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and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. Daniel 12: 7. This will be when the people of Israel recover their land after their long Diaspora. The state of Israel was created a few decades ago, at the same time as the explosion of humanity’s scientific knowledge. Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Daniel 12: 9. All this will only be understood in this epoch. In recent years scientific progress and the beginning of space exploration by human beings have been such that everything seems possible for humanity. Nothing surprises people anymore, for they are used to seeing many wonders happening before their eyes on television. They can learn without astonishment that they really are made in the image of “God”, their almighty creator, and even as far as their scientific abilities are concerned. These days, miracles have become 1 ad comprehensible. In Jonah, the big fish that swallows the prophet is very interesting indeed. After Jonah was thrown into the water from a small boat: Now Yahweh had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1: 17. The “great fish” was in reality a submarine, as you know such vessels now. But for the people of that time, it could only be a great fish, even though the gastric juices of such a fish would have digested a man quickly without any hope of his returning to the open air. What is more, Jonah would have needed air to breathe. In the submarine, the creators were able to carry on a conversation with Jonah to learn about the political developments of those times. 55 WATCHING OVER THE CHOSEN PEOPLE - THE LAST JUDGEMENT abilities are concerned.