Jehovah God has conferred immortality, will not let his government die out. He himself will live “to times indefinite” to maintain that kingdom for the full realization of God’s will and for the never-ending blessing of all obedient mankind on a perfectly ruled earth.
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Thus, in a final clash over the supreme issue of universal sovereignty, the Kingdom “stone” will put an end forever to “all these kingdoms.”
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