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yolo lxiv semllio~thl ko 1 january 1 1943 conte,vts fighter for the e v world part 6 3 stab ill the back 0 self·defense 6 battle against disruptive forces 8 the touchstone 9 victory for xew orld 11 k.i~gj li il>terests first · 1 2 bible characters fjeld experieyces iii 16 jephthah s dal:ghter testimo~y period · · watchtower strdies · agazi es ba ed l britai 1942 a.ssembly report ·· 2 2 15

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~e watchtower prblj hed ~n[j~oxthly by its mission watch tower bible fj tract society 117 adams street officers n h k orr president w e a:oi am bl j:gh secretary brookiyn n y u.s.a and all thy chtldren shall be tau~ht of jehovah and ~reat shall be the peace of thy children isau 54:ij the scrlptl res clearly teach that jehovah is the only true god and is from everlasting to everlasting the :i aker of heaven and earth and the giver of hfe to his creatures that the logos was the beginning of his creation and :lis actl e agent in the creation of all other things and is now the lord jesus chrl t in glory clothed with all power in heaven and earth as the chief executive officer of jehovah that god created the earth for man created perfect man for the earth and placed him upon it that man willfully disobeyed god s law and was sentenced to death that by reason of adam s wrong act all men are born sinners and without the nght to life that the logos was made human as the man jesus and suffered death in order to produce the ransom or redempth e pnce for obedient ones of mankind that god raised up jesus divine and exalted him to heaven above every other creature and above every name and clothed him with all power and authonty that jehovah s organization is a theocracy called zion and that chnst jesus is the chief officer thereof and is the rightful kmg of the world that the anointed and faithful followers of christ jesus are children of zion members of jehovah s orgamzatlon and are his witnesses whose duty and pnnlege it is to testify to the supremacy of jehovah declare his purposes toward mankind as expressed in the bible and to bear the fruits of the kingdom before all who will hear that the old world ended in a d 1914 and the lord jesus chnst has been placed by jehovah upon his throne of authonty has ousted satan from heaven and is proceeding to the establishment of the new earth of the new world that the relief and blessings of the peoples of earth can come only by and throu~h jehovah s kingdom under christ which has now begun that the lord s next great act is the destruction of satan s orgamzatlon and the complete establishment of righteousness in the earth and that under the kingdom the people of good-will that surnve arma cddon shall carry out the divine mandate to fill the earth with a righteous race jepiithah s dal:giitelt testi io y period his journal is published for the purpose of enabling the people to know jehovah god rnd his purposes as expressed in the bible it publishes bible instruction specifically designed to aid jehovah s witnesses and all people of good-wlll it arranges systematic bible study for its readers and the society supplies other literature to aid in such studies it publishes suitable material for radio broadcasting and for other means of public instruction in the scnptures it adheres strictly to the bible as authority for its utterances it is entirely free and separate from all religion parties sects or other worldly organizations it is wholly and without reservation for the kingdom of jehovah god under chnst his beloved king it is not dogmatic but invites careful and critical examination of its contents in the light of the scriptures it does not indulge in controversy and its columns are not open to personalities t l:ullly subsciliption pilice united stj.tes $1.00 ill otber countries $1 ~o american currency gilej.t britj.in austrj.u8ij j d so~th africj 6 americlld remll· tances sbould be made by postal or expre ~ioney order or by bank draft brltlsb soulh african and australasian remlttlulce should be made direct to tbe reopecl e brancb omc remlttllnces from countries other than those mentioned may be made to the broo~lsn otllce but by international postal money order only foileion oiticu bntl.8h a trala n edl:land .7 beresford road slrntbfield x s w au.trnha bouth afrtean bostoo house cape town soutb uri india · · .· · 0 colaba fload ilomljay india please addr the society in e.ery case 34 cra en terrace london w translstlodl ot thi lournal appear in .e eraj lani:usl;es all sincere st l dexts of the binle wbo by reason of infirmlt pov erty or adversity are nnable to f!8v thp ~ub rjptt d price mat ba ·e the lratchtower free upon wrttten application to thp ut lll lh~r made once each lear statlng the reason for 80 rpquec t1fll it e are glad to tbus aid tbe needy but the written uppilcullon once mcb year is required by tbe postal regulations sctlpelon will be sent on}y hen journal ode ottce to sub ~r,ber8 acknowled~ent ~eq albi~d~e ec~r j t~oi e~f i la l h n d ll~rn~e month before the 8ubscrtptjon exjjlu g rellu h~i of a u w or hnn 8 of rddrpc r nel wal f:ub· whf o the nlted slates of amrrkll ent.red lu 8 d·rla matt.r at the poh o!fore ot brook/v i f der the act 01 jiarch i 1$79 printed in magazp es banned l ii bilit 1 thl mor.tl.l of fl bruary has bel n thlb designated by rl adlllg thl b:ble account at judgl s 11 pl lsons of good-will to ard god s king-dom who presl nt themsplws to his ictonous kidg the greater jepl.lthah for him to dlsposl of them iii jl ho ah s sl rnce will recognize thl msl hes as pal t of the jephthah s daughter class all such are mvltl d to jom the l:i,jomtl d remnant of j el.lo ·ah s wltne~ses id this month-long testimony penod this penod begms a three-month campaign for 5u cnptlons for the watchtauer the regular year s subscnptlon rate of $1 uo 111 be asked but accordidg to the lord s generosity and to make the offer especially attractive the book the .v ew world and the booklet peace-can it last f wlli be lidded as a premium with each year s subscription the goal for the three months is 100,uoo subscnptlons at least 1li the llllted states and territones so get your llistructlons and your l qulpment and complete your arrang l ml nts now a old gettlllg off to a slow start but make the mldwlllter month of february a penod that will count toward rl achidg your personal quota and helplllg id making the nation-wide quota yes exeeedmg it watchtower studies week of february 7 fighter for the new world part 6 1-22 idclust l e the watchtower jannary i 1943 week of february 14 fighter for the new world part 6 1 23-47 inclusive the watchtower january 1 1943 for some years this magazide has warm c lts fl aoers that the strategy of the l!nemy agamst the pub:lcatlon of th klll dolll me sage would be that of political eampul ners naldl ly to mol up on the weakl r outlymg parts of the tielj and thl n dooe ltl upon the central stronghold thus isolated ohr a pl rjod of years now this process of tbe roman cathohc hierarchy and their pohtlcal henehml n has be n followed m their fight agamst theocratic truth 111 the bntlsh common wealth of xatlons and the crowd eolomes in all such parts 01 this nommally protestant world power the tactics of the hatp of truth and liberty have followed a ilki pattern thus on dmdldlon or colony after another fell before the onslaught ut these rehglous totahtanan foes of the gospel and banned tbc publications of the watchtower bible and tract society m whole or in part finally the island stronghold of bntam the hcart of the great commonwealth or empll e was 1s0latl d from the rest in a sea of religious idtolerance now id violation of the terms of the slhlalled atlantic charter to which the bntlsh prime minister adheres the hosts of the enemy aftl r prehmmary attaeks from different quarters have gamed a part of thl lr objectlve in bntain on november 27 1942 a cable was v1rl d from london to the society at brooklyn that a go crnment order had been passed prohlbltmg the society s magazmes the contmued on page 15

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~ewailc1pjilowler announcing jehovah s kingdom ja ycary yolo lxiv 1 19-4:3 0.1 fighter for the new world part 6 jesus ails/cered jill kingdom is 1!ot of this u orld if 1il!1 kijigdom sen allts {igld jolill 18:36 11 ere of tllis 11 frld tllell 1coliid 1i11 eho ah s kingdom with his son in the throne ill be the goyel mnent of the ew world that son who has proyed hi loye of righteousness and llatred of ini4uity will rule the earth from heayen and therefore the promised world will be a world of righteousness being founded on righteousness and operating in harmony yith the diyine law and being ljad ed by the almighty god who is all-righteou it will he a world ithout end tllose who are accounted worthy to gain it by deyoting themseh-es to tile rig:hteousness of god and who continue faithful will live in the new world and neyer see death the king of the new world declared that he had nothing in common ith the prince of this world and therefore his kingdom could not he of this world the establishment of the new world therefore means a fight oath in !leayen and in earth the world of darkness and wickedness and its prince must go the world of light and righteou:mess and its theocratic go ernment of j ehoyah by his son must come in to abide fore er rnder such righteous goyernment the worship of je!lwah will alone obtam throughout the uni rse it will be freely practiced on the earth without lilterference and opposition all religious persecutor will haye heell destroyed the enemy effort is to preyent earth s people fr01ll going oyer to the righteous new world of gjl s estahl1shment the malicious purpose of the prmce of this world is hen he and his world go down to pull down au the inhabiters of the earth with him nule or ruin is his selfish policy to turn earth s peoples away from the righteou ne world and to set them in opposition thereto the god of this world uses deception and calls black white and white black at the time of the end of his world when he is cast out from his heavenly position and power he is called that old serpent called the denl and satan which deceh-eth the whole world rev i 9 only those who come out from this present j evil world and now take their stand on the sije of the king of the new worlel shall e~cape the nid serpent s deception lib mo t effeetih and wll means of deception and emnarement is 1eh;ion especially that form of reh;ion dnch he iluhlls off for christianity 3 in his final deception of the yorid ami in order to hold all parb thereof under his power he ph uades the decen-ed leaders on arth to ~et up a orld federation and to give rehpon the foremost part therein and to call this a new orld creat l hy ilulllan hands bel ause l ·li!rion b glyen lts due illace therem the leaders and the llla es are persuaded that it is a christian new order fonndl d upon moral ilrij1 iple and that it i the ne orld god promised rnder thi religious deception illan will fight for such new order of the same old woi id and will choose to allide under it until it crac s up at the hattie of armag-eduon then the hlinded peoilles who follow blind rp!lgious guides 111 together go down into the dltc l of destruction with tht world of their choice and its prince · the great kin anel fi~hter for the n workl strongly warned of thi g-n-at deception hy 11 hglon concerning the years f ollo ing the y orld y a i he said then shall arise false christs and fal prophet and shall shew great sit tis and onder insomuch that if it were possible they hall dec t in the yen elect bellold i hah told you h fore dlatt 24 ·l 5 the ahomrnation or desola t loll which he mentioned just a fe verse previous is a wonder orklilg false ch1 1st with many fal t· prophets adyocating it it is an ahormnation to god because it is a fulse or counterfeit theocracy and brazenl assumes to take the place of j el1m ah s new world goyernment under christ it flies in the face of god by refusing the evidence that the old worlel has reached it end and the time for j ehoyah s rule by christ is here desperately it striyes to keep in 3 4 a bat warnln dh jehu ~i e onc-erdldg false christ anc1 ral e prophets at the enu of the orld and 8j unst hat particular 1 1 combination did he warn anei 8ho the outf:e to take i b 1i0v nlln sucb false ones be detecteo and tbelr decepuon be repulsed and l

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4 see f tatchtower bnookly y operation man s rule under satan by means of totalitarian regimentation as against christ s reign under the 105t high god jehovah therefore jesus mrned all persons of good-will toward god and his kingdom to flee this world immediately on perceiving the formation of the abomination of desolation and to seek refuge on the side of the theocratic new world but how you ask may the false clu ists and false prophets he deteeted and their deception reo pulsed and killed by testing their messages and claims iii the li~ht of jehovah s ord concerning the tileoctiacy · the uncovering of the dece ivers who oppose and fight again t the new world under the cloak of religion is pictured in the final scenes of the prophetic drama of ,j ephthah snch lleceivers do not claim to be xazis fascists or totalitarians and rather loudly profess to he religious and hence mistake themselves for genuine christlans yet they figh against the tlleocracy of the ne worlll in these deceptive times truth-seekers de ire to no how to uetennine what is god mes a~e and by hom it is cl.0livered and what is the touchstone by which to safeguard one elf against deception such on0s will ~tudy with deep seriousness the final part in j epht hah s career 12 1 1 the time of the mmonite incursion they not only broke into gilead but says the reeord th cjllldren of ammon passed over jordan to fizht abo against .j udah and against benjamin and a1!alll~t the house of ephraim so that israel was sore llistressed judg 10 9 the snarling que tloll put to jephthah was an open admission that the ephrallll ites had not risen up under him to hurl the in ulll rs back across the frontiers this un.justiflpd fault finding by the ephraimites occurred after.j pht hah s home-coming in peace evidently it was lile his daughter was u yay in the mountains for two months to prepare herself to be offered np as the burnt offering unto the lord god in fulfillment of ,j l phthah s vow for victory judg 11 3-1-39 s jephthah s campaign against lancl-g-rahhi demon-worshipers pictured the spiritual fizht of j ehoyah s theocratic organization uncler chn~t jesus the head it is to maintain jpho ah worship and to carryon his strr nge or to the fmi,ll against the unwarranted limitations and encroaeh ments by the totalitarian forces at this tlllw in the prophecy describing eyents at the time of the pnll jesus foretold that at his coming to the tpmple for judgment of his professed followers he o illl find a faithful remnant this remnant he ould dblgnate and appoint as the faithful and wi en ant undpr st ij ix the back him to such servant class he ould commit his · the ammonites violently encroaehed upon the goods or the kingdom intere~ts on artll thereby domain of j eho ah s typical theoc racy over israel and jephthah hatl ju t allm.illlstered a cruslung the faithful and vise sen ant cla s lulll he the defeat to the ag-zrp ors thereby the lord god yisible theocratic organization on earth uncler ctlu5ed his man of faith jephthah to be onfinned ch rist .jesus its work is to deelare .j eh o ah s name throughout all the earth and to pullli h the good a the llead and captain o er hi people partlc darly news of the tlleocracy now estahli~hed the gi1~adltes or lwople of gdead.· fter the cam furthermore in the judgment at thl templp he paign jephthah a ul s n ihle repre~entatl e too would come suddeniy upon a selfi~h cla of proup residenee iii gilead at jlizpah hieh name means atchtower the heavy 1.10 a alll t the antl f essed f ollowprs they were indped on ,el l a t i d to theonatlc mmonitrs nndieated god s name and the lord god and hegotten of hi spirit hut had rpt open in hrael the on.hlp of .j rhoyab and the yielded to selfislll1e~s and wpre hlinded to tht em operation of his tiipoeratle or alllzation it was a dom and became lawless they th n fight agalll t l ause for rejoicin and thallk g i llig by all israel their fellow sen-ants the fmthful r lilnunt hl-nl e and a reason to unite around the typll al tbeocraey tl:ey fight against the theoeratic or~al1l/atlon allll thl lord brands them as that evil sen ant ill uts 7 e t ard across t lje jordan n l r from gil ad them off asunder from his orgaj1lzatlon ancl llppolllts lay the territory of tbe tribe of ephraim which as them their portion with the anti-kingdom rro l tl1 a hrotber tribe of iana l h the tnbe to which jephwhom they fight in common namely thl hypoc rltes thal1 belonged the original ianas~eh and ephraim the modern-day ammonites see lattht· j l.j were sons of jo eph born to him 111 egypt and 3,51 just as ephraim a a brotller tnbe to the men of ephraim gathered themseh es together fanasseh so those of that eyil en·d.nt claim to and went northward alld ~aicl unto.j ephthah herebe spiritual brethren of the appro e d remnant fore passedst thou oyer to fight against the chiluren 10 during the eighteen years oppression upon of llunon and didst not call us to go with thee 1 israel by the mil1onites the eplirailllltes lmd subwe will burn thine house upon thee ith fire judg 5 do the relll lous fil lllers al atnst the theocracy de el~e them· noo how or here is the unco erlng of such and the ?i ay of -afel u3rtj pictured g h.lt e en1 had just tahen plure 3s het een the ammonite nnd j phrhah anti 110 had thllit atfec-ted the intprnnl ooc11llods of j~rael 7 hat que-lion of fault-hndln did the cphrallnlte now put to jel llt1l311 nd of bat fnllure un tilelr part was tbls an admb.lon h 1i0 8 hat rlld je-phthnh s fiillihllj:n nj un r the mmonltes plf tureo nnd who i the faithful nell i~e en ant appolnte-il to or in tbe 9 judgment ildd why doe-q he fft~f nrtlon al!u1n~t them i 10 hat 83 tbe our~e of the l:phr.ljtnlte durlnj the plchtt¥-n p,lr of 1mmoolte oppr s~loo upon h,rn~l and ho blnre 1d i ha e the e-vli ben bot dab 0110 ed a like coufbe to urc 1 theocratic rule tulfillment thereof hat other ~r ant rln s doe the lord orne npon in the tc lnple

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,j l l~y 1 ul43 1 pr %evvatchtower ephraimites missed out altogether tlterefoi t al· though thelllsel es to blame they 1 ked a qnarrel with god theocratic repre entatl e they wc re the ery opposite of jephthah s daughter who w nt out first to meet him with rejoicing o er the letory for her to do so meant thenceforth hi ~eparation of her from others to the exclusi e full-time h~r ice of the lord god almighty at his temple 13 the maintenance of the worship of .j eho ah in tile earth and the ictory o er the encroaching force of demonism and totalitarianism are not depenlent upon any human creatures xor is any mere man dead or aliye the head or leader of those wllo hold to .jehoyah appro ed organization christ .je m the greater j ephthnh is their inyisihle and hea enly bead by god s appointment and the yateh tower society under him follows the tiwocratic rule and acts as his sen ant in h half of all those today ho choose j eho ah od and his new world all personal selfish features have heen removed from the oclet of the lord s faithful and wise ser,ant class th elective elder system of company rule ha hcen cleared out like ise the gi ing of worldly tjtle dso the same ~en ice recluirements ha e ll lj applied to eaeh aljd all as wit nesses of .tehc ah thc 500et has cle oted lbelf entirely to the en ice of ·the hjgher powers and to the theocrutjc rule of organization and opera non for the indication of .jeho ah· name it has gone forward in his trange work ugainst religion pro lalllling his nall1 and kll1gdom and deelaring hi vengeance a~ajl1st th modern mnlonites and all enemies de1110n an1 hulllull this conrse tht lord lja exceedingly bles ed since 1 3s the rc sult of 111 p il1z is that thp class of other ~hf ep plrtnrerl hv ,hphthah s danghter han rome forth nth n joiclj1g and yielded thenl· lyes oyer 111 rojl ecratlon to tht nl1c f>using and hfp· long ~e1 iep of .tehovall anl hi !zlori0li th o ratic o crnment uncle chrl t b thj manifest lj1c llj of gud lllli~hty in thl fal p of inrrc hsjjlg encroadl ment and oijpo~itlojl h tilt· rdi iou totahtanan crowd t1le lord gou lin ljl111lj tal;ahb ljllljeatc,d hic:lt organization on c arth 1 the yi i 1jk ]jar of ltj tlloocratic organization undt r chri~t and ll ll 1 his faithful and is ~eryan cla on eartll tl whom the klllg at the templp ha entru~ted til intere st of the kinzdom the attitude of tile evil 8er ant and the rest of the man of sin cia at this fu or of goel on his theocratic organization is like that of the .jewish 13 ~·hnt mu~t b ~nlc1 on crmn.c the clpjh?nhn if or hlj t h fl h nn,l 1 j.de r hlp ulod humnn reat lr nnel ho us eo the lortl f er ant d rleanse-u of pf>r~ol1ol elti h f 1ture for th a~l of tllt~o rat ie flnre ]u3 and wllat lioe tll manlfe~t of orj ldlzatlon for hi l pn ac e illltted to ~11c 1 demon.wor~hipers a the hi~ller and 1leen contmlllnated with their religion whp1i ti all to action came to oyerthro the yoke of ht 1l1l110ilite and heat hack their new aggr~ssions thp ephrailllites willfully refu ed to fight under .j ephthah along with his fellow trihe~ll1en lil,e onduct has heen shown by the eyil seryant and tht man of sin class of which he is a ilart during the eighteen years from the lord s coming to the te lllple in 191 sand do m to 193g then came 19:1s hcn the lord god graciously revealed that hi approved organization is theocratic then the theol ranc rnlp wa et up among hi organized remnant 1 1 faithful and wise sen ant class hut the evil l rnmf stnek to their selfish independence refuslllg to come under and suhmit to the rule of the iiig-lll r po god ,jehoyah and christ jesus 11 the e il ephraimites looked upon jephthah of jlizpeh merely as an individual and not a the one d·,ignatnl and l,ucked up by .jehoyuh to be the head and aptain thc hying symhol of the t 111cal theoclaey in hrael xo seeing the organization they illade a per onal attack upon him as a man before that when thing looked so de~peratp tllat j ephthah made a spec·in 1 yow to j ehoyah for yictory the epljraimites did not join thp fjf hting ranks tiley felt unable to cross the jordan lyer then but now llen it came to yenting a grudge against those hks ed with yictory from the lord they eould go to th trouhle of crossing jordan and spoilmt for a fuzht with their hrethren xow after god had g-i en the ylctory and they saw tile result gained nthont their :1id they felt the had missed a chance to make a liallje for thel1jsel and carry off sollje of til booty and g-lory th f lhraillhtes felt tlll:y mmt justify them l l e hi thc· eye 01 all israel ami 0 they orkpd ujl a f,tl eharge as an excuse for tabng offense tjl lid not discern that till hatth a the l0nl i and that he fought and trained the ictory and that hlllllall power and nnll1her whe not tht decldlllg factor ft c lmg that they were the li1dl ppnsable fa tor for an ictor and that they shuuld lia e heen alolj as if h eing tile essentlul ~nes tlh y felt dl · runth·d at the olles who risked their necks ll1 the tillje of danger herein they repeated the allle collj· pjalllt a their forefathers did to gjdeolj oyer a hundred years hefore and the men of ephralll1 1id unto him yij hast thou sel yed u thus that lon calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the ridianites 7 and they did chide with him sharply judg 8 1 in gideon s day they did manage to get in on some of the final fighting but here during j ephthah s campaign a~ainst ammon the 11 nn hao th i:phrulinlte looked upon je hthrh rdd h rfter 1-1 the appearid ot what pmp}e hn r ultm from the lord hlp n ble ld 10<1ic8t a to holce ith .1pl hthnh l ton did the first tben ro~o the jordan to him 1 hp 4 a l e of ~el jluportadt f ho

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6 ~ewatchtower brookly x 1 reli ious leaders at .je:oms prosperity saying lmt do we for this man doeth nlan miracles if we let him thus alone all men will helie,e on him and the romans [totalitarians ~hall come and take away hoth our place and nation it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people and that the hole nation perish not the pharisees therefore said among themselyes percei,e ye how ye pre,ail nothinf behold the world is gone after him j ohn 11 -17-50 12 19 the patriarchs abraham isanc and jacob were together a typical representation of the great theocracy of j ehoyah god hy christ .j esus the e il ser ant and the man of sin crowd claim to he in line for that kingdom and hence to he children of that kil1 dom but whereas god s kingdom fa ors and pri ileges are openly hestowed upon the faithful and ise en ant class the religlonists ha e mis ed out altogether as jesus foretold to tle religious leaders saying iany shall come from the ea t and est and shall sit down with hraham and isaac an jacoh in the kingdom of hea en but the childrl n of the kingdom shall he cast ont into outer darkne~s there shall he weeping and gnashing of teeth latt s 11 12 yhen once the muster of the house is risen up and hath shut to the door and ye he~in to stand without and to i,nock at the door sayin lord lord open unto us and he hall ans n r and ouy nnto yon i know you not whence ye are iepart frolll me all ye workers of iniquity l luke 1:1 :23 29 so they gnash ith their teeth at the faithful remnant 16 the ephraimitps threatened to r ort to moh action they thre theorratlc rule to the inds and refused to consider thl cndence in o in that jehoyah ehose jephthah a his n lhle eltant and jud~e of his coyenant people they thn atened to take the law into their own hand and hring fiery dbtrurtion upon j ephthah and hi hotlsl thns to do hat the ammonites had wanted to do to him and hl uel the y thus put themselyes in the oume elu a s the mlllon ites as opponents of 1 s typical ol al1lzatlon likewi~e the religionists in the l-illted state orked their schemes right in with those of the totahtarian mmonites· who are out for world domination beginning at the time of the xazi ligiltnlllg-war pnsh through europe in 1a-la with sure nctory apparently in sight and also tuning it with the harmful flag salute decision of the supreme court in june that year catholic ction raised up great mob violence against j ehoyah s remnant of witnesses they tried to burn the house down upon them and actually did burn the homes and property of many ilnd in the .ame cia th whom did tile luerebj put ihemsehes lb row did the reljl,nonlsts ork in their he-iu ub tljo le of the political mmoultes partlcularly from l!ho forward and how dtd the e l 8~ryant cla~s throw thelr support to such wmodues of jeho,ah s serrants because the e stood by the worship of the true god and published ills klll dom amid the raging persecution the e,il sen ant vbss shielded itself from persecution but turned .j ehoyah s witnesses o,er to the ammonites in their publication the evil seryant admitted pust connections with the vatch tower society but now had no connections whatsoever with jehovah s witne s£:s nor with the theocratic organization which organization they said was the ambitious idea of the man who was th~n the yatch tower president they were very careful to a,ow that they recogmzed the modern ammonites as the bigher powers ordained of clorl this open statement in their publication the enl servant released to all newspapers of the world many of which published the same 11 at the same time men who had not long pre i ously been high in the inner councils of the soriety but who pursued an amhitious course and became unfaithful and quit joined in the concerted attempt at honse-burning upon the organization they ~et in motion costly legal actions to damage financially and otherwise the society this was done 111 contempt of jehovah s theocracy and to bring great reproach upon his name and by wrecking the organization to break up his strange work by his cownant people against religion and in canada the justice minister of that dominion a quebee-rolllnn catholic chose the fourth of .july to derlare the yatrh tower society an illegal organization to be forthwith suppressed but the evil ~en ant cla s who di ayowed all connections ere glh n a ele-ar ri~ht of way to carn on their actiyitles dlatt :2-1 d-l re al:dless of the christian professions of all uch orl,ers of iniquity their effort as all part of the clemons scheme for yorid domination by ]twa:l of the religious-totalitarian anunonites of this day self-defe~se the ephraimites proved themselws liars in tlle li~ht of the actual facts nd .jephthah ahl unt them i and my pf ople were at great strife ith thl rlllldren of mmon and when t rallpd yon ye deliyered me not out of their hands jud 1:2 2 ephraim was an inland trihe but the gih adites under .jephthah being eastern-border tribe lliell alongside mmon were the ones wllo were putting up the front-line fight against the all1ll1olllte a grp sions upon .t eho ah s worship in his t piral tii ncracy then j ephthah went with the ploers of gilpud and the people made him head and raptain over them j udg 11 11 .jephthah and his people therefore pictured christ jesus and his followers on earth ii how cud ambitious h t did the i:phr mlt threrlen 10 <10 to jephthah men nd e ht~h in the let · lnnf r rollnl11 jolo in with the attrmpted bouse-buroldj and ho v du the omwlod 8 ministry of justice 111m rlmlonte in fu or of the flo ii on :lllt ih 18 la ilow did jephthah proh the ephrallillles ere untrue bl horn do jephtbah nnd his people picture touay and hj hal p ,he~e been more than e er the targets uf the llemons and !orce under them l

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.j l ry 1 hj.13 110 ~e vvatchtower 7 line up with the head and chief of god s who subject themselves to its theocratic rule particularly from 1935 onward since then they have more than ever been the target of the demons under satan the religious-totalitarian forces incited by the demom have greatly afflicted .j dlovah s people for not putting the state higher than .jehovah in their worship and sen ice toward him the totalitarian roman catholic hierarchy has led in this assault upon his witnes~es because these expose the xazis and fascists and their religious fifth column and refuse to do oheisance to or ascribe salvation and protection to men or human or anizations and creations but only to god all111~hty and his theocracy 1 the ephraimites of old did not answer the call to en~ag in united action and ,olunteer to cross the j onlan and go to the help of their brother israelites they yere unwilling to expose themselves to danger 011 the field of hattie in behalf of the vindication of gud s name they looked at personalities and refused to come under hpachhip and captaincy of any person they did not like o who stood in the ay of their ambitions being tile dominant trilw in israel they anted to be commanders thenu:eh e rather than humble thej1l~eh es under god mir htv hand of theucra tic rule as exercised through ~ne of a lesser tribe selfislme s caused them to turn dowll a great privilege 20 through former association with jeho ah s witnesses the modern ephraimites of the eyil servant class haw felt the heat of the affhctlon they have felt ullcomfortable and uneertain of their own freedom from persecution othen lse why did they com11l 0l1lise with modern ammon and jlublicly disclaim nn ties and sympathy with j ehcl all s witnesses lly did they then express their willingness to ape the yays of the world toward creature emblems and i,ail the modern mmonites as the l,if her po ers and refrain from declaring the day of j ehoyah s ngeallce against satan s organization those of the e il sen ant and other members of the man of :om class cannot say they receiyed no battle call against the auullonites the call has not gone to any class or religious organization as such but any indh-idual in such class or organization had the prh-ilege of responding thereto 21 ever since the lord s rule was put in force in october 1938 the society under christ jesus in its assemblies and publications ha sent forth the call for more pioneer publishers and mote company publishers any persons of good-will who saw the great issue involved and who desired to uphold the worship or~anization and did oelllah matters and per.onalltleto cauoe the ephrnnnites to 2 1 ho haw tbe oloderu ephrnlmne felt tile heat of nflllctton ith j eho rah wjtne ses l and ho did the show their ds8comfort 2 ho ba the battle call ltone forth .tnce october 1938 and ho ha e tile e~il sen ant class ignored the inntauon of .iehoyah and the honor of his name had the pri lege of respondlllg and volunteering for ser 1 c under the theocratic organization but the eyil sen-ant class and the other religionists who chu1i1 to be spiritual israelites ignored the im itation ~either sympathy nor a word of defense did they offer in behalf of j ehoyah s persecuted coyci1:l.nt people they disclaimed any bonds and any agreement with the message and kingdom position of j ehoyah s witnesses this they did to shield themseh-es and justify themselyes before satan s world they did not cross the i ordan that is the peoples alienated from god and rushing down to the dead sea 2 the dh ine record at hebrews 11 32 lists j ephthah alllong god s ancient witnesses of outstanding faith in him just why appears from j ephthah s further words to the ephraimites nd when i saw that ye sayed me not i }lut my life in my hand and passed oyer a ninst the ehi lren of ammon and .i ehoyah delivered them into my j.ar.d wherefore then are ye come up unto llw tl li 1n to fight ag-amst mer jud 12:3 am.uet rel .i l pllthah s experience heal:s out that clehyf 1 ance salyation and presen ation of pure and undpfjh l worship will never come through or in connection ith the eyil seryant and other religionlst:o of til man of sin class the ne spaper conceal t he fact that jeho ah s witnesses in continental europe han stood up against the azi fuelll er since his collcordat with the yatican in 1933 and haye suffered l1llt1~n[ll mistreatment in torture chamhers and concentration camp therefor becently since the xazi-f:l l i~t atican aggressions ror world dominatloll haw stirred up the democratic nations to yiolt nt opposition the newspapers pander to the religiod!st und for llropa~anda purposes play up report of n·li· pous cler ylilen prote?ting to the xazl leader oye 1 yanom point of difference examination of tj e new shows that all their protests neyer touch tilp real issue of man rule under the god of this world a again~t the theocratic rule of christ jesus under the lost high god j ehoyah and neyer once in all the years han those clergymen protested agamst the brutalities and religious intolerance and persecution carried on by the religious-totalitarian combine against j ehoyuh s witnesses 23 th e tribe of ephraim was the most populous and had numbers to offer for the war but they failed to enlist on the side of the theocracy so the icton went to j ephthah without ephraim bitterly delllo strating to them that there is no restraint to the 2 a f10 doe« jephthab s statempnt of hi aotlon then ,ho by he ll tet81lce lll i~tstlnf in~o anll 110 1s this lord out b the conduct of 23 what did jeho,ah s vlcton thron h jepbthah demonstratr to populou i:pijrnim and how 11 tht llkeo thlnc be tnf rec pf flnt cilristendom s man rehi:10nlsu and the,r e orl<1 order beast turn ao n a ~reat prl le~e in nndlcntion of god 8 damp

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8 ~ewatchtower brooklyx x 1 lop,d to f ave hy many or hy few 1 sam 1-1 g lil,ewlf e the hund reds of millions of christendom s t·li;ionists including the evil seryunt offer no hope of deli erance from the totalitarian monstrosity or · beasf the prophecy shows that in the so-called x ew world order they will ride the lje asf and turn its seyen heads and ten horns against the theocracy and those who won,hip jehoyuh ancl his king jehovah does not nee d religion s millions in order to uphold his won hip and to deliyer and a e tllose who worship him in spirit and in truth such belief .te phthah had to exercise with strong faith in almig-hty god for he clid not haye great numbers in his army to depend upon neither enough e quipment to meet the mmonites on equal terms this faith-testing situation doubtless is what stirred .te phthah to utte r his ow z suchlike faith that oyercomes the world the remnant and their other sheep companions must pxcrrise and they must f erye nod with no fear of de ath or fear of tho who can cause death to the hody llut not to the sonl or nr ht to futnre life oratt 10 ~g :23 the cirpater.tephtltuh once put his earthly life in his klnd so 110 hpn 01 hi totalitarianif m is on the marr]1 thof e who stand h the worshin and senice of .teho ah nm,t do likl:wise hy lmcol llpro1tlisl11~h adyocating god s rule as against demon rule the rahid per ecutiom from and after 19.to demon~trate that they are doing this 25 for his own name s ~ake and in full ar reement with ,t0phthahs yo .tphovah deli erpu the antitheona tic aggre f ors in to j eph t hah 5 hand j ephthah tll refore never tonk the cre dit hut a erilwd the ah ation and d ii er~1nce to .tpllovah god and pro lalme d the inphr!l iii in wlead bl iii ,uch mo hat co err ambition of tile nl ,er.ant .lrt leu clas j s pictured 10 n~re ewent ttb th~jr faltt-e rhnrge f

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j xl:ally 1 1943 mle tvatchtower the tol;chsto e 31 and the gileadites took the passages of .1 e1rdan before the ephraimites and it was so that wllen those ephraimites which were escaped saill let me go oyer that the men of gilead said unto him rt thou an ephraimite if he said xa then said they unto him say now shihholeth · ~jlldg 1:2 c those ephraimites were in the same position ao the 1oahites were after .judge ehud plunged the clag er into the belly of their fat king eglon thereupon ehud said to his warriors follow after me for the lord hath deii ered your enemies into your hancl and they went dow after him and to~k the ford of jordan toward ~ioah and suffered not a man to pass oyer and they sle of ~ioah at that time allout ten thousand men all lusty and all men of yalour and there escaped not a man j udg 3 ~s ~9 jordan s pa sages or fords symbolize way and means for the man of sin class to justify themseiyes before worldly men for their attack unon th theocratic organization of the greater .j pilhthah they would use those as ayenues of escape from th disastrous consequence of their act namely the execution of the adyerse judg-itlents of god a ain,t them appointing them to their place with the rpjigious hypocrites and all others of satan s world ho ever j ehoyah through ills yord has reyealp

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10 sffie vatchtower brooklyx y nd if there come nny unto ou and brin not this b doctrine receive llim not into your liouse neither hid him god ~peed for he that biddeth him god speed is partaker of his evil deeds 2 john 10,11 ratl lr let s talk about god s lon and not his judgments let s deyelop ripe character and follow the good neighhor policy with religion and get ready to go to hea en but does tills religious argument work1 in 1918 christ j e~us came to the temple and began judgment at the hou~e of god 1 pet 4 17 he requires everyone to identify himself in accord with this rule he that is not wit h me is against me and lie that r;athereth not with me ~cattereth abroad l~ratt 12 30 to those who try to justify and suit theln~eh es by :o-elf-interpretations of scripture to escape the judgment written the question is put re you one of tho e epllraimitps that profess to he of the royenant ppoplp of god but at the same tune fig-ht ag-aimt jeho ah s theocratic organization under christ and ag-aini t his faithful and wise servant class are ou one of those helonging on the other side of the r1v0r fighting ui as the demonworsllping ammonitps do and refu~ing to recognize .t ehondl s .t ud e at t he temple and his theocratic gm ernnh nt and its rule tile religionists answer such qupstlon ay meaning to leceiye and to coyer on r in nnd iiu tility to god i faithful ones this is a suhterfuge to ge t away with tht ir inside job and thus 1 able to causp more di~turh ance to the injury and hindrance of the onps trylllg to lllallltain their intpl rity by keepinl coyenant itl goel those who bee-ollie pn~nared with i plir6on and turn aga1l1st the atch towel socie~y anl criticize and oppo it deny ~tol1tly thy are of the e il ~en-ant clas or are in 11i1e for that da s allel ill shortly land in it they smile and smirk at suggestions of such outcome to tll ii:o es and say ay we are not on the enem side 35 the touch~tone is sym!joijzed 1 tlle test ord shil jolet h tills 1 llll~alls :o i t hi ng gro nng up or f1ow1l1g forth as an ear of corn or a tlood it is 0 used at gene is 4 5-7 rutll :2 and psalm gd :2 1 the lord uoel has graciously sent to ills faithful remnant and thell companions abundant stores of ears of rom shihljoleth the spiritual food to offset any famine he maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat ps 147 14 also he causes the stream and flood sillblioleth of his righteous judgments to flow forth from the temple but these do not overflow and drown the faithful remnant but do proceed against the unfaithful and wicked as at barak s hattle at 3 ~fegiddo and david s battle at ~rount perazim -judg 5 19-21 2 sam 5 li isa 5~1 19 36 hence those holding to the theocracy ask t h pretenders and deceivers that claim to abide by th bible what kind of language do you speak how do you pronounce the present truth the up-to-datp spiritual food of the lord 1 how do you pronounce the judgments of the lord against the enemy sue l test-questions are to make them show lether th0y speak the pure language free from all relig-lon and in line ith god s judgments against religloli but in support of the theocracy and its vindiefltjoil of god s name if they are antitypicul gileadltps under the greater jephthah and adyocating ti,p theocracy they will pronounce these things of tlip lord aright and not in disagreement according to their own sectarian style 31 then said they ~nto him say now shihholptll and he said sibbo leth for he c~uld not framp to pronounce it right judg 12 g the ephrainlltp way of pronouncing the test-word jiffered from jephthah s although sounding very yery .sillllbr kowadays the evil servant dass have a form of bihle teaching those who are not instructed ily the great teachers j eho ah and christ .j esu midlt think it sounds the same and is the ~al1ie as tklt of god s organization the pope in ilis encyclicals quote some scriptures and the clergymen who are rpported protesting to the xazis also quote some f-cnptll scriptures which also jehoyah s witnp i es han l1spd and do use in standing up against all totalitanan but there is a difference in the purpo~e of quo~atloll and the difficulties causing the quotation the quotation by the clergy is to use god s yol d a a lli~i

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ja cary 1 10-13 %ewatchtower 11 again if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed -gal 1 i -9 9 the epllraimite fugitive was not prepared to speak right r ollllg s either is the evil servant so prepared to such the promise of zephaniah 3 9 has not been fulfilled for then will i turn to the people a pure lall llage ii ebreu a pure lip that they may all rail upon the name of the lord to serve him with one consent they may pronounce the words theocracy the present truth redemption mlvation restitution and hi~her powers hut the meaning that the evil servant class give to these words lacks the advanced light on bible truth since the death of their professed leader in 1016 the meaning they give is marked hy honor to human rreatures hy ellaracter development by traditions and religious formalities and by a compronllsing n peetahle appearance before the world henee ther cannot spe ak right the bible truths according to ilat the theocratic organization and rule under ch rist require 4 this inability hetrays them as heing separatists oppo ers and illelllhers of tile man of sin class 2 tlless 3-12 they do not have the pure lip ith hich to eall upon the name of the lord to en e him in ommon consent ith the remnant and then companions hence they are at odds with the faithful and yise sen ant ~lass the not only do not speak the theocratic language or tlw faitilful but cast slurs at tile scriptural orgamzation of ,1 ehovah s sen ants to misrepresent it and its purpo e and work they speak good ords and fair speeches indeed but to deceive the hearts of the ~ill1ple rom 16 li is they talk :oentimentally of the loye of god they affect ge ntleness and [lecordingly soft i}edal the hard me~s[lg-e of the cby of nge ance of our god their pronouncmg of ibboleth is softer than the thic ker ljarsher shlhboleth it is a dead gin-u uy lio does the greater jephthah handle such .jlld~es l g reads tllen tlley took him and slew 11l11l at tire passages [fords of .jordan and there fell at that time of the ephrainlltes forty and two thousand xo good neighbor policy was shown tho e ephraimites were coyenant-breakers toward god and coyenant-breakers are worthy of death rom 1 31 32 those holding to the theocratic organization must vigorously apply the sword of the spirit against all those of the man of sin crowd in order to slay or kill their power and in3 wh are the e,1i senant class not prepared to -peak rl~llt the dible truths and what tllerefore mar~s tbelr relil lous speech 40 llat doe the inability of the e.1i .e ·ant cia ~lral tbem as helnl lth re~pe t to jehol nh s organlzauon and fple and what nu of speecll is a dead ll a a against tbem h what trelltmellt did jephthah men then j:ll e the e posed epbralm tte· and ho must the h~e actlon be carried out today agblnst tbe man of sid· crowd fluence with respect to the unsuspecting ones it is dangerous to allow free passage to any of thu t crowd as further trouble is sure to follow within the ran of those in the theocratic organization such use of the sword to cut off deceitful workers is in agreement with the action of the greater j pphthah after his coming to the temple concerning that edl sen-ant crowd he said the lord of that sen unt shall come in a day whp he 100ke th not for him and in an hour that he is not a yare of and shall cut him asunder and appol11t him his portion with the hypocrites there shall he w eping and gnashing of teeth [against the faithful and wise sen ant class iatt 2 50.51 tle son of man shall send forth his angels and they ~hall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend anrl them which do iniquity and shall cast them mtn a furnace of fire there shall he wuiling and ~na inn of teeth iatt 13 1 42 the faithful 1 111nant and their heloved c01l1paniom h:we a part in tln:fight against the religious influence of the vii sen ant and all others of the man of sin c llj1an hence they must he on the alert and sharp of par to discern the difference of rpli£:ion mc u v frnll the gospel of the kingdo111 they 111ust try the spnits whether the be of god the theonat or of antichrist 1 j olm 1 i-g nctory ror h ~ew orld a sizable army of ephtallllites at lc a fortytwo thou~and had cros:oed the jordan and attac1 d those who rallied to j e hoyah s jul~e j ·phtl1ah ot one of those clisturlwrs of unit and a ailant of theocracy escaped the e p uti·on of tl a 1 c judgment of god as carriel out 1 111 ltl 11d fello warriors they cre ippll o~lt .lust till ll1ll as had 1 en the a1l11110mte their hc 11li epj i lnlllt· i:enc israelites made thcm 111on c·o]1lell1nal · tllatl the· 1l111lonites jehovah dill not span u il 1 1 ite of ephraim any more than the prop le t 1· · 1 1· wife was spared lwcuu e he as marflerl to ll prophet of jehovah ezek ~4 1 18 ljl;y ez· el at ins wife s death the gileahte did not mourn tll death of those executed ephraimites the olht r ephraimites that remained on tht other sidp of tllp river hut had sent across ami backed up the -t joii of their representative tnbesmen doubtless mdulged 1jl weeping and wailing and gnaslnnr of tpeth at joll s execution of judgment upon their fighters it is no different now hen any professed splntual israelite goes o er to the enl servant clas and fights against the theocratic organization and rule 42 of the greater jephthah nftpr ron.lin to the tfomple nod h,li therefore must the ren~nant and oidiij.nwn be on tue alert to dt,tp t 43 ho man ephralmll fell in death and why did not tb glleadll mourn lhe death of such 44 how is it not different no 10 the case of rebel bi uln t tile theocratic organization how is foiucb u £l of the 1 9,or<1 in n r medt ~lth the rctlod

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12 shewatchtower bnooklyx y unupr the greater .j eplt thah and fools himself in to tlllnking he is fighting only against a lllllnan organization the atch tower bible and tract society and the officials in 11 ot a single such rebel can o will escapp the certain judgment of the lord which judgment he now causes to be declared through his earthly yisible part of his theocratic organization under christ ~either do any of the faithful advocates of his righteous goyernment mourn that such rebellious ones are cut off from the organization and come under the judgment of the second death thereby heh 10 ~g-31 · and jephthah judged iuael six years then died .ieph thah the gileadite and was buried in one of the cities of gilead judg 1 7 during those few years .iephthah carne in touch with his daughter whom his fen ent 0 had dedicated to the full-time seryice of .iehoyah god at his tabernacle in shiloh across the ri er in obedipnce to the theocratic law upon the nation jephthah regularly attended the appointed feasts there he and his daughter were hoth faithful to the yow unto the ~lost high god al1ll its obli ation upon hoth of them they thereby displayed faith and ere j eho ah s witnes~es maintaining integrity toward him her presence and zealous sernce at the taljernncle were a continual mell1orw.1 to the yindication of the name of him who granted the yictory to j ephthah oyer the nllnonites 46 also four days in each year the yirgin dauf htel s of israel went to see her to praise the lord with her oyer his yictory for theocracy and for 45 punne tht ear that jephrh;l juli ed i r:h 1 t hat ontrrt hd hf ii l ifh ill lau.c:hter ncd liat l llr e did both or thpm folluw to 1 l .leho h j l:dt pr:u ice did tllp l.iu iitt t lit i r:lpl pllr uf f arrl ephth1h dan lltt l· ,ind at hi l!f atll 11.11 111,1 jeph:llah ierne uelunc.j ill 1.11 t.le tjll d freedom of jehoyah s wor~hip in israel an

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.jax lajly 1 1943 %e vatchto ver 13 s 40 7 8 hell 10 7.10 jesus capacity was complete t nerefore .j ehoyal filleu rllm with his spjrlt in the complete sense and he proved rlls loyalty to jeho ah to the utmost the greek nihil word translateu ability is drawn from the root ,erb u~ed in the text where j~sus spoke to his apostle in an er to a request that they have certain positions in his kmg-dom and he said are ye able to dl lnk of the cup that i shall drink of and to be baptm d with the baptism that i am baptized with 1 they say unto him we are alile latt 20 22 hence the correct uefillltlon of his words se cral ab1lit is this complete consecration to the lord god and a joyful submission to ills holy lrill a loyal dn ollon to the lord god et en 11nto dwth such allliity or capacity increases the more one is filled with the spirit or mnslblc power of the lord the apostle paul 1il speaking about redeemin the time by faithful sen lce to the lord said be filled with the irtt thus increasmg one s ability or capacity eph j 16.18 in the proportion that one has the spirit of the loru iii that proportion he possesses power or ability for good -see romnns 1 16 nncl 1 thessalonians 1 5 the ~rmit of t he lord does not consist of sanctimonious 1 let nor all outward expression of 1 1l1 more holy than thou wille is m fact hypocris~· having the sjllrit of c:llist mcans to ue absolutely 100 al to j hoyah god and to the loru ,te~us to be eo~pletely de oteu to the lord and ills eause and to do the lord s sen ice accordmg to the lord way it means leavmg self entm~ly out of sight and lookmg onl to the lord s interests the jewish phari· sees could not be used by the lord becau~e they had no such ab1llty they want~d to uo everytiling m t heir own selfish way jehovah god is trying out and testing the integnty of those in ime for positions of authority and power iii eon· necnon with the kmgdom of heaven ~o one b capable of curczsl1ig authority until he has learned to ubry authority ii tllllity means submissiveness submissiveness means oll lienee and obedience means to do tll service of the loru od iii ins appol1!tcd lea y to ol y is better than cl 1fice 0 1 sam 1j 22 it i of ital necesslt to learn tu b joyfully submissiye or ohedlent to the l~rd s iii the parahle of the talcnts teaches this very requirement it 1 0 ohedlence and loyalty that merit al d recelye the reward ccordmg to the parable the lord committed to each one of his senant eertain interests of his kml!dom each ~en ant must therefore make his accountlllg 0 the lord ~o fello senant is relieved of personal re~ponslblllty hecause of lar~er privileges of sernce held b any other con~ecrated sen ant eyerv man shall bear his own bur· ul n ual 6 5 talent that 10 klllgc10m mterests plu ability or lovin and jo ful submission to the father s will result in opportunities of ernce and by performmg these opportullltics of scrvice faithfully the consccrated one proves ills 10 alty to the lord yhen thosc to hom the kmgdom interests are committed perform scrnce as oppor· tuilltics come to t hem it constitutes tradmg with the talent nd in proportion as one faithfully joyfully and lovingly ijows his obedience and de otion to the lord in the performance of such service in that same proportion is the interest of the kingdom as committed to 111m mcreased and thereby more opportunities are furnished to him as all illustration one fulh suhmis i c to the lord enters the service of pioneer publisher of the kil1i!ch,m the lord thereby commits to him certain talents or interest of his kingdom the pioneer joyfully performs that scnlee accordmg to theocratic org-amzation mstructioils as he does so his capacity incrcascs and the lord permits thc intcrests of the kingdom as committed to such con~ecrattd one to abound or increasc by glvin him wiuer oppor· tunitles of scr ice in conductlllg home bible studies or an· izing new eompamcs for kingdom·publisher work in the fie1u giving kingdom testimony beforc worldly court boards of authority lawmakmg committees pohce offic13ls and brmglllg more persons of :rood·will to a knowledge of the kmgdom truth the pioneer s performance of scrvlce under such circumstances is trading with the talent witt ill the meaning of this parable then he that had recciyed the five talents went and traued with the ~ame and made tlem other five talents and likewise he that hnd reeen ed two he also g-amed other two nut he that had r cclwd olle went and digged in the earth and luu hi lonl moncy lat1 2 16-18 the accounting with the sen ants next comid rcu takes place aftcr the lord jesus christ comes to tnc tci:l lo anu the facts icwed ir the llgh of prophecy pro e th lt he arrihu at the spmtual temple of god iii the ~pi lllg of d 1918 fter a lon time the lord of tho~e ~ervnnts comcth and reekolleth with them nd so he that 11 d r celyed five talents came and hrou ht other 5v talc ll saymg lord thou dl liyeredst unto me five talents belwlu i hah gamed ue~lde them five ~alent more hi lonl llll unto him yell done thou !rood and 131thful en 31:t t 11011 hast been faithful over a few thmg 1 will make thee 1 uler over man thillgs enter thou mt the jov of thy loru lic also that had recen ell two talen ts tam and ;ald loru thou dell eredst unto mc two t lents bchold i h;l e qalllpd two other tnlenls be ld t thpm hi lord s:lid untu him til donc good anu faithful cl ·ant thou ha t hecn ialthiul over a few thll1zs i will make thee rulcr o er man t lllg i enter than into thc jo of thy lon latt 2j 1 23 thc word of the a ter mujcate his prc llec at til temple orne time before the reckonlll t k place nh t itl consecratcd sjhrit.hcq:otten scn ant on earth it d fll t in d 1922 that the pn ence of ,jchovah l llll c hllq jesus at the templc ns rc ea d to the faithful j llll:allt accordlll to the parablc thc one to 01 1 u c commltt d five talents comes fol fll u anu report that he ha gallll d ott cr fhe ta:ents to parap!lrase his report lon 0:1 committed to me certalll lllterests of your klllq lom you gan me a measure of your ~plrit 1 ha joyfull ~11b jaltteu to our 1 oly will and yol1 han lllcrea~ed m pmt and 10nll1 d otlon to you alld by rca on of oui ~oojih i have avniled my~elf of thes opportullltlcs that haw collle to me a a result of hnvlllg your kllll!dom ll1teresh eom· mitted to me and of my lovmg dcvotlon to you 1 h<1 e had opportunity to pro my loyalty and ue ot ion to oll i have ~h,ereiore iilcrea cd my capaelty i ha mor of your spirit and your kmgdom lllterests have lllcrea d toward me a hundred percent the lord commends him not because of what he ha gained because in fact he brings no profit to the lord as the lord himself points out at lukc 17 10 thc loru

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14 ~e watchtower bnooklyx y rommrnd him nerause he has b reason of joyfl.1 obedlcnre with and despised the lord s theocrath way rern,llate proved hl5 fmthfulness and loyalty you have been faith that and insisted on doing things their owil way and byc ful over a few thmgs i will in the future make vou ruler failed to learn obedience beeause of this unfaithfulness to over many things but enter now into the joy of y~ur lord the cause of the lord jesus as yindirator of jehovah i erse 21 be it observed here that the reward of rulership name the interests of the kingdom which were committed is future which is granted to the faithful remnant when to those proving wicked and slothful and also the measure finishing their earthly course and passing unto the heavenly of the spirit bestowed at the time they showed some humility life ~ow however a joy is granted what joy 1 the or obedlenee are taken away from such unfaithful one tremendous joy in the fact that the faithful onc has a also those kingdom interests are committed to t he class part m the vindication of jehovah s name and he knows which has a greater measure of the lord s spirit those who that m 1914 jehovah by christ jesus set up the long have been thus unprofitable to the lord would thcn lo~e promlscd kingdom and that as a seitant of the kinll:dom interest in the kingdom truth and in proelajmm it the faithful one has a part in making this known to human~o one who has only one talent at the time of reek011ln kind as the only cure-all for the ill of man there is joy can be of the kingdom class to pass judgment at thl too in knowing that the day of ueliycrance is at hand temple each one of the remna.nt must have increa ed in and that the fmthful remnant will soon enter mto fullncss the likeness of the lord by following his step as he left of joy in thc heavenly kingdom and that the good shepherd us the example of aetive service zeal worship mtq!rlty is now ~athering his other sheep in their many thousands and faithfulness under suffering thus doing then to him unto the temple to associate with the remnant 10 declarmg the lord increases greater interests of thl kir rlom and jehovah s name and publjshm i!is kmgdom those out of henee increases to h1m greater service opportumtle harmony with the lord way do not have such joy this does not mean that the one wr.o makes the gtl atl t a rcj10rt similar to the above is made by the sen ant to outward show of service to the lord is the one hat i whom were committed two ta~ent and the lord likewise the most highly honored in the kmgdom thc mstrul llon commends him for his faithfulness and loyalty s 23 clearly given in the parable is this that hen one lin then comes the one who ~lad received the one talent to committed to him the !dterests of the lord s kingdom tht n make his rcport to quote the para jle then 1 which had in proportion as he shows his loyal and faithful de ollon recelwd the one talent camc and ~ajd lord i knew thee to the lord by complete submission and obl dleih l to tllf that thou art an hard tiwn reapm here thou hast not lord so will his seitiee privileges be m the honor nn,l sown and l!athermg where t l:ou ha~t not strawed and i glory of the kingdom each one howewr regar,lll s r wa jfrilld and went and illd thy talent in the earth la the amount of increase with which his trlldlll wit ii t 1w there thou hast that is thme hi lord amwered and said kingdom talents is blessed must prove faithful unto dcnth unto 111m thou wicked and lot hful scn ant thou knewest and mamtaln ins integrity blamelcss nd ajt:lou~h the that i rcap whcre i owl d not and gather where i have parable does not directly apply to the lord s ot her ~heel not stra cd thou oughte~t therefore to have put m money now being gathered to the temple for sernce there yf t to the exchan et s anu then at my am in i should have sueh other sheep who are associated nth the rcm:wn recelvell mme own with usury take therefore the talent entrusted with the kmgdom mterest must pro e io l1 from him and gl e it nnto hlm which hath ten talcnts compalllons to them and must show an equal de rel of for unto e cry one that hath ~hall be gl cn and he 5hall faithfulness to the kin dom and must hold fa~t thel r have abundance hut from llim that hath not shall he ~nj;en mtegrity to jehovah god under all tests away even that which l:e hath nd east ye the unprofitable if now the theoeratie way is the lord s a of rarr sen an mto outer darkl1 s latt ~5 2-1-30 mg on his strange work of witness beforc the hattie or it b qul:e maujfc~t that there was no joy ju the heart of armageddon begms then fightmg agaldst that way or thc one·talent ser ant nor did thc lorcl myhe him to enter repudiating it means fighting agamst or rcp 1l1iat 1l1 t 1 mto any joy the ~eryant reports that he knew the lord great theocrat and ills king because the way is not c.i was a hard master and so he was afraid and wcnt and man but is of the lord god failing or ref us iii i 10 work hid hi talent in the earth and now he was returnin i or trade with the kingdom talents in the lord s a i the lord replied to :llm thou wicked and slothful disloyalty to the great theoerat jeho uh if no upon sen ant here it,tcl.d applie to tho e who have once heen exammatlon anyone finds he has been just a little la iii enlightened and then turned away not r.aymg availed them showmg forth god s praises and ha 50mewhat ~ijl kcd lll i selves of the pnylleges and jo of seryjug the lord sloth hands 1il god s service this will be the opportunlt to fill applies to those to whom somethin has been committed redeem the time it is no time now for slothfulness idleness to do and perform and who have gone to sleep and done mdifference or slacking the hand nothing the slothful ones ha e either hid the interests of redeeming the time eph 5 16 means buyjlji out the lo rd s kingdom in worldly things or else treated it from this evil time seemg to it that we give all the time with indifferenee or else have been sen-ing self and looking possible to the lord s service in looking after the mtcrests to see how much glory and honor they might wm to them of his kingdom jesus himself was fenellt in spmt the selves which things are of the earth and not of the spirit kingdom was uppermost in his mind und heart beruuse undoubtedly it mcludes those who have commercialized it is god s way for vmdicutmg his name and blesslfl all the truth either for money or for the plaudits of men that obedient humankind jesus followers must likewise be they might shine in the presence of others or who because fervent iii spirit and the kingdom und its mtcrests mllst of sensual earthly selfish propensities have found fault be uppermost m the mmd and heart of each conscrated one.

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