When a mission to exterminate one such xenos breed on the world of Ardamantua draws in more of their forces, the Imperial Fists abandon the walls of Terra for the first time in more than a thousand years. And when another greater foe strikes, even the heroic sons of Rogal Dorn may be powerless against it. The Beast arises...and it is mighty.
The Beast Arises I Am Slaughter
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. ...
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...
And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before the people, to minister to them.
And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand. You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. You shall fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. ...
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...
It is commonly known (a reader) that there is no law, however easy whose long observance does not bear some trouble except me laws of the barbarous and inhuman Giagas, which bring people contentment and happiness because all is in favor of the horrible earth and belly, such are the barbarities of the followers of this infernal monster, which horrify the spectator even the bearer of them. They surpass with it all human understanding, surpassing even the wild beasts of the Lybian and Arabian desert, they go beyond tigers and lions, exceed even the famished beasts of the woods, they satisfy their hunger with herbs and are content with them. These [Giagas] are not content with the food and vine that the earth gives but they feed on the flesh of human individuals of their own species and many also slake their thirst with the blood of these. These wise men of Athens wrote their laws on twelve tablets of ivory because they were stable and inviolable, but the inhuman legislator of the laws of the Giagas, Benign reader. Calling this legislation is not, as I have said, because she was the first to teach barbarity and cruelty, but because it was she, after her death as of her father and that of Zimbo the first general, who reconstituted the inhuman life of the Giaga and gave them particular laws to keep and observe which their ancestors neither had nor observed. For this reason I call her legislator, so she did not leave them written on tablets of ivory (though this is abundant in this black Ethiopia) but so that they be firm and stable she left them cut in tables of marble which are the hearts of the Giagas, cruel and inhuman people so that they should be inviolably observed. Ivory surrenders to the fire, but marble, wherever it is, is always marble [25] the hearts of these are no less so the more they practice barbarities and the extreme of wrath the more marble-like they show themselves [to be] marble not surrendering themselves to the fire of fraternal love; to put out fire requires water and to light it, oil, but the hearts of the Giaga in which anger and indignation always burn do not require water to put it out or oil to cause it to blaze up, only the sight of a human being is required, and this makes them powerful lions, cruel tigers, and wrathful harpies and also a thirsty hart.
4:17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled beforethe Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among thepeople, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and theark of God is taken.
6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked intothe ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand andthreescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD hadsmitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I willsmite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give thecarcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of theair, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may knowthat there is a God in Israel.
18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned fromthe slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all citiesof Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, withjoy, and with instruments of musick.
(2) But also opening the mysterie of the slaughter of the Witnesses, which we have just reason to conceive to have beene on foot divers yeares, not by judiciall proceedings only in the Martyrdom of Gods Saints; but by the sword of war, First in the Low-Countries, [Page] then in France, after that in Bohemia, then in Germany, (which how long it should continue Mr Mede professeth to be vncertaine) and now amongst us, First in Ireland, then in England, and that by the Antichristian generation, with so manifest oppositon unto truth and holinesse under a Protestant Prince, as I thinke the like was never known since the beginning of the world. 2ff7e9595c
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