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| − | who therefore appear to be best suited to fill the re-
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| − | spective positions designated for service.’”’
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| − | 16 Surely it must now appear to all of God’s people
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| − | that the time is here for a better and more completely
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| − | harmonious organization for the service of the Lord
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| − | and that now is the time for peace and righteousness
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| − | in God’s visible organization, and in which time every-
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| − | one in the organization and in the service should main-
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| − | tain peace and righteousness in the advancement of
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| − | the kingdom interest of the Lord’s organization. A
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| − | harmonious organization is required by the Lord, and
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| − | full unity in action must be maintained. Such is the
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| − | Lord’s commandment, and his commandments must
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| − | be obeyed. (Acts 3:23) Does it not, therefore, clearly
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| − | appear to the anointed that Jehovah God has now
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| − | fulfilled the terms of the prophecy at Isaiah 60:17,
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| − | and that as gold is better than silver and the other
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| − | materials therein named by way of comparison, so
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| − | now God has brought in a better understanding and
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| − | condition in his organization and that now he has
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| − | brought forward and made his approved servants peace
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| − | and righteousness and that he requires of all full and
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| − | complete harmony and unity in action? In times past
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| − | many who have ruled amongst the professed people
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| − | of God have ruled with force and with eruelty. God
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| − | promised that he would cause such a condition to
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| − | cease, and therefore he said: ‘‘With foree and with
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| − | cruelty have ye ruled them. Thus saith the Lord God,
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| − | Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will re-
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| − | quire my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease
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| − | from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds
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| − | feed themselves any more: for I will deliver my flock
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| − | from their mouth, that they may not be meat for
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| − | them.’’—Ezek, 34:4, 10.
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| − | 17 This prophecy applies to all who have manifested
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| − | the wrong spirit amongst the people of God, and spe-
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| − | cifically including the clergy and the ‘‘clective elder’’
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| − | ‘element and others who have showed the disposition
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| − | to boss and ‘lord it over God’s heritage’. Oceasionally
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| − | a report comes to the Society that in a certain com-
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| − | pany the ‘‘elective elder’’ or boss spirit is manifested
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| − | by some claiming to be anointed, and who act arro-
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| − | gantly toward both the remnant and the Jonadabs.
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| − | Let it now be clearly understood that it is the duty
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| − | of the servants in the church, and in fact all of the
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| − | temple company, to comfort one another and to com-
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| − | fort the ‘‘other sheep’’. In the commission given to the
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| − | anointed temple company these words appear: ‘‘To
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| − | proclaim , .. the day of vengeance of our God; to
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| − | eomfort all that mourn.’’ Therefore it is the clear
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| − | duty of the remnant to declare the day of God’s venge-
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| − | ance and to do this with absolute unity in action;
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| − | and it is likewise the duty of the remnant to comfort
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| − | ‘fall that mourn’’, which specifically refers to those
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| − | of good will who are in distress because of the con-
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| − | ditions that prevail about them. (Ezek. 9:4) The
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| − | Lord will not tolerate bosses, troublemakers, mur-
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| − | murers, harsh or cruel rulers in his organization or
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| − | any part thereof, whether factory, farm or field serv-
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| − | ice. The Lord now clearly reveals his purpose to have
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| − | peace and righteousness in his organization, and it
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| − | therefore follows that all who will not joyfully get
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| − | in line in obedience to this commandment the great
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| − | Executive Officer by his angels will gather out. (Matt.
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| − | 13:41) It is the time of war against the enemy, and
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| − | therefore the time of united action of all of those in
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| − | God’s organization. It is the time of peace, righteous-
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| − | ness and complete unity, and hence harmonious action
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| − | in service amongst all of those devoted to Jehovah.
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| − | Let everyone in God’s organization see to it that he
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| − | thus walks humbly or obediently with his God (Mic.
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| − | 6:8), that is, with Christ Jesus, ‘‘the Mighty God,’’
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| − | and with Jehovah, the Supreme One.
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| − | HIS DUE TIME
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| − | 18 Tn his own due time Jehovah reveals to his faith-
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| − | ful people whatsoever it is his will they should know,
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| − | and this he has proved by his manner of dealing with
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| − | them during the past few years in particular. He has
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| − | now shown his people that it is his time when they
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| − | shall rise up against the cnemy in war. There must
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| − | of necessity, therefore, be complete harmony in the
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| − | ranks of God’s organization. Let all quibbling, strife
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| − | and discord cease. Zion is now builded up, and all
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| − | of Zion must know and do the will of God. King Solo-
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| − | mon was a type of Christ Jesus, who is the builder
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| − | of the real temple of God, and what was recorded
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| − | coneerning the building of the typical temple, amongst
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| − | other things, ‘happened unto them as ensamples, and
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| − | they were written for our admonition’... ‘and were
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| − | written for our learning, that we through patience
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| − | and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.’
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| − | (1 Cor. 10:11; Rom. 15:4) By having this clear
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| − | and positive information the following comparison
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| − | of what came to pass with reference to Solomon and
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| − | the typical temple, and what has been performed by
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| − | Christ Jesus, the Greater-than-Solomon in the real
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| − | temple, may be considered with profit.
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| − | 19 And it came to pass, in the four hundred and
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| − | eighticth year after the children of Israel were come
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| − | out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solo-
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| − | mon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif [bloom]
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| − | which is the second month, that he began to build
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| − | the house of the Lord.’’ (1 Ki. 6:1) The time here
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| − | mentioned was 1035 B.C., and the second month
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| − | thereof, second day (2 Chron. 3:1,2), appears to
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| − | correspond with the year (A.D.) 1918, about the 15th
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| − | of April of that year, about the time of the appear-
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| − | ing of the Lord Jesus Christ at the temple. In the
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| − | year 1918 the Memorial was celebrated on the 14th
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| − | day of the first Jewish month, or, to wit, our time,
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| − | March 26, 1918. Jewish kings were formally enthroned
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| − | and crowned in the spring of the year. Hence though
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| − | the ‘‘seven times’’ of ‘‘the times of the Gentiles’’
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| − | ended in the fall of 1914, about October 1, yet accord-
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| − | ing to the Jewish type Jehovah would induct into
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