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| + | perioadă de timp este reprezentată prin înmulțirea zilelor unui an, 360, cu șapte (timpuri), echivalând cu 2.520; și după cum Scripturile fixează o zi ca simbol al unui an, perioada de „șapte timpuri” prin urmare, este egală cu 2.520 de ani.}} |
| − | period of time is represented by multiplying the days
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| − | of one year, 360, by seven (times), equaling 2,520,
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| − | and as the Scriptures fix a day as a symbol of a year,
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| − | the period of ‘‘seven times’’ therefore equals 2,520
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| − | years.
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| − | 5The ‘seven years’ did not begin to count from
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| − | the date of the decree condemning the tree to destrue-
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| − | tion, which deeree would be from the time of the fall
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| − | of man onward. Thereafter and during the time of
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| − | Melchizedek, and of Isracl as God’s covenant people,
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| − | there was at least during those times typically the
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| − | kingdom of God on the earth, and as long as these
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| − | existed the ‘‘seven times’? could not begin to count.
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| − | The reason is that the stump (picturing mankind)
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| − | with bands of iron and copper around it shows the
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| − | non-existence or non-activity of the kingdom of God
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| − | in the earth, The beginning of the counting of the
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| − | seven times must wait until the overturning of Isracl’s
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| − | last king, whieh took place in the year 606 B.C. From
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| − | that time the seripture applics which says: ‘It shall
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| − | be no more, until he come whose right it is’? to have
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| − | the kingdom and rulership of the world. (Ezck. 21; 27)
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| − | It was at the overthrow of Zedekiah that this deerce
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| − | against Tsracl was entered, and there it was that Sa-
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| − | tan became ‘the god of the whole world’, and it was
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| − | then and there that the seven times, mentioned in
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| − | Daniel's propheey, in the fourth chapter, began to
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| − | count ; meaning that God would not interfere with the
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| − | beastly rule of carth until.the end of that specific
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| − | period of time. That period of seven times, beginning
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| − | in 606 B.C. and extending over a period of 2,520
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| − | years, ended in 1914, when Christ was enthroned by
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| − | Jchovah and sent forth to rule amongst his enemies.
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| − | —Ds. 110: 2.
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| − | THE DECREE
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| − | ®° The deerce heard by Nebuchadnezzar, recorded by
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| − | Daniel, was a divine judgment: ‘“‘This matter [ques-
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| − | tion at law] is by the decree of the watehers [Jeho-
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| − | vah and his Logos], and the demand [the judicial
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| − | decision, Strong] by the word of the holy ones; to the
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| − | intent that the living may know that the Most High
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| − | ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whom-
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| − | soever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of
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| − | men.”’ (Vs.17) Jehovah and Christ Jesus are the
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| − | only “holy Ones’’, (Isa. 57:15; Rey. 3:7) The
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| − | judicial deerce is rendered by Jchovah and is an-
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| − | nounced and exeented by the Vindicator of Jehovah’s
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| − | name. Jehovah and Christ Jesus are the watchers
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| − | named in this verse, as it will be noted that the word
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| − | is in the plural. They are the watchers over Jchovah’s
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| − | name, and that pertains to its vindication. The in-
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| − | tent or purpose is made certain by the words: ‘‘To
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| − | the intent that the living may know that the Mast
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| − | High ruleth in the kingdom of men.”? Therefore the
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| − | supreme purpose is the vindication of Jchovah’s name
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| − | and the settlement for ever of the question of his su-
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| − | premacy and his inherent rulership. Again the vin-
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| − | dication of Jchovah’s name is magnified as the most
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| − | Brooxiyn, N. Y.
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| − | important of all doctrines taught in the Scriptures.
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| − | When Christ Jesus comes to the temple of Jehovah
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| − | that marks the beginning of the time when the rulers
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| − | of the world shall no lotiger plead ignorance but they
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| − | must know that Jehovah is God. ‘That men may know
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| − | that thou, whose namc alone is JEHOVAN, art the
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| − | Most High over all the earth.’’—Ps. 83:15.
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| − | ™The words of the text ‘‘kingdom of men’’ do not
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| − | refer to the petty kingdoms of Satan’s wicked world,
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| − | but to the kingdom or invisible lordship sct up over
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| − | man. Jchovah has no responsibility for the national
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| − | governments of the present wicked world, and cer-
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| − | tainly not as to who gets into office or is put out of
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| − | office by the votes of men. Those who are wholly de-
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| − | voted to Jehovah, therefore, can have no part in the
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| − | selection of sueh rulers. The fact that Satan has been
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| − | permitted to continue to exercise overlordship of man
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| − | is no contradiction of this. Te has so exercised ruler.
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| − | ship, not beeause his power was superior to Jchovah’s,
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| − | nor beeause he is higher than Jehovah, but Satan
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| − | has exereised the overlordship because Jchovah has
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| − | suffered it to be so, having fixed a time certain to
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| − | permit Satan to work out his strongest practieal argu-
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| − | ment in support of his beastly challenge of Jehoval’s
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| − | position. Otherwise stated, Jehovah has stood by and
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| − | let Satan do his worst and bided his own good time
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| − | to prove Satan the most fertile liar in the universe.
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| − | Jchovah in due time shows his supremacy, first mak-
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| − | ing known to his faithful witnesses why he has waited:
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| − | “But for this cause have I allowed thee to remain,
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| − | in order to show thee my power; and in order that
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| − | they may proclaim my name throughout all the
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| − | earth.’? (Ex. 9:16, Leeser) The fact that Jehovah
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| − | directed Jesus to remain inactive and wait until 1914
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| − | to begin his work of interferenee with the enemy
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| − | proves that Jehovah is ‘‘the Most High [that] ruleth
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| − | in the kinedom of men’’, and that he is therefore
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| − | supreme. In his own due time he delegates this power
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| − | of rulership to whomsoever he pleases, and he makes
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| − | known now that he has given it to Christ Jesus and
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| − | that he will associate with Christ Jesus in that or-
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| − | ganization 144,000 others, the true and faithful foot-
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| − | step followers of Christ Jesus, who maintain their
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| − | . integrity to the end, (Dan. 7: 18-27) ‘‘Fear not, lit-
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| − | tle flock ; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give
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| − | you the kingdom.”? (Luke 12:32) In this latter text
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| − | the words of Jesus are not only strong but conclusive
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| − | proof that the giving of the kingdom over mankind is
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| − | exclusively within the power of Jehovah the Most High.
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| − | “LOWEST OF MEN”
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| − | 8 Jesus, although the beloved Son of Jchovah, must
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| − | suffer humiliation in order to prove Jehovah's side of
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| − | the question at issue and in order to demonstrate his
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| − | own qualification to beeome Jehovah’s Vindicator.
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| − | (Heb. 5:8,9) Concerning Jesus it is written that he
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| − | was meek and lowly. (Matt. 11:29) ‘(Ile was despised,
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| − | and we esteemed him not.’’ (Isa. 53:3) Tle made
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