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birthright privileges << held out to and claimed by
the clergy, Jesus foretaid would be taken away from
them because they failed to bring forth the fruits
(the truth) of the kingtum, It is only the clergy that
have tried to compcte with Jchovah’s true saints for
the kingdom privileges, This corresponds exactly
with Esau’s rivalry tov ard Jacob for the birthright of
his father. Esau tricd to kill Jacob, and the antitypical
Edomites likewise now try to kill and destroy Jecho-
vah’s true witnesses, pictured by Jacob. At verse
seven of Obadiah's propheey it is stated that the
Edomites entered into a conspiracy against the true
followers of Christ. That same verse also refers to the
two other elements of Satan’s organization, which form
“the principal of the flock’’, all of which are falsely
ealled ‘‘Christians’’) In the modern fulfillment of
the propheey the Roman Catholic Hierarehy and their
so-called ‘‘Protestant’’ allied clergymen lead in a
conspiracy against God's ‘‘hidden ones’’, whom he
has selected to be members of his holy nation, The
‘‘principal of the flock’’ have joined in this conspiracy
and are now this dav committing overt aets against
the people of God, and avainst his kingdom. The
modern Edomites are therefore clearly identified and
located by the Word of God and the indisputable
physical facts, all of which exactly fit the words of
the propheey.
JUDGMENT TIDINGS
>The prophecy indicates that it is a specific class
of persons, and not just one person, that hear the
“rumour’’, or ‘‘tidings’’, ‘‘We have heard a rumour
((2.V.) tidings] from the Lord.’’ (Verse 1) It is
God's servant class, to whom the kingdom interests
on earth are committed, that hear these judgment
tidings from the Lurd. They being devoted to the
Lord, their cars are attuned to the good news that
proceeds from the Lord. Others do not have their ears
so attuned, and because they are on the side of the
enemy they do not hear, and thercfore know nothing,
about the judement of the Lord. Continuing the
prophet says: ‘‘An ambassador is sent among the
heathen |the nations (/.V.)].’? The Hebrew word
used ‘here for ‘‘ambassador’’ is tzecr, and means one
who fs constrained by a principle, or God’s rule of
action, and is therefore engaged in a pressing or
urgent service. Mindful of his privilege and obliga-
tion, the ambassador is on the alert to faithfully per-
form the service assigned to him. Whose ambassador?
It is the messenger or ambassador of the Lord, for the
reason that the Devil would not stir up his own nations
against Edom, whom the Devil has employed so well
against God’s faithful people. The prophecy suggests
that the ambassador is a heavenly messenger or angel,
one of the ‘‘seven stars’’ in the right hand of Jesus
Christ, the same as the angel of Revelation 8: 3-5, and
16:12: ‘The sixth angel poured out his vial . . . that
the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.”’
The angel of Revelation 19: 17-21 assembles God’s
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army against the ‘‘beast’’, the ‘‘false prophet’? and
the ‘‘kings’’, but not against the old ‘‘whore’’, of
which Edom is the most prominent part.
26 After pereciving the call of the ambassador or
angel of the Lord, then those composing the Lord's
remnant on earth, his witnesses, like their prototype
Obadiah, take up the judgment tidings and herald
the same to others, both inside and outside of the
remnant class. They speak to each other of the Lord's
judgments and tell others who have the hearing car
of the judgments of the Lord. Note that the amhassa-
dor is not sent to the Devil’s army, but scnt to the
members of God’s organization on earth, who are
found seattcred amongst the nations but who are no
part of the nations of this world. Jehovah is ealling
or summoning his own people. It is Christ Jesus and
his army that do the treading of Hdom and Bozrah.
27 The Lord’s ambassador or messenger brings these
tidings: ‘‘ Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in
battle.’? The angelic army of Christ Jesus, or hosts
of heaven, tv which God's remnant on earth must now
be attached, is commanded to arise for battle against
the enemy, The prophecy of Obadiah is fully corrob-
orated by God’s propheey by the mouth of Jeremiah:
“For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that
Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste,
and a eurse; and all the cities thereof shall be per-
petual wastes,’’—Jer, 49:13.
78 The day of battle is nieh, and Jchovah makes
known the purpose toward antitypical Hsau: “lor 1
will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time
that I will visit him... . J have made Ksau bare, I
have uncovered his seeret places, and he shall not be
able to hide himself,’’ (Jer. 49: 8,10) For many years
the Esau elass, and particularly the Roman Cathohe
Hierarchy, has earried on its wieked work and ap-
parently in secret, and in fact in seerct to many per-
sons, and thereby many millions have been deceived.
The wicked institution has turned the Word of God
upside down by teaching exactly opposite to the true
meaning of the Word of Cod. To that wiched organi-
zation Jehovah says: ‘Woe unto them that secl. deep
to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works
are in the dark, and they say, Who sceeth us? and who
knoweth us? Surely vour turning of things upside
down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall
the work say of him that made it, He made me not?
or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it,
He had no understanding?’’—Isa, 29:15, 16.
20That hypocritical and devilish crowd have said
and continue to say: ‘‘We have made lies our refuse,
and under falschood have we hid ourselves.’? But the
Lord says to them: ‘‘The hail {hard, solid truths]
shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters
{flood of God's truth] shall overflow the hiding place.’?
(Isa. 28: 15-17) That the Lord says he will do in his
‘‘judement time’’. Such is not the battle of Arma-
geddon, because in that scourge of Armageddon Je-