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Report of the South frican

New

World

Theocratic ssembly

OF JEHOVA.H S WITNESSES April 23-26 1943

will

open

the windows of

heaven and

you out a blessing. ill lachi 3: IO.

The New World

Theocratic Assembly

in

morP than

90

citiPs throughout

the

Ohio.

l ' .S.:\ . , thf

kt\ cit\

-Sl 'ptt-mb( r 18-20, 1942) .

JEHOVAH GOD the great Theocrat

heaven

speaks

a command to hi1.;

and

Execnti\'e

Officer,

Christ Jesus.

Head of Jeho\'ah 's capital organiza

starts

to work to carry out

the

will

Almighty Father. B : means of

r

spirit the \'isible

part

of thr

organization i-s directed into arti\

A

f r \ \

consecrated ones on

earth

to work. Others are consulted. D;,

plans are made. Now these plans

an:

into operation and more help is need

The working army grows; its recruib

willing \'Olunteers .

Weeks

pas:;,

bv

this timr from its single \'isible

-of origin the work

has

spread in

directions. It gains momentum, hib

ahead,

and after the

p s s i n ~

many months is duly completed. It is

Lord's

organization 011

earth

working

in the midst of demonized

to

the

one

end and

all under tht

the Theocratic King. How

pictured by

a

' 'bee' ' , or

a bee-

humming with acti\'ity

Hut

why

these

months

of study, plan-

preparatiou, negotiating and work,

pointing to one grand climax? What

will of the

great Theocrat

as ex-

Executi\'e

Officer that set

motion all this humming

activity?

This:

His covenant

people on

earth

in

the

gather in a Ne\\

World

assem-

'Thy

will

be done,' and

through

his

it \\'as carried nut. All this

to bear fruit in one

great

out-

blessings, in

three days, Sep

18-20, 1942, in more than

90

citie:.;

thf' earth. The joyous har\'est

reaped

at the New

World

Theocratic

March 6, 1942, the

president's

letter

the Assembly was sent to all

Jehovah's witnesses

and

During that same month

the

at

Brooklyn,

N.

Y.,

started work-

t'xtra time in preparation for the con-

From that time until the end of

the factory, in addition to the

1. Close attention was

given

to each discourse. 2. Ready for action and eage

for

the

fray. 3.

Waiting

to hear A Message from

the President.


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NEW WORLD THEOCRATIC ASSEMBLY OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

scheduled working

days, put in

eqmvalent of 33 working days h_\

afkrnoo11 and en:ning

,,ork.

that

period

hundreds

of thou

copies of Bibles a11c1 Bibliol

i11dudint;

adn:rtising

makrial

lecture

\Yere printed. Tlw

of pa

per

req uirecl for this

print

upwards

of

200

tons. Trnh

th1

was a

b e e h i n ~

humming da\: and

for six

mouths prior

to

the

s s ~ m u h

these sweet things so

that

ti;,.

Promised Land during tlw

d;iys m i . ~ h t flow

\\ith ' 'milk

honey' ' .

is just sunw of the \\ ork lwliind

of the ~ l \ \ \Yurld Theocratic

The comenti()n ci iLs \\Tl'r tu tbc co11

itself.

the results of all this \\ork. the

A ~ ; s e m b l \ ,

\\'ortb the tremen

am"ount of

t i n ~ e ,

makrial and uwrgy

()b,ious}\

one

\rho \rnuld

a s ~ - :

question \ \ a s n ~ t there.

God directed

this Assernb]\

held aml through liis

urganizatiol1

his iwople to at L'nd. Bv the tinw

C(Jil\ention's climax

16"0,000 had

and had

assembkcl

at

these cyo

in America.

C a n a d ~ , England, Scot

Ireland,

\Vales. Australia

~ l \ \

A.frica. \\ 'est Africa, South

. .\kxicn, S\\'itztrlancl and S\\ed

came li\ train, car, and

binc+.,

by

l;orse

and conrtd \\.,;gn11.

foot. One

arri\Td

en11 in an

am

and

z group of l in k \\itmsscs

in in ct hear:-;e.

But

the\,-carm; the\

nol \\illi11g to 'forsakt_: the a s s e n ~

nf

tbemsdns together,

and l'spe

in ,-il\\ of tl1e nil clay.;; approach

cliff1culties and

the present

communication:-; mack

it impossible

ehO\ah's \\ilncss


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NEW WORLD

THEOCRATIC

ASSEMBLY OF

JEHOVAil'S WITNESSES.

3

All Children of the King .

to

advertise The Theocracy.

upheld by

a golden

bar, beautifully

of how

Jtho\'ah's people who

Him with a pure moti\e

are

up

by the might of power divine. Higher

wall and dominating the

stage was

displayed in colours the

picturl'

for

i943. The theme

under the yeartext brings into

relief the situation facing mankind

in

which faithful

Christians must

On

the first morning of the

Assembly

brief meeting

for

Theocratic activities

held;

then to the field

to

tell others

this

blessed Assembly. That afternoo11

assembly

for

ad\ertising

was

called.

after

brief instructions on the \'arious

publishing the Kingdom mt-Ssagc

publicizing

the talk "Peace-Can

It

and

the

procedure to

be

followed

went forth to let J oha1111esburg knm\

this timelv

discourse. Hundrecb

out

in direction co\'eri11

'J h

of the town

and handing

out

irnita tions tu the main lecturl'.

the

gaze

met them:

me11.

and children

offering

the hand

with a pleasant smile

to

all with

they came in contact. One

thing

certain: Johannesburg knew that thl'

i\'es

of the

New

1

orld wen

town, ancl those uf good.will were in

their welcome tu the meetings.

passing it is

noted

that it raine


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NEW

WORLD

THEOCRATIC

ASSEMBLY

OF JEHOVAH'S

WITNESSES

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

to show

thyself

approved

unto

.- ]

ehovah' s witnesses are keen

students of the Bible.

"The

Sword of

The

Spirit"

perfect, now, was

the

setting for

the evening's

pro

the

audience

thoroughly

by the speeches to which they

just listened,

the

convention servant

forward to deliver the address

Sword of the Spirit' ".

tremendous

ingathering

to come, as just outlined, note

the

of

the opening words:

is further work to be done;

much

' ' .Mentioning the necessity of all

and

shine in response to the

ahead" signal in an offensive war

the

greatest offensive weapon was

as

being

God's Word

the Bible,

of the

spirit".

Then the

put into words

the

thought often

Jehovah's servants:

the

Lord's

Word quickly,

the inability to unsheath this sword

If we could only find

we want, we could hold off op

that

we could give a word in season

simple to others, with

abundant

f we

had a Bible with helps wherein we

what

we need ' How

the long-felt

and

fervent desire of

Jehovah's

wit

The

speaker

went on to explain

such a Bible had been prepared

by

an explosion thunder

applause

burst from the

vast

gather

Whereas

this Bible is

the

well

King Jam

es

or

Authorised Version

the

text

of

the

Bible

has

not been

one iota, it contains helps which

out the predominantly

Theocratic

Word of God as no other

has ever done

on the Society's presses; all

by

consecrated

hands; months

by

more than r50 collaborators,

all full-time

servants

of

Jehovah,

result

ing in a concordance specially designed

for use by Jehovah's witnesses in their

ministerial work; an index of proper

names, expressions

and their

meanings;

and several pages of scriptures under

the

heading "God's Word

on Vital Sub

jects",

were some of the special features

described by the

speaker

as he displayed

a copy.

The

desire of the publishers to

possess a copy of this Bible was so mani

fest

that

it was almost

pathetic

to observe

their disappointment that they could not

each have a copy straight

away.

The

prospect of getting a

copy

as soon as

shipping space will

permit

greatly cheer

ed them. The fact

that

such a Bible was

already

in general use in America and

other parts of the earth

brought

unselfish

joy

to

their

hearts.

The speaker concluded,

"It

is

hoped

that this Bible will play a large part in

bringing honour

and praise

to the name

of the

.Most High

as all the fighters for

the New

World

march on to victory and

the vindication of

Jehovah's name."

And

why shouldn't it?

God's

great weapon

for his New World warriors, the 'sword

of the spirit',

sharpened

to razor-edge

by

his organization and placed in the

hands of his zealous Theocracy fighters

Woe

be unto

modern-day counterparts

of fa tty King Eglon as these New World

fighters, armed with this newly whetted

sword, spring forward in response to the

"go ahead"

signal wielding this new

weapon in the interests of those of good

will still held prisoners in Satan's reli

gious organizations.

Their bonds

shall

be

severed; like clouds of doves that darken

the

sky

shall

they

fly from darkness to

the only light; and Jehovah's

name

shall

be honoured. By his grace, this new

Watchtower

edition of the Bible will play

an important part in this work.

The display of the vertical type phono

graph

gave

the conventioners

their

next

thrill

and

they noted with pleasure this

evidence of the

Lord's

blessing on

the

labours of

their

brethren at headquarters

in the manufacture

and

pr.oduction of

this further instrument to help in

carry

ing forward the Theocratic warfare.

The

session closed with the release of the 1943

calendar-a

little

belated

due to circum

stances over which we have no control

but

none the less

welcome-and ''King

dom News" No. with its beaut iful

message: "The people have a right to

good news NOW''. This was available in

both English

and

Afrikaans.

The first evenings ' s session, with its

stirring lectures and surprises, supplied

the spark that

threw

the convention into

high gear. Already our cup was

running

over.

The first session of the second

day

was

scheduled to begin at 8-30 a.m.

but

long

before eight the convention buildings were

humming

with activity,

busy

tongues

chattering,

busy

feet clattering, and

busy

hands

preparing

for Theocratic service.

The tumult was stilled

at the

half-hour

when

the army assembled to receive its

orders for the

day.

Then at nine o'clock

these fighters for the New

World

once

again spread over the Johannesburg area

like a

band

of locusts, to the chagrin of

religious hypocrites and the joy of hon

est people of good-will toward Goel and

His kingdom. I t was a magazine effort

and the street work received special at

tention.

I t

was noted

that many

who en

gaged

in

this

phase

of

Kingdom

activity

this day did so for the first time. Some

were old and seasoned publishers wh1>

came from companies where the street

work is regularly engaged in. Others

wert>

younger publishers who because of dif

fidence had as yet failed to make th-.

plunge in their home territories. They

found

the

water not nearlv so cold as

they had imagined. They

came back

ex

hilirated and refreshed. This rally was

productive of more happy experiences

than any

other at the assembly. Stories

\Vere

told of interest which

just

contacted

itself, of back-calls and studies a ranged

for right on the busy Johannesburg

streets, of literature placed and gladly

accepted. Children shared enthusiastically

and

efficiently in this work.

In

lifting up

the voice of wisdom in the streets

their

youth

is no handicap and

their

results

compare favourably with their elders.

Pavement witnessing was again

proven

to

be

one of

the

most effective and en

joyable

methods of bringing

the

King

dom

message to

the

attention of the

people.

A

Peculiar People

Throughout the day the variou:-1 con

\ention halls

and

passages

and

the street

outside

swarmed

with witnesses, going

to or returning from the field, or work

ing in connection with the various con

vention activities. Observers were puz

zled. Hundreds of people,

and

no discord

or bickering. Not one of them smoked.

They had no bottles on their hips, nor

chips on

their

shoulders. A

stranger

re

marked,

''Well,

I've been here many

years

but I've never

seen

ptoplc

like

this. Tell

them

to go this

way or

that

way,

and

they go

as

directed. They don't

ask questions,

but

gladly obey.

And

not

one of them's smoking. I've

cut

down

The vertical phonograph caused a th'lj,ll

and

was greatly admired.


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5

Thy people shall e z illing [ v o l u n t e e r . ; ~

day of t y puz,

er. -Ps.

TIO: 3

since

they arrived,

and if

they

herl' a fe\\'

mon: davs I l l stop

, -

The afternoon session opened with sing

hundreds

uniting

in

songs

of p r a i s ~

o

Jehovah, led by au orchestra strictly

this

a thirty-minute discussion in Afri

kaans

on

"Asstrn b1y

unto the

Kingdom''.

few

more

songs

\\'tre

sung

and

then at

p.m. the cu11\ entiun senant

deli\cred

an

hour's

talk 011

Figlikrs

for tht'

~ < \ \

01lcl".

"Fighters

For the

New

World"

From

its

outset this

talk had

s t r o 1 1 1 ~

appeal to thost' \\'hu \ W n actually tight

crs for

the

:\e\\ \\'orl


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NEW

WORL

THEOCRATIC ASSEMBLY OF

JEHOVAH'S

WITNESSES

youngest reigular publisher

in

the

her pioneer

mother.

Their

.,

home is in the background.

of everything

but enthusiasm ''

close of

the afternoon

session

the

servant spent an hour with

company servants

from

various parts

country

and

gave them some

timely

as

the importance

of serving The

all

the talks

of

the

evening and Saturday afternoon

that night service dominated

programme. ''Pioneer Opportunities

identified

pioneers

as those who

and

prepare the

way

for others.

the

lead

in 'going

through

the

preparing

the

way of

the

people,

stones

out

of

the

Kingdom

and lifting up a standard for the

Are

there pioneer opportunities

Never

greater;

for "at this

very

the speaker

said, "there are en

and

portions

of

territory

that

not been

given the witness since

'

Important requirements

of pio

devotion

to

the :Most

and

the

will to work. .

the snares keeping some out

the pioneer

service

were

discussed.

of little faith maintain they can

' 'make a living''. The

purpose

of

is to

comfort

all that

mourn

share

in

the

vindication

of Jehovah's

not "making

a living". It

was

that Jehovah feeds

the

birds

wild beasts.

With far stronger

reason

w ill provide for his servants.

think

they should

hole up on a

somewhere

till

Armageddon's storm

over.

That isn't fulfilling the com

preach.

There

are those of

understanding who seek a wife, or

or

so-called

"higher learn

pioneers seek first

the Kingdom.

it was stressed that

"the

New World

to stay " During

the convention

a number responded

to

the call for

front line fighters.

Theocratic Rule agnified

"Serving

The

stressed

the

need for

the

new.

' 'Organization

Instructions''.

attention

was

paid

as its

contents

. discussed. The need for

such

new

instructions was

shown

t be due to the

expansion

of

the work

and increased

light

coming in

due

season. The responsibility

of each one to personally preach and

bear his own burden

was emphasised.

Step by step these

instructions

were

enumerated showing

how

each one might

serve in unity with

their

fellow servants

and

advance

the

interests of the King

dom

in

an organized manner.

A ne\\'

servant

was introduced-'

servant

to

the

brethren,"

who is

to

visit

the

companies

twice a year

to

assist them

in

rendering

efficient service

in

harmony with ' 'Or

ganization

Instructions''. n closing

the

following admonition was

given:

"And now, brethren, don't anyone

say,

'Oh, these Organization Instructions

are all

right

for a large

company

or for

some

other kind

of

company,

but

they

do

not

apply to

us,'

or,

'I have

t change

this, or amend that, before it can apply

to us.' l\Iy brethren, these

organization

instructions are from the Lord through

his prudent and faithful

servant

unto

whom

the

Lord has

given

the job

of

issuing

such instructions,

and

they

apply

A

happy

family

All

serve the Theocracy

to all

companies,

large and small. f your

present

arrangement

is

not

geared to con

form to

the

Lord's

requirements,

do not

expect

the

Lord to change his

arrange

ment

to suit you.

Creatures are

to con

form to the L-ord's requirements,

not

the

Lord to creatures' whims. Get in line

with

the

Lord's method of carrying on

the work."

That same evening two speakers took

fifteen

minutes each

to

give a

short talk

in English and

Afrikaans on the

subject

' 'Baptism''.

The

following

day 209

sym

bolized

their

consecration to serve

the

Lord,

by

water immersion.

On Sunday morning there was fur

ther

opportunity for field service and ap

proximately 900 participated. n

between

the

sessions, and particularly after th1._

morning service in the field preaching the

gospel of the Kingdom and advertising

the New World Assembly,

the

publishers

delighted in rehearsing the righteous acts

of

the

Lord with their fellow

Theocratists

at

these assemblies which

had

proved

to

be such refreshing \vatering places'.

:Many and of great variety were the

ex

periences of

the ambassadors

of the New

World to be

heard

at this Assembly

they sat eating

at the cafeteria

table

or gathered

in little

knots about

th

various

halls to

rehearse the

righteou

acts of

the

Lord toward them as they

participated

in his "strange work". Spac

only permits reference to two of these

A \Yitness

earning

his daily bread on

large citrus estate decided to do his dut)

towards

the

manager of the

estate

by

bringing

the

Kingdom

gospel to his

atten

tion. He equipped himself with hi

phonograph,

records, literature,

etc.

called and knocked at

the

door.

On

bein

asked the purpose

of his visit he dre\

attention to l\Iatthew 24: 14 as his com

mission for doing as he did. The

manage

could not

yet

quite

see

how that

con

cerned him. Then came the

p u b l i s h e r ~

further

explanation:

"You see, l\Ir

Revelation 22: 17 states 'Let him tha

heareth say, Come.' I am

one

that ha

heard, and I now say 'Come'." Thi

serYed to open

the

manager's door wid

to him

and

he entered

and

was

granted

time

to give a full and

detailed

witness

When

he left

he was

invited to

com{

again at some opportune time.

There was a family present at

the

As

sembly, consisting of nine

individuals

who

110,t very long ago were extrem

members

of

the "Ossewa

Brandwag".

A

that time they

manifested

such antipathy

to

the

"Engelsman" that

they

imbedded

a penny in

the

tioor of

one

of their room

in

their home

as a

symbol

of

how

tlw

' 'Engelsman'' should ~ b e trodden unde

foot.

It

was a bi-lingual "Engelsman"

that

brought

the Kingdom message to

them. They ga little e\idence at firs

of

wanting

to give heed to

the Kingdom

message.

In due

course,

however, th

light

began

to

penetrate

to

their

minds

and when they

saw how hopelessly

the

local

predikant

of the

branch

of religion

to which

they

belonged floundered and

resorted to personal attacks and slander

when

he was faced with

the

Theocratic

truths of

the

B;ble,

thev

told him to

quit

and

now they are a zealous

in the

Kingdom

service as

they had been

ex

treme

in

one

of the

modern

schemes o

the

Devil to blind the minds of men to

the

only

light

and

hope

of those who

desire enrlasting life under The

Theoc

racy.

Some of those who have kept the Theo-

cratic

Standard

on

hi h

in So

Rhode-

sia Several

in

this group were present a

the

Convention.


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Defeat of

Persecution

first meeting on Sunday afternoon

Defeat

of

. The reassembled

servants

Lord

were greatly refreshed as a

drawn

between

the

experi

and

those

witnesses in modern times.

persecution

upon

the early

Church

in a sea ttering of

the

Christians

as

they spread

the message

wherever

went

the

result was a

great

increase

days it was

that the

decrees of totalitarian re

had

not

stopped

the wit

but

that on the contrary the

had resulted in modern dav

adding to

their

numbers dailj.

talk a represen

Southern Rhodesia

gave

an

ten-minute talk

on the prog

that

country.

Jehovah's witnesses and their

to

give

out

the

by word of

mouth. ~ l h e r e a s

about 800 active witnesses at

time of the Minister s

ban

there are

noo

actively engaged in

God's Kingdom.

has

thus

been defeated in

country

as elsewhere.

Jehovah's

have stood firm and

maintained

and

will continue to obey

Higher

Powers until the witness work

Message

from the

President

came the high spot of the con

a Message from the Presi

was read. This message like the

and

all the

discourses in between, stressed faith

to The Theocracy until the

Lord

is

enough. Briefly the President

the growth of the Lord's visible

what it was in 1922

and to.

what it is

today, by

Jehovah's

grace. He warned the brethren of greater

trials

ahead,

sparing neither

brothers

nor

sisters, but reminded

them

of Jehovah's

promises and sounded His keynote of

victory to the more-than-conquerors.

He

announced the coming visits of the ''ser

\ ants to the

brethren''

and spoke of the

Lord's

other

provisions for their comfort

and use in His service.

Several extracts were

then read

from

letters recently received from

Brother

Knorr

in which he expressed his joy

the increase of publishers

and

the work

in general in South Africa in spite of

present

day

restrictions. Finally extracts

from Brother

Knorr's

annual

report

re

garding

the work accomplished in

1942

and the College of Gilead were read and

the enthusiasm of the brethren was a

joy to behold. All of Brother K n o r r ~

communications breathed the spirit of the

Lord and were of tremendous encourage

ment

to all who

heard

them. Instead of

disintegration because of

the

passing on

of a man, as wishful thinking religious

enemies predicted, the

Lord's

organiza

tion on

earth is

more closely

knit

and

welded together now under Theocratic

rule than ever before in the history of

the church. All drive ahead in

unbreak

able unity under the

greater

Jephthah to

further onslaughts against the modern

Ammonites.

PEACE-Can

t

Last?

Sunday evening 7-30 saw the

peak

at

tendance

at

the Connntion when 1500

assembled to

hear

the

much

advertised

lecture,

Peace-Can

It Last?

as origin

ally given by

the

President of the Society

at

Cleveland se\en months earlier, to an

audience of 129 ,000 assembled in 52 cities

throughout

America. Such an audience is

surely a stinging rebuke to the lying reli

gious leaders who

maintained that

the

late Judge Rutherford was the leader of

The president and chairman at Cleveland just before the Public Lecture

At

the

Bath 209

symbolised their con-

secration to

o

the will of God

Jehovah's witnesses, but doubtless it will

do them no good, as

many

stripes

on the

backs of fools are required,

not

reproofs

These stripes

they

shall have

at

Arma

geddon,

but

if they were wise they would

consider Gamaliel s words and apply the

principle there set forth and refrain from

further fighting against God. Gamaliel's

counsel was, in substance,

this:

'Theudas

rose

up and hundreds

j o i n ~ d

themselves

unto him. He was slain, and those who

had

followed him were scattered

and

came to nought.

Judas

of Galilee_ drew

many people after him. He perished, and

all who had obeyed him were dispersed.

So, refrain from these men (the apostles);

because if they are following a

man and

the work is of men it will come to nought.

But if it is God

you cannot

overthrow it

and you

will

be found fighting against

God.'

The one whom religious clergy

claimed was the leader of the ;YitnPsses

is dead as a

human creature,.

yet the wit

nesses were not dispersed,

but

assembled

together in

greater

numbers than

ever

before

and

in closer

unity than

ever be

fore. Why? Because their Leader shall

never die and he is the King of

The

Theocracy, Christ Jesus. The meek of

the earth

can appreciate this now more

than eYer before;

but

religious fools ignore

these powerful physical facts and con

tinue fighting against God,

and

will be

so occupied when swept away into ever

lasting destruction

at

Armageddon.

The

Question

Answered

Never did one hour pass so fast.

Scarcely

had

the

speaker

begun, it seem

ed, than he quit.

But

in

that

fleeting

hour as smashing a blow

as

ever dealt

religious politicians since the days

that

J cs us walked on the

earth

was

1th

ere

landed,

and

the Roman Catholic Hier

archy rcetived the foll force of the mighty

wallop.

The

speaker

said

the

present war was

for \\ orld domina tion, that since the

Reformation it was inevitable. t is be

tween parties of two sets of ideas.

t

:s

not Armageddon;

and the

Scriptures show

that before

that

battle comes, a peace

must come. A forceful argument was ad

vanced, which

had

a ring of authority

because based solely

upon

God's infalli

ble

Word,

showing just how peace would


8/12


about and what

would quickly

In view of

the

importance

and

that

speech it is reproduced

at the end of this report.

publishers of

The

Theocracy were

again on .Monday morning taking

message of the Kingdom to

the

peo

Johannesburg. the

.early

p a ~ t

afternoon

many

mterestmg

expen

proved

to

bP

great

encouragement to all present.

the convention report. The

an

assembly

and the

tre

amount

of work involved

has

Certainly it was \vell wo:th

attendance. Did others aside

t h e r e f r o m ~

did as shown by .the reports. In .all

publishers shared m the field service

6,272

books, booklets and magazines

the

message of

God's

kingdom

the

hands of the people

This was a mighty flood

truth-quite

a cloudburst for one

many would be refreshed

enlightened thereby. The total time

by the publishers in this work

on

inter

numbered

494

and

at 76

new names were

handed

in to the

department during

the week-end.

Victory

talk

1

in Afrikaans on

for

The

New

\Vorld"

was

next feature on

the

programme and

the

concluding talk was given by

servant

on the subject

In this lecture it was shown

victory is not only for the Kingdom,

for the preaching the reoC as well.

after

another

in Ameri

Many false and

trumped-up

and

it was shown how

Jehovah

blessed his people with

many

vic

The speaker

dealt with

the

situation in South

and the

progress of

the

fight for

The

impression

by

The

New

World

face of the greatest odds in differ

of the worfd with special em

of

the

world thrilled those who were

attend

this last session of

and

will be

' 'MORE THAN

THROUGH HIM

THAT LOVED

that one of them involuntarily re

' 'The grand climax to a glorious

Victory of the gospel

depend on

man-made

and

other failing

human

com

but

upon the faith of the witnesses

Jehovah

God, who would not suf

them

to

be

moved from his witness

is finished.

onclusion

And so

the

time

came

for

the

witnesses

to go their several ways. Full time

pub

lishers of

The Theocracy

lingered for

another

hour however and were greatly

encouraged as they helped one another

to become more efficient in

their

work.

Some

young

people who the

year

previous

rose publicly to testify to their

stand

for

The

Theocracy on the occasion of the re

lease of

the

book

"Children" and

who

have shown great zeal since were no\v

among the

ranks

of these full time fight

ers.

They

were grateful to

have

some

additional instruction before leaving for

the front line.

With

the encouraging vision

of the still

greater numbers

who would

shortly come forward to swell

the ranks

of the Jephthah's daughter class . and

strengthened

by

the

"feast

of fat

things"

they

had enjoyed

they

returned to their

local fields of gospel-preaching.

The

witnesses left

the

Assembly with

burning

zeal, anxious to spring forward

in response to

the

"Go ahead"

signal

and

fight for the New World.

The

fight

ahead

might

be

a long one.

But had

not

the Greater

Jephthah

swept aside all Am

monitish opposition aimed

at

blocking

this Assembly?

and

would not

He

con

tinue to lead his

earthly

warriors from

''ictory

to victory till no opposition re

mained? None doubted the answer. This

is the time when the Greater

Jephthah

will FIGHT

and

WIN

Jehovah

had given

the

"Go ahead"

signal.

And

he

had

not

sent them

ahead empty-handed. They

have

new weapons for

the

war,

Jehovah's

words in their mouths,

and

his ever

present invincible spirit upon their heads.

The

Lord

Jehovah spread

a table for

them in

the

midst of their enemies,

they fed thereat, and their strength was

renewed. Now they shall not weary in

well-doing. and faint. ' 'They that wait

for

Jehovah

shall renew their strength;

they

shall

mount

up with wings as eagles;

they

shall

run' and

not be weary;

they

shall walk, and

not faint."

So,

FORWARD

all fighters for the New

World.

That

He may be glorified, "ARISE

and

SHINE

xpression of

Gratitude

At the conclusion of the

key

assembly

at

Cleveland the following written expres

sion of appreciation, spontaneously

drawn

up by

a few grateful

brethren

was

read

and presented to the president of the

Society:

"September

20, 1942.

To the President

of

the Society.

' 'Dear Brother

Knorr:

'Our hearts are

.full, and we

feel constrained

to t'xpress to you our

great

joy in attending

this New

\\ 'orld

Theocratic Assembly.

Every

hody here

is saying:

'This

is the

greatest con

vention vet;

we

are overwhelmed with bless

ings;

we are

satisfied.'

"\Ve have all come to

this

convention, our

first assembly

since

the passing

of our bPloved

Brother Rutherford, to

receive

further know

ledge and

instruction from Jehovah. Each

on

of

us can testify

before

the Lord that th

leadership

of

Christ Jesus, the King of

th

~ e \\ 'orld, is mon' evident

today

than ev

before, and that

n-cent

changes in the

a

ministration have not affected the forwa

movement

of the

Lord's

work. On

the

oth

hand, we are n.:cti,,ing today a greater visio

and knmdedge of The Theocracy and a

full

appreciation of our responsibilities before

th

Living

Cod in lwi11g

His witnesses in the

days

of great peril. How true this day

Judges

5 : 9,

'.\l

y

heart

is

toward the

gover

ors of Israel, that

oilered themselves

willing

among

the people.'

\\'c gratefully

acknowled

you,

Brother Knorr, as the Lord's

anoint

servant, chosen to

fill

the

office of

preside

of

the

\ \ ATCH ToWER

SocrnTY.

The Lord

spirit has indeed been poun'd out upon yo

:\fay he guide

and

direct vou ever

in

admi

iskring

tlw

tarthly i n t e r e s t ~

of The Theocrac

"Truly the fulfilment of Jephthah's

leade

ship

is

amongst

us today.

The

central

contr

has been placed

in

the Theocratic

Societ

wlwre it rightly belougs. \ \ 'e

greatly

desi

to txpress

our

appreciation

of the

blessin

and bountiful provisions given to

w

a.t

convention. Amongst the

evidences of

J

hovah's provisions is the fact

that

we a

privileged

to

be

at

tlw

key

city

of

52

c o n r e

tions

held in

Am(rica.

I t

has undoubtea

been the

Lord's

"ill for his

people to assemb

at this

season

to lw spiritually

refreshed,

the

very fact that the enPmy

has

been thwart

in

his attempts

to

interfer(, with these

assem

blit'S

for divine \\or,;hip. \\ v grattcfully acknow

ledge receipt of

tlw

\\'orld edition of

T

Bible; 'tlw S\\'ord

of

the spirit'; the beautif

book Tht Xt World;

f{ingdom

News N

11; the ne\,.

Theocratic Instructions;

and t

uookkt Peace C t

Lust? T


9/12

PEACE Can

It

Last?

Can religion guarantee a

lasting

peace?

is the beast

that

was,

and

is not, and yet is ? Revelation 7 :8)

Who

will establish

the enduring

peace,

and

when?

WHEN the ' 'four horse

men

began their ride

through the world in

1914, the nations and

peoples painfully felt the

steel-shod hoofs of the

fire-red horse. Its mad

gallop

\Vas

foretold in

the Apocalypse

in

these

words:

And

there went

out another horse

that

red : and power was given to him

sat thereon to take peace from the

and that

they

should kill one

and there was gi,en unto him

6: 4

That

an end in 1918,

and

in peace. A per

peace it was hoped it would be.

can

be

seen

that

the peace was

fiery horse again charges furiously

and peace is taken

a total war which dwarfs the

War

in magnitude and destruc

The

fond dreams of lasting

Why?

Men of affairs speak of this

as

a war

It

is

a violent

cannot

for ever oper

by side on this earth.

They

are

and

hence create a divided

humankind. In

view of what is

good to hide from ourselves the

truth

that

by smothering the

the way can be laid for getting

The

great cry of the

is

FREEDm I Said the great Prince of

truth shall make you

Let us for freedom's sake not fear

truth. The

candid truth then,

that religion is at the root of the

That

fact stands out

to

see

the

truth

to order their course aright. Not

that

Reformation

move

of four centuries ago the condi

and

has existed

that

an all-out

for world domination.

As

a result of

Reformation the religious organiza

bound

to

H.ome, was nationalized and Britain

Then

followed

the

setting

and

spread of the British

Empire

to

It

has been a Pro

and against

i t the

Cath

Spain and

France

have

ly dashed in vai,n. Added to that,

i IJ76 the American nation was born,

a revolutionary democracy establisring

a separation of religion

and

state,

and

hence it was a non-Catholic republic. Its

ties with the British Empire have been

natural, and, in spite of some disagree

men,s, those ties

have

grown stronger

with time

and

world developments. Thus

the civilization that the earth has known

for t.he past three hundred years has

been hdcl together

and

dominated by

two Protestant and non-Catholic world

powers of democratic ideals.

For

this

reason democracy has been associated

with Protestantism

and

the clergy have

stirred up great prejudice against it in

Catholic lands.

Down till the H.eforma tion the Cath

olic civilization alone dominated, which

method of life

and

rule was

marked by

absolute, autocratic governments backed

and blessed by the clergy of a totalitarian

Hierarchy. That totalitarian religious sys

tem demanded unquestioning obedience

and submission to the will of

the

Hier

archy,

and

it allowed for no democracy

and freedom of worship according to the

written Word of God. This explains the

aclion of the Vatican's head in 1849 when

he called in the armies of the French to

overturn the republic which freedom

loving l talians set up in Rome

that

year.

It

explains the undercover dealings of

the Vatican through its nuncio to Ger

many, now pope, whereby the Nazi

chiettain, a baptized Catholic, was man

euvered into power as dictator in Ger

many and

a concordat with the Vatican

was

made

and the German Republic was

destroyed.

It

explains also

why

the Vati

can

and

its Hierarchy in Spain and in

America approved the rising up of a

rebel to overthrow the Spanish Republic

with the aid of the Nazi and Fascist

dictators having concordat relations with

Vatican City.

It

explains further why,

after the Japanese began their assault,

in 1937, for the conquest of the Chinese

Republic, the Vatican sent

out

instruc

tions

to

its missionaries

in

China

to per

suade the Chinese to submit to Japanese

control.

It

explains why the

French

Republic was sold out, in 1940,

and

a

devout member of the religious organiza

tion was made chief of state, abolishing

Brotherhood, Equality and Liberty

and

erecting a Fascist state.

:\Ioreo\er,

it

explains

why

religious in

fluence was back of the Civil War of 1861

and the Vatican made overtures with the

head of the Confederacy, reaching a

shocking

dimax

in the assassination ot

Abraham Lincoln, who belonged to no

religious organization

but

stood solidly

by

the Holy Bible.

I t

explains, finally,

the reason for the

outbreak

of religion;:;

intolerance in America in 1940,

Hitler's

great

year, and

the mob violence

incit\.x

by

the

said religionists against Jehovah'

witnesses, who believe -in

the

r ~ ~ h t e o u

principles of this Republ ic's Consi itution

and

who expose the schemes

and

effort

of the religious-totalitarian combine fo

world domination.

It

is vital to the carrying on of democ

racy, therefore, for the rulers of the na

tions to have in mind the foregoing truth

when

they

listen to the words of

an

outstanding archbishop of America who

speaks for Vatican City. Speaking

at

Col

umbus, Ohio, in

February,

1942, on th

subject

How

Can Peace Come to th

World?

' '

this Hierarchy spokesman said

The

enemy most feared by the dictator

of nations and by all totalitarian govern

ments is the Catholic Church.

The

p

ocracies of the world have no reason t

fear the church. History gives

them

n

justification for suspicion . . .

With

th

prophetic Pope Leo XIII let us

say

'Christ our

Lord must

be reinstated a

the ruler of

human

society.' " (Cincin

nati

Times-Star, February

24,

i942)

Th

sacred Scriptures

and the

facts of histor

prove

that

Christ

Jesus

has

never ye

been the 'ruler of human

society

Therefore

tht

proposed reinstatement'

mean

really the

restoration

of world domination o

the religious

head

at

\ a tican City

vvho claim

to

be the ''vicegerent of

Christ ' ' .

The un

changing policy and purpose o

that

mos

po\\'erful religious

organization, the very hear

of it, is, \ \

01

it claims itself to be the visiblt

representativ

of

Christ's kingdom.

The

violl'nt, un-Christia

means used by

that

religious

organization

t

gain its position of \\orld dmuination hav

never let

this

earth

enjoy an cuduring

peace.

The inspired prophecy

of

Daniel, chapte

eleven,

foretold this present couliict as a wa

between the totalitarian

' 'king

of

the

north

and the democratic king

of

the south . I

JJOints out the totalitarian

\vorld

power

as

th

aggressor

in the

grab for \1orld

control in th

t ime of

the

u1d''. Since

1914 the world

ha

been in its ' ' t ime

of

the

end' ' ,

with the FINA

END yet

ahead.

Exactly how long

the

ragin

total

war

would continue the

Scriptures d

not

seem

to

show.

By some religionists thi

war has been named ' 'Armageddon' ' . Others

observing the theater of the battle gettin

near to l\legiddo in Palestine, ask: Are w

facing

Armageddon?' ' The Scriptures are

plai

that

the final battle

of

Armageddon

is

one fa

more

stupendous

than a fight

between

th

king

of

the north' ' and

' ' the

king of th

south ; it is a universal war, a

fight

betwee

worlds. In it the entire present evil worl

will

be

destroyed and the new world of right

eousness

which Almighty

God

establishes b

Christ

Jesus will

bring

peace, prosperity an

life to this \\'ar-racked earth. Hence this inter

national war

is not the

bat tk

of that

grea

day

of God

Almighty

. -Revelat ion

16:

14-16

Before

Armageddon

comes, the Scripture

show, a peace must come. Hence it is

prope

that the problems

of

such peace

be

now

con

sidered. \Var JJroblems at

present

engross

th

ua tions, and

110

true

Christiau

will

get

in

th

way

of

those concerned

therewith. But

th

war precedes a peace; and in a

radio addres

at

Philadelphia,

broadcast around

the world

Cl)ncerning postwar leader :>hip, the attorne

general of

the

United States said

(July.

3

1942): I t seems to

me

a wholesome thm

that men

are

thinking in 1942 of

ways

t

win a

peace, and

acting

on their thoughts-

yes, even now, while the war

is

.yet. to b

won.

I t

means that

at last

the reahzabon ha

come to us that world

war

and world

peac

cannot

be

disassociated

as

parts of the sam


10/12

upheaval.

The problems of peace and of

(New York Times

4,

1942) Shortly

thereafter

the

ex-presi

of

the

nation said

in

a

broadcast from

Francisco: ' 'Whatever the

modifying

of

our associates

in

war may

be, Ameri

have formulated the kind of

peace

THEY want. They must make

up

their

BEFORE

the

war ends; otherwise others

the

peace,

and

not us." (New York

July 13, 1942) And

in his

recent

book,

Problems of

Lasting Peace", it

is

: ' 'The purpose of this war, the most

three

centuries, is

to make

a lasting

must first

win

the

war.

But

we

win

lasting

peace

unless we prepare

we

can prepare only by

full an


11/12

is

demonism. The

famous

British

car

Newman, in his

Essay on Development,

states

that his religious organization

to transmute

the very instruments

appendages of DEMON-worship to an evan

use

and that religion's

many

formal

and knicknacks not mentioned in the

are all of

pagan

origin, and sanctified

adoption into the [Roman CatholicJ

The Protestant systems of western

America recognize that religious

as

their

mother ,

and so speak.

is symbolized as

an un

and

therefore

the

same symbol

to

' 'organized religion''.

The

aim

of

Babylon

was

world domination, and

its

greatest fulfillment

in

the days of

the mighty practicer

patron of religion. What powerful religious

is it

today that

has

as its

declared

the world's domination and commands all

to be subject to

its

religious head for

their

is

only

one

answer, and that

he one which is still the mightiest reli

organization in

Christendom

and

in

earth.

Therefore

' 'organized religion''

of

system and

daughters thereof, seeks to occupy the

at Revelation

17: 18,

15,

which

And the woman which thou sawest is

great city,

which

reigneth over

the kings

The

waters which

thou

saw

where

the

whore

sitteth,

are peoples,

and

and nations, and tongues.

now the Scriptural

answer to our

ques

concerning

peace

as

given by

the great

of secrets

in Revelation, chapter

The World \Var

was stopped in

The implement that was

then prescribed

provided to

maintain

the peace was

the

of Nations with

its

\Vorld Court,

eventually, was

joined

by fifty-seven

the

world. The United States did

join the

League, but did become a mem

of the World Court and also

signed

the

Peace

Pact of

1928 renouncing war

settlement of

controversies.

This

hailed by the

Protestant federal

of

religious

organizations of

America

' ' the political expression

of the Kingqom

God

on earth ,

but

it

was

not

so styled

religious

ruler at

Vatican

City.

By

the

Treaty of

1915

between

Italy

and

he

was

shut out of the. peace con

and had no direct

part in

the creation

League of Nations. I t was therefore

popular with the

chief religious organi

earth,

because

she could not

ride

it.

history

shows, however, that any

which she

can

use,

even be

it

the very

she

will sanctify

to her

she yet sanctify the

League?

League of

Nations, with

world power

authority

and

fifty-seven members, was a

creature, new and un

but

imaging

in respects the seven world

of human

history.

It combined

also

the

relics of all seven of them.

I t

is there

an added

world power,

the eighth

one.

the- prophecy of Daniel a

political

govern

creature

or oganization

is symbolized by a

In

harmony

therewith, the League of

is symbolized,

in Revelation

17: 3,

as

'scarlet

coloured beast, full of names of

having seven

heads

and ten

No

crowns or

diadems are mentioned

on

its heads

or

horns,

because separatf'

sovereignties are given

up

in

the

in

.of

world unity.

its names of blasphemy, blasphemy

the ascribing to men

that which

to

God

or

which Almighty God alone

do.

In connection with

this association

of

it is noted that its creators and back

for it promises that it will do

what

\Vord plainly declares only

his

Theocra

Government or Kingdom

by

Christ Jesus

do. Thereby

these

false political and reli

prophets

paste

the beastly creature with

of blasphemy''. Thereby they

cause

to.

stand

in the holy place , where i t

P E A C E C A N

IT L A S T

ought

not.

(Matthew 24: 15; Mark

13:

14)

This desolates men's faith in God and in his

ability to

fulfill

His promises.

I t

makes men

forget God

and

fills

them with

a

contempt

for

His Word and power. In

their

glorifying

of

self-help

and

in

their

self-conceited effort

to

run ahead

of God and to capture the glory for

themselves,

they trample

on

His

Word

and

put themselves

in opposition to God and his

kingdom and are guilty

of

creature-worship.

H.ejecting

the Word of the Lord, what

wisdom

is in

them?

(Jeremiah 8: 9

They have

no

vision of

Jehovah's Righteous

Government by

Christ,

and the

result

is

disastrous

to the

people.

'Where

there is no vision,

the

people

perish, says the

proverb.-Proverbs 29: 18.

The

League

of Nations was a

composite

or

collective

creature,

a

descendant

of

and

a sum

ming

up

of the previous seven

world

powers.

Concerning it God's \Vord

says:

And the

beast that

was,

and

is

not, even

he is

the

eighth, and

is of

the

seven,

and goeth

into

perdition. (Revelation 17: 11)

I t

can

now be

said

that the League

was,

and is not . \Vhat

is

the

reason

therefor? The League, as it

was,

operated under

the

domination

of

the

seventh

world power,

the British

Empire,

which

is a

democratic and Protestant world power

such

as the world had never seen before.

That

was

the wrong management to

please

the mighty

religious organization hungering for world

dominance. Immediately after the League's

establishment

Catholic

Action was

organized

'vVOrld-wide, but particularly in

the

United

States, which was independent of the League.

Then

Fascism and

Nazism were

organized and

maneuvered into power,

and

seized

control

in

Italy and Germany.

Seven

years after

putting

the liberal

gov

ernment

to

the

side, the Fascist dictator signed

a

concordat with the Vatican, and Vafican

City was made a political

state,

demanding

political recognition

by

all nations

of

earth.

Four

years

later,

with the

help

of

Catholic

Action,

the

Nazi

leader

abolished the

German

H.epublic and signed a concordat with the

head of his church. This was followed by acts

of

contempt

of the League, sabotaging it.

Japan began her aggressions against China, a

League member. The Nazi

dictator treated

the

Versailles Peace Treaty like a scrap of paper,

and

resigned from

the

League. The Fascist

dictator committed

his

assault upon Ethiopia,

a

League member, and, because.peeved at the

League's treatment, he resigned therefrom.

Japan also resigned from it. Russia was

drop

ped from the League.

Then

the Nazi

dictator

assaulted

other League members, Austria,

Czechoslovakia, Poland, and others, including

the League's main

pillar,

the island

strong

hold of

Britain.

On November 20, 1940, at

Vienna,

the

Axis Pmvers

and

Japan and

Hun

gary

signed a

new League of

Nations ,

and

four days

later

the Vatican broadcast a mass

and

a

prayer

for a religious peace and for a

new

order

of things. With Switzerland like a

tiny island in the midst of countries weltering

in total war, and with invasion and partition

of

Switzerland being threatened,

the

League

palace at Geneva

was obliged to shut

up.

Though forty members

still profess

to adhere

to

the

League,

the League

is

in

effect

in

a

state of suspended animation,

and

needs to

be

revived

if it is

ever to

live

again. I t

has

gone

into

the abyss of inaction and ineffec

tiveness. It is not .

Will

the

League

remain in the

pit? Again

the

\Vord of God gives answer: The

beast

that

thou sawest

was, and is

not; and

is about

to come up out of the abyss, and to go

into

perdition. And

they

that dwell on the earth

shall wonder, they whose name hath not been

written in the

book

of

life from

the founda

tion of the world,

when

they behold the beast,

ho\\'

that

he was,

and

is

not, and

shall

be

pre

sent. (Hevelation 17:8,

Am Rev

Ver., mar

gin)

The

association

of worldly nations

will rise'

again. The

fight between the king of the

north and the king of

the

south , being for

WORLD doffination makes such

an

outcome ot

this total v;u unavoidable. The necessities of

meeting the totalitarian aggressions

and

stpp

ping them are forcing

the

nations

to that

fina

confederation cf nations tor the new order

whatever

its

form. A

prominent New

York

clergyman recently said (July 19, 1942):

I

is a world family now or else collective suicide.

Something

in

the

very

nature of

things

i

forcing us

to that; something greater

than

our

selves is

after

us. Turn anywhere

one

will, one

sees

this.

(New York Times

But mark this: The prophecy

shows tha

when

the beast comes out

of

the apyss a

the end of

this

total war it comes out

with

the,

woman

Babylon

on its back,

or

sh

climbs upon

its

back as soon as it gets ou.t

That

means

that organized religion ,

and

this

time

the religious organization with head

quarters at Vatican City,

will ride and exercis

guiding

influence over the

L e a g u ~

beast. To

this day the

Va i

can has not canceled its

con

cordats with the

Nazi and

Fascist dictators

and in

May of this year it

opened diplomati

relations

with

the

sneak

attackers

of

Pear

Harbor and

has ignored

the

several

protest

of the United States

Deparment

of State there

at. The pope's five-point program calls

for

th

Vatican's

free action without inter.ference

a

one

of the requirements of his new

orde

founded on moral principles''. i k e w i ~ th

United Nations opposing the totaJitarian ~ w -

ers voice

their

pledge

of

freedom

of

religio

as one

of the

four freedoms

to be secured whe

peace comes.

The

repeated cries and demand

of politicians

and

religionists for

More

reli

gion make certain that religion will ride th

peace

beast. The personal envoy sent

by

th

president

of the nation to

the Vatican to wor

together with the religious chief for peace

another forerunner of the

courtesy

and

defer

ence that will be paid to the woman

name

Babylon

when

the total

war ends.

Her inter

course then with the

rulers

of the world wi

satisfy her worldly

desires,

and

she will pro

nounce the

peace

arrangement

a

peace

'

Christianity , another

one

of

L1ose names

of blasphemy tacked on

the

beast .

The question now comes up for answer, Wi

religion

guarantee

that

the man-made peac

will

last?

\Vhen organized r e l i ~ i o n

climb

upon the back of

the beast,

then

she

is

guilt

of

her

last act

of spiritual

fornication with

th

world, and

then

her final judgment begin

Concerning this the prophetic

record

says

Come hither; I will shew unto thee tfie judg

ment of the great

whore

that sitteth upo

many

waters: with whom

the

kings

of

th

earth

have

committed

fornication,

. . .

An

I saw a woman sit

upon

a

scarlet coloure

beast,

full

of names of blasphemy, havin

seven heads

and ten horns.

And

upon h

forehead was a

name

written,

MYSTERY

BABYLON

THE

GREAT,

THE

MOTHE

OF HAHLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS O

THE

EARTH.

(Revelation 17: l , 2, 3, 5

Whatever peace the

religious woman enforc

between

the nations, the vital

question i

Will she

lead

the rulers and nations into th

peace with God?

Let no

one be deceived

b

the

claims

and

boasts

of

organized religion

for

God's

vVord answers,

No.

She will

lead

a peacetime wAR

against

the Lamb of Go

Christ Jesus the King, and the

peace

bea

will charge where she drives it. Under her i

fluence

the

rulers,

or the ten horns of th

beast, do not give their power to

the

Lam

The prophetic record

reads

: ' 'And

the

te

horns

which thou

sawest

are

ten

kings,

whic

have

received

no kingdom as yet [because n

yet

blessed

by the woman

Babylon];

b

receive power as kings one hour with the beas

These have one mind,

and

shall give their pow

er

and strength

unto

the

beast.' '

Then

wha

These shall make war with

the Lamb, an

the Lamb

shall overcome

them: for he is Lo

of

lords,

and King of kings: and they , t h

are with him are called, and

chosen,

an

faithful.

-Revelat ion

17:

11-14:

Outstanding

statesmen of

the

world ha

frequently

referred

in public to the battle

Armageddon and

to the

nations' being gather

there,

but

have

failed to mention that th


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at Revelation 16: 14-16 says it is the

DEMONS that

are

the powers doing the

With

such

information available to

the nations

should

have

put themselves

all

demonism,

which

is reli

But they have not done so. They have

for

and now demand ''More religion'',

religion

is demonism

arid

against

Jehovah

and

his Theocratic Government. What

religion done

to stop the inarch of

the

to Armageddon? Nothing; absolutely

I t

has marched right

along

with

the

and blessed them in their course. The

demons

are not

leading

the na

to

peace, but

to

war

and destruction.

influencing the course of the

never be a permanent peace.

the

flood

of Noah's day the earth was

with

violence, which was

due to the

and

reli

the natio1'-' will

torget Jehovah

God

and

Go 1 e r n 1 ~ 1 e n t by Christ Jesus.

will

choose to rule

themselves

under the

aud

blessing of

the

"woman"

Baby

That is

an abomination to Almighty God,

it

is

in opposition

to

Him. How will

an

"abomination

of

desolation" make

the Lamb?

By continuing their

pre

hatred

and persecution upon those who

that is, on

his

side, namely, the

and chosen, and

faithful' ',

(Acts

5:

That

means.

while

guaranteeing

reli

they wil' oppose true Christianity. They

continue to takt:

action

against

Jehovah':;

and their companions

who

announced

kingdom

under

Christ

and

who re

to get

on

the

'peace beast'

and

to ride

with

religion,

Incensed

at

the persistent

of God'io

kingdom,

and because

the false,

hypocritical

position

o

eligious

\\'orld

order", the beast

all its head ;

and

horns,

and

with thf

Babylon spurring it

on, will

make

a

try at goring and trampling to death

proclamation. By force it will

in stopping

the preaching thereof. But

us warned

that

when this witness

is finished. and wht>n

Almighty

God

it to

be

stopped by the "woman"

the

beast,

;then

shall the end come-" for

24: 14.

Jehovah's witnesses put under

com

restraint for disturbing the

sensibilities

and

totalitarian statesmen, tht>

rulers will cry

"Peace"; 'but

will

bt

no peace,'

that

is,

none with

God and

his

Lamb, "the King of

Word warns: "When

they

shall

Peace and

safety;

then sudden

destruc

cometh upon

them, as travail

upon

a

child;

and they shall

not

escape."

5 : 3) Once

again

we ask

tht>

question, "PEACE--Can I t

Last?"

and

definite answer is, No Man-made peacf'

religion's "blessing" will

be

very short

and

political kings

and

rulers

will

not

enjoy it_ The record

says

they "receive

ONE

HOUR with

the beast ' ' .

with God, denotes a very

brief

and suddenly

those ten

horns

and

the

go

into perdition

not

peacefully, but

at the battle of Armageddon. This

the

beast and

its

heads and horns

will

thP

"bottomless

pit",

but

into

of fire

and brimstone", to

be

utterly

and

f'ginning of thf' \\'orld

to

this

time,

no,

n

tn-r shall bf'."-:\Iatthew 24: 15, 16, 21.

Onlv those \\"ho flee

to the

"mountain

designated

by

the King will survive that grt-,,a

Pst of all tribulations. Armageddon, and

ent

into the righteous Bf \ \ world of peace wit

out

end. Only such

will

have

their

na.m

w1itten in the book of lite irom the

foundatio

fll

tlw

nt-w

world.

To them, thr: and his 1iam

shall he called Wonderful, Coun.:;ellor.

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