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in serving and progressing in peace and working together to the best interests of the kingdom. Let all
persons who profess to love and serve God and Christ
Jesus see to it that they take heed to the admonition
of the Lord, and that they dwell together in peace and
present a solid front against the common enemy. There
is no excuse for any strife of any kind in a company
or assembly of the Lord's people. All who will receive
the full approval of the Lord must and will show their
love for God and likewise their love for all who love
and serve Jehovah and his kingdom. Where strife
arises in a company assembled to serve God, let it be
known now that someone there is in the wrong and
what should be done is for everyone to search his own
heart and mind carefully, see to it that he puts aside
selfishness, and all see to it that their energy and
effort is devoted to the interests of the kingdom.
15 Joseph sent a message to his father that he should
come down to Egypt, and also sent" good things" for
his father's use. In this is pictured that Christ Jesus
above all things aeknowledges and considers his Father
and ascribes to Jehovah the greatest honor and praise,
and does all things to vindicate the living God, whose
name alone is Jehovah and who is the Life-giver to all
who shall ever live. "For this cause I bow my knf:es
unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named. "-Eph.
3: 14, 15.
16 All who love God will do as the apostle here states:
give all glory to Jehovah God as the Giver of every
good and perfect gift. At all times Christ Jesus gives
honor and glory to his Father, and those who are of
his household will likewise give honor and praise to
the Most High. Doing this there is never any occasion
to exalt self or to laud other human creatures. Having
the right view, we can well understand how Jesus
said that those highly esteemed amongst men are an
abomination unto Jehovah. No creature possesses anything by reason of his own merit, but all he has or ever
hopes to have is by the grace of God.
17 In The Watchtower' of December 15, 1928, the
Lord brought to the attention of his people that which
awakened the expectation of the remnant that they
might see and meet on the earth the faithful prophets
of old, who had foretold the coming of the King. Since
then God's people have gladly made known to the
world that the Scriptures plainly teach that Jehovah
will bring back to earth those faithful prophets of old
and use them to the praise of the kingdom. The puhlie
press of Satan's organization has ridiculed this declaration of truth in no uncertain terms, but nt the
same time they have been informed of this grent fael,
and many people no doubt believe that the faithful
prophets will be back on earth ere long and will assume the positions of visible agents of God and his
King in the world. They well know that the rulers of
the present time are not only imperfect, but wicked,
and the righteous-minded look forward with expel·ta-

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tion to the coming of men who, under the direction of
the Lord, shall rule in righteousness.
18 Joseph's action in sending for his father would
therefore seem in 'a secondary way to point to the
present·day preparation for the bringing forth and
malting known 'that cloud of mar(yrs' of old, who
went before the Lord, benring testimony to the name
of Jehovah, and these martyrs or "witnesses" include
Israel, that is, Jacob himself. (Heb. 12: 1) Jacob had
not expected to see his son Joseph agnin, having for a
long while believed that he had been torn by wild
bensts. Those ancient witnesses, specially mentioned
by the apostle in Hebrews the eleventh chapter, have
not expected to see the feet members of Christ, the
Greater-than-Joseph, while in the fle5h, but the evidence strongly points to the fact that they will sec at
least some of them on the earth. The Lord in his lovingkindness makes provision, and we may confidently expect that those faithful men of old will be buck on
the earth before Armageddon ends and while some of
the remnant are still on the earth, and that they will
unite together in the prnise and service of Jehovah
God. There is at least one house on earth the title to
which is hclld in trust for the use and benefit of those
fai~hful men. Whether they occupy it or not, this house
has been a means of advertising the kingdom throughout the earth and calling to the attention of the people
that those faithful men will be back on the earth, and
that the Lord will use them as governors or local rul.
ers. It will not be at all difficult to recognize such men,
because they will be upstanding and righteous and do
righteousness in every way, and will be a joy to those
who come in contact and serve with them. The public
press has ridiculed and scoffed at BETH-SARIM, but
those who love the Lord rejoice that this has been
used as a means to publicly call attention to the faithful men whom God will bring forth.
SOJOURNERS IN EGYPT
The drama proceeded in Egypt, being transferred
now entirely to that country. Jacob and all of his
household journeyed down to Egypt, nnd in doing this
they had the approval of Jehovah. (Gen. 46: 1-7) That
does not mean at all that they had ceased to look for a
"city . . . whose builder and maker is God". (Heb.
11 : 10, 16) Jacob and those of his hou:,chold merely
became sojourners in another part of the world, being
transferred from one Hamitic land, which is Cnnaan
(son of Ham), to another Hamitic Innd, Egypt, or
~Iizraim (son of Ham). (Gen. 10: 6) They were in
both places merely sojourners. J eho'ah brought all
the descendants of Israel out of the land of Egypt as
he had promised; concernin;~ which it is written:
"Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who
dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years."
(Ex. 12: 40) "And he said unto Abram, Know of a
surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that
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