Presently developing trends in the world are like a slowly rising mountainous tsunami that threatens to drown Jehovah's organization. Global warfare seems certain to erupt at the next spark of terrorism. The financial system is being rocked with increasing tremors of volatility in advance of the onrushing wall of water. Scandal and indifference is taking its toll upon the Catholic Church with a vengeance at the very moment when faith is about to draw a premium. And apostates within and without are becoming increasingly bold in their determination to extract their revenge upon us. Worse yet, no one seems to recognize the nearness and scope of the calamity that is about to break.
The question then arises: Will the Church be engulfed by the looming tsunami-like catastrophe? The answer from Jehovah's word is "yes." Psalms 124 uses the analogy of a flooding torrent of persecution and tyranny, where it says:
"Had it not been that Jehovah proved to be for us
When men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up even alive,
When their anger was burning against us.
Then the very waters would have washed us away,
The torrent itself would have passed over our soul,
The waters of presumptuousness. Blessed be Jehovah,
Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Our soul is like a bird that is escaped from the trap of baiters.
The trap is broken, and we ourselves have escaped.
Our help is the name of Jehovah, the Maker of heaven and earth."
The presumption of the presumptuous ones is that there is no Jehovah, and that if he does exist, then, He certainly wouldn't have anything to do with the pestiferous Catholic Church. For that reason our faith is held in contempt by apostates, as well as others who share their disdain for truth. How true Psalms 123:4: "Abundantly our soul has been glutted with derision of those who are at ease, of the contempt on the part of arrogant ones."
Specifically, the apostate's fatal assumption is that they imagine that our errors and corruption somehow disqualify us from being God's people. Apostates simply don't know Jehovah. Even if they once did, they no longer do. The 130th Psalm reveals that Jehovah's mercy is what ultimately redeems his people from their errors as well as from the onrushing flood of persecution.
"Out of the depths I have called upon you, O Jehovah...
If errors were what you watch, O Jah, O Jehovah, who could stand?
For there is true forgiveness with you,
In order that you may be feared.
I have hoped, O Jehovah, my soul has hoped,
And for his word I have waited...
Let Israel keep waiting for Jehovah.
For there is loving-kindness with Jehovah,
And abundantly so is there redemption with him.
And he himself will redeem Israel out of all his errors."
So, while in Scripture apostates are said to watch the very footprints of Jehovah's anointed ones for every error, Jehovah himself doesn't take every error into account, otherwise no one could stand before God. Ultimately, the Devil's many accusations against us, voiced primarily through his earthly apostate agents, simply can't induce Jehovah to abandon us to the depths of the flood. In the end Jehovah's mercy triumphs in behalf of those who love God. / You Don't Know
