JUNE 1, 1988
to ‘‘Christendom’’, must now be told the truth of
and concerning Satan’s organization, and particularly
that ‘‘Christendom”’ is a part of that wicked organi-
zation. The faithful remnant must bear this testimony
to the name of Jehovah God and inform the ‘‘pris-
oners’’ concerning Jehovah and his great organiza-
tion, and that it will destroy Satan’s organization.
This very work the remnant has been doing for the
past few years, and is now doing, and must continue
to do until the witnessing to the truth is completed
and ‘‘Christendom’’ falls. The ‘‘prisoners’’ must and
will have an opportunity to know that the chief doc-
trine taught by the Bible is that of God’s kingdom,
because that kingdom will vindicate the name of
Jehovah.
Jehovah gives expression to his righteous indigna-
tion against the enemy only after due notice is given
of his purpose so to do. Long before the great deluge
swept away ‘‘the world that then was’’, God sent
Noah to serve notice upon the rulers and upon the
people of the impending disaster. Before he brought
the great calamity upon Egypt he sent Moses and
Aaron to give notice thereof. Before Jerusalem fell,
the Most High sent his duly commissioned prophets
to give notice of his purpose to express his righteous
indignation against those who had violated their cove-
nant with him. These things Jehovah did for his
name’s sake, that the people might know that Jeho-
vah is the true and almighty God. All that he then
did, on the occasions just mentioned, foreshadowed
what shall come upon ‘‘Christendom’’, that is to say,
upon all the nations that claim to be the people of
God, and the followers of Christ, and the practicers
of the ‘‘Christian religion’’, It should therefore be
expected that Jehovah would cause notice to be duly
served upon the rulers and the supporters of ‘‘Chris-
tendom’’, and that this notice would be served after
the coming of Christ to the temple of God.
Concerning the great day of God Almighty, when
his righteous indignation shall be expressed, Jesus
said to his followers: ‘‘And take heed to yourselves,
lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with sur-
feiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and
so that day come upon you unawares.”’ (Luke 21: 34)
These words serve a twofold purpose: (1) as a warn-
ing to all those-who are in the covenant for the king-
dom to be always on the alert to obey the command-
ments of Jehovah; and (2) as conclusive proof that
the great day of God Almighty shall witness the ex-
pression of his indignation upon ‘‘Christendom’’ and
which will completely destroy ‘‘Christendom’’ and
all parts of Satan’s organization. This scripture is
notice to the followers of Christ of that coming day
of righteous indignation of Jehovah, and lays upon
such the obligation of serving notice upon the world.
While it is true that the great day of God Al-
mighty comes upon many who have not gained a
knowledge, that lack of information will be no fault
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of Jehovah God. When Jesus appeared at the temple
of Jehovah he announced: ‘‘The Lord is in his holy
temple; Iet all the earth keep silence before him.’’
(Hab. 2:20) This proves that the people must be told
that the day of judgment is at hand, and that all
must be given an opportunity to hear what the Word
of God has to say concerning the day of the great
battle of God Almighty. All who have agreed to do
his will are told to search the Scriptures, wherein the
expression of his will is found, and to study that they
may have the approval of God. (2 Tim. 2:15) The
followers of Christ are commanded thus to do, not
for their own personal gain, but that they might be
witnesses to others. These witnesses must inform others
concerning the will of God and serve notice upon them
that Jehovah is the only God. (Isa. 43:9-12) Con-
cerning the end of the world, the setting up of the
kingdom, and Jehovah’s battle at Armageddon, the
commandment is given that the faithful covenant peo-
ple of God must bear testimony thereof to the people.
It is plainly stated that the purpose is not to convert
the world, but to give notice to the nations. (Matt.
24:14) The giving of this notice or testimony must
continue ‘‘until the cities [every part of Satan’s
organization] be wasted without inhabitant’’. (Isa.
6:11) Nor is there any doubt about who shall de-
liver this testimony, or serve this notice, in the name
of the Lord Jchovah. It is his ‘‘remnant’’ people who
are faithful and true to their covenant and therefore
called ‘‘the faithful and true witness’’, and who prove
by their obedience to his commandments that they
are his. These are the ones that give the witness
Rev. 12: 17.
Jehovah sent his prophet Ezekiel to Israel to serve
notiee upon that people of his purpose to destroy their
city. Likewise God sends his witnesses forth today to
serve notice upon ‘‘Christendom”’ of his purpose to
destroy that wicked organization that his name may
be known in all the earth. Ezekiel served notice both
by word of mouth and by his action. Likewise God’s
witnesses serve notice by their words and their course
of action. The words of the speaker often fall upon
deaf ears, while his actions speak with greater force
and effect.
‘‘The word of the Lord also eame unto me, saying,
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious
house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have
ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious
house.’’ (Ezek. 12:1,2) Ezekiel dwelt among a re-
bellious people. They might have heard, but they did
not; and this foreshadows that God’s faithful wit-
nesses on earth dwell among a rebellious people to
whom the message has been spoken, and the clergy
and the principal of their flock have not heard and
heeded. In 1914 and thereabout God’s faithful people
in the land of ‘‘Christendom’’ had spoken many words
of the truth, but the same had little or no effect upon
- Christendom’’,
