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| − | 25 At the dedication of Solomon’s temple the glory
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| − | of the Lord was made manifest. It was on the first
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| − | day of the temple dedication, that is to say, the sev-
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| − | enth month, the eighth day of the month, 1028 B.C.,
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| − | when the ark of the covenant was brought into the
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| − | most holy or ‘‘oracle’’ of the temple, at which time
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| − | there were temple songs and other music by the priests,
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| − | and ‘‘then the house was filled with a cloud, even the
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| − | house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand
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| − | to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of
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| − | the Lord had filled the house of God’’. (2 Chron.
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| − | 5:18,14) Then Solomon prayed and in that prayer
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| − | made mention of ‘‘the stranger’’, and ‘‘when Solo-
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| − | mon had made an end of praying, the fire came down
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| − | from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and
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| − | the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the
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| − | house. And the priests could not enter into the house
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| − | of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled
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| − | the Lord’s house. And when all the children of Israel
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| − | saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the
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| − | Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with
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| − | their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and
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| − | worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is
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| − | good; for his merey endureth for ever’’—2 Chron.
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| − | 7:1-3.
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| − | 20 The facts which the Lord caused to be brought
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| − | to pass in the year 1925 show the fulfillment of this
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| − | prophetie ceremony. In that year the name of Jeho-
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| − | vah began to come to the fore and it came to be ap-
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| − | preciated that Jehovah would now make a name for
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| − | himself. In the beginning of the first Hebrew month
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| − | The Watchtower of March 1, 1925, published the arti-
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| − | ele ‘‘The Birth of The Nation’’, meaning the kingdom
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| − | had begun to function. An editorial committee, hu-
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| − | manly provided for, then was supposed to control the
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| − | publication of The Watchtower, and the majority of
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| − | that committee strenuously objected to the publica-
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| − | “tion of the article ‘‘The Birth of The Nation’’, but,
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| − | by the Lord’s grace, it was published, and that really
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| − | marked the beginning of the end of the editorial com-
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| − | mittee, indicating that the Lord himself is running
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| − | his organization. Following that, to wit, at the Indian-
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| − | apolis convention in 1925, the resolution ‘‘ Message of
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| − | Hope’’ was published and, among other things, con-
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| − | tains these words: ‘‘The time has come for God to
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| − | make for himself a name in the earth, and for the peo-
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| − | ples to know the truth concerning the divine [pur-
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| − | pose], which is the only means of salvation for the
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| − | world. Therefore, in the name and in the spirit of
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| − | the Lord the standard of God’s truth and righteous-
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| − | ness is here lifted up against the enemy, and for the
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| − | benefit of the peoples, which standard is, to wit: That
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| − | Jehovah is the true God, the Most High, the Almighty,
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| − | the author and finisher of his great [purpose] for
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| − | the salvation of man, and is the rewarder of all that
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| − | diligently seek and obey him.’’ That was the first
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| − | public oceasion that announcement was made that Je-
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| − | hovah’s purpose is to make a name for himself. Thus
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| − | fhe WAT CH TOWER.
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| − | at that time the glory of Jehovah began to be seen
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| − | in the real temple and in a new relationship to his
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| − | people, and that vision of God’s glory inereased until
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| − | it was seen that God’s chief purpose is the vindica-
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| − | tion of his name. Shortly thereafter, to wit, in Jan-
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| − | uary 1, 1926, issue of The Watchtower, there was pub-
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| − | lished the article ‘‘Who Will Honor Jehovah?’’ thus
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| − | calling attention to the glory of Jehovah’s name and
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| − | stressing his manner of making a name for himself.
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| − | (2 Sam. 7:23) This glorious purpose of Jehovah was
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| − | therefore called publicly to ‘‘Christendom’s’’ atten-
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| − | tion at the proper time by the distribution of the
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| − | ‘Message of Hope’’. Like the fourth plague described
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| − | in Revelation 16: 8,9, and the fourth trumpet (Rev.
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| − | 8:12), that ‘‘Message of Hope’’ began to dim the
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| − | glory of Satan’s crowd on earth and show forth the
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| − | Lord’s glory, and God’s people were greatly lifted
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| − | up and rejoiced.—Light, Book One, page 130.
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| − | 27 At the dedication of the typical temple Solomon
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| − | prayed, and, amongst other things, his prayer con-
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| − | tained these words: ‘‘Moreover, concerning a stran-
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| − | ger that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out
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| − | of a far country for thy name’s sake: (for they shall
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| − | hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and
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| − | of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and
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| − | pray toward this house: hear thou in heaven thy
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| − | dwellingplace, and do according to all that the stran-
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| − | ger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth
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| − | may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people
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| − | Israel; and that they may know that this house, which
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| − | I have builded, is called by thy name. If thy people
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| − | go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
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| − | thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord
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| − | toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward
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| − | the house that I have built for thy name.’’—1 Ki.
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| − | 8: 41-44,
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| − | 28 Parallel thereto, the ‘‘Message of Hope’’ (para-
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| − | graphs 12 and 13 thereof) contain these words: ‘‘We
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| − | confidently appeal to the peoples to rally to the divine
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| − | standard of truth thus lifted up and thereby learn
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| − | the way that leads to life and happiness. We call
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| − | upon all the people of good will of every nation, kin-
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| − | dred and tongue, to discard the errors invented by
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| − | the enemy Satan and for many years taught by man,
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| − | and to receive and believe the divine [purpose] for
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| − | salvation as set forth in the Scriptures. God’s king-
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| − | dom for which the peoples have long prayed is at
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| − | hand. It alone can and will establish and stabilize
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| − | the world so that it cannot be moved. Its ensign of
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| − | righteousness is the standard now lifted up for the
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| − | people. Christ Jesus, as glorified King and great ex-
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| − | ecutive officer of Jchovah God, has become the right-
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| − | ful ruler of the world. Let the peoples receive, believe
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| − | and obey him and his laws of righteousness. All who
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| − | so do are eertain to reecive the blessings of peace, pros-
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| − | perity, health, life, liberty and eternal happiness.’’
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| − | Thus is now seen the hand of the Lord guiding his
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| − | covenant people in the way that they should go as he
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