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

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