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| − | has promised. (Prov. 3:5, 6) It was freely announced
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| − | even before that, that 1925 appeared to be an impor-
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| − | tant year, but its real importance was not seen until
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| − | the present time.
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| − | 2° Further interesting facts are these: ‘‘But Solo-
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| − | mon was building his own house thirteen years, and
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| − | he finished all his house. He built also the house of
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| − | the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hun-
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| − | dred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and
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| − | the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of
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| − | cedar pillars [like a cedar forest of Lebanon], with
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| − | cedar beams upon the pillars, Then he made a porch
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| − | for the throne, where he might judge, even the porch
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| − | of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from one
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| − | side of the floor to the other. And his house where he
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| − | dwelt had another court within the porch, which was
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| − | of the like work. Solomon made also an house for
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| − | Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like
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| − | unto this poreh.’’ (1 Ki. 7:1, 2,7,8) ‘‘And it came
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| − | to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
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| − | had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and
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| − | the king’s house.’’ (1 Ki. 9:10; 2 Chron. 8:1) The
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| − | completion of that particular building program of
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| − | Solomon included the temple, the king’s palace, and
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| − | the house of the forest of Lebanon for judgment (and
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| − | also for an armory, 2 Chronicles 9:15,16); which
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| − | completion took place in the twentieth year after the
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| − | beginning of the temple, said year being 1016 B.C.,
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| − | and which ‘‘twentieth year’’ ends with the begin-
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| − | ning of the spring of 1938, and hence corresponds
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| − | with the year 1937 which ends in the spring of 1938;
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| − | and to which attention is here directed.
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| − | *°The year 1937 appears to be a marked year of
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| − | importance to the people of God, including both the
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| − | romnant and their ‘‘companions’’, the people of good
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| − | will, as if this year may be introductory to something
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| − | more important. In that ‘‘twentieth year’’, 19387, there
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| − | assembled the most constructive and important con-
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| − | ventions of Jehovah’s witnesses yet assembled, to wit,
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| − | in the city of Paris, France, in August, and at Colum-
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| − | bus, Ohio, in September, 19387. By means of radio the
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| − | witnesses in other parts of the earth, to wit, Europe,
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| − | Africa, Australia, and islands of the sea, had a part
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| − | in those assemblies. The publie address pointing to
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| − | God’s way of ‘‘Safety’’ was delivered to a visible
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| − | audience of 30,000 persons and at the same time over
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| − | many radio stations. (September 18 and 19) Then on
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| − | September 26, 125 radio stations broadcast the public
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| − | address ‘‘Worshiping God’’, whercin was condemned
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| − | the conduct of the commercial radio stations and op-
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| − | erators for improper use of this God-given facility ;
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| − | and then on October 31 thereafter judgment against
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| − | the commercial radio owners, operators, and control-
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| − | lers of radio stations was expressed by discontinuing
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| − | of commercially-paid radio programs which relate to
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| − | God’s kingdom. Was this directed and done at the
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| − | dictation of the King, Christ Jesus, in the ‘‘porch
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| − | She WATCHTOWER.
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| − | Brooxuyrn, N. Y.
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| − | of judgment’’? It was not prearranged by any man
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| − | having in mind the fulfillment of prophecy.
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| − | 51 Tt is of some significance that in the close of this
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| − | very ‘‘twenticth year’’ the question of Jehovah’s tem-
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| − | ple and royal house, and who is in it, and their duty
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| − | and responsibility, is considered and now prepared
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| − | to be published in The Watchtower and the publica-
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| − | tion of which will immediately precede what is here
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| − | written. It also appears certain that as in the ‘‘thir-
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| − | teen years’’ during which Solomon was building his
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| − | royal palace and his judgment house like a forest of
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| − | Lebanon, so during the thirteen years from 1925 on-
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| − | ward Jehovah’s King Judge, Christ Jesus, has been
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| − | expressing his judgments, including ‘the cleansing of
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| − | the sanctuary’, and also by the arrangement of scrv-
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| − | ice organization and work. Individualism of the re-
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| − | spective companies has been done away with, and
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| − | the Society, by the will and grace of Jehovah, has
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| − | taken its proper place in Jehovah’s theocratie gov-
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| − | ernment. The unity of the anointed and the har-
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| − | monious co-operation with their companions are made
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| − | manifest today as never before. The Watchtower in
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| − | this ‘‘twentieth year’’ has set forth the Scriptural
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| − | proof as to who is of the royal house and who of
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| − | the ‘‘great multitude’’, and their relationship to each
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| − | other and to the Lord. It was in May 1937 that The
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| − | Watchtower announced that capable Jonadabs are
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| − | eligible for company service organizations. The Watch.
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| − | tower, as of August 15, 1937, published the article
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| − | “‘Companions’’, setting forth the relationship of the
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| − | ‘little flock’? and the ‘‘great multitude’’, The end
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| − | of the ‘‘twentieth year’’ in 1015 B.C. (which twen-
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| − | tieth year corresponds with 1938) comes in the ful-
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| − | fillment on April 2, 1928. The Memorial for 1938
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| − | was celebrated April 15, 1988. The Watchtower for
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| − | March 1 and 15, 1938, published the ‘‘Memorial’’
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| − | article, setting forth clearly who shall partake, and
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| − | also the article showing the distinction between the
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| − | anointed and great multitude; and thus ‘‘the twen-
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| − | ticth year’’ parallel comes to a close, which matter
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| − | is seen for the first time as this present article is in
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| − | course of preparation for publication.
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| − | 32 As previously arranged, by the Lord’s grace and
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| − | guidance, the international testimony period entitled
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| − | “‘Companions’’ began April 9, 1988, and progresses,
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| − | and during which time the books Riches and Enemies,
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| − | together with the booklet Cure, are specifically fea-
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| − | tured and widely distributed. The magazine now Con-
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| − | solation is also put forward in this testimony period.
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| − | It is quite manifest that the Lord is guiding his people
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| − | and that his theocratic government is in operation and
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| − | complete control, so far as his visible organization on
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| − | earth is concerned. Will everyone who loves the Lord
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| − | get in line and take his respective and proper place?
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| − | WORKERS
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| − | $3 During the “‘twenty years’’ of Solomon’s build-
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| − | ing program he employed or made use of non-Israelites
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