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How God’s Kingdom Becomes a World GovernmentOur Incoming World Government—God’s Kingdom
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forasmuch as you beheld that out of the mountain a stone was cut not by hands, and that it crushed the iron, the copper, the molded clay, the silver and the gold. The grand God himself has made known to the king what is to occur after this. And the dream is reliable, and the interpretation of it is trustworthy.”—Daniel 2:44, 45.
3. Why must the time for God to make changes be near?
3 We today, who can look back over more than 2,580 years of time from Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, have far more reason to believe, than Nebuchadnezzar ever had, that the dream is reliable in meaning and that its interpretation by Daniel is trustworthy. Hence we are led to believing the word of “the grand God.”
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How God’s Kingdom Becomes a World GovernmentOur Incoming World Government—God’s Kingdom
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According to the prophetic picture given in Revelation 12:1-10, at the close of the Gentile Times in 1914 Jehovah God brought to birth up in the heavens his promised Messianic kingdom in the hands of his enthroned Son, Jesus Christ.
5, 6. Out of what mountain was the “stone” cut? When, and how?
5 This is how the “stone” in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream was cut out of the mountain without the aid of human hands. The Messianic kingdom in the hands of the glorified Jesus Christ is the “stone” of the dream. That long-promised kingdom could come forth only from the “God of heaven,” Jehovah, the Sovereign Lord.
6 So the “mountain” out of which the stone is miraculously cut is not one of the “seven mountains” upon which the religious harlot, Babylon the Great, has been sitting as an empress. (Revelation 17:9, 10) The symbolic “mountain” is not an earthly mountain of rulership. It is a universal “mountain” of rulership, for it is the universal sovereignty of the Creator of heaven and earth, namely, Jehovah “the grand God.” (Psalm 121:1, 2; Daniel 2:45) The royal “stone” was cut out by divine power from the universal “mountain” at the close of the Gentile Times in 1914 C.E. Since then God’s Messianic kingdom has a right to interfere in the affairs of the nations and to have “this good news of the kingdom” preached in all the inhabited earth “for a witness to all the nations” before their end comes. (Matthew 24:3-14) The Kingdom is now in action!
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