you. He will neither desert you nor forsake you. . . . Jehovah is the one marching before you.” (Deut. 31:6, 8) Like the psalmist of old, let each true Christian brace up his mind with determination to avoid compromise and loss of integrity: “Jehovah is on my side; I shall not fear. What can earthling man do to me? It is better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in nobles. All the nations themselves surrounded me. . . . They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thornbushes. It was in the name of Jehovah that I kept holding them off.”—Ps. 118:6, 9-12.

²⁰ And how does Paul admonish us? “What, then, shall we say to these things? God is for us, who will be against us?” “We mustered up boldness by means of our God to speak to you the good news of God with a great deal of struggling.” “For God gave us not a spirit of cowardice, but that of power.”—Rom. 8:31; 1 Thess. 2:2; 2 Tim. 1:7.

21. What attitude should Christians have to avoid the danger of compromise and men-pleasing?

²¹ Therefore, Christian fighters, be courageous, never fear men or try to please men, never compromise just to avoid trouble. Hold fast to God’s supreme law and word. Serve Jehovah, not by “eyeservice as men-pleasers, but as Christ’s slaves, doing the will of God whole-souled.” (Eph. 6:6) Preach and defend your faith and hope fearlessly and efficiently and your reward will be everlasting life in Jehovah’s new world. May Jehovah God bless each one of you ministers of Jehovah and men of good will with his spirit of power.

Part 20—“Your Will Be Done on Earth”

In the inspired dream that Daniel describes in the seventh chapter of his prophecy the lion pictures the dynasty or line of kings of the Babylonian world power, the bear the line of kings of the Medo-Persian world power, the leopard the line of kings of the Macedonian or Grecian world power, and the terrible forth beast the fourth expression of world domination, which began with the Roman Empire under Augustus Caesar. This empire was dissolved into political ruling powers pictured by the ten horns on top of the forth beast’s head. The ‘little horn’ that came up among them and before whom three horns fell is the Anglo-American world power, and the three horns that fell before this, the seventh world power of Bible history, were (1) Spain, (2) The Netherlands, and (3) France. This symbolic ‘little horn’ with a talkative mouth and eyes opposes Jehovah God and his holy ones.

23, 24. (a) How did this symbolic horn think to change the “times” of God? (b) How did it think to change His law?

²³ To this day this symbolic horn has thought “to change the times and the law” of God. In the autumn of 1914 the “seven times,” or “the appointed times of the nations,” ended also for the Anglo-American dual world power. The time had then passed for the trampling down of the “Jerusalem above,” which is free and which is the “mother” of God’s “saints” or holy ones. The time had then come for the promised Kingdom of God and of his Christ to stand forth as the rightful ruler of the earth. It was the right time for the kingdoms of this world, particularly the kingdoms of Christendom, to bow before