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| − | (1 Cor. 4:5) The Lord has come and is at the temple
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| − | hidden thines before he strikes the devastating blew
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| − | against the enemy, Clearly that these things might
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| − | be emphasized in the mind of those who love and serve
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| − | God, he also says by the mouth of another prophet,
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| − | to wit: ‘If grapegatherers coine to thee, would they
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| − | not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night,
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| − | they will destroy till they have cnough [(margin)
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| − | their sufficiency]. But I have made Lsan bare, I have
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| − | uncovered his seeret places, and he shall not be able
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| − | to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren,
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| − | and his neighbours, and he is not.’’? (Jer. 49:9, 10)
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| − | Thus Jehovah declares himeelf concerning the Toman
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| − | Catholic Iherarchy and their alhed clergy, the de-
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| − | fameis of his name. The hidden treasures of modern
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| − | Edom, in addition to wealth, such as houses and money,
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| − | refer also to the political power of those religious or-
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| − | ganizations which they have and exercise among the
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| − | commercial trafiickers and pohtieians that rule. Ameng
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| − | the hidden thines that mu t be exposed, and which are
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| − | now being exposed, are the rehgious mysteries and
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| − | doctrines, and rites, so-enlled “last rites’’, by which
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| − | the clergy have deceived and defrauded the common
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| − | people and taken away the fruits of their labor, and
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| − | still continue to deceive them, and this cause the ecom-
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| − | mon people ereat want and suffering both mentally
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| − | and materially.
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| − | 78 The public press reports that the Nazis, by reason
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| − | of perseeution, are compcliing the Jews to sell their
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| − | property at a vreat sacrifice in Germany and that the
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| − | Catholics are buying up that property. A criminal
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| − | always leaves some loophole by which he exposes him-
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| − | self. This is another evidence that the Lierarchy is
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| − | back of the Nazi organization, which is robbing a
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| − | thrifty cle s of people in Germany, persecuting all
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| − | others that do not bow to the dictates of the Lherarehy
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| − | and the Nazis, and estending favors only to those who
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| − | support the arbitrary and dictatorial rule of that land.
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| − | In due time the Micrarchy’s hand will be completely
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| − | exposed in Germany and her nefarious work and her
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| − | ill-got gains will be scarehcd out and come to an un-
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| − | timely end.
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| − | 29 When the Lord enthroned David as king of Israel
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| − | the ancient Edomites were the mortal cnemics of
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| − | David, and of the people over which he ruled, God's
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| − | chosen people. The Edomites then kept a part of the
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| − | territory which Jehovah had assigned to .braham’s
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| − | seed, and David was moved to act according to the will
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| − | of God when he fought the Edomites. Now the great
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| − | antitypical David, Christ Jesus, is on his throne and
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| − | is commanded by Jchovah to rule amidst his enemics.
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| − | (Ps. 110:2) The modern Edomites, the religionists,
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| − | are the mortal enemies of the antitypical David, in-
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| − | eluding, to he sure, the remnant. Wrongfully the
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| − | modern Edomites, the clergy, assume the place as-
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| − | sigued to the true seed of Abraham, and the antitypical
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| − | David sends forth the members of his body, the faith-
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| − | ful remnant, to expose the position of the enemy be-
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| − | fore he destroys them. The remnant are therefore now
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| − | acting under the command of the Lord when they
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| − | publish to the world the truth of and concerning thos.
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| − | hypocritical religionists who blaspheme the name of
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| − | God and his kingdom and who oppose all who are im
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| − | favor of his kingdom. This war is in progress ae-
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| − | cording to the will of God. What appears in the Serip-
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| − | tures is not the word of man, and the citation of the
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| − | facts with that of the Scriptures concerning the mod-
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| − | ern Edomites is not an accusation of man, but is set
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| − | forth according to the vill of the Lerd that the refure
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| − | of lies may be stripped bare in this day. The remnant
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| − | are not gathering the great inultitude, becauce that
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| − | is the Lord's work. The remnant are proclaiming the
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| − | truth that it mieht be known that dchovah is the only
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| − | true God, and that those who hear that message and
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| − | who are of good will toward God and put themselves
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| − | on his side and obey his commandments may join the
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| − | great multitude. It is unreasonable and unseriptural,
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| − | and therefore foolish, for anyone to now say: {The
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| − | work we are now doing is small potatoes compared with
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| − | what we will do after Armageddon, in gathering the
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| − | ercat multitude’? The facet that Jehovah is revealing
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| − | to his people now the meaning of his prophecies, such
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| − | as Jehu, cities of refuse, Samson, conecrning the
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| − | Philistines, and other prophecies, is conclusive proof
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| − | that it is his will that the remnant should now knew
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| − | these thines, which were written aforetime for their
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| − | comfort and hope, and that they might tse thes
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| − | truths aceording to the will of God in declarius them
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| − | to others. What will strenethen the hope of the ren.
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| − | nant more than to know that they are now envaged in
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| − | a work according to the will of God, and in which he
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| − | commands them to serve notice upen others, that these
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| − | who are of good wil toward him may learn the way
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| − | to Zion, take their place with God’s organization, and
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| − | form the great multitude that will forever praise Jeo-
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| − | hovah'’s name? Any attempt to make the remnant
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| − | think that their chicf work concerming the ereat mul-
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| − | titude is some twenty years future only tends fo couse
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| − | Jehovah’s witnesses to become lax in their efforts, in-
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| − | different and negligent of their duties and privileges.
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| − | The remnant, who are really devoted to Jehovah and
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| − | his hingdom, and who for the past few years have
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| − | earefully studied the Lord’s prophecies as the Lord
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| − | has unfolded them, will nut now be induced to shack
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| − | the hand. They sce the war is on and that they must
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| − | fight, and ficht eontinuowly, and that their part of the
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| − | fizht is to proclaim the praise of Jchovah and to con-
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| − | tinuously offer before the Lord an offering in right-
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| − | cousness. The remnant are now hated by the ruling
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| − | powers of all nations, even as Jesus was hated when
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| − | he was on earth. The faithful remnant now debehi
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| − | to bear the reproaches that reproached our Lord end
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| − | Head. The inspired Word now applies to the remuatt,
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| − | which says: ‘‘Let us go forth therefore unto him with-
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