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| − | AND HERALD OF CHRIST'S PRESENCE
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| − | Fesruary 15, 1934
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| − | TREE OF HOPE
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| − | “And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee,
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| − | after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.’’—Daniel 4: 26.
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| − | EHOVAIL’S name shall be vindicated. That is
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| − | the all-important truth. Te has made Christ
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| − | Jesus his Vindicator and made him to be the
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| − | ruler over his kingdom, and by and through his king-
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| − | dom he will make known to all creation that he, Je-
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| − | hovah, is supreme and that besides him there is none.
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| − | It is by and through the King and kingdom that men
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| − | shall be brought into harmony with Jehovah. Upon
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| − | his beloved Son Jehovah has placed his name, and
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| − | there is no other name given under heaven whereby
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| − | men must be saved. (Acts 4:12) The kingdom is Je-
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| − | hovah’s capital organization, and of that organization
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| − | Christ Jesus is the Head. Jehovah has caused to be
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| − | written in his Word that his purpose is to make Christ
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| − | Jesus man’s Redeemer and carth’s rightful ruler and
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| − | gather all obedient ones under him. Therefore it is
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| − | written: ‘‘That in the dispensation of the fulness of
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| − | times he might gather together in one all things in
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| − | Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on
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| − | earth; even in him.’’——EEph. 1:10.
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| − | 7In the dream of Nebuchadnezzar the leaving of
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| − | the stump in the ground, which represents the human
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| − | part of the original organization, would picture Je-
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| − | hovah’s purpose of making provision for the redemp-
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| − | tion and final deliverance of the obedient ones of man-
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| − | kind and that these may grow up into another organi-
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| − | zation and live for ever. The language of Daniel
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| − | 4:26 proves that the stump must have a close relation- | |
| − | ship to the kingdom of Christ. These Scriptural texts
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| − | prove beyond all doubt that the ‘‘tree in the midst
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| − | of the earth’’, which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his
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| − | dream, pictures Satan’s organization which must
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| − | perish for ever and that then Jchovah would cause a
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| − | new tree to grow up which is his capital and righteous
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| − | organization and of which Christ Jesus is the Head
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| − | and overlord; that the hope of man, who was a part
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| − | of the original tree, is in the new tree or holy organi-
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| − | zation. Therefore Christ Jesus is the trce of hope,
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| − | beeause the organization is his by the will of Jeho-
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| − | vah God and only by and through Christ Jesus and
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| − | the kingdom ean the people have a hope for life, for
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| − | the reason that sueh is the will of the Almighty God.
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| − | * Since the expulsion from Eden man’s portion has
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| − | been ‘‘with the beasts in the grass of the earth’’, even
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| − | as portrayed in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar. Rulers
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| − | under Satan _have been bestial, brutish, inhuman,
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| − | eruel and oppressive, and the human race has been
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| − | subjected to such eruel rule. These earthly rulers,
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| − | being a part of Satan’s organization, are likened to
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| − | ferocious beasts. (Dan. 7:3-17) This is in harmony
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| − | with the divine deerce of Daniel 4:16: ‘‘Let his heart
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| − | be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be
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| − | piven unto him; and let seven times pass over him.’?
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| − | Such beastly rulers have had no understanding or
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| − | appreciation of Jchovah’s ways. ‘‘O Lord, how great
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| − | are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. A
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| − | brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool under-
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| − | stund this,’? (Ps. 92:5,6) Asa part of the roots of
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| − | the old stump in the earth these rulers have not
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| − | reached out for the life-giving waters of truth, and
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| − | henee have learned nothing. Concerning them it is
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| − | written: ‘‘Surely IT am more brutish than any man,
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| − | and have not the understanding of a man. I neither
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| − | learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.’’
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| − | (Prov. 30:2,3) As rulers and a part of Satan’s or-
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| − | ganization they too shall perish.
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| − | “SEVEN TIMES”
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| − | *The words of the prophetie dream, to wit, ‘‘seven
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| − | times,’’ should not be confused with the period of time
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| − | elapsing from Eden to Armageddon, and there is a
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| − | definite reason for this. The meaning of ‘‘time’’ is
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| − | ‘*a set or fixed time’’; technically, ‘‘a year,’’? which
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| − | according to the Bible is 360 days. The miniature ful-
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| − | filment was upon the man Nebuchadnezzar, and the
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| − | complete fulfilment must be upon a far greater scale.
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| − | These ‘‘seven times’? must pass over the stump by
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| − | reason of the deeree of Jchovah God, not as times of
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| − | punishment of mankind, but to mark a period of time
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| − | during which Satan, who was pictured by Nebuehad-
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| − | nezzar, the head of the earthly government and who
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| − | at that time exercised regal power as ruler of the
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| − | world and as Satan’s representative, has exercised the
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| − | power as god of the whole earth. The ‘‘seven times’’,
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| − | therefore, must be symbvlie of and hence equal to the
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| − | times of the Gentiles, to wit, 2,520 years. This whole
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