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The Promise of a Spiritual ParadiseMan’s Salvation out of World Distress at Hand!
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Look! As a witness to the national groups I have given him, as a leader and commander to the national groups.”—Isaiah 55:1-4.
14. (a) From whom does that invitation come? (b) To whom is it directed, and why?
14 Who alone but Jehovah God the Source of all life could issue such a marvelous invitation and promise? It involves his Messianic Servant, whom he gives as a “leader and commander to the national groups.” Those national groups should become interested in the divine invitation.
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The Promise of a Spiritual ParadiseMan’s Salvation out of World Distress at Hand!
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Who could break the grip of this World Power, Babylon, and let its Jewish prisoners go free, to return to their homeland and the renewed worship of Jehovah at a rebuilt temple in a restored Jerusalem? This God himself could do so, and he had a servant whom he could use to that end. That earthly servant was Cyrus the Persian, whose very name Jehovah foretold long before his birth. (Isaiah 44:28 through 45:6) This ancient Persian conqueror of Babylon was not merely a historic figure but also a prophetic type of Jehovah’s Messianic Servant, whom He would use to overthrow and destroy modern Babylon the Great, namely, the world empire of false religion.
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