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property of His adversary, pending the legal redemption of said property. His order of
government (of obedience and life) had been overthrown for the time being, and the
Satanic order of disobedience and death established, yet Jehovah-God was determined

in the midst of this hostile environment to maintain His testimony. He was going to
open branch offices of heaven in the midst of a Satan-dominated earth, whose policies
and control would still be dictated from the home office in heaven. The possessors of
His life, those who are His children and the citizens of His kingdom, aliens and

pilgrims in a far-off land, are going to be granted extra-territorial rights. They are
going to bear witness to the fact that the present ruler is a usurper, that his authority
was filched out of the hands of the representatives of the Sovereign-Creator, that the
whole of the present cosmic order is an abomination to that Sovereign-Creator and a

perversion of His plans and purposes. He is therefore determined to redeem it with
blood and to rule it with power. They will declare the final downfall of the usurper and
the destruction of him and all who here and now fail to repudiate him as liege-lord and
refuse the pardon and amnesty now freely granted to them by the Sovereign-Creator.

There is no indication that the people of God‟s testimony will ever be anything
more than a very small minority. It must be so in the very nature of the case. Aliens in
any country never outnumber the citizens or natives of that country but are only a

small percentage of the total number of inhabitants. The possessors of the divine life
in the midst of the world of death have always been few in number. Sometimes the
light of God‟s testimony has burned so low it has appeared that the enemy of souls has
been on the point of extinguishing it completely, but ever and anon the Sovereign

Jehovah has intervened to preserve it, adopting from time to time different methods of
carrying it on.

The war between the seeds then, is occasioned by God‟s determination to maintain

a witness to Himself in this world and Satan‟s equal determination to obliterate or
neutralize it. The issue is joined by the people of the seeds, each side being aided by
the unseen emissaries of the powers that control them, the angels of God aiding the
seed of the woman and the evil spirits and demons aiding the seed of the serpent. The

issue is finally settled not between the subordinates but between the principals as in
the final sentence of our key text, “He shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.”

Satan, of course, hates with a perfect hatred any testimony concerning the cross
and the blood. Also does he hate the teaching concerning the second coming of Christ
in power to reign. The blood signifies the means and the coming the end of his doom.
His wrath toward those who reiterate these teachings knows no bounds. Throughout

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