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| − | ing for a certainty that the day of deliverance is at
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| − | 5 Jchovah’s witnesses are not engaged in fighting the
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| − | battle of Armageddon, and never will be, but they are
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| − | now at war with Satan's representatives on earth, and
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| − | the faithful must and will remain firm and steadfast
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| − | and quit themselves like men who are true soldiers of
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| − | the Lord, The reinnant is now doing real battle work
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| − | by constantly declaring the judements of Jehovah,
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| − | making known his name, and holding high his stand-
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| − | ard that the people may learn that he is the only true
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| − | God and Deliverer, (isa, 62:10) By the proclamation
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| − | of the truth Jehovah’s witneses are laying bare the
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| − | frauds of organized religionists, and particularly the
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| − | Roman Catholie Mierarehy, and this God is causing
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| − | to be done by his servants under the command and
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| − | leadership of Christ Jesus that in due tine the eom-
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| − | mercial trafliekers and politicians may see through the
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| − | fraudulent claim of the elergy ; and Jikewi.e that the
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| − | common people may sce and understand how they
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| − | have been deceived and defrauded by the elerey and
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| − | rapaciously robbed of the fruits of their honest labor.
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| − | By causing his truth now to he declared, and by ex-
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| − | posing the blasphemy of the religionists, the elerey,
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| − | the Lord makes these men ‘‘ercatly despised ’?, Honest
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| − | peaple of all denominations, and regardie.s of all na-
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| − | tions or erceds, are now hearing the truth, which they
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| − | believe and accept, and they despise the hypoerites that
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| − | have slandered the name of the Lord in order to sat-
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| − | isfy their own cruel and selfish desires. Now Jehovah
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| − | and Christ Jesus make that religious oreanization
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| − | small by frustrating the tokens of the liars, and eaus-
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| − | ing them to appear in the eyes of the people of the
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| − | world as worse than nothing, ‘Thus saith the Lord,
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| − | ...» Tam the Lord... that frustrateth the tokens
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| − | of the Jiars, and maketh diviners mad; that turnceth
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| − | wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge
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| − | foolish.’’—Isa. 44; 24, 25.
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| − | *The day is here when Jchovah’s chosen nation
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| − | shall stand forth and holdly battle for the truth. To
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| − | them Jehovah now says: “Trust ye in the Lord for
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| − | ever; for in the Lord JIWTOVAII is everlasting
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| − | strength: for he bringeth down them that dwell on
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| − | high; the lofty city, he Iayeth it low; he laycth it low,
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| − | even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
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| − | The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor
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| − | and the steps of the needy [who need and receive
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| − | God’s help and protection].’”’ (Isa, 26:4-6; Matt.
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| − | 23:12) Like Esau, the clergy onee had ihe oppor-
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| − | tunity of partaking of the birthright and they despised
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| − | the same. They refused to make known the name of
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| − | God and his kingdora, and now they fight with all
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| − | their power to prevent others from secing and cm-
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| − | bracing the kingdom. They exalt themselves and defy
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| − | the Lord and spurn his Word, and to them the Lord
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| − | Jesus says: ‘‘And whosoever shall exalt himself, shall
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| − | be abased; and he that shall humble himself, shall be
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| − | exalted. But woe unto vou, scribes and Pharisees,
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| − | hypoerites! fur ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
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| − | against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither
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| − | sufier ye them that are entcring to go in.’’——Alatt.
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| − | 23:12, 13.
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| − | 7 Esau went away from the land of promise and to
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| − | gratify his sclfish ambition built up an inheritence at
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| − | Mount Seir. The Horites were dwelling in Mout
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| − | Seir when Esau went there. They were cliff dwellers.
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| − | (Deut, 2:12) Hsau dispossessed those earlier dwellers.
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| − | Then the Edemites, or those descendants of Usau,
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| − | perehed themselves high up on the cliffs of the rocks
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| − | and they beeaine cliff dwellers, Likewise the Roman
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| − | Catholic Hierarchy clergy, because of selfish ambition
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| − | to rule and coutrol the peoples of earth, have pu Led
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| − | others aside, wrongfully taken possession of that whieh
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| − | did not belong to them, and built up an inheritance
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| − | for their own selfish use. They dwell hieh wp. clvim-
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| − | ing that it is their pope, or head of their organization,
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| − | who is the foundation rock against which the cates
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| − | of hell shall not prevail, They have not built upon the
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| − | true Rock, Christ Jesus, the express image of Jchoval
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| − | the Grent Rock, (Deut. 82:4) Thus the Edomites
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| − | foreshaduw the self-exalted clergy, parUcularly of the
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| − | Hierarchy, who have ruled the people with arreoaney
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| − | and have scorned the truth and defamed the name of
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| − | Cod. With great pride the Roman Catholie cler y
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| − | erowd have exalted themselves on hich, the claim be-
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| − | ing made for the head of that organiwation that he is
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| − | equal to God himself, Out of the mouth of the cleires
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| − | they convict themselves and exhibit the ereatest
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| − | amount of pride. The following is a quotation from
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| − | one of the Roman Catholie Tierarehy, high in auther-
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| − | itv in that institution. This quotation is taken from
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| − | Ferraris’ Eeclestustical Dictionary, whieh appears in
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| − | that book under the subtitle or article “ Papal’. Such
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| − | blasphemous statements as the following ave made Tor
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| − | the sole purpose of overawing the gullible pcople to
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| − | compel them to render obedicnee to the devilich Hier.
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| − | arechy: ‘‘The pope is of such dignity and hichness
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| − | that he is not simply a man but, as it were, God, and
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| − | the vicar [representative] of God... . Tenee the
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| − | pope is crowned with a triple crown, as kine of heaven,
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| − | of earth and of hell. Nay, the pope’s exectlenee and
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| − | power are not only about heavenly, terrestrial and
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| − | infernal things, but he is also above angels, and is
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| − | their superior; so that if it were possible that anecls
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| − | could ery from the faith, or entertain sentiments con-
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| − | trary thereto, they could be judeed and excommuni-
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| − | cated by the pope. ... He is of such great digmity
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| − | and power that he oceupies one and the same tribunal
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| − | with Christ; so that whatsoever the pope dovs seus
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| − | to proceed from the mouth of God. . .'. The pope rs,
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| − | as it were, God on earth, the only prince of the faith-
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| − | ful of Christ, the greatest king of all kines, possessing
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| − | the plenitude of power; to whom the government of
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