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| − | (Dan. 2:35; Light, Book Two, page 292-319) The
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| − | offiee of overlord, like the lofty top of the cedar tree,
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| − | dominated everything on earth and was visible from
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| − | all parts of the earth. That does not mean that Satan
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| − | was visible, but his power or overlordship was dis-
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| − | eernible throughout the earth. The overlord supervised
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| − | all the earth and must be looked up to and recognized
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| − | by all the earth. In this manner Satan exalted himself
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| − | over all the earth and made men look up to him.
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| − | *4The leaves of a tree are for the benefit of the
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| − | creatures that come in contact therewith. (Rev. 22:2)
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| − | Deseribing the tree in the vision the prophecy reads:
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| − | “‘The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof
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| − | much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the
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| − | field had shadow undcr it, and the fowls of the heaven
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| − | dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of
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| − | it.’? (Ws. 12) The base or root stock of the tree was
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| − | in the earth, and thus pictured man, and shows that
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| − | it is the man whom (Cod ercated and concerning whom
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| − | he commanded: ‘‘Let us make man in our image,
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| − | after our likeness; and Iet them have dominion over
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| − | the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
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| − | over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
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| − | ereeping thing that ercepeth upon the carth.’’ (Gen.
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| − | 1:26) The dominion of man was and is limited to the
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| − | earth, but above man was the invisible organization,
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| − | headed or topped by Lucifer, who afterwards beeame
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| − | Satan, and to whom the words of Jehovah apply:
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| − | “Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of
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| − | heaven hath given thee a kingdom, powcr, and
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| − | strength, and glory.’”? (Dan. 2:37) This is proof that
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| − | Nebuchadnezzar represented or illustrated regal power
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| − | that was granted to Lucifer and which power he
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| − | abused and turned to wickedness.
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| − | 25 The prophetic vision states that the fruit of the
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| − | tree was much, and that in it was meat for all and
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| − | all flesh was fed of it. I:ven after iniquity was found
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| − | in Lucifer and he became Satan, and sinee, all the
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| − | earth has been compelled to feed from that tree. This
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| − | is corroborated by the Scriptural statement that the
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| − | whole world licth in the wicked one. (1 John 5:19,
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| − | Diag.) The ereation of earth has been under the shad-
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| − | ow of that wicked organization.
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| − | THE WATCHER
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| − | 6 Tucifer, when appointed to the high office of over-
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| − | lordship, was a part of Jehovah’s organization, and
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| − | hence formed a part of the ‘‘higher powers’’. Luci-
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| − | fer was made God’s watcher over the interests of the
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| − | things of the earth, but he became unfaithful, rebel-
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| − | lious and unholy and no longer was a watcher. On
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| − | the contrary, he opposed the interests of Jchovah and
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| − | the interests of man and has attempted to turn every-
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| − | thing to his own wicked use. There was another
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| − | watcher over and above Lucifer, and this is the
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| − | one whom Nebuchadnezzar saw in vision. ‘‘I saw in
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| − | the visions of my head upon mv bed, and, behold,
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| − | a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven.”
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| − | $ie WATCHTOWER.
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| − | (Vs.13) This one Watcher was watching the tree,
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| − | and hence he was higher than Lucifer. That one watch-
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| − | er was and ever has been ‘‘an holy one’’ and is the
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| − | Logos or the Word of God, the only begotten and be-
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| − | loved Son of Jehovah God. This holy Watcher has
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| − | ever remained fully a d completely devoted to Jcho-
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| − | vah God and has always maintained his integrity to-
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| − | ward him. ;The yision discloses this watcher coming
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| − | down from heaven, which manifestly means that the
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| − | Logos, Jesus, the beloved One and faithful One of
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| − | Jehovah, turned his attention to the things which per-
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| − | tain to and affect the earth, and particularly man.
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| − | THE DECREE
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| − | 27 This holy one, the Watcher, being the spokesman
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| − | of Jehovah God, makes known the decree of the Most
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| − | High, ‘‘He eried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the
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| − | tree, and eut off his branches, shake off his leaves,
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| − | and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from
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| − | under it, and the fowls from his branches.’’ (Vs. 14)
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| − | That, deeree. means that the RIGITT to the overlord-
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| − | ship was then and there taken away from Lucifer,
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| − | now Satan, and that he (Satan) and his spirit subor-
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| − | dinates were cut off from Jehovah’s organization and
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| − | were henceforth outlaws and that no carthly creature
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| − | was required to remain under Satan’s oryanization,
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| − | for the reason that he was no longer any part of the
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| − | ‘higher powers’? and no more furnishes protection
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| − | and nourishment and help for mankind. All those
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| − | who would have the blessings of life must give their
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| − | allegianee and devotion to Jchovah God and his holy
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| − | Watcher. This divine judgment or deeree did not mean
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| − | that at the time of Adam’s sin and the fall of Lucifer,
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| − | now Satan, the judement was to be executed imme-
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| − | diately and that Satan and his invisible organization
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| − | were then east out of heaven and down to the earth;
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| − | but that decree declares God’s purpose coneerning the
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| − | same. It is the final judgment then and there made
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| − | and written against Satan and his organization, which
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| − | judenient began to be executed at the time when
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| − | Christ Jesus was sent forth to rule and to cast
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| − | Satan and his wicked angels out of heaven. The exe-
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| − | cution of that deerce, therefore, began in 1914 and
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| − | shall be fully and completely executed at Armageddon.
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| − | The destruction of the tree as deseribed by the proph-
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| − | et Ezekiel, in the thirty-first chapter, shows what will
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| − | come to pass at Armageddon.
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| − | 28 Satan has exercised overlordship in his wicked
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| − | organization, which includes the human race, even to
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| − | the present time; but he has exercised that regal pow-
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| − | er without divine authority and has rebelled against
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| − | Jehovah God. Jehovah’s purpose was announeed in
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| − | the deeree, but that decree he did not execute imme-
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| − | diately and completely destroy Sutan and his organi-
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| − | zation but has permitted him to go on in his wieked
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| − | efforts to prove his side of the challenge fiung into the
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| − | face of Jehovah God. The wisdom and supremacy of
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| − | Jchovah are here exhibited by proving that he bides
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| − | his own due time to vindicate his name. Peter refers
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