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| + | Iehova va distruge cu totul prin Cristos Isus și oștile sale pe toți dușmanii. Când zice Iehova aici: „Să ne sculăm”, înseamnă, la război „împotriva lui”, adică împotriva dușmanului. Războiul amintit aici este în timpul prezent în curs și este războiul adevărului împotriva minciunilor fortificate. Este o bătălie între martorii lui Iehova pe deoparte, și religioniștii fățarnici, în special ierarhia romano-catolică, pe de altă parte, și această luptă are loc tocmai înaintea „războiului zilei celei mari a Dumnezeului celui Atotputernic”.}} |
| − | hovah by Christ Jesus and his army will completely
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| − | annihilate all of the enemy. When Jchovah says here,
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| − | ‘Arise ye,’’ it means to battle ‘‘against her’’, the
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| − | enemy. This battle spoken of is now in progress, and
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| − | is a battle of truth against entrenched lics. It is a
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| − | battle between Jchovah’s witnesses on one side and
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| − | hypoeritical rcligionists, particularly the Roman Cath-
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| − | olie Hierarchy, on the other, and takes place just pre-
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| − | ecding and preliminary to ‘‘the battle of that great
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| − | day of God Almighty’’.
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| − | 5° Note now the corroborative proof given by the
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| − | prophet: ‘And I will lay my vengcance upon Edom
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| − | by the hand of my ‘people Israel [spiritual Israel ;
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| − | Jehovah’s faithful witnesses]: and they [Jchovah’s
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| − | witnesses] shall do in Edom according to mine anger,
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| − | and according to my fury; and they [the Edomites]
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| − | shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.”? (Mack.
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| − | 25:14) In further corroborative proof sce verse 18 of
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| − | Obadiah’s propheey. It is the Edomites, the religion-
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| − | ists, and particularly the Roman Catholic Hicrarchy,
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| − | that now make war upon dehovah’s witnesses, and
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| − | this they do under the command of the ficld marshal
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| − | of Satan. Jchovah’s witnesses must fight with the
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| − | sword of the spirit, that is, the Word of Cod, firmly
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| − | and boldly declaring the truth which exposes and un-
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| − | covers the hiding place of the Hes of the modern
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| − | Indomites,
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| − | 81°We should expect the Devil to use every subtle
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| − | means at his command to lull God’s anointed ones to
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| − | slecp and to cause them to cease their fighting; but
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| − | the true and faithful will not be deceived and lulled to
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| − | sleep, Jesus says that the Devil and his agents ‘‘shall
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| − | shew si¢ns and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible,
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| − | even the eleet’’, (Mark 13:22; Matt. 24:24) To seduce
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| − | mneans to turn one away froin the right path into the
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| − | way of Satan the evil one, and doing violence to God’s
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| − | people. The Devil would use some now to induec Je-
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| − | hovah’s witnesses to believe that they should slack up
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| − | their work and not expect to do anything particularly
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| − | important until after Armageddon. To influence or
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| − | induee one to take such a course is seducing or turn-
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| − | ing one aside from the rignt way. But the Lord shows
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| − | that it is not possible to deecive the very clect. (Matt.
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| − | 24:24) Those who are fully devoted to the Lord will
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| − | refuse to be influenced or sedueed by such efforts to
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| − | keep them quiet. They will be on the alert at all times
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| − | and resent any and all subtle influence of the Devil,
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| − | which may appear to be put forward by him through
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| − | any ereature, whether that ercature claims to he con-
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| − | secratcd to the Lord or not. God has eommanded his
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| − | people to ‘‘rise up against her in battle’? now, By
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| − | his prophet Iizckicl he commands his anoimted ones,
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| − | “the man elothed with linen’’, saying, ‘Take fire
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| − | from between the wheels, from between the cheru-
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| − | bims; . .. And he spake unto the man clothed with
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| − | linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under
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| − | the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from
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| − | between the cherubims, and seatter them over the
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| − | Fhe WATCHTOWER
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| − | city. And he went in in my sight. And one cherub
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| − | stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims
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| − | unto the fire that was between the cheruhims, and tock
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| − | thereof, and put it [fire] into the hands of him that
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| − | was clothcd with linen; who took it, and went out.’’
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| − | —Ezek. 10: 6, 2,7.
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| − | 82 Such work by the anointed is doing the ‘slaying’
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| − | part of the Elisha work, which he was anointed to
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| − | perform. The Lord graciously revealed this matter and
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| − | caused it to be published in Vindication, Book One,
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| − | page 116 e¢ seqg., and that no doubt for the instruction
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| − | and guidance of his anointed, that they might be fully
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| − | equipped and furnished for all good work. Yet it ap-
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| − | pears that some who should have learned what is pub-
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| − | lished, and should be performing these dutics as God
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| − | has commanded, instead have been seduced, and by
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| − | some wrongful influcnee, and are interfering with the
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| − | work and endeavoring to make the anointed belicve
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| − | that their chief work is to be done after Armageddon.
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| − | The eleet will not be deccived or seduced. These faith-
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| − | ful anointed ones will not slack the hand in this day
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| − | of war, but with the zeal peculiar to the Lord's house
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| − | they will continue to press the battle against the
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| − | enemy. The remnant will not engage in the destructive
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| − | work at Armageddon. The part performed by the
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| − | remnant is to proclaim the message by the Lord as he
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| − | has commissioned and commanded them to do. The
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| − | Lord Jesus Christ and his heavenly host will do the
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| − | slaushtcr work, That is made clear by many prophetie
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| − | statements.—2 Chron, 20: 16-22; Hzck. 9: 4-6.
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| − | 33-The remnant have a work to do now before the
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| − | destructive work of Armageddon begins, and which
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| − | work they must complete before that destructive work
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| − | does begin, (Matt. 24: 14,21) From the time Jehovah
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| − | put his name upon his anointed ones, giving to them
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| − | the ‘‘new name’’, he commissioned and sent them forth
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| − | to perform their part by declaring the day of his
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| − | vengeanee. As they go forth to the nations bearing
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| − | testimony to the name of Jchovah, the Most Tigh says
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| − | to them: ‘Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the
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| − | hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of
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| − | thy God.’’—Jsa. 62: 2, 3.
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| − | 84 Jehovah exhibits his anointed witnesses before the
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| − | Esau crowd and thus shows his favor to his witnesses ;
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| − | and because he puts his favor upon them the fire of
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| − | the enemy is drawn against Jchovah’s witnesses and
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| − | the battle goes on. The enemies of God, particularly
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| − | the religionists, are designated under the name of
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| − | “sau’’, “Edom,” ‘‘Ephraim,’’ ‘Philistines,’’ ete.
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| − | All such refer to the Roman Catholic Hicrarehy and
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| − | their allies. Concerning sueh enemics Jehovah says:
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| − | “Woe to the erown of pride, to the drunkards of
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| − | Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower,
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| − | which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that
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| − | are overcome with wine!’ (Isa. 28:1) The enemy,
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| − | the religionists, are drunken with satanie wine; and
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| − | such, in their maudlin, drunken state, go forth, mak-
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| − | ing war against the remnant because the remnant
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