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| − | UNDERSTANDING
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| − | *° When the Lord came to his temple in 1918 great-
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| − | er light began to shine into the mind of each one of
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| − | his devoted ones who have been brought into the
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| − | temple. It was about 1925 that the faithful discerned
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| − | the fact that the kingdom had begun and that Satan
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| − | had been east out of heaven and now must confine his
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| − | operations to the earth. The two great signs or won-
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| − | ders in heaven appeared unto them and were then
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| − | understood by God’s people for the first time.
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| − | ** It therefore seems to be impossible that even the
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| − | anointed of the Lord could have had a proper concep-
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| − | tion of the ‘terrible image’ of Daniel until after the
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| − | coming of the Lord to his temple. Furthermore, the
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| − | Seriptures positively state that greater light shines
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| − | upon God’s people at the end of the world and that
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| − | these things in the Bible were written aforetime for
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| − | the special benefit, comfort and encouragement of
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| − | those continuing faithful upon the earth at the end
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| − | of the world. (1 Cor. 10:11; Rom. 15:4) In the light
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| − | of the foregoing indisputable truths let the examina-
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| − | tion be made of the text of Daniel’s prophecy con-
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| − | cerning the ‘terrible image’.
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| − | «7 At once it is apparent to the anointed of the
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| − | Lord at this time that the ‘great and terrible image’
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| − | herein considered represents far more than merely
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| − | earthly corporations or earthly governments.
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| − | (To be continued in next tssue)
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| − | QUESTIONS FOR BEREAN STUDY
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| − | 7 1. Why does special importance attach to the image here
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| − | described ?
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| − | { 2-4. What is an image? How does God regard image-making, | |
| − | and why?
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| − | { 5-8, Explain why Jehovah has so long permitted the existence | |
| − | and activities of his enemies. Quote seriptures to show
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| − | his ultimate purpose concerning them.
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| − | 7 9. What is the prayer of God’s people respecting his and
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| − | their enemies?
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| − | 4 10-12. Identify the ‘‘seed’’? by which the enemy is to be
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| − | destroyed. Ilow and since when has that work of destrue-
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| − | tion been in progress?
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| − | { 13,14. Describe the circumstances leading to Daniel’s being | |
| − | brought before the king, and Daniel’s attitude in the
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| − | matter. Whom did Daniel represent, and how? How was
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| − | he enabled to know and interpret the dream? For what
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| − | purpose was it revealed to him?
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| − | { 15-17. Relate the dream, and the interpretation. | |
| − | { 18, 19. What is the evidence that in times past there has
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| − | been a deep interest in the things foretold by God through
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| − | his prophets? Did they gain the understanding they
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| − | sought, and why? Were their efforts approved by God?
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| − | { 20-24. Prove whether the former interpretation of Daniel’s
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| − | prophecy regarding the ‘terrible image’ was correct.
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| − | {_25. In brief, what did this image represent?
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| − | { 26-30. Quote seriptures in symbolic description of Jehoval’s
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| − | organization, What is the picture thercof presented
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| − | through the Prophet Ezekiel?
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| − | 7 31-33, What constitutes Jehovah’s universal organization?
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| − | How was it brought forth?
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| − | { 34, 35. The Scriptures set forth what facts regarding Lucifer
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| − | prior to his deflection?
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| − | { 36, 37. Describe the organization of which Lucifer was given
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| − | headship.
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| − | { 38, 39. Point out the significance of the metals mentioned
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| − | in the description of the image here under consideration.
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| − | 40. Describe how Lucifer became the enemy of God.
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| − | { 41-44. How do Lucifer’s activities prove the appropriateness
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| − | of the names by which he hag been designated since his
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| − | deflection?
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| − | 7 45, 46. What is meant by ‘the days of understanding’?
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| − | Account for God’s giving his people an understanding of
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| − | his organization and of that of the enemy in ‘‘the latter
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| − | days’’ and not before,
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| − | WORLD-WIDE PEACE: WHEN?
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| − | [¥Fifteen-minute radio lecture]
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| − | If the question could be submitted to a vote
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| − | of the people, there would never be a war.
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| − | People with honest hearts, who love their fellow men,
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| − | and who love rightcousness and justice, abhor war.
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| − | It is always the minority that forees war on the pco-
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| − | ple. General W. T. Sherman, of the Civil War, said,
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| − | ‘(War is hell.’? That opinion has been confirmed a
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| − | million times by those who participated in the recent
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| − | World War. Besides the millions of dead and the
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| − | other millions of cruclly maimed, the great World
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| − | War taught people how to profitcer, lic, steal, swear
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| − | and smoke; it filled the world with millions of people
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| − | who have no regard for decency, law, or the rights
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| − | and liberties of others; it filled the world with un-
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| − | mentionable erimes and discases.
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| − | So terrible were the results of that war that almost
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| − | superhuman efforts have been made ever since to
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| − | bring about a condition of world peace. However, all
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| − | these efforts have been made along wrong lines and
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| − | by people who do not want peace. When conventions
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| − | Te majority of people desire and love peace,
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| − | are held for the purpose of promoting peace, the
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| − | delegates are always the militarists, whose business is
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| − | war, or the great industrialists, who profit by the
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| − | same. Peacefully inclined men and women, known as
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| − | pacifists, are never chosen as delegates. The advice
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| − | of the masses of the people, who furnish the soldiers
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| − | and foot the bills, is never sought. Thus it is that those
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| − | who attend peace conferences are controlled by selfish
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| − | interests, and instead of peace being promoted, ill
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| − | will, distrust, hatred, wrangling and further war
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| − | preparations are the usual outcome, The people have
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| − | Jost all confidenee in their leaders and have no hope
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| − | from that quarter. The only hope held out to the
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| − | poor, oppressed people is that peace lics only in pyre-
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| − | paredness, which means a eompctition among the na-
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| − | tions as to which ean build the most battleships and
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| − | the most bombing planes and make the most poison
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| − | gas and other weapons of destruction.
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| − | Thus the burden of taxes increases every year, as
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| − | docs also the number of boodlers and grafters. Into
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| − | this great vortex of militarism the people are foreed
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