" 'Out of the Cities' is my message": As Final Events Escalate, and Things Spiral out of Control in the Great Centres of World Population, God's (True) People - i.e. those 'who are seeking to keep the commandments of God' - are Counselled to Up-end and Seek 'Retired Places Away from the Cities'...

All of which - if in a somewhat different context as waves of persecution pursue the saints - is but what the Master Himself counselled (in the gospel of Matthew) when, after citing the unnatural enmity that steadfast adherence to the gospel and the proclamation thereof would create amongst people's own kindred, their 'nearest and dearest', and declaring

ye shall be hated of all men for [M]y name's sake

 He stated: But when they persecute you in this [particular] city, flee ye into another:
for verily...Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of Man be come [again].

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