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| − | bers to a place in the body as it pleases him and doubt-
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| − | less assigns all in his organization to a place, and that
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| − | he requires of each and every one full obedience and
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| − | faithfulness.
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| − | 3 The faithful servants of the Lord do not fret them-
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| − | selves concerning the others who fail to do their duty.
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| − | Each servant stauds or falls te his master, and there-
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| − | fore the faithful one is deeply eoncerned about proving
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| − | his own integrity and he knows that he eannot sueceed
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| − | in doing so by finding fault with others who appear
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| − | to fail or who do fail to faithfully perform. It is en-
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| − | tirely proper for the brethren to point out to one an-
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| − | other the great privilege of serving God and his king-
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| − | dom and to urge one another te do all he can to mag-
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| − | nify the name of Jchovah, but such admonition should
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| − | always be given in kindness and never by way of harsh
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| − | eviticism, All at the temple will be in exact harmony
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| − | and will dwell together and work together in peace
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| − | to the glory of God, which means the forgetting of
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| − | self and the magnifying of the name of Jchovah. ‘‘In
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| − | his temple doth every one speak of his [Jchovah’s]
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| − | glory,’’—Ps. 29:9.
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| − | * Those faithful ones deeply appreciate the loving-
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| − | kindness of God in causing his prophecies to be writ-
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| − | ten centuries azo for the speeial benefit of his faithful
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| − | servants now on the carth. As these prophecies are
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| − | unfolded by the Lord each one of the temple receives
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| − | the same jovfully. They know that prophecy docs not
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| − | proceed from men, but from God, and is made clear
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| − | in these last days that the man of God may be thor-
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| − | oughly furnished and prepared for all good work.—
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| − | 2 Tim. 3: 16,17.
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| − | 5 All propheey having the same objective, What is to
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| − | say, the vindication of Jchovah’s name, the same phys-
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| − | ical facts fulfill different prophecies. It may appear,
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| − | therefore, that physical facts are often repeated in
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| − | The Watchtower, and the critical ones will say and do
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| − | say: “The Watchtower continucs to speak about the
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| − | same thing.’? The answer to that is, that the Lord
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| − | God was pleased to treat the same matter in a num-
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| − | ber of different prophecies, his purpose manifestly be-
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| − | ing to furnish an abundant amount of corroborative
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| − | testimony for the aid, comfort and hope of the remnant.
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| − | * Among the prophecies Jchovah eaused to be writ-
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| − | ten is that of Obadiah, and according to Ilis fixed
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| − | rule that prophecy was written for the understanding
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| − | of the remnant and for the aid and comfort of such
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| − | class, and for that reason it is to be expected that the
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| − | Joord will give the remnant an understanding of the
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| − | prophcey of Obadiah in these last days. The propheey
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| − | of Obadiah clearly is present truth, which is received
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| − | by the remnant with great joy. It foretells the doom
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| − | of the relivionists, that is, the men who have organized
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| − | and: earried on a work in the name of the Lord yet
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| − | who have defained the name of Jchovah for these many
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| − | eenturies past. The prophecy discloses the present
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| − | duty and work of the faithful witnesses of Jehovah
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| − | in expesing the duplicity and hypoerisy of the Roman
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| − | She WATCHTOWER
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| − | BROOKLYN, N.Y.
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| − | Catholic Hierarehy and other clergy allied with that
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| − | wicked organization, which for years have ruled the
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| − | peopfe in an arrogant and scornful manner. Those
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| − | religionists have claimed to be heirs of God's promise
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| − | and his favored ones, but they have ignored God’s
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| − | Word aud employed their own selfish schemes and
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| − | have advanced their own selfish doctrines in an effort
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| − | to accomplish their wicked end. It is certain that the
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| − | understanding of this prophecy at the present crisis
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| − | will be a real eomfort to the faithful witnesses of Je-
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| − | hovah, The prophecy is therefore considered in minute
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| − | detail.
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| − | ™The name Obadiah means ‘‘serving Jchovah’’ or
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| − | “servant of Jehovah’’; which shows that the prophcey
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| − | is for the servant class of Jchovah. The understanding
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| − | is particularly for the remnant class and must be pro-
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| − | claimed within the hearing of all persons of eood will,
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| − | and this must be dune before the wrath of Jehovah
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| − | falls upon the wieked, hypoeritical rcligionists. The
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| − | identity of Obadiah is wneertain. It is not certain
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| − | whether the prophet, the writer of the prophecy, ac-
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| − | tually bore that name Obadiah or used the name
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| − | Obadiah as an appropriate title for the prophecy,
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| − | This is very interesting for the reason it suegests that
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| − | in the fulfillment of this propheey the personal ident:-
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| − | ty of those who compose the servant class, whom Oba-
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| − | diah pictured, is neither necessary nor important. Thus
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| − | excludes the reason and opportunity for personal
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| − | shining and adulation. To be sure, the Lord Jess,
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| − | who is the head of the servant class, 1s always de‘i-
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| − | nitely identified ; but as to the persons who are made
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| − | members of that servant class, their identity is not
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| − | at all important except for their own special benefit.
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| − | This is exactly as we should expect it to be in this day.
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| − | There is no oceasion, then, to give any special honor
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| − | to any inan or men. The speeial adalation and honor-
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| − | ing of men is for the past, and at the present time it
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| − | finds, or at least should find, no place amonest Cod’s
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| − | people. This further explains also that some of the «
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| − | once of the servant class may fall away and hence a
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| − | change in the personnel of the servant body be made,
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| − | but the purpose and the work of the servant class are
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| − | never altered. There is no individual of the servant
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| − | class who is so very important that he must be set up
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| − | on a pedestal, What counts with the Lord is faith-
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| − | fulness in the performanee of duty. Those who remain
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| − | of the servant class must be dependable; and if some
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| − | become unreliable they will be quickly set aside, but
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| − | this would in no wise affect the result concerning the
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| − | work and the purpose of the servant class,
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| − | § As to the time when this unidentified Obadiah
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| − | lived and prophesied, it is not definitely fixed hw the
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| − | Seriptures, It is uncertain as to whether the proplicey
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| − | was written before or after the fall of Jerusalem ai
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| − | the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, but the application of the
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| − | prophecy is not at all uncertain, That is the important
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| − | tine and matter. The name as well as the prophecy
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| − | of Ghadiah itself indicates clearly that it applies to
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