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| − | 23 Jehovah uses a striking illustration to show how
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| − | rompletely the clergy shall be desolated. He com-
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| − | pares the action of thieves and robbers with what
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| − | shall come to the relicionssts, the hypoeritieal clergy:
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| − | “Tf thieves eamc to thee, if robbers by night, (how
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| − | art thou eut off!) would they not have stolen till they
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| − | had cnoush? if the grapevatherers came to thee, would
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| − | they not leave some geapes?’’—Obad. 5,
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| − | * To what extent would a thief or robber go?
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| − | Thieves hastily eral what they see and go away.
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| − | fatherers of grapes leave some for gleancrs. (Deut.
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| − | 24:21) When Jchovah has caused the refuge of lies
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| − | to be uncovered and the duplicity and hypocrisy of
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| − | the clergy to appear, then he will leave nothing of that
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| − | ezowd, but will elean them out completely. Likewise
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| − | in the war that is now in progress Jchovah’'s witnesses
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| − | in following and obcying the commandments of the
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| − | Lord will spare no one, as Saul spared Agag. They
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| − | must not be respeeters of persons, but must be wholly
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| − | obedient to the Lord. For many years the religious
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| − | priests robbed and oppressed the Russian people, and
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| − | when the day of retribution fell upon them there was
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| − | an effort made by the relivionists to have some ccele-
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| − | siastieal grapes deft in Russia. Call to mind that on Peb-
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| − | ruary 2, 1930, ‘Pope’? Ambrose Ratti publicly pro-
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| − | tested avainst ‘religious perseeution’’ in Russia, Phat
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| − | protest was immediately followed by a dike protest
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| − | from the arelitbishops of Canterbury and York, and by
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| − | the chief rabbi of London, and by Archbishop Man-
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| − | ning of New York, thus showing that the elergy all
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| − | work toecther. Of the Ifierarchy and the other clergy
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| − | Jebovah will leave nothing, such as robbers and grape
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| − | gatherers might leave. By his prophet he says to these
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| − | hypocrites: ‘Ifow art thou cut off!”’
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| − | 2 The name Hsau means ‘rough, perceptible to the
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| − | fouch'’, expert to deecive. (Gen, 25:25) The modern
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| − | Esau (or Edomites) Jikes to ‘oweer a rough garinent
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| − | [that is, a hairy garment (margin) ] to deceive’ others
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| − | and to make them think that the wearer is a prophet.
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| − | (Zech. 18:4) Esau chose for his habitation a high
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| − | eountry, (Gen. 36:8) The modern Esau or Edomites
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| − | likewise have chosen the rough, erucl, beastly and
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| − | inaeecssibie governments of Satan’s organization for
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| − | their abiding plaec. Such high and fortified places
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| − | will not save them from the wrath of the Lord: ‘‘Tlow
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| − | are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hid-
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| − | den things sought up!’’—-Obad. 6,
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| − | 20 The ancient Edomites became very rich and filled
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| − | their homes with loot stolen from the caravans that
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| − | traveled between the Euphrates and Iigypt. They col-
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| − | lested heavy tribute from those who passed by their
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| − | country and who cngaged in commercial traftic. Like-
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| − | wise the modern Edomites, and particularly the Ro-
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| − | man Catholic Hierarchy, have become exceedingly
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| − | rich and have their storchouses full of great riches.
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| − | Seeh riches they have obtained by fraud and dcecit
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| − | practiced upon the gullible people. On every payday
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| − | of the factories and commercial institutions the Hicr-
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| − | archy sends the poor, deluded, black-hooded women
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| − | about to collcet tribute from the laborers on the pre-
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| − | text that it is for a good purpose, while those of the
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| − | Ilicrarchy live wantonly upon what they collect. Those
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| − | collectors enter the offiees and business houses and
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| − | leave with their pockets full. That organization employs
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| − | coercion to extract treasure or wealth from the pro-
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| − | fessional and businessmen, and threatens them with
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| − | loss materially and spiritually unless they contribute
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| − | liberally, That would be bad enough; but when we
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| − | eall to mind that the Hierarchy institution demands
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| − | of the bereaved ones sums of moncy to give their dead
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| − | what they term a decent burial, this is a crucl and
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| − | wicked way to extraet money from the people, to suy
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| − | nothing about the fraud and deecit. The so-ealled
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| − | ‘Protestant’? clergy, among the wealthy population,
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| − | with boasting words say, as one recently said at Pitts-
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| − | burgh: ‘‘This is a three-million-dollar church, aud
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| − | who would dare place an advertising sign near it ad-
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| − | vertising these Jehoval’s witnesses??? But of all the
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| − | hy poeritieal, arrogant and scornful religionists Je-
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| − | hovah says; ‘low are the things of Mdom searched
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| − | out [(Roth., margin) stript bare]!’? In the war
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| − | that is now on, the remnant, acting under the com-
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| − | mandments of the Lord, scarch out these things of
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| − | fraudulent eeclesiasticism and expose them to public
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| − | view by telling the truth, both of historical facts and
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| − | of the Word of God. Thus the Lord is searching out
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| − | and stripping bare the old “owhore’’, and when the
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| − | work of his witnesses is done God will completely strip
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| − | bare those who have laid up great treasure to satisly
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| − | their own greed and selfish desires,
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| − | 77 Vatiean City holds great treasures that support
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| − | the Roman Catholie Hherarehy and sumptuously sup-
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| − | ply all the needs of that deceitful and powerful or-
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| − | ganization. Throughout all Christendom”? that wiek-
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| − | ed institution holds the choicest property and. sites
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| − | and there locates iis buildings. In all nations that
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| − | hypoeritieal organization maintains its official repre-
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| − | sentatives in great luxury, their support coming from
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| − | loot that has been extracted from the people by ¢o-
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| − | ercion, fraud and deceit. For years they have kept
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| − | their great wealth hidden from the commercial powers,
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| − | but now the time has come when the trnth shall be
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| − | kuown, and of that organization Jehovah says: “Tow
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| − | are his hidden treasures sought out!’ (A.R.V.) This
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| − | is not man’s judgement nor the declaration of man, but
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| − | the announcement of God’s judgment declaing the
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| − | day of his vengeance, The time has come for those
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| − | who love God to make known these judgments, and
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| − | they must do so beeause Cod has commanded it. Both
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| − | the Seriptures and the facts show that the time has
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| − | come to expose those who, for a long pcrivd. have de-
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| − | farmed the name of Jchovah, and henec the Seriptures
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| − | declare: ‘‘Therefore judee nothing hefore the time
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| − | faud that time is here], until the Lord eame, who...
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| − | will bring to Hght the hidden thines of darkness.”
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