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| + | regelui: „Tu ești, o rege, ai crescut și ai devenit puternic, căci măreția ta a crescut și ajunge până la cer și stăpânirea ta până la capătul pământului. " (Vers. 22) Această referință la copacul care ajunge „până la cer” arată că cuvintele s-au putut aplica numai necredinciosului Lucifer, când a fost făcut stăpân, și care acum este Satan, și că Nebuchadnezzar era reprezentantul vizibil al lui Satan pe pământ. Copacul în ansamblu nu se putea referi la rasa umană, ci ilustrează în special stăpânirea lui Satan și a celor de sub el care formează organizația sa. Aceasta este exact în armonie cu marea imagine descrisă în Daniel 2: 37, 38. Țineți minte că a fost după ce Nebucadnețar a distrus Ierusalimul, în 606 î.Cr., când Satan a devenit dumnezeul acestei lumi și Nebuchadnezzar, ca și cap al puterii mondiale, a fost reprezentantul lui Satan pe pământ în organizația sa.}} |
| − | the king: ‘‘It is thou, O king, that art grown and
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| − | become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reach-
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| − | eth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the
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| − | earth.’? (Vs. 22) This refcrence to the tree’s reaching
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| − | “unto heaven”’ shows that the words could apply only
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| − | to the unfaithful Lucifer when he was made overlord,
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| − | and who is now Satan, and that Nebuchadnezzar was
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| − | the visible representative of Satan on the earth. The
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| − | tree as a whole could not refer to the human race,
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| − | but pictures particularly the overlordship of Satan
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| − | and those under him forming his organization. This
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| − | is exactly in harmony with the gredt image described
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| − | in Daniel 2: 37,38. Bear in mind that it was after
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| − | Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem, in 606 B.C.,
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| − | that Satan became the god of this world and Nebuehad-
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| − | nezzar, as then head of the world power, was Satan’s
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| − | representative on carth in his organization.
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| − | 33 At Eden God had forctold the destruction of Sa-
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| − | tan. (Gen. 3:15) Now the judicial decree recorded
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| − | in Daniel’s prophecy foretells the destruction of Sa-
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| − | tan and his organization: ‘‘ And whereas the king saw
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| − | a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, | |
| − | and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet
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| − | leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even
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| − | with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of
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| − | the ficld; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven,
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| − | and let his portion be with the beasts of the field,
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| − | till seven times pass over him.’’ (Vs, 23) Although
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| − | the deeree was made and entered of record immediate-
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| − | ly following the rebellion, Satan’s overlordship of man
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| − | was not at that time taken away, but Jehovah suffered
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| − | Satan to continue in that office until his own duce time,
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| − | that is, until the coming of him ‘‘whose right it is’
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| − | to take the overlordship. This period of time is the
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| − | same mentioned in Exodus 9:16, during which Jeho-
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| − | vah permits Satan to remain in order that He might
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| − | demonstrate his own great power and in order that
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| − | his witnesses might proclaim this fact throughout the
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| − | earth before Satan’s destruction.
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| − | 6 Daniel then tells the king that the deerce is from
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| − | the Most High and that part of it would come upon
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| − | Nebuchadnezzar: ‘‘This is the interpretation, O king,
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| − | and this is the deerce of the Most High, whieh is
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| − | come upon my lord the king: that they shall drive
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| − | thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the
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| − | beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat
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| − | grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew
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| − | of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till
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| − | thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom
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| − | of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.’? (Vss.
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| − | 24,25) Nebuchadnezzar refused to serve the Mest
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| − | High, was proud and boastful, and beeame insane, all
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| − | due to Devil religion, and therefore he was driven
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| − | from his palace, his power being taken away from
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| − | him. Likewise mankind was cut off from the prince-
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| − | dom of the earth and was put out of God’s organiza-
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| − | tion, lost his true manhood, and became brutish, which
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| − | qualities have been specifically exhibited by the rulers
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| − | of earth. (Gen. 3: 23,24) Also the overlord, Lucifer,
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| − | was cut off from Jchovah’s organization and became
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| − | as a serpent and dragon and wild heast, seeking whom
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| − | he may devour, (1 Pct. 5:8) The execution of the
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| − | sentence or divine decree against Satan and his or-
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| − | ganization was suspended until 1914, the end of which
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| − | time is definitely marked by the ‘‘seven times’’. Dur-
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| − | ing the suspension of the execution of the judgment
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| − | Satan continued to have contact with ‘‘the sons of
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| − | God’’. (Job 1: 6-12; 2:1-7) As Nebuchadnezzar was
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| − | made to eat grass as the oxen, so in gencral mankind
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| − | has fed upon what the beastly rulers and Satan’s
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| − | priests have served up to them. Only those who have
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| − | diligently sought the Lord God through Christ Jesus
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| − | have been permitted to feed upon the precious prom-
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| − | ises of God’s Word. The prophecy adds: ‘‘Till thou
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| − | know that the Most High ruleth in the kinedom of
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| − | men.’’ These words of the prophecy show that at flic
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| − | end of the ‘‘seven times’? Jehovah would send forth
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| − | and did send forth his beloved Son to compel all op-
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| − | posers and all others to know that Jchovah is the
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| − | Most High, and that the rulership of the world has
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| − | been placed in the hands of the One who vindicates
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| − | Jehovah’s name. This corroborative proof further
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| − | shows that Jehovah’s witnesses, in order to maintain
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| − | their integrity towards Jchovah, must now amidst
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| − | much opposition and suffering make known to the
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| − | peoples that Jehovah is the Most High and that the
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| − | time for his kingdom is here, and that the King has
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| − | eome and is upon his throne, Jehovah now makes
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| − | known the meaning of his prophecies, including this
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| − | one, to the faithful remnant, his witnesses, and this
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| − | gives them a full assurance that they are on the side
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| − | of Jehovah God; and thus they have comfort and sire
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| − | strong in hope that they shall fully realize all that
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| − | God has promised to those that love and serve him.
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| − | KINGDOM SURE
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| − | 5 'The watchers,’’ that is to say, Jehovah and his
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| − | Logos, commanded that the stump of the tree should
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| − | remain, and the manifest reason is for the vindicution
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| − | of Jchovah’s name. ‘‘And whereas they commanded
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| − | to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall
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| − | be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known
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| − | that the heavens do rule.’”? (Vs. 26) The original
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| − | stump pictured the human part of the organization,
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| − | of which Lucifer was made the overlord. It remains
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| − | under the restraint, pictured by the bands of eopper
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| − | and iron, and in God’s due time out from the roots of
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| − | that stump come some who reach out for the life-
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| − | giving waters of truth, take their stand on Jehovah’s
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| − | side, and maintain their integrity toward Jehovah
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| − | God, and this constitutes a vindication of Jchovah’s
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| − | name and a proof that Satan is a liar. This is in har-
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| − | mony with the decree of Jehovah uttered at Eden
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| − | that ‘the seed shall bruise thy head’. (Gen. 3:15)
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| − | The leaving of the stump was a guarantee that man-
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| − | kind and his home on the earth would not be finally
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