Questions & Answers
Questions 261 (COD Page 971)
Could you please (Well, it’s exactly the same question.)... Revelation 20:4, are they souls of the beheaded for the witness of Christ who would not worship the beast nor receive his mark in the (Oh, I see what they’re getting to now. This was just give to me, just handed to me.)...since it says they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years? So it’s puzzling, because the persecution of the Bride, but who else could they be and reign with Christ a thousand years? Would they–they–would they be the hundred and forty-four thousand?
No, no! They are the Bride. Now, remember, remember, they...
225 You said, “While they’re beheaded for the witness...” Now, you say, “For the–worship not the beast...” Sure! You say, “The beast is yet to come.”
226 The beast has been all the time; the beast was the one that fed them back there in them lions’ dens, fed them back there in that arena there in Rome. That was the antichrist; that was the beast right there, set up a form of religion. Just exactly like–almost a pattern. The Roman church was taken right out of the Bible, and then...What they did that, they organized the thing and made a institution and made a–a universal
church out of it, and all wouldn’t bow down to it had to be destroyed. See? It was.
227 And them in the part of the Body that was then...Now, the Body has grown just like a tree till It’s coming to the Head. See? And all, both martyr, and persecuted, and so forth...
228 But Jesus has given us peace this side the river, just like He did the tribes that...there (see?) didn’t cross over. Now.