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| − | AND HERALD OF CHRIST’S KINGDOM
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| − | Fepruary 15, 1939
| + | ''„Numai fi puternic și foarte curajos, ca să fi în stare să lucrezi după toată legea”. - Iosua 1:7.''|Partea 1}} |
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| − | DRAMA OF VINDICATION
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| − | “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is
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| − | in heaven.”—Mait. 10: 32.
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| − | EHOVAH not only maneuvered the two spies but
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| − | J also directed Rahab and maneuvered the guards
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| − | of Jericho, that the picture might be made accord-
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| − | ing to his will. We now see this is true, because the
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| − | prophetic drama was being performed according to
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| − | the will of Jehovah to show forth what is taking
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| − | place at the present time. Jehovah made the ruse
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| − | of Rahab to work, and the guards were turned away
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| − | from her house and went in search of the spies.
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| − | (Josh. 2:7) Another very important part of the
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| − | drama enacted at this point shows the course that
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| − | the Jonadabs must take. The two spies were on
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| − | the roof of Rahah’s house, and it appeared that they
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| − | had been concealed there probably before the police
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| − | officers came to make the search. Rahab had shown
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| − | faith in God by protecting the men and by sending
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| − | the guards away, but there was something more she
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| − | must do to protect herself according to the will of
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| − | God. She must make a confession with her mouth
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| − | that she did have faith in God and that she had con-
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| − | cealed the men for that reason. “And before they
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| − | were laid down, she came up unto them upon the
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| − | roof.”—Josh. 2:8.
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| − | *Rahab did not return to the roof to entice the
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| − | men, but went there because God directed her to do
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| − | so, even though she did not know that fact. She went
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| − | there to confess to the men her faith in God: “And
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| − | she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath
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| − | given you the land, and that your terror is fallen
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| − | upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land
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| − | faint because of you. For we have heard how the
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| − | Lord dricd up the water of the Red sea for you,
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| − | when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto
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| − | the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the
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| − | other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly
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| − | destroyed. And as soon as we had heard these things,
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| − | our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any
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| − | more courage in any man, because of you; for the
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| − | Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in
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| − | earth beneath.” (Josh. 2:9-11) While she did show
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| − | some faith in what she had done up to that time,
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| − | she must openly confess with her mouth to witnesses
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| − | that she had such faith in God. This part of the
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| − | prophetic drama shows that everyone who receives
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| − | the blessings of the Lord God, and who then takes
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| − | a wise course, makes confession of his faith in God:
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| − | “For with the heart man believeth unto righteous-
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| − | ness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
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| − | salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever be-
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| − | lieveth on him shall not be ashamed.”~Rom. 10: 10, 11.
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| − | * Jehovah has made known his unchangeable rule,
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| − | which applies to all who receive life, and which rule
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| − | is, ‘Unto me every knee shall bow and every tongue
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| − | shall confess.’ (Isa. 45:23; Rom. 14:11) Rahab here
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| − | played the part representing the “great multitude”,
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| − | every member of which must confess faith in God
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| − | and in Christ Jesus and therefore must take their
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| − | stand publicly before men and bear testimony, all
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| − | trusting in God and in Christ Jesus. It is so com-
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| − | manded by Jehovah: “That at the name of Jesus
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| − | every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
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| − | things in earth, and things under the earth; and
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| − | that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
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| − | is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” — Phil.
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| − | 2:10, 11.
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| − | ‘It is not sufficient that one have the mental con-
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| − | clusion that Jehovah is the true God and that Christ
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| − | Jesus is the Savior of men, and earth’s rightful King.
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| − | Man must go farther than that. He must openly
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| − | acknowledge that he is trusting in God and in Christ
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| − | Jesus. Confession means the acknowledgment of Je-
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| − | hovah as supreme and that the one confessing has
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| − | made a covenant or agreement to do his will. No
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| − | one will be a member of the “great multitude” un-
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| − | less doing so, and then he is to render himself in
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| − | full obedience to the will of God. Life from the gra-
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| − | cious hand of Jehovah is given to those who show
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| − | by their works and by their activity in the course
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| − | they take that they are trusting in God and in Christ.
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| − | One who thus shows faith exhibited by Rahab is not
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| − | ashamed to acknowledge God and Christ and is not
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| − | backward in taking an active part in doing the wit-
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| − | ness work according to the will of God. Rahab showed
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| − | that she had faith that Jehovah would gain the vic-
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