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| − | the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an
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| − | host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
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| − | And there was a voice from the firmament that was
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| − | over their heads, when they stood, and had let down
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| − | their wings.’’—Ezek. 1:24, 25.
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| − | of a great throne having the appearance of a sapphire
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| − | stone, and upon the throne was one having the ap-
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| − | pearance of a man, There was the appearance of fire
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| − | round about and within it, and the color was of amber.
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| − | After describing the appearance of the one on the
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| − | throne, then the prophecy adds: ‘‘As the appearance
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| − | of ithe bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain,
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| − | so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
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| − | This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory
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| − | of the Lord.’’ (Ezck. 1:28) Thus it is seen that the
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| − | prophetic description is that fitly representing a
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| − | mighty war chariot, therefore picturing a chariot-like
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| − | organization extending high above the earth into
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| − | heaven, and this mighty organization is presided over
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| − | by Jehovah the Most High.
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| − | 31 The Chief Exceutive Officer in that great organi- | |
| − | zation is the beloved Son of God, whom he has made
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| − | Ruler over the world. With him is his perfect or-
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| − | ganization ‘‘the holy city’’, which forms a part of
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| − | the universal organization. In that organization are
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| − | cherubim, seraphim and a host of angels, and the
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| − | members of the body of Christ, these all possessing
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| − | authority and power as granted by Jchovah. (Isa.
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| − | 6:2,3; Rev. 4:6; 1 Pet. 3:22; Heb, 12:22) Mention
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| − | is here made of this mighty organization of Jchovah
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| − | that the student may have in mind the mimic god
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| − | who has attempted to make the organization in the
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| − | likeness thercof.
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| − | LUCIFER’S ORGANIZATION
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| − | 32 God ercated man in his own image and put him | |
| − | on the carth. He put man in the garden of Eden to
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| − | dress and keep it. (Gen. 1:28; 2:15) God thereby
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| − | made the perfect man a part of his great organization
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| − | and commanded that man should remain always in
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| − | harmony with his Creator and his fixed laws. The
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| − | beginning of God's creation was his beloved Son the
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| − | Logos, and thereafter all things created were ereated
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| − | by the Logos as the deputy of Jehovah God. (John
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| − | 1:1-3) That there are various divisions of God’s
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| − | universal organization is certain, as appears from the
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| − | words which follow: ‘‘For by him were all things
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| − | created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth,
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| − | visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or do-
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| − | minions, or principalities, or powers: all things were
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| − | created by him, and for him: and he is before all
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| − | things, and by him all things consist. And he is the
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| − | head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
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| − | the firstborn from the dead ; that in all things he might
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| − | have the pre-eminence. For it pleased the Father that
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| − | in him should ajl fulness dwell.’
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| − | 3 This establishes beyond a question of doubt that
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| − | tke WATCH TOWER
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| − | in God’s organization there are thrones, dominions,
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| − | principalities, angels and servants. One of the titles
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| − | given to the mighty Chief Deputy of Jehovah is the
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| − | “bright and morning star’’, which also means prince.
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| − | There was another star in God’s universal organiza-
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| − | tion. It is recorded that when God laid the foundation
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| − | of the earth as a home for man ‘‘the morning stars
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| − | sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for
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| − | joy’’. (Job 88:7) That other star or prince was
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| − | Lucifer, and the proof concerning that is quite cer-
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| − | tain and clear.
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| − | §¢ Lucifer was appointed to a high office in God’s
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| − | organization. ‘‘Thou art the anointed cherub that
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| − | covereth ; and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the
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| − | holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and
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| − | down in the midst of the stones of fire.’’ (Ezek.
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| − | 28:14) ‘‘ Anointed’’ means that he was designated to
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| − | fill a certain office. The word ‘‘covereth’’ used in this
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| − | text means one who provides protection, defense or
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| − | supervision as an overseer, Lucifer was in Eden, the
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| − | garden of God, where Adam was put, and Lucifer
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| − | being made an officer in Jchovah’s organization, it
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| − | seems clear that man was under the special super-
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| − | vision of Lucifer and the perfect man was therefore
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| − | a part of Lucifer’s organization and in the great or-
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| − | ganization of Jehovah. Since Ezekiel’s prophecy
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| − | shows that God’s organization is like a wheel within
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| − | a wheel, then it may well be said that Lucifer’s part
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| − | of the organization was one of the wheels in the
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| − | greater wheel. This, of course, applies when he was
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| − | in harmony with Jehovah,
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| − | 35 Lucifer was made glorious and beautiful to. look | |
| − | upon when he appeared in Eden. ‘‘Thou hast been in
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| − | Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
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| − | thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,
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| − | the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the
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| − | emerald, and the earbuncle, and gold: the workman-
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| − | ship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in
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| − | thee in the day that thou wast ereated.’”’? (Ezek.
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| − | 28:13) He was therefore a light-bearcr and clothed
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| − | with power and authority.
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| − | 56 The tree is a symbol of a living creature, and
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| − | when planted by the Lord Jchovah it is a tree of
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| − | rightcousness or creature of righteousness as long es
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| − | remaining in harmony with Jehovah. (Isa. 61:38;
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| − | Ps. 1:1-3; Prov. 11:30; Num. 24:6; Judg. 9:8;
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| − | Ps, 104:16) It appears ecrtain from the language
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| − | used that God’s prophet referred to Lucifer when he
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| − | wrote these words: ‘‘Thus was he fair in his greatness,
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| − | in the length of his branches: for his root was by great
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| − | waters. The cedars in the garden of God could not
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| − | hide him; the fir trecs were not like his boughs, and
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| − | the chestnut trees were not like his branches: nor
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| − | any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in
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| − | his beauty. I have made him fair by the multitude of
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| − | his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were
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| − | in the garden of God, envicd him,”’? (Iszck, 31: 7-9)
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