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RECONCILIATION
DELIVERANCE
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CHAPTER I
FEAR
"And the tree of the field shall yield his fruit,
and the land shall yield her increase, and they
shall remain on their own soil in security, so
shall they know that I am Jehovah, When I have
broken the bars of their yoke, and shall deliver
them out of the hand of them who have been
using them as slaves."-Ezekiel 34: 27, Rotherham;
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they hold. Every nation fears every other nation, and the effect of their insecurity has induced all nations to spend a great amount of
energy and money of the peoples to prepare
for war. The preparations for war in 1914 were
small compared with the preparations now going forward in almost every nation on earth.
It is manifest that such unusual activity is induced by fear. Each nation is fearful that some
other nation will come upon them with greater
force and take away what they have. It appears
to be a time in which every man's hand is against
his neighbor. The few that rule employ coercive
means to compel the people in general to bow
to their dictates, and an unhappy condition both
for the rulers and for the ruled exists. In every
land the people mourn, and one is reminded of
the proverb: "When the wicked beareth rule,
the people mourn."-Proverbs 29: 2.
Call to mind some of the things that have
come to pass since 1914 and that are recorded
on the pages of history and there stand as indisputable facts. In that year, and with no ap
parently reasonable cause, the nations suddenly
rushed into war, and for four years that followed Continental Europe was drenched with
the lifeblood of millions of men who did not
know just why they were fighting each other.
The rulers had commanded them to go to war,
and they obeyed. Suddenly, in November, 1918,
the war ceased, and no ruler could assign a
sound reason why the conflict had suddenly
stopped. Prior to that time the nations were
ruled by aristocrats and imperialistic mon-
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pletely in harmony with and therefore in fulfillment of the foregoing and prophetic words.
The sincere people of the world, who think
soberly and without prejudice, those who desire righteousness and peace and who desire
security for themselves and their loved ones
in their home, property and life, are asking
questions like the following, to wit:
Why is there so much unrighteousness and
wickedness in the world today ~ Why have these
perilous times come upon the world in this day,
and particularly since the ending of the World
War? Why have the woes and calamities increased since the year 1918 ~ Why does there
now exist such a great lack of confidence among
the nations, among both the rulers and the peoples of the nations? Why is it that almost everyone is looked upon as an enemy? Is there a
reason for the existence of such a dreadful condition T Can there be found correct answers to
these questions, answers upon which we can
confidently rely? Is there anything upon which
we may base a hope for better conditions of
the future?
The same great man who gave utterance to
the foregoing prophetic words, foretelling the
time of peril coming upon the nations of the
earth, also gave the true and correct answer
to each and every one of the foregoing questions and all questions related thereto. That
great man was and is Christ Jesus, the Son
of the Almighty God. He is the One who spake
as never man spake before or since. He it was
who said concerning the Word of the Almighty
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CHAPTER II
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"The way of the wicked seduceth them."
-Proverbs 12: 26.
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God brought into existence many spirit creatures. .A spirit creature is one that is invisible
to human eyes. A spirit creature has a spirit
body or organism: "There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body." (1 Corinthians
15: 44) All of the host of heaven are spirit creatures and are invisible to human eyes. Such
spirit creatures are designated under the names
of "cherubim", "seraphim," and "angels". Among
the spirit or angelic creation was one whom God
named Lucifer. The universal organization of
Jehovah God from the beginning of creation consisted of his spirit creatures, and over which
Jehovah God was and is Supreme Lord and
Ruler.
In due time it pleased God to create the
earth, and he created it for his creature man,
who was thereafter created. "I have made the
earth, and created man upon it: I, even my
hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all
their host have I commanded. For thus saith
the Lord that created the heavens; God himself
that formed the earth and made it; he hath
established it, he created it not in vain, he
formed it to be inhabited; I am the Lord, and
there is none else."-Isaiah 45: 12, 18.
God created man in his own due time and
called his name Adam, and placed him in Eden.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him
into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep
it." (Genesis 2: 7, 15) God created the woman
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their death. (Genesis 2: 17; Romans 6: 23) Lucifer must have known this law of God and the
penalty for its violation. It was his duty to know,
but apparently he did not believe it, and that
belief was due to his own improper heart condition. He should have been governed by the
Word of God, but, regarding himself as equal
to the Most High and considering that he could
with impunity induce man to violate God's law,
he proceeded to do so. To Eve he said, in substance: 'Why do you not eat this fruit in the
midst of the garden of Eden r and Eve replied
that God permitted them to eat of the fruit of
any of the trees except the one fruit mentioned,
and that God had said to them: "Ye shall not
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."
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What became of the "sons of God" that materialized as men and then married women?
Those angels called "sons of God" were originally a part of God's organization, and it was
their duty to be faithful to God and serve him
continuously. They yielded to the wiles or influence of the Devil and his associates in wickedness. They permitted themselves to be led into
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a course entirely out of harmony with the Almighty God. They were therefore no longer
shielded nor had God's protection, but became
subject to what the Devil might do to them.
This rule is clearly shown by the record appearing in God's Word.-Hosea 11: 8; Jeremiah
12: 7; Isaiah 47: 6.
What, then, did the Devil do with those sons
of God, if any thing 1 The Scriptures show that
those spirit creatures were imprisoned. Where
were they imprisoned, and who imprisoned
them 7 Manifestly Satan and his bullies, the
nephilim, imprisoned them, and their place of
imprisonment is somewhere in Magog. Later
Jesus preached to those imprisoned spirits concerning God's purpose; as it is written: "By
which also he went and preached unto the spirits
in prison; which sometime [aforetime (Revised
Version)] were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few,
that is, eight souls, were saved by water."
-1 Peter 3 : 19, 20.
Those creatures were not destroyed in the
flood; for the reason that they were not included
in the judgment concerning all flesh, and long
after the flood Jesus preached to them. During the 120 years aforementioned Noah, the
"preacher of righteousness", had preached to
them and they had not heeded his preaching,
and for that reason they remained under the
power and influence of the Devil and, when the
flood broke upon the earth, they found no protection given to them by the Lord God, and the
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Witches are those creatures who yield themselves as instruments for use by the Devil and
his ang-els and permit themselves to be employed
as mediums for communication between wicked
spirits and men en the earth. Witchcraft is of
the Devil and is the fruit of rebellion. Satan the
rebel invented witchcraft, and he and his wicked
spiritual allies employ and practice witchcraft
to deceive human creatures. When Saul had disobeyed God, the prophet of the Lord said to
Saul: "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord,
he hath also rejected thee from being king."
-1 Samuel 15: 23.
Saul had followed Satan's course and had rebelled against God's commandment and committed the sin of witchcraft. Furthermore, God's
law expressly prohibited the practice of witchcraft because it is of the Devil: "Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live." (Exodus 22: 18) "There
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medium to get into communication, as they suppose, with their dead friends, who the medium
claims are alive. Such deceived persons hear
voices which purport to come from those who
have died, but in fact the voices that are heard
are the voices of wicked spirits who joined
Satan originally in his rebellion and who are
the degraded ones in darkness, and who continue to practice fraud upon unsuspecting persons that do not trust in Jehovah God; and they
continue to reproach God's name by keeping
alive Satan's lie, to wit, 'There is no death.'
It is an absolute fact, not subject to disputation, that none of the wicked angels can communicate with any man who is wholly devoted
to God and who continues faithful unto the
Lord God. That of itself is proof that all supposed communication with the dead is the op~
eration of the enemies of God and man for the
purpose of deceiving man and reproaching God's
name. The purpose of those enemies is to turn
men away from God by inducing them to believe
the Devil's lie and the associated lies of "purgatory" and eternal torment, which are built
solely upon Satan's lie. It is apparent, therefore, that the religious organizations that teach
the doctrines of purgatory and eternal torture,
and that the dead are alive, are operating under
the powerful and deceptive influence of the Devil
and his wicked angels.
The practice of witchcraft has been carried
on for ages and is practiced to this very day.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a
great wave of witchcraft swept over Europe
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of this man. In his book Inside Europe are published the facts, and from which the following
is quoted, to wit:
"Van der Lubbe, a typical enough unfortunate by-product of modern civilization, was not
only weak-minded; he had a deep grievance
against society and authority, which his feeble
brain sought to remedy .by pyromania. He was
a genuine arsonist. .A homeless vagrant, wandering in the Berlin slums, he set several fires,
and in his thick manner boasted about them.
And Nazis heard him. The further facts revealed are that the Nazis had arranged for
Van der Lubbe to be in the building with fire
material so that they could make him appear
as the guilty one. The fire that destroyed the
building was the chemical fire set by the Nazis,
who carried their material through the Goering
tunnel, and timed it to go off at just that moment Van der Lubbe thought he set the fire.
Lubbe retreated from the building in proud
triumph and was arrested by the police, and
that was what the Nazis had planned. Lubbe
was an obvious victim of maniacal depressive
psychosis." Furthermore the authority above
cited says: "The court was terrified every time
Lubbe opened his mouth." Lubbe was put on
the witness stand and admitted that he fired
the building. He confessed to physical facts impossible for him to have committed. "He was
proud of his fire. He resented it deeply when
anyone was put forward to share the credit
of it." The public has been mystified about that
fire since. 'What is the real explanation YWith-
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nations of the world today are under the influeneo of those wicked spirits. The object or
purpose of those wicked ones is to carry out
the Devil's purpose from the beginning, which
is to try to defame or reproach the name of
Almighty God, and to turn the people away
from Almighty God and to plunge them into
destruction. To appreciate the great crisis in
the affairs of the nations, which is now upon
all the nations, it is necessary to consider the
evidence of the activity of those wicked spirits
from the time of the flood to the present time,
and particularly as the same relates to the governing powers of the nations of the earth. As
this evidence is examined the reason for the
present-day perils will readily appear to all sincere, unprejudiced and honest persons.
CHAPTER III
RELIGION
"The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord."
-Proverbs 15: 9.
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head was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE
EARTH." (Revelation 17: 5) All of which shows
that religion is the instrument of the Devil employed to oppose, to defy, to mock and to reproach the Almighty God and to deceive men
and turn them away from the true Almighty
God, whose name is Jehovah. (For further consideration see the book Prophecy, chapter six.)
All religious organizations on the earth are
formed and carried on by men who are subjected to wrongful influence and ruled by the
great enemy Satan the Devil; and this is true
whether any of them know it or not, because
the Bible so states. 'What is here written or
said is not an assault upon men. There would
be no reason or excuse for that, and no good
could be accomplished by holding up men to
ridicule. The purpose is to set the facts plainly
before the people that all sincere ones may see
who constitutes their real enemies.
'I'hera are two great organizations in existence, to wit: the organization of the Almighty
God, "which is wholly righteous, pure and true,
and the organization of the Devil, the mimic
god, which is unholy, wicked and entirely false.
The people of earth are subjected to one or the
other of these two organizations. The Devil and
his wicked angels and other supporters at all
times fight against God to defame his name
r.nd to turn the people away from God and
="1to destruction. That wicked organizeLion is
c.ttcmpting to destroy everyone who is on the
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great Creator, who made all things that are visible, and that great Creator is revealed as the
Almighty God. One who does not believe God
could never understand the truth, but must remain in darkness. It is written: "But without
faith it is impossible to please him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that
he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him." (Hebrews 11: 6) The man who. says there
is no Creator is a fool. (Psalm 14: 1) If a man
puts himself in the fool class, that shows he is
completely under the control of the Devil, who
is his worst enemy.
God does not force man to believe the truth.
He puts the truth before man and permits man
to exercise his own desire and to accept it or
not. God is light, and he it is who {covers himself with light'. (Psalm 104: 2) His light of
truth is not given to those who serve the Devil,
and that is shown by the fact that the wicked
angels are restrained in darkness, as stated
hereinbefore. "Light is sown for the righteous."
(Psalm 97: 11) The man who delights himself
in the law of God and strives to walk righteously is a man who walks in the light and is
blessed-c-Psalm 1: 1, 2.
The Bible was not written for fools, nor is
this book published for the benefit of fools. The
Bible was written and given to man for his aid
and guidance, that such man of good will and
purpose might be fully advised as to the right
way to go and that he might stay on the side
of God and refuse to serve the Devil. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is prof-
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But why has God permitted the Devil to oppress and afflict those persons on earth who
have agreed to serve Him ~ Why has he not safeguarded these faithful ones from all assaults
of the Devil ~ The answer is that if God should
do so, then the Devil would not have a free hand
in his effort to prove his wicked challenge; and,
furthermore, those who have agreed to serve
God could prove their integrity and faithfulness to God only by resisting the assaults of
the Devil, and under all conditions of persecution continuing to maintain their integrity toward God. For that reason God has repeatedly
stated to those who serve him his promise to
preserve them and give them everlasting life
and that he will destroy all the wicked: "The
Lord preserveth all them that love him; but
all the wicked will he destroy." (Psalm 145: 20)
"Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give
thee the crown of life."-Revelation 2: 10, A..R.V.
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gained for them God's approval. Then it is written as an admonition to all of those who have
agreed to do the will of God and to follow in
the footsteps of .T esus that they should have
in mind these faithful witnesses who went before and should follow a similar course. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sun which doth so easily
beset us, and let us run with patience the-race
that is set before us."-Hebrews 12: l.
Man's besetting sin, from the time of Eden
till now, has been and is religion. It has been
the means by which Satan has deceived man,
and he has kept it around man and turned him
away from God. It was the instrument that the
Devil used to cause the Israelites to fall away
from God. It is so easy to fall under the seductive influence of religion and thereby to violate
God's law, and the Devil has seen to it that religion has ever been kept before man to cause
him to fall.
The making of images, of beads, crosses, and
other things of that kind, and using them in
what is supposed to be worship of God, is a
direct violation of God's law and shows that
those who thus practice are unwittingly falling
to the Devil. The saluting of flags or men or
other like objects, or bowing down to them, is
attributing protection and salvation to creatures
or things, and that is a religious formalism and
in open violation of God's law. No creature can
divide his affections or devotion between God
and anything. Jehovah God is his only protector
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and if! the Life-giver, and he is therefore a "jealous God", or zealous for righteousness, and will
not permit his name or his Word to be sullied
by any part of the Devil's operations or schemes,
and therefore He will not give life to those who
indulge in things invented and used by the Devil
to defame Jehovah's name. The law of God which
provides that men shall have no other god before Him and shall make no image of anything
in heaven or in earth and bow down to it is
solely for the purpose of safeguarding man from
the Devil's wickedness, "the sin which doth so
easily beset" all creatures.
Referring again to the apostle's words, ''Let
us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us," which words are addressed to God's covenant people, it is clearly
to be seen that no person can faithfully and
truly serve God and permit anything to divide
his affections between God and any creature
of creation; that he cannot practice religion,
and at the same time serve God faithfully; that
he must lay aside these weights, and do as the
apostle Paul did and said: "This one thing I
do" (Philippians 3: 13), and that is, to follow
in the footsteps of Jesus and obey God's commandments. Religion is clearly in opposition to
the commandments of Almighty God.
God's law is plain, and stubbornness on the
part of anyone in obeying that law is idolatry.
(1 Samuel 15 : 23j Every religious practice under
the sun means that the practitioners are indulging in idolatry. The use of images in worshiping
is idolatry, and all idolatry is abominable in the
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sight of God. As God 'Permitted Job to be subjected to great trials, so he permitted the Devil
to tempt the Israelites, and to tempt his covenant people since, that they might prove their
choice between God and the Devil. Knowing
that the Israelites would come in contact with
those who practiced the Devil religion, God
therefore gave them this specific commandment:
"Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves
molten gods: I am the Lord your God." (Leviticus 19: 4) ''Ye shall make you no idols nor
graven image, neither rear you up a standing
image, neither shall ye set up any image of
stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I
am the Lord your God." "And I will destroy
your high places, and cut down your images,
and cast your carcases upon the carcases of
your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." (Leviticus 26: 1,30) "All the gods of the people are
idols." (1 Chronicles 16: 26) Religion, therefore,
clearly appears to be one of man's great enemies, which the chief enemy, the Devil, has invented to lead men into destruction.
What followed after the giving of the law
shows the great necessity for that law. The record of the Israelites during their journey is replete with instances of turning to idols or Devil
religion. Coming in contact with the Moabites
they found that people practicing a religion
called "Baal-peer", and many of the Israelites
indulged in that religion in violation of God's
law and thus exposed themselves to God's wrath,
and many of them were destroyed: "And they
[the Moabites] called the people unto the sac-
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Had the priests, Pharisees and scribes, otherwise known as the clergymen of Israel, been
faithfully devoted to doing the will of God and
obeying his commandments, they would have
known that Jesus would begin his ministry when
thirty years of age and they would have instructed the people to be ready to receive him
and to obey his commandments. When Jesus
reached the age of thirty years and began his
ministry, not a single one of the clergy class
received him and hailed him as the Son of God.
The reason why they did not was, because they
were religionists and were looking for favor
to themselves from amongst men (John 5: 44),
and they were the instruments of the Devil
practicing his religion. Those Jewish clergymen or religionists were full of guile and fraud
and deceit. A few honest and faithful Israelites
were looking for Christ the Messiah, and it was
from among such that Jesus chose his disciples,
concerning one of whom Jesus said: "Behold
an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" (John
1: 47) This was conclusive proof that all the
religious leaders, the clergymen, were full of
guile and deceit.
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representative of .J ehovah God and for the gathering of men unto himself who would faithfully
serve Jehovah God and be witnesses to His
name. Were there any religionists amongst those
Jews who joined with Jesus in proclaiming the
kingdom and inviting the people to put themselves under Jehovah's King 1 Not one; but, on
the contrary, they tried to keep the people out
of the kingdom; concerning which Jesus said:
"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men: for ye neither go in yourselves,
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go
in." (Matthew 23: 1:3) At this present time who
among the religions leaders are telling the p~o
ple of God's kingdom under Christ as the only
hope for the world 1 Not a single one. On the
contrary, they tell the people to give no heed
to those persons who come to them preaching
the message of God's kingdom. They cite human
inventions and human agencies as the means of
relief and salvation for the people.
The religious Pharisees, who opposed Jesus,
were great sticklers for formalism, that they
might appear in the eyes of men as being very
clean and righteous and wonderful men. They
were following the traditions of their fathers
who had murdered the faithful prophets of God,
and so now they would seek to kill Jesus, the
greatest of all prophets. Therefore Jesus said
to them : "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones, and of
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all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full
of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the
tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulclues of the righteous, and say, If we had been
in the days of our fathers, we would not have
been partakers with them in the blood of the
prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which
killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure
of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of
vipers! how can ye escape the damnation of
hell ," (Matthew 23: 27-33) Here is the clear
declaration of Jesus that religionists are the
agents of the Devil, whether they are aware of
that fact or not.
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ing. In further corroboration of this, it is written: "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given
all things into his hand. He that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath
of God abideth on him." (J ohn 3 : 35, 36) Otherwise stated, all men came under condemnation
by reason of sin, and God's wrath against sin
is death; if one believes on the Lord Jesus
Christ God removes that condemnation from
him; but if man prefers to remain on the side
of the Devil and continue in sin, then God's
wrath or condemnation abides on him and is
not removed. Thus it is seen that God's intelligent creatures are made free agents to choose
life or death after having received a knowledge
of God's provision for them.
The provision God has made to give life to
men is prompted entirely by unselfishness or
love on the part of God; as it is written: "For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through him might
be saved." (John 3: 16, 17) It necessarily follows, then, that those who do not believe "perish", which means to be completely annihilated.
God has no pleasure even in the death of the
wicked, and certainly he could have no pleasure
in inflicting torture upon anyone. The doctrine
of eternal torment in hell is another one of
Satan's vicious lies, which lies are taught to the
people only by religionists, and the purpose of
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"Christ is the head of the church."
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ones, in order to have God's approval, must follow in the footsteps of Jesus and prove faithful
unto death. (1 Peter 2: 21; Revelation 2: 10)
It is certain, therefore, that all the true followers of Christ Jesus, who constitute his church,
must suffer more or less at the hands of the
Devil, and which suffering and punishment is
inflicted upon them by the religious agents of
the Devil on earth, just as they afflicted the Lord
Jesus Christ. For this reason some of the sufferings of Christ was left over for the body's
sake, as it is written: "Who now rejoice in my
sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for
his body's sake, which is the church."-Colossians 1: 24.
It was the religionists who persecuted Jesus,
and he declared that that same class of religionists would persecute all who would be his true
followers. "If ye were of the world, the world
would love his own: but because ye are not of
the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant
is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they
have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for
my name's sake, because they know not him
that sent me."-John 15: 19-21.
The fact that Christ Jesus, the Head of the
church, is the Faithful and True Witness of
Jehovah (Revelation 3: 14), and also the further fact that he stated, "Everyone that is
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children or persons and holding them for ransom is a racket, and the stealer or kidnaper
is a public enemy. Men who engage in the whiteslave trade are racketeers and public enemies.
Real estate promoters who operate schemes to
defraud others are racketeers and public enemies. Those who operate a scheme by offering
prizes to induce persons to buy or sell worthless goods, wares and merchandise are racketeers. Men who engage in robbery, stealing and
murder for personal gain are racketeers and
public enemies. The man who engages in the
scheme of blackmail and thereby obtains money
is a racketeer and a public enemy. All such
public enemies either put the people in fear or
fraudulently overreach them. Men who engage
in political schemes misrepresenting the facts
in order to induce the people to support them
that they may thereby reap a personal or pecuniary gain are racketeers and public enemies.
Commercial men or corporations operating a
scheme or schemes that result in injury to the
people are racketeers and public enemies. Those
who engage in any kind of fraudulent scheme
that results in loss or injury to others are racketeers and public enemies. Men who use motion
pictures to mislead the people, and thereby gain
any kind of profit in name, money or influence,
are racketeers. All racketeers are agents of the
Devil, whether they realize that fact or not.
All wrongful schemes originate with the Devil,
and that great enemy induces and influences
men to use such rackets to do injury to others
and to bring reproach upon the namo of the
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thereby easily misleads many honest and sincere persons. Strange as it may seem, the two
words "Christian" and "religion" are diametrically opposed one to the other. Most persons
in the land called "Christendom" have been led
to believe that the two words mean one and
the same thing, and through lack of knowledge
of the truth great injury is done to the people.
'I'he greatest public enemy is that which operates with a righteous appearance but which is
fraudulent, brings reproach upon God's name,
misrepresents his purpose, and thereby robs
the people of their money, their peace of mind,
their liberty of speech and thought, and the
opportunity of life everlasting.
Under the practice of the so-called "Christian
religion" the world at the present time has
reached that period described in the Bible in
these words: "This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come. For men shall
be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady,
highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn
away. Now as J annes and J ambres withstood
Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men
of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the
faith. But they shall proceed no further: for
their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as
theirs also was."-2 Timothy 3: 1-5, 8, 9.
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Do not confuse "Christianity" with the 80called "Christian religion". The latter operates
in the name of God and Christ but is wholly
against Christ and his kingdom, which is the
only hope of the human race. Religion labeled
"the Christian religion" is a racket invented
by the Devil to defame the name of Almighty
God and is practiced by men, some of whom
arc honest and practice it because they have
been induced to believe it is right, while others
know that they are wrong and are working a
fraud upon the people. The latter are doubly
dangerous to the interests of the human race.
Because the name of Christ has been and is
used to work a great fraud upon the people,
the racket thus practiced is the greatest of all.
There are many sincere and honest persons in
organizations known as "religious" or "church
organizations", and it is with the hope of helping such to see the truth that this publication
is put forth. What is here published is not an
attack upon men, but is an attack upon the most
subtle and devilish kind of frauds that ever existed. Those who desire to know the truth will
be pleased to now carefully consider the origin
of the so-called "Christian religion" and how
it has progressed in the earth.
Christ Jesus is the Head or beginning of
Christianity, because he leads and others follow
in obeying God's commandments. Christ means
Anointed of God, the One who is commissioned
to carry out God's purpose. Christ is not and
never was for one moment a religionist. He
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Almighty God. He instructed his faithful disciples in the Word and purpose of Jehovah God.
After the resurrection of Jesus from the dead
the holy spirit, which is the invisible power of
God, came upon the faithful apostles and they
understood the truth as it was not possible
for them to understand it before that time.
Those faithful men, in the name of Christ, went
about "from house to house" (Acts 20: 20),
teaching the people and preaching to them that
the shed blood of Christ .T csus provides the
redemptive price for man from condemnation,
and that it is the purpose of Jehovah God to
give life to those who believe on Christ and
follow in his steps. Because those men were
freely telling the truth to the people concerning Christ, the religionists amongst the Jews
assaulted the apostles, brought them into the
courts, demanding: "By what power, or by what
name, have ye done this 1" One of those faithful apostles of Jesus Christ replied in these
words: UBe it known unto you all, and to all
the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom
God raised from the dead, even by him doth
this man stand here before you whole. This
[Christ] is the stone which was set at nought
of you builders, which is become the head of
the corner. Neither is there salvation in any
other; for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.t'-c-Acts 4: 10-12.
During the remainder of the earthly career
of the apostles they continued to preach to the
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people Christ Jesus, his crucifixion and resurrection, and the coming of his kingdom as the
only hope of mankind, and many of the common
people heard and believed. To offset the work
of the apostles of Christ, Satan the Devil began to build an anti-Christ organization, into
which latter organization many people were
drawn. Ambitious men assumed the leadership
amongst those who started to follow in the
footsteps of Jesus, and those ambitious and
selfish men became the teachers and leaders of
the organization (Acts 20: 29, 30), and then
was the organization labeled as "the Christian
church", and the doctrines and practices thereof
were from that time forward called "the Christian religion", The Lord had warned his disciples of fhe coming of the anti-Christ, that is,
those who should deceive the people in the name
of Christ. (2 John 7) Such deceivers were manifesting themselves even in the days of the apostles. (2 Thessalonians 2: 7) In this day (1937)
the religious organization that has its headquarters at Vatican City, Italy, and which calls itself
"the Christian church" or "Christian religion",
dominates the religion of the nations called
"Christendom".
As heretofore shown, religious organizations
began with Babylon and extended to all parts
of the earth. When Rome became a world power,
and which is known as Pagan Rome, that world
power practiced the Devil religion; and in time
Pagan Rome blossomed into what is known as
Papal Rome, which from then till now practices
what is called the "Christian religion". The fol-
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A pretense is the act of laying claim to something or holding out to others some teaching
or doctrine to induce such others to take a
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church", is made up of the pope, bishops, cardinals, priests and others called "clergymen";
and all those who support that organization or
who are adherents thereof are known as the
"Catholic population", but which "Catholic population" arc not members of the church. In the
Catholic organization there are the high and
the low clergymen, that is to say, the Hierarchy
of authority, composed of men in high positions;
while there are many humbler men in the priesthood who obey the commands of the higher-ups.
The Catholic organization has long held out and
continues to hold out to the people certain claims
or doctrines for the manifest purpose of inducing people to become adherents to or "children"
of that organization. Among the doctrines so
taught and held out is this one, to wit: That
the Roman Catholic Church is tho one true and
only church. The following quotation is from
the well-known Catholic authority: "The true
Church must be Apostolical, Hence in the Creed
framed in the first Ecumenical Council of Nicrea,
in the year 325, we find these words: 'I believe in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic
Church.' "-The Faith of Our Fathers (Gibbons),
page 38.
Credulous persons, who hear this claim and
rely upon the same, are induced to aet, and
therefore millions of sincere persons have been
induced to believe that the Roman Catholic organization is the Church of God, and for that
reason they have submitted themselves to the
organization which is ruled by the Hierarchy.
If the claims or pretenses made by the Catholic
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the Roman Pontiffs soon became very considerable." From that time onward the Roman
Catholic Church org-anization became very rich
in material things. Thus it is seen that it pursued a course wholly inconsistent with that pursued by Christ Jesus. The religious organization, in the Fourth Century, had bishops and
rulers, many of them, and then the bishop of
Rome was elected to the office of pope. That was
the real beginning of popedom, and was more
than 300 years after the days of the apostles.
-See The Encyclopredia Britannica, Volume 2,
page 81.
Soon thereafter the pope, as the head of the
Roman Church organization, began to exercise
political or temporal power. Pepin, king of
France, after defeating the Lombards in the
war, placed the pope as temporal ruler of the
conquered provinces. Thus the pope came into
existence as a temporal power by means of a
war of conquest; which is contrary to the Word
of God. Says Cardinal Gibbons: "Charlemagne,
the successor of Pepin, not 'only confirms the
grant of his father, but increases the temporal
domain of the Pope by donating him some additional provinces. This small piece of territory
the Roman Pontiffs continued to govern from
that time till 1870, with the exception of brief
intervals of foreign usurpation."-The Faith of
Our Fathers, page 137.
In the exercise of his political power the pope
has maintained his ambassadors at the courts
of almost all the nations of "Christendom". Such
a course is entirely inconsistent with and at
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Nations holds the distinction of being the greatest world power that ever existed. Its claim is
that its possessions are so far flung that the
sun shines on some part thereof at all times.
Made up of many peoples, kindreds and tongues,
the British Commonwealth of Nations is truly
cosmopolitan. Many good people of England
are beginning to see the great danger that now
threatens the Commonwealth and that such dan.
gel' is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
In practically all of the colonies or subordinate portions of the Commonwealth, Roman
Catholic officials are in control, and those officials utterly disregard the rights of any nonCatholics. In both Northern and Southern Rhodesia, in West Africa, in the Fiji Islands, in
Quebec and many other parts of the Commonwealth, political, religious Roman Catholics under the domination of the Vatican control the
public offices. They manifest an outward allegiance to the British Commonwealth, but at
heart those Catholic officials are loyal only to
the Vatican. They suppress the truth and forbid the importation of publications that would
enlighten the people in these colonies, particularly the natives, and thus keep them in
ignorance. If the people perchance get into possession of literature that enlightens them concerning God's Word and his kingdom, Roman
Catholic officials take immediate steps to prevent the further publication of such literature
and the promulgation of the truth. Those Catholic officials do not hesitate to promulgate lies,
charging true Christians with crimes, which per-
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confess their sins that they may receive remission or absolution. One who commits the most
heinous crime may do that and then straightway go out and commit another crime. A striking example is that of Mussolini, Until he made
peace with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy he
was an avowed atheist and a common gangster,
but afterwards he went to the Vatican and made
an alliance with the papal system and then went
forth and committed greater crimes than ever
before. He carried on a cruel war of conquest
of Abyssinia in utter violation of God's law,
and no doubt received what the papacy calls
"absolution" from the pope, because that "august official" attempted to "bless" Mussolini's
war activities. Men who believe that the pope
or the priests have power to forgive sins embrace and practice that religion to ease their
conscience and to steel their conscience for further crime. Says the Catholic authority: "It
follows, first, that the forgiving power was not
restricted to the Apostles, but extended to their
successors in the ministry unto all times and
places. The forgiveness of sin was to continue
while sin lasted in the world; and as sin, alas!
will always be in the world, so will the remedy
for sin be always in the Church. The medicine
will co-exist with the disease."-The Faith of
OtW Fathers, page 333.
The Roman Catholic church system has assumed to perform this great act of forgiving
of sins for a money consideration, and still
does so. The foregoing authority further says:
"Nor did the Pope exceed his legitimate powers
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Jehovah's organization. For that reason J ehovah sees to it that all such persons of good will,
who desire to know and to obey him, shall have
an opportunity to hear the truth.
Further describing those selfish, arrogant,
boastful, cruel clergymen, the racketeers in the
organization (or "house") which they rule, the
Lord says to them: ''Your iniquities have turned
these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you. For among my
people are found wicked men, that lie in wait
as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch
men. As a net is full of birds, so their houses
are full of deceit: therefore are they become
great and enriched. They are grown gross and
fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my
words. They have not judged the cause of the
widow, they have not managed the cause of the
fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor."-Jeremias 5: 25-28, Douay.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy have "houses"
allover the earth within which they practice
fraud and deceit, carrying on their racket, and
by which the credulous, honest, sincere people
are induced to wrongfully give up large sums of
money, which has greatly enriched that organization. The money, therefore, has been obtained
by fraud and in the name of God. Aside from
the honest and sincere people of good will under
the Catholic organization, there are millions of
others claiming to be Christians, but who are
not, and who use their religion for selfish gain.
These include priests, politicians and other racketeers and prognosticators of what shall come
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"Take a harp, go about the city, thou
harlot that hast been forgotten: sing
well, sing many a song, that thou mayst
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harlot. (.John 8: 44) "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked
with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon
her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER
OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken
with the blood of the saints, and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I
wondered with great admiration."-Revelation
17: 4-6.
All organizations on the earth that are in
opposition to God and his kingdom, therefore,
necessarily take the name of "Babylon" and
"harlot", and those names specifically apply to
the leading religious organization, the Roman
Catholic church, which claims to be the mother
of the so-called "Christian religion". That
mighty religious organization, foretold in the
Scriptures, uses the method of harlots to induce
politicians and commercial traffickers and others
to fall into her arms and yield to her supposed
charms. In the Scriptures this organization is
likened unto a "strange woman", "which flattereth with her words," and which entices the
credulous persons that are void of understanding to yield to her influence. (Proverbs 7: 5-18)
In the prophecies the "harlot" or religious organization is pictured as bedecking herself in
gaudy and showy clothes, peculiar hats, lace
and silk skirts, and other gaudy apparel, and
she is represented as sauntering forth and in-
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Soon after the flood religion again came prominently to the fore. Nimrod, the great-grandson
of Noah, became the visible religious leader, and
"he began to be ... a mighty hunter before the
Lord". That was the practice of religion, because it put Nimrod, a creature, "before" or
superior to God, the Creator, and it was a religion to all of Nimrod's admirers and supporters.
The purpose was to turn creatures away from
.Jehovah. 'With Nimrod religion began to be
practiced after the flood. After religion politics
was quickly employed and the political rule by
Nimrod the religionist began. "And the beginning of his kingdom [political rule] was Babel."
'I'hen commerce quickly developed, which is evidenced by Nimrod and his sons' building cities
and bringing together many people, which again
requi red traffic amongst them.-Genesis 10: 8-12.
The building of the city and tower of Babel
was induced by religion, and this is clearly
shown by the language of the builders. "And
they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a
tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and
let us make us a name, lest we be scattered
abroad upon the raeo of the whole earth." (Genesis 11: 4) Bab-el, Babil and Babylon, all meaning the same thing (Genesis 10: 10, margin),
from the beginning stood for religion, politics
and commerce, because the very express purpose was to turn men away from God in defiance
of his commandment. The name Nimrod means
"rebel" or "rebellious one" that rules. He named
the beginning of his political kingdom Bab-el,
which meant to him and his followers "The
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ably religious." (Weymouth) This is further corroborative proof that religion is of the Devil
and is in exact and complete opposition to the
commandment of Almighty God. "The man of
sin" practices religion, acting contrary to the
commandments of God. "That man of sin ... ,
the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that
is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in
the temple of God, shewing himself that he is
God. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying
wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth [the very opposite of religion is the truth], that they might
he saved. And for this cause God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe
a lie [religious teaching]." (2 Thessalonians
2: 3,4,9-11) That company of persons forming
or composing the "man of sin" relies on the
teachings of men, or tradition, which make void
the Word of God.-See pages 303-305.
Ancient Tyre, as shown by the Scriptures.
did in fact control the commerce of the sea.
"The sea" symbolically stands for the people
that bear up and give support to the Devil's
religious organization. Therefore Tyre pictures
religion commercialized, that is to say, religious
doctrines and ceremonies and superstitions used
for commercial purposes for the enrichment of
a few at the expense of the credulous people,
who are kept in subjection and under control.
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and gullible persons, and particularly the politicians and commercial giants, now look to the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the modern 'I'yrc,
to pull them through their difficulties, but when
they see J chovah strike down that organization.
which has claimed to be invulnerable, they will
be greatly astonished and dumfounded. Then
in distress they will say, according to God's
prophet: ""Ve looked for peace, but no good
came; and for a time of health, and behold
trouble !"-Jeremiah 8: 14, 15.
The words of Isaiah's prophecy here considered, to wit, "ye inhabitants of the isle" (vs. 2),
manifestly mean in the final fulfillment those
near the Hierarchy and who have been lookingto the Hierarchy for help, protection and safely,
even as Chittim or Cyprus was ncar to Tyre
and depended upon 'I'yre, Those close or nearby and dependent upon the main organization,
being of the same stripe, picture the Jewish
and Protestant clergy and other allies of the
Hierarchy who tag along behind the Hierarchy
at the present time to do the bidding of the old
"whore". (Ezekiel 27: 8) They have helped to
replenish the coffers of the Hierarchy, and
hence J ehovah's "strange act" is against not
only Tyre but the Zidonians and other allies,
as he declares in his prophecy: "And all the
kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and
the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea."
- J eremiah 25: 22.
Today the so-called "Protestants" and the
Yiddish clergy openly co-operate with and play
into the hands of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy
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like foolish simpletons and thereby aid the Hierarchy to carryon her commercial, religious traffic and increase her revenue. Commercial religion is the stock in trade of all such merchants.
The Hierarchy takes the lead, and the simpletons follow. The Hierarchy is now taking the
lead in compulsory flag-saluting, and in building images or monuments, such as what is now
widely advertised to be built at Washington,
D. C.; and the clergy of the so-called "Protestant" and Yiddish organizations fall in line and
do what they are told, and when the "saekbut"
sounds they fall down and worship. (Daniel
3: 5) Poor simpletons!
The Devil's purpose, and therefore the purpose of his instruments, who arc "enemies", in
thus making merchandise of the people, is to
keep them in subjection and to build up and
support the Roman Catholic organization on
earth. That part of the prophecy concerning
"hire" or "merchandise" appears to have fulfillment during the period of time when the
harlot sings, as marked in the record at Isaiah
23: 15, 16. This adds further force to the conclusion that prophecy cannot be understood
until fulfilled or in course of fulfillment. But
let it be understood and kept in mind that this
prophecy will not be appreciated by merely
casual reading. Careful study is required. The
fulfillment does not come chronologically in the
order of recording of the prophecy; but it appears better here to proceed with the study in
the order in which the prophecy is recorded in
the Bible, rightly dividing it in harmony with
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of the "good neighbor" policy between all rcligious organizations and that they proceed in
unity in their course of action. That will prove
to be very bad advice, as many will later discover. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy now take
the lead in an aggressive campaign against all
who do not fall in line with their schemes, ami
in this campaign the other religionists trail
along. Everyone today who will not support
the religionists is denounced as "red" or "cornmunist", even J ehovah's witnesses
being classed by
the religionists as
such, although
those religionists
making these false
charges well know
that Jehovah's witnesses have no part
whatsoever with
the political affairs
of the world. The
Hierarchy follow
the course of their
father the Devil in
making such false
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Under the Devil's wily and deceptive influence the people in general, which are used to
bear up and support the religious systems that
engage in traffic, have been deceived and blinded
into following such a course. The time is certain to come, however, when the following part
of the prophecy will be fulfilled, to wit: "The
sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea";
that is to say, the sincere people who love righteousness will break away from the religious
prison house and speak against that wicked
organization. Those who compose the "great
multitude" (Revelation 7: 9), as waters, are first
turned away from the support of the religionists and give their devotion to Jehovah God
and Christ Jesus. Then will follow in due time
the masses who will renounce and turn away
from and against the religionists. This prophecy shows that in Goel's due time the relationship of the sincere people with the religionists
will be broken off. "The sea" (that is, the people used and exploited by the Devil to mother,
nourish and support the religious systems, and
who have been ruled) become the rulers or
"kings" that will turn against the old "whore"
and disclaim any relationship whatsoever to
her.-Revelation 17: 16-18.
Nebuchadnezzar, after laying siege to ancient
Tyre, invaded Egypt. (Ezekiel 29: J 8-20) The
fall of religionists, particularly the Roman Catholic Hierarchy organization, will precede the
destruction of the political and commercial elements of Satan's visible organization, and such
will bring great pain and astonishment to the
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latter; as it is written: "As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained
at the report of Tyre." (Isaiah 23: 5) The report here mentioned is concerning the beginning of Jehovah's "strange act". This text, according to the Revised Version, reads: "When
the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely
pained at the report of Tyre." The fall of the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the religious organization, will bring great pain to the remaining
portions of Satan's visible organization, because
they will observe the ability of Jehovah's Executioner to perform Jehovah's "strange act" at
Armageddon, and it will be evident to the remaining ones that they have no power to protect themselves and that their turn for destruction is next. This conclusion is abundantly supported by other scriptures.-Revelation 18: 9-19.
Today Jehovah's witnesses in every part of
the earth are being persecuted by the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy and allies, and the Hierarchy religious organization is the chief visible
instrument of the Devil which brings into action
against Jehovah's witnesses the political and
commercial elements, and together they seek to
make the burden great upon the back of those
who love and. serve Jehovah. And now in this
hour of great distress the true people of J ehovah God greatly rejoice because, true to the
promise of the Almighty God, greater hope and
strength is given to them by revealing to them
an understanding of his prophecy. "The Lord
will give strength unto his people; the Lord
will bless his people with peace." (Psalm 29: 11)
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For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device; which they are not
able to perform." (Psalm 21: 8-11) At the beginning of Armageddon Jehovah will execute
that hypocritical organization.
The prophecy is then addressed to the subordinate parts of the enemy organization, the
modern Tyre: "Is this your [Tarshish's] joyous city [mother organization), whose antiquity
is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her
afar off to sojourn." (Isaiah 23: 7) The Catholic
Hierarchy is not at all joyous in J ehovah, although hypocritically and falsely claiming to
represent God. It is joyous in its own merchandise and profits in the gay markets dealing
in humankind. The Hierarchy and allied clergy
employ all kinds of worldly schemes to entice
the people and cause them to give up their
money. In the church buildings they have, at
stated intervals, concerts, Christmas cantatas,
bazaars, socials, dances, athletics and like things
in order to attract the people to join their church
congregations and to relieve themselves of their
money for the benefit of the religionists.
The words of the prophet are in the nature
of a question addressed to the smaller parts of
the Roman Catholic organization, calling direct
attention to the vanity of the Hierarchy. To
these smaller ones the prophet, in substance,
says: 'Have you anything to exult in now, seeing that modern Tyro, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and allies and dupes, is in a wrecked and
spoiled condition? You boasted that it was so
solidly built and fortified that nothing could do
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Jehovah used the Chaldeans, of whom Nebuchadnezzar was the king, as His executioner,
who thus foreshadowed Christ Jesus, the great
executioner of Jehovah who shall execute the
devil religion, and particularly the Roman Catholic system. (Ezekiel 26: 7-14; Jeremiah 25: 9,
17,22) Therefore Jehovah says to the observers: "Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this
people was not till the Assyrian founded it for
them that d...vell in the wilderness; they set up
the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces
thereof; and he brought it to ruin." (Isaiah
23: 13) The words "Behold the land of the
Chaldeans" manifestly direct the attention to
his executioner that executes the judgment of
Jehovah upon the Hierarchy system. Then the
prophet says: "This people [that is, the people
of ancient Tyre and of modern Tyre, the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy] is no more."-E.R.V.
The word "till", as appears in the Authorized
Vers'ion, is an interpolation, and the correct rendering appears in the Revised Version. Therefore, as stated in the text, the ships of 'I'arshish
calling at the port of Chittim, the island near
Tyre, would have no reason to proceed on to
Tyre because of the information received at
Chittim that 'I'yre no longer existed. Likewise
in the antitype or fulfillment, the underpriests,
missionaries and other subsidiary organizations
are told that tue Roman Catholic Hierarchy system is RO more, that is, "the Hierarchy of Jurisdiction" is done for and hence there would be
no occasion to further seek her. It is plainly
written by another prophet that the end of the
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The prophet continues to speak of the successful Chaldeans and symbolically refers to
Jehovah's Executioner, saying: "They set up
the towers thereof [their towers (R.V.); siegetowers (Roth.)], they raised up [(R.V.) they
overthrew; (Both.) demolished] the places thereof." The siege towers were set up, and thus the
walls of ancient Tyre were surmounted and the
palaces of her merchant princes were demolished. Applying the prophecy to modern 'I'yre,
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy organization:
God's Executioner, Christ Jesus, sets up siege
towers against the Devil religious system and
the princes of the Roman Catholic organization
that traffic in human creatures, and destroys
their strongholds, and the system falls, ineluding the so-called "holy father" and all of the
trafficking princes. And the result is what?
Says the prophet in answer: "He brought it to
ruin," (E.R.V.) "he made it a ruin"; that is,
,Jehovah's Executioner at the beginning of
Armageddon brings the Devil religious system
to ruin.
The bulwarks of the Roman Catholic system,
which for long has reproached the name of
Almighty God, will completely crumble to the
dust, and then the individuals who continue to
live for a time will have reason to lament.
Therefore, says the prophet of Jehovah: "Howl,
ye ships of Tarshish, for your strength [which
is modern Tyre] is laid waste." (Isaiah 23: 14)
The statement is similar to the words used in
Isaiah 23: 1 and shows that the "howl" is raised
d the bC3inning of Armageddon and when the
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It has been suggested that verses one to fourteen of Isaiah 23 describe certain adverse experiences to which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has been subjected during a period of
seventy years, from 1848 to 1918, and during
which time she is forgotten and IH-,r howl is
heard; that at the end of that period the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy again comes to the fore;
and hence that the latter part of the prophecy
recorded in the twenty-third chapter applies
after the fulfillment of the first part of the
prophecy. The facts do not fit that conclusion,
for the reason that the "howl" of Tyre clearly
refers to what comes to pass at the beginning
of Armageddon. There is, however, an apparent
fulfillment of the prophecy concerning the 'howling of the ships of 'I'arshish' or supporters of
Tyre, within the seventy-year period above men-
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J849. February 8, the Roman National Assembly divests the pope of all temporal power,
and adopts the republican form of government.
February 18, the pope appeals to the Catholic
powers (of the world). "He now enjoyed the
sympathy of the rcactionists all over the world
who had looked so coldly upon his early efforts
at reform, but gained, of course, the execrations
of the liherals, whose cause he had abandoned.
Rome, left without a ruler, bloomed into a republic. The pope protested against all its acts, and
summoned the Catholic world to put it down."
(McClintock & Strong Cyclopcedia, Vol. VIn,
"Pius IX") J-une 3, the French under Marshal
Oudinot commence an attack on Rome. June 30,
after a brave resistance, the Romans capitulate
to the French army. July 4, the Roman AS~'1f~m
bly dissolved, and an officerfrom Oudinot's camp
arrives at Gaeta, to present the pope with the
keys of Rome.
1850. April, the pope arrives at Rome; Cardinal Antonelli becomes foreign minister. "The
pope returned in April, 1850, surrounded by
the bayonets of a French army.... His first
act was the perfidy of destroying the constitution of chartered rights which he had guaranteed to his subjects. . . . The Inquisition recommenced its sacred labors.... the Bible was
prohibited." (McClintock & Strong Cyclopcedia,
Vol. VIII, "Pius IX") September 24, he issues
the bull establishing a Roman Catholic hierarchy in England.
1861. March 27, Cavour claims Rome as ca-pital of Italy. June, the emperor of France de-
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Eternal City opened to all Italy.... Notwithstanding all efforts of [King] Victor Emmanuel
for peace, the pope sternly persisted in his finn
protest against the inevitable change of things.
. . . He lived retired in the Vatican, and called
himself a prisoner.-McClintock & Strong Cyclopcedia, VoL VIII, "Pius IX."
1871. May 13, law guaranteeing to the pope
full personal liberty and honors, a revenue of
3,225,000 Iivres, &c.; rejected by the pope in his
allocution, May 15. October 27, allocution of
the pope, appointing some Italian bishops;
still rejecting guarantees.-Haydn's Dictionary
of Dates, under "Rome", "Popes," "France,"
"Spain," &c.
] 878. February 7, Pope Pius IX dies. "On
Feb. 7, 1878, he died, after a protracted dropsical illness. . . . The missions of the Church
were also strengthened, being carried forward
in partibus in/idelium, and great hierarchies,
in lands formerly heathen or PROTESTANT, were
added to the vast clergy that owned 'the Latin
obedience.' Thus he provided by brief of 1850
for the ecclesiastical government of England,
. . . exulting in the supposed triumph of his
Church in the land which had been the home
of the Reformation for three centuries. Then
he created in THIS COUNTRY [D. S. A.] a vast
Roman Catholic hierarchy by elevating to the
cardinalate the archbishop of New York in 1875,
and prepared the way for the re-establishment
of the hierarchy IN SCOTLAND, which was effected
in 1878. . . . One of the foulest blots on the
pages of history regarding his reign is the for-
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that the Catholic church should have no privileges in the camps and on the field that are not
extended to other religious bodies.... The Catholic church, in particular, will stand out in the
open as a political organization which, during
the entire length of the war, left no stone unturned to advance papal interests. . . . And
among the charges to be preferred against the
Catholic church after the war will be her peculiar participation in cantonment and trench
privileges, and the mandatory method by which
she secured a place in the war chest."-The
Apostolic Review, November 19, 1918.
1918. November 30, the New York Evening
TV orld says the pope desires to attend the peace
conference in order that he may gain some "temporal power", and adds that the Vatican is seeking to establish a private telegraph office in the
Vatican with private wires to all governments,
so as not to have to use the Italian telegraph
lines.-The TVatchioioer, Jan. 1, 1919, pages 4, 5.
1919. J anuary, Benedict XV completely frees
Italian Catholics from all inhibitions against
participation in Italian political movements. His
relations with the royal court of Italy were more
cordial than those of any pope since 1870, and
the celebrated "Roman Question" was left by
him in a fair way of settlement. At the beginning of Benedict XV's "reign" about 20 nations
had formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican. At its close, in 1922, there were more than
31. Relations with France had been restored,
and the British Empire had taken steps to have
a more intimate representation. Negotiations
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When the peace conference began to be discussed the pope immediately got busy and tried
to get a seat at that conference. On November 30, 1918, the New York Evening TVorld published a statement to the effect that "the pope
[then Benedict XV] desired to attend the peace
conference in order that he might gain some
temporal power". The publication stated that
the Vatican sought to establish a private telegraph office and lines at the Vatican, "with private wires to all governments, so as not to have
to use the Italian lines." (Sec The TV atchtoioer,
-Tanuary 1, 1919.) The Italian government up
to that time had kept the 'old lady' in the background. The peace conference opened on J anuary 18, 1919, at which conference the League
of Nations compact was presented, and later
adopted, and at that conference the pope made
efforts to gain a seat on a par with the political
governments or nations, but failed. All these
facts show that in that period of time above
mentioned the old "harlot" was forgotten.
The events above mentioned were approximately seventy years after November 24, 1818.
at which latter date the pope, in disguise, fled
from Rome. On February 8, 1849, the Italian
government divested the pope of all temporal
power. But these facts appear to be merely incidental to the prophecy, and not in fulfillment
thereof. These facts would help to conceal the
true meaning- of the prophecy for a time and
until God's due time for it to be understood.
The prophecy further says: "After ... seventy years [of desolation typical and antitypi-
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cal] shall Tyre sing as an harlot." Other translations render this part of the prophecy in this
manner, to wit: "It shall be unto Tyre as in
the song of the harlot" (R. V.) ; "shall it befall
Tyre according to tile song of the harlot" (Rotherham) ; "there shall be unto Tyre as the song
of a harlot" (Douay); "shall it happen to Tyre
as in the Bong of the harlot." (Leeser) Note that
it is not a song BY the harlot, but "the song OF
the harlot"; and that appears to be the reason
why Leeser in translating this text puts verse
sixteen in quotation, and thus verse sixteen is
"The Song". That "Song of the Harlot" must
be and certainly is a prophecy of the Lord concerning the harlot religious system, that is, the
Roman Catholic organization, allies and supporters; and which prophecy foretells her conduct immediately following the end of the period
in which she is forgotten. The Roman Catholic
system sings songs, like other harlots, to attract
attention to herself. The song begins to revive
her traffic and patronage and her efforts to
gain her chief objective, to wit, to rule the nations of the earth as the vicegerent of Christ
and in a dictatorial way.
The words of "the song of the harlot" are
addressed to the harlot herself, that is to say,
to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and at the
period after the end of the World War in 1918,
and which is after the enemy Satan and his
wicked crowd of angels had been cast out of
heaven and down to the earth and when Satan
began to gather his forces, visible and invisible,
to Armageddon. (Revelation 12: 7-9; 16: 13-16)
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to her religious squawks or doctrinal lies in order that she might inveigle others into her trap
and gain control over them. Those instruments
antitypically are such as the .Jesuits, Fascists,
Nazis, "Holy Year" fiasco, Holy Name Society,
Catholic Action, Knights of Columbus, anticommunist schools, the Catholic press, the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference, the Legion
of Decency, controlling moving pictures and
moving-picture censorship, feigned and hypocritical patriotism exhibited in compulsory flagsaluting, the building of monuments and images
at the expense of religionists, and all suchlike
movements, by and through which she "struts
her stuff" and bamboozles and hoodwinks the
credulous population, hoping thereby to further
her cause and gain her great objective, to wit,
to rule the nations of the earth by dictators.
Since the World War the old harlot has daily
increased her boastful, scornful attitude and
arrogance in parading herself before the peoples of the earth.
The harlot, that is, the Roman Catholic organization, goes up and down the earth with
her instruments of sound under the leadership
of the Devil and in opposition to the faithful
followers of Christ Jesus, who are now singing
the praises of Jehovah and his King. The har-lot puts forth her best endeavors to crush everything that makes known the truth as God has
put it in his Word. In striking contrast to the
conduct of the harlot Jehovah pictures his faithful witnesses with the Lord in this beautiful
symbolic phrase: "And I saw as it were a sea
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"Protestant" clergy fall right into the old harlot's arms, receive a few lessons from her, and
then take their place in the show, attempting
to make the politicians and the commercial men
believe that their best interests require that they
associate themselves with the religious, that is,
the ''harlot'' organization. She is malting progress in her seducing business, that is, the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy system.
The old harlot, since the World War, has
gained complete control of Italy and Germany;
and wherever in those nations her paint and
enticing words fail, she uses force of arms.
She poses as though she were honest, and hypocritically says she represents God and Christ,
the great Prince of Peace, and at the same time
she organizes and launches a rebellion against
the government of Spain because that government kicked her out and refused to yield again
to her seductive charms, and Mussolini and
Hitler send soldiers into Spain to help murder
the poor innocents. Her priests and other underlings, wearing clerical robes and armed with
sword and gun, go forth to murder the people
of Spain in order to carry out the harlot's wicked
design to gain control of that nation. Just at
the present time the old "harlot" is putting on
her big show at Washing-ton, D. C., endeavoring
to establish diplomatic relationship between the
United States and the Vatican, and Washington
is getting quite drunk with the "wine of her
fornication". The United States is quite a youth,
not so fully acquainted with the harlot as the
other nations, and is well likened in the proph-
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Therefore the "abomination that maketh desolate" is the League of Nations and is labeled
by organized religion "the political expression
of God's kingdom on earth". Organized religion,
with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the lead,
is the binding tie and the chief part constituting
the League of Nations, which claims the right
and which attempts to rule the world in the
place and stead of Christ.-See Light, Book Two,
page toa.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the leader
of organized religion, subtly exercises its power
and influence in the League of Nations, and she
expeets to exercise even greater power, and
doubtless will, in the very near future, regardless of what the combine is called. The old "harlot" is riding on the back of the "beast" and
therefore is the dominating part thereof. The
objective of the League of Nations is to rule
the world contrary to God's purpose, and therefore the League of Nations and the Hierarchy
are one, constituting the "abomination that maketh desolate"; which abomination is the enemy
of God, and it stands "where it ought not" to
stand. (Mark 13: 14) This is a warning to everyone who loves God and Christ to flee to God's
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world, and the chief part thereof. The professional politicians and commercial traffickers are
a part of that organization. The Hierarchy is
pushing forward the radical element of Fascism
and Nazism to gain complete control of the nations of the earth. The Hierarchy violates God's
law in order to make friends with the other
wicked elements of the earth. She employs different schemes in different countries to meet
the necessary conditions, which will enable her
to gain temporal power. Jesus Christ declared:
HMy kingdom is not of this [wicked] world";
because Satan is the prince or invisible ruler
of this wicked world.-John 18: 36.
In view of the indisputable facts, does it appear that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy or
church organization is the enemy of God and
his kingdom under Christ ~ Let the Scriptures
answer that question clearly and emphatically:
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not
that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God ~ whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God." (James 4: 4)
This text, together with the physical facts,
proves beyond all doubt that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the greatest visible enemy of
God and Christ; and the reason is, because that
religious organization is the chief visible instrument of Satan in carrying forward his challenge
to turn the people away from God. The 'adultery' referred to here is not that of illicit relationship between the sexes, but means the illicit
relationship between the organization claiming
to represent God, and symbolized by a "woman",
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with the political, commercial and gangster powers of the world; and which proves that the
organization is God's enemy. By the use of fraud
and deceit the Roman Catholic religious organization leads the people into Satan's trap,
thus proving that such religious organization
is man's worst visible enemy. J asns emphatically declared that no man or organization can
serve two masters. He cannot serve God and
the Devil.-Matthew 6: 24.
The doctrines of the Roman Catholic "Hierarchy of Jurisdiction" and the practices in which
that organization indulges show that she is the
chief servant of the Devil and the arch enemy
of God. The unchangeable rule of God is announced in these words: "Know ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of
sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness 1" (Romans 6: 16) From all the evidence the conclusion is irresistible that the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy organization serves
the Devil and is therefore the enemy of God,
the enemy of man, and the very personification
of unrighteousness.
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a harlot and uses that hire with which to commit fornication with the rulers of the earth.
Note this part of the prophecy says: "And
shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms
of the world upon the face of the earth"; according to the Revised Version: "Shall play the
harlot with all the kingdoms of the world." Such
is exactly wha t the Roman Catholic Hierarchy
organization is doing and has been doing from
and after 1918, and will continue to do until
the beginning of Armageddon; and while she
is doing that, Jehovah is doing his "strange
work" of exposing her wickedness. The activity
of the old "whore" in committing harlotry with
all the kingdoms of the world appears to be
more than merely establishing diplomatic relationship with all nations and being recognized
as a temporal power. It surely means the carrying out of the objective of the Roman Catholic
Hierarchy to set up a Fascist government controlling the nations of the earth, that the Hierarchy may arbitrarily rule the nations in a dictatorial manner.
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To aid the reader to more readily comprehend, the specific enemies of God are here briefly
named, to wit: Satan, the Devil, "the god of
this world," the invisible ruler of man; Gog,
the chief officer of Satan in command of the
Devil's organization visible and invisible; all
the wicked angels, who have rebelled against
Jehovah God. All of such enemies are invisible
to the natural or human eyes.
The visible enemies of God, that is, those on
earth and who also are the enemies of men,
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are these, to wit: Religion, religious organizations, and practitioners of religion (in these
religious organizations are included thieves,
robbers, liars, whoremongers, murderers, manstealers or kidnapers, frauds, cheats); and all
suchlike religion and religious practices being
the means of blinding the people to the truth,
and using a great mountain of lies behind which
the racketeers hid themselves. These enemies
are influenced and controlled by the Devil and
his invisible associates, the 'wicked spirits who
muse men to commit all manner of wicked
crimes. Of Satan it is written that he is a subtle
or wily opponent, and he teaches all his instruments to h-e subtle and wily foes. The visible
enemies of men on earth, therefore, are all who
indulge in wrongdoing and who are moved by
hatred, ill will, and: malice and extreme selfishness. All these enemies work against the interests and to the detriment of evcrv honest and
sincere person who desires to serve God and
follow a course of righteousness.
By the facts and the scriptures that appear
in the foregoing it is clearly seen that there
are two great opposing organizations, one righteous, which is God's organization, and one
wicked, which is the Devil's organization; the
two pitted against each other. If Jehovah God
is to win the controversy raised by Satan'a
wicked challenge, there must come a time when
the climax is reached and the final conflict is
indulged in. What, then, is to be the fate of
the enemy t
CHAPTER VII
FATE
"T~line hand shan find Gut .all thine enemies: thy
right hand shall find out those that hate thee. Thou
shalt make them as a fiery ov~n in the time of thine
anger: the LC1'd shall swallow them up in his wrath,
and the fire shall devour them." - Psalm 21: 8, 9.
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"The world" means the peoples of earth, organized into nations and under the supervision
of an invisible overlord, and which overlord
for centuries has been Satan the Devil, who,
together with a host of wicked angels, has influenced, controlled and ruled the world without
interruption. "The end of the world," therefore,
means the beginning of the period of time when
the rule of Satan must be interrupted preparatory to his overthrow. The coming of the Lord
Jesus, the rightful King, would necessarily interrupt Satan's rule of the world and would
mark the time when there should be a final showdown between Satan and .Jehovah God.
To Jesus his disciples propounded this question: "What shall be the [proof] of thy coming,
and of the end of the world?" (Matthew 24: 3)
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Jehovah's witnesses delight to obey this commandment, regardless of all opposition on the
part of Satan and his religious agents. As the
Lord's witnesses they have no alternative; they
must obey. (Acts 3: 23) The Lord at the temple
is sending forth his witnesses to proclaim this
glorious message of the kingdom, and which
they must do as a witness to the nations and
as a warning, and this work must be done before the execution of God's enemies. It is being
done now.
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While the witnesses of Jehovah are, in obediencc to God's commandment, proclaiming his
name throughout the earth, the judgment of the
nations, and particularly of the religious organizations, is in progress. One of the purposes of
the 'preaching of this gospel as a witness to the
nations' is to furnish the opportunity to the
peoples of the nations to identify themselves
and make known to others whether they are on
the side of God or on that of the Devil. The
judgment of the nations is now taking place;
and concerning which it is written: "When the
Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the
holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon
the throne of his glory; and before him shall
be gathered all nations; and he shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd divideth
his sheep from the goats; and he shall set the
sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the
left."-Matthew 25: 31-33.
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politicians and the courts, hundreds of J ehovah's witnesses have recently been arrested and
thrown into prison for no reason whatsoever
except the fact that they preach the truth of
God's kingdom to the people. They are arrested
on the ground that they are preaching the gospel without a police permit. It is worse than
ridiculous to conclude that a policeman, an imperfect and unrighteous man, could grant a
permit to do what the Almighty God has commanded shall be done; and for the same reason
neither the police nor the courts have any right
to prevent or even attempt to prevent what the
Almighty God has commanded his witnesses
now to do. Their conduct is 'fighting against
God', and thus they identify themselves as God's
enemies, who will receive due recompense.
In many of the other states like persecutions
of the Lord's faithful followers are carried on
by religionists, particularly by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. In Catholic Quebec many of the
faithful followers of Christ Jesus are charged
with the crime of sedition and are convicted
upon the sole testimony that they are going
about preaching the gospel of God's kingdom.
In Germany, which is outwardly ruled by the
fanatic Hitler, but which is secretly ruled by
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Devil,
thousands of faithful and true witnesses for
the Lord are imprisoned, cruelly beaten and
some of them foully murdered because they
have in possession a Bible or books which explain the Bible. In Italy, which is outwardly
ruled by the gangster Mussolini and secretly
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dictated to by the Vatican, the true and faithful followers of Christ Jesus are cruelly persecuted. In Northern and Southern Rhodesia,
in West Africa, and many islands of the sea,
and, in fact, in all the lands of so-called "Christendom", the religionists, and particularly the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy, carryon a wicked
persecution of the faithful followers of Christ.
By this means those persecutors identify themselves as "goats", that is, enemies of God and
of Christ.
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The climax comes at the battle of Armageddon. It is "the battle of that great day of God
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Almighty", and at that battle the disputed question of supremacy will be settled for ever. The
Devil boastfully and egotistically expects to win.
He is certain to lose. Jehovah has been waiting
for this time, and he has let the Devil go on,
and for that reason he addressed the Devil in
these words: "But for this cause have I allowed
thee to remain, in order to show thee my power."
(Exodus 9: 16, Leeser) The power of Jehovah
God is unlimited. He is the Almighty God, his
purpose shall be accomplished, and none can
prevent it. The enemies of God having been
identified, and the wickedness thereof disclosed,
and the warning given, the time for execution
is at hand. Those who believe that God's Word
is true may expect to find in the Scriptures the
correct and true statement as to the execution
of God's enemies. It is even so.
The chief visible enemy of God, and therefore the greatest and worst public enemy, is
the Roman Catholic religious organization. For
centuries that organization scornfully and arrogantly has ridden upon the backs of the peoples
and nations and robbed the people of their just
earnings. The day of that wicked institution
must come to an end. That organization, that
is to say, the Roman Catholic "Hierarchy of
Jurisdiction", for years has boastfully said and
still says: "The gates of hell shall not prevail
against [us]." These words of Jesus Christ concerning his own organization, which is the habitation of Almighty God, are misapplied by the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy; and this is further
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says: "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom
of heaven against well; for ye neither go in
yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in."-Mattbew 23: 13.
They viciously assault and persecute those
men and women who faithfully serve God by
carrying to the people his message of the kingdom; and like vipers which hide in the 1\rass
they hide behind the police and other officers
to sting and otherwise injure the Lord's little
ones, and to them the Lord Jesus says: "Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers! how can ye
escape the damnation of hell t 'Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men,
and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill
and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge
in your synagogues, and persecute them from
city to city."-Matthew 23: 33, 34.
That proud, scornful, arrogant and presumptuons crowd of religionists think they are fooling the Lord; but even their sacrifices are an
abomination unto him. (Proverbs 16: 5; 21: 27)
Even their prayers are an' abomination in the
sight of God.-Proverbs 28: 9.
And when will the end of that hypocritical,
religious organization come 7 At the beginning
of Armageddon. 'Roman Catholic Action,' as
the selfish, political movement of the Hierarchy
is now called, will soon convince themselves and
others that they have put to silence all who tell
the truth and who thereby expose the wickedness of the Hierarchy. Having spread their inflnence politically and otherwise throughout the
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gionists were typical of "Christendom", professing to serve God but serving the Devil. At
the commandment of the Almighty God Jehu
annihilated those Devil worshipers; and that
foreshadowed and foretold that Christ Jesus
will completely wipe out all religion and religious practices, because such defame the name
of Almighty God. (2 Kings 10: 1-28) Religion
has always been the chief means of deceivingmen and reproaching God, because the Devil
found it the best means by which he could deceive. Religion and religious practitioners will
be the first to be destroyed at Armageddon,
Christ Jesus, the great Executioner, will execute them and then proceed with the other clements of Satan's organization.-See Vindication,
Book Three.
Symbolically the religious systems are likened unto a great city. That organization or
"great city" is certain to fall in the near future,
and the political, military and judicial and other
supporters of the religious systerr , which have
profited by that system, will see that they are
next in order for punishment at the hand of
the Lord, and then they will weep and wail:
"The merchants of these things, which were
made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the
fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and
saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was
clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet,
and decked with gold, and precious stones, and
pearls! for in one hour so great riches is come
to nought." (Revelation 18: 15-17) Then they
will attempt to hurl their armies and navies
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lake of fire burning with brimstone." (Revelation 19: 13-21) Thus is described the execution
of the rulers of the nations of the earth.
Every part of Satan's wicked organization
shall be destroyed, including all who work any
kind of iniquity, such as frauds, cheats, thieves,
robbers, kidnapers, rapists, murderers, religious
racketeers and other racketeers, and all suchlike.
Says the Lord God concerning all those wicked
ones of the world: "Therefore wait ye upon me,
saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to
the prey; for my determination is to gather the
nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to
pour upon them mine indignation, even all my
fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured
with the fire of my jealousy."-Zephaniah 3: 8.
The execution of all of those will be done by
the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom Jehovah says:
"Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations
for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts
of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break
them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them
in pieces like a potter's vessel." (Psalm 2: 8, 9,
R. V.) Armageddon will not be a fight between
the members of Satan's organization, but, as is
plainly stated in the Scriptures, it is the battle
of God Almighty in which he, through Christ
Jesus and his army, will wreck Satan's entire
wicked organization, that the earth may be
cleansed from all iniquity. "The nations are sunk
down in the pit that they made; in the net which
they hid is their own foot taken. The LORD hath
made himself known, he hath executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his
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godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to he punished."
(2 Peter 2: 9) "And the angels which kept not
their first estate, hut left their own habitation,
he hath reserved in everlasting chains, under
darkness, unto the judgment of the great day."
(Jude 6) Their end is destruction; as it is
written that God has prepared a place for the
complete destruction of all the wicked ones.
- Metthew 25: 41.
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whom you can put complete confidence and absolute trust and who will guide you into the way
of everlasting life and happiness? If so, that
privilege is now before you.
CHAPTER VIII
FRIENDS
"A man that hath friends must shew himself
fr:endly: and there is a friend that sticketh
closer than a brother." - Proverbs 18: 24.
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Jehovah, who shall rule the world in righteousness, and all his acts are prompted by love.
How maya man have the Lord for his Friend?
"He that loveth pureness of heart, and hath
grace in his lips, the king shall be his friend."
(Proverbs 22: 11, margin) That means that if
a man has a pure or unselfish motive in what
11(> does, and his words toward God and Christ
are gracious, that person is one of good will
toward God, and the King, Christ Jesus, shall
be his Friend. A knowledge of what God and
Christ have done for man produces in the man
of pure heart a great desire to have God and
Christ for friends. Briefly, then, consider some
of the scriptures showing the loving-kindness
of Jehovah and of the Lord .Jesus Christ.
By reason of the fact that Adam chose to
disobey God and follow the Devil Adam was
justly sentenced to death, and the result to his
children was that they were born imperfect.
All men, therefore, are conceived in sin and
born in iniquity. (Psalm 51: 5) "Wherefore, as
by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men,
for that all nave sinned." (Romans 5: 12) If a
man then chooses to support the Devil, he could
never have God for his Friend. God was under
no obligation to do anything for imperfect man,
the sinner. Because God is love, he unselfishly
provided the way for imperfect men to be reconciled to him and given an opportunity to
obtain life everlasting as a gracious gift; and
this provision he made by and through Jesus
Christ, thus proving that God and Christ are
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teaches. Therefore God says of such: "Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people
draw near me with their mouth, and with their
lips do honour me, but have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear toward me
is taught by the precept of men."-Isaiah 29: 13.
Are those clergymen who teach the precepts
of men your friends, and the friend of God?
No, they are not; but, on the contrary, they are
enemies of God, as it is written: "Whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God." (James 4: 4) The evidence heretofore examined shows that the Catholic system
is a part of the wicked world and therefore the
enemy of God. If you support an organization
or crowd that are enemies of God, then you cannot have the Lord Cod and Christ Jesus for
your friends. What, then, must a man do who
is in a religious organization? The Scriptures
answer: 'Come out of her and be separate from
her, lest yo partake of her sins and receive of
her plagues,' which shall befall her at Armageddon.-2 Corinthians 6: 16-18; Revelation 18: 4.
Christ Jesus is the Friend of everyone who
tries to do right. He permitted himself to be
put to an ignominious death that he might redeem man from the results of sin and death.
Prompted by love Jesus gave his life a ransom
price for as many as believe on him and serve
him. (Matthew 20: 28; John 10: 10) A sheep
is an obedient animal and is used as a symbol
of those who hear the Lord and obey his voice.
Therefore said Jesus: "1 am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of
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the religious organizations, could attempt to deprive men of such marvelous blessings or to
keep them in ignorance of what God has provided for those who know and serve him. Therefore when all of these enemies are for ever
removed, the obedient ones will dwell with the
Lord, their great Prince and Helper, and nothing will interfere with their boundless blessings
and eternal happiness.
Jehovah God has given his sure and unfailing Word that he will make the earth a glorious
place, in which perfect man may dwell for ever:
"The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee,
the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I
will make the place of my feet [the earth]
glorious."-Isaiah 60: 13; 66: 1.
That means that everything will be removed
from the earth that mars its beauty, peace and
happiness. It is the enemies of God and righteousness that make the earth now a place of
great sorrow. Those who desire to stand by the
enemies will go with Satan and all other enemies
into everlasting destruction, and those who remain on the Lord's side will be in a clean earth.
All the unseen creatures will be clean and holy.
and all visible ones will be clean and pure. Strife,
hatred, ill will, malice and wrongdoing will be
entirely unknown, and all the wicked will be for
ever out of the memory of man. (Psalm 109: 15)
"The name of the wicked shall rot" (Proverbs
10: 7) ; which means that the wicked will not bo
remembered at all. Concerning the wicked it is
also written: "Therefore hast thou visited and
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7: 9, 10.
The angels of heaven, and all the faithful
who have been resurrected and are now with
the Lord, rejoice with the great multitude; as
it is written: "And all the angels stood round
about the throne, and about the elders and the
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o Lord;