With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful. —Ps. 18:25.

Remember that those who are merciful now will receive God's mercy during the destructions of Armageddon and will survive into the new world. Our work now of preaching the good news of God's kingdom is a work of rescuing lives from destruction at Armageddon. The merciful rescue-workers will be rescued and preserved during Armageddon. We must exercise mercy toward the people to whom we preach, even if they are ungrateful. If we did not forgive the people in our territory to whom we proclaim the good news, but who ignore us or mistreat us, we would not go back and work our territory over again with the life-saving Kingdom message. We represent God's kingdom, and his kingdom is a government of forgiveness toward man, for Christ Jesus the King of kings is God's High Priest and his followers who will be kings in heaven with him are also to be priests of God with him. W 8/15