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thence will I bring thee down.’’ Be assured that God
will accomplish that very thing; therefore be strong in
the Lord and in the power of his micht and fight on.
To the self-exalted modern Edomites Jehovah now
says: ‘‘Thy terribleness [awe-inspiring position on
the rocks of the world} hath deccived thee [into sclf-
security, complacency and independence of God], and
the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the
elefis of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill:
though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the
eagle, I will bring thee down from thenee, saith the
Lord. Also Edom shall be a desolation ; every one that
goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all
the plagues thercof.’’—Jer. 49:16, 17,
29 Jiaman was a deseendant of Edom. (Gen. 36:1, 12)
Tle was exalted to the lofty rank of grand vizier of
the emperor, became very seornful, hauahty, arrozant
and oppressive, and the Lord brought him down low.
(Esther 3:1; 7:10) dom is one part of Satan’s or-
ganization, which is Babylon, and the spirit of Baby-
lon is that of Edom, and concerning that wicked crowd
Jchovah says: “Come down, and sit in the dust, O
virgin danghtcr of Babylon; sit on the ground: there
is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou
shalt no more be called tender and delicate, And thou
raidst, Pshall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not
ny these thines to thy heart, neither didst remember
the latter end of it. Therefore hear now this, thou
that art given to pleasures, that dwellest earclessly ;
that sayest in thine heart, Fam, and none else beside
me; I shail not sit as a widew, neither shall I know
the loss of children.’’--Isa. $7:1, 7, 8.
26 JIenee in the later Seriptures written at the in-
stance of the Lord Jesus Edom is symbolized by the
“great whore’’, (Rev. 17:1-6) DBeeause the descend-
ants of dom lHkewise stood for what is against Cod’s
people, the organization of Edom (the modern Edom-
ites) is marked for utter destruction. Jehovah spcaks
of Idumea, which is Edom, and states what shall come
to pass in the day of Jehovah upon the modern Edom-
ites: ‘(For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and
the year of reecompenees for the controversy of Zion.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into piteh,
and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the Jand
thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be
quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go
up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie
yeste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.”
~—Isa. 34: 8-10,
21 Let us always bear in mind that the compicte de-
struction of the modern Edomites is Jehovah's work,
to be performed through Christ Jesus, and the part
of the remnant in this war is to declare the day of the
vengeance of our God, and to sing forth his name and
praises to the end that those of the great multitude
may hear and have an opportunity to take their stand
on the side of Jehovah and his organization ) fore the
destruetion of the enemy takes place; also that they
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must sound the warning, that others may have an op-
portunity to be warned, It is the Edomites of the
present time that make war at the instance of the
Devil egainst Jchovah’s witnesses, who are of Zion,
and concerning the destructive judements of the Lord
exccuted against them it is written: ‘‘For my sword
shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down
upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment.’’ (Isa. 34:5) The testimony by Jehovah's
witnesses must precede the destructive work and must
be finished before the destructive work. (Matt.
24: 14-22) Esau lived by the sword, and so the Lord
Jesus savs concerning the deseendants of Esau, tire
Edomites, that they shall perish by the sword. (Matt.
26:52) First, however, the Lord shows that the refuse
of Jics binding toecther the modern Edomites, and
behind which they hide their nefarious work, must be
swept away, exposing the wicked ones to complete view
of the world, That is the warfare in which God uses his
witnesses, and which warfare is now in progress,
22 The clergy have exalted themselves to the hich
places and have made commercial traffickers and
political rulers believe that the clergy are absolutely
essential to and constitute the chief part of the im-
preenable streneth of earth’s governments, The Lod
will sce to it that the clergy, the modern-day Jedoin-
ites, are put in their proper place, exposed to view,
diseraced, and brought low; and eoncermmg this it
is written in his Word: © And the ten horns whieh thou
sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and
shall make her desolate and naked, and shall cat her
flesh, and bum her with fire. For God hath put in
their hearts to fulfil his will’? (Rey, 17:16,17) Like
Esau, the cleryy of so-called ‘organized Christianity’
lon ago became hunters, going about hunting with
other clements of Satan's world, and despising the
promises of God. They have lived by their own mach-
inations and schemes dirceted by the power and in-
fluence of Satan; which is equivalent to saying that
they have lived by the sword. They have winked at
or approved every war of conquest that has heen ear-
ried on, and they have often hypoeritically said that
they are for peace, while at the same time attempting
to bless the men who go forth to destroy cach othar.
They have deliberately turned away from the Bible,
and they hold it up to ridicule before the world, prit-
ting their own wisdom ahead of and in the place of
Cicd’s Holy Word. They sold their birthright for a
mess of pottage that they might satisfy their own
appelites. They have made their choice and rust
abide in it. In this day when the promise to Abranam
is made clearly to appear to those who love God, and
when these faithful witnesses, pictured by Jacob, gv
about dilieently and faithfully proclaiming the macan-
ing of that birthvieht, the modern-day [domites sock
the death of these faithful servants of Jehovah Jn
due time God will avenge his servants aud mogmity
his own name.