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| + | a constituit motivația deplină pentru ca Iehova să răstoarne regatul Babilonului. ”Și voi face Babilonului și tuturor locuitorilor Caldeei tot răul pe care l-au făcut în Sion înaintea ochilor voștri, zice Domnul. Și țara se va cutremura și se va întrista; căci orice plan al Domnului va fi împlinit împotriva Babilonului, ca să facă din țara Babilonului o pustiire fără locuitori.” (Ier. 51: 24, 29) Satan a distrus Sionul tipic și la vremea potrivită a lui Dumnezeu, a fost aruncat din cer și în curând va fi nimicit, atât el, cât și întreaga sa organizație.}} |
| − | stituted full grounds for Jehovah to overthrow the
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| − | kingdom of Babylon. ‘‘And I will render unto Baby-
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| − | lon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their
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| − | evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith
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| − | the Lord. And the land shall tremble and sorrow:
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| − | for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed
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| − | avainst Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a deso-
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| − | lation without an inhabitant.’”’? (Jer. 51:24,29) Sa-
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| − | tan destroyed typical Zion, and in God’s due time he
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| − | wes hurled out of heaven, and soon shall be destroyed,
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| − | both he and all of his organization.
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| − | BEASTLY RULERS
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| − | 21 Jehovah has caused the ruling powers of the
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| − | world to be described as beastly. (Revelation 13) Neb-
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| − | uchadnezzar, in miniature fulfilment of the divine de-
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| − | erce, ‘was driven from men, and did eat grass as
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| − | oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,
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| − | till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his
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| − | nails like birds’ claws.’’ (Vss. 32,33) What a fall
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| − | from his exalted position as king and ruler of the
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| − | world! Lucifer fell from his exalted position of over-
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| − | lordship of carth and beeame totally depraved. Like-
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| − | wise his official representatives on earth, who have
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| − | ruled mankind, have been at all times beastly in their
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| − | rulership. The religious, commercial and _ political
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| − | combine that has ruled the world under Satan has
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| − | been and is ferocious, harsh, cruel and beastly. These
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| − | have not eaten that which God provides for those who
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| − | Jove him, but they have fed upon the provender which
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| − | Satan and his earthly representatives have provided.
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| − | These earthly representatives, and particularly the
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| − | religious clement thereof, although claiming to rep-
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| − | resent God, are fraudulently so claiming; but they
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| − | have had no part, and can have no part, in God’s king-
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| − | dom. They are proud and cannot hear and under-
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| − | stand the words of the Most High. The religious or-
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| − | ganizations known as Catholie, under the leadership
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| − | of the pope, and the Protestant organizations under
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| − | the leadership of the clergy, have exercised pride
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| − | and mutual admiration of men and have ignored God's
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| − | Word and have made themselves abominable in the
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| − | sight of God. They have fed, like the wild beasts,
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| − | upon the elements of Satan’s world.
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| − | 22 At the end of the seven symbolic times, to wit,
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| − | in 1914, the Gentile ruling powers, and particularly
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| − | that part of it called ‘‘Christendom’’, were certainly
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| − | war upon each other like wild beasts, even as the
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| − | prophecy foretells. Since then these earthly repre-
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| − | sentatives of Satan have been warned concerning
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| − | God’s purpose; but they refuse to give heed to that
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| − | divine counsel and all of them ‘‘walk on in dark-
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| − | ness’’,—-Ps, 82: 5.
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| − | “UNDERSTANDING RETURNED”
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| − | 23 For centuries man has been in need of a righteous
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| − | overlordship or kingdom, but this need could not be
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| − | supplied until the end of Jehovah's fixed time, within
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| − | which fixed time Satan has been permitted to do all
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| − | within his power to prove his boast. In that time man-
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| − | kind has been ruled by Satan’s invisible and visible
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| − | organization, pictured by the band of copper (mis-
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| − | translated ‘‘brass’’) and iron about the stump. At
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| − | the end of the ‘seven years’ of humiliation Nebu-
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| − | ehadnezzar appears in a different role. Lis reason
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| − | having returned, he now pictures regal power as exer-
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| − | eised by Christ Jesus, ‘‘And at the end of the days
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| − | J Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven,
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| − | and mine understanding returned unto me, and I
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| − | blessed the Most High; and I praised and honoured
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| − | him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an ever-
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| − | lasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation
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| − | to generation.’’ (Vs. 34) The time limit having been
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| − | reached, the tree stump must be released from the
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| − | band of copper and iron, The time had come for the
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| − | inauguration of earth’s rightful King as ruler, and
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| − | as such he is pictured by one acknowledging and ex-
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| − | tolling the name of Jehovah and declaring Him to
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| − | be the Supreme One, besides whom there is none, In
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| − | 1914 that time limit ended, and Christ Jesus, the
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| − | King of righteousness, was installed upon his holy
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| − | throne.
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| − | 24The end of the Gentile times, and the coming of
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| − | earth’s King, was the great event to which the faithful
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| − | followers of Christ had looked forward. By the grace
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| − | of God these faithful ones are made Jchovah’s wit-
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| − | nesses. The human rulers of earth were then also
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| − | informed of the coming of Christ, his kingdom and
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| − | his reign, but these carthly rulers refused to give
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| − | heed to such information, The proclamation with
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| − | which the propheey of Daniel in the fourth chapter
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| − | opens was issued by the Lord Jesus Christ. The
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| − | prophet Danicl there pictures the faithful followers
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| − | of Christ Jesus on earth in the service of Jehovah,
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| − | and these on earth are the ones privileged to give
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| − | publieation to this proclamation amongst the people.
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| − | At this point, therefore, Nebuchadnezzar giving the
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| − | proclamation pictures regal power exercised by Christ,
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| − | the King of kings and Lord of lords, filled with knowl-
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| − | edge and understanding and the spirit of Jehovah
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| − | God.
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| − | 25 When Christ Jesus was installed as King, in 1914,
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| − | he proceeded immediately to ‘praise and honor Him
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| − | that liveth for ever’, the Supreme One, the Most High,
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| − | the King of Eternity. Immediately Christ began the
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| − | work of vindicating his Father’s name by ousting Sa-
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| − | tan and his hordes from heaven and casting them
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| − | down to the earth. In 1918 he came to the temple,
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| − | gathered unto himself his faithful followers, and com-
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| − | mitted to them his testimony and commanded them
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| − | to go forth and tell this great truth to the nations of
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| − | earth, and thus to participate in the praise and honor
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| − | of Jehovah’s name. This great privilege Jehovah’s
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| − | witnesses have since enjoyed and do now enjoy.
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| − | 26 The restoration of Nebuchadnezzar was a vindi-
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