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Humanity’s State of Health That Might Have BeenThe Watchtower—1980 | November 15
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There is no one calling out in righteousness, and no one at all has gone to court in faithfulness. There has been a trusting in unreality, and a speaking of worthlessness. There has been a conceiving of trouble, and a bringing of what is hurtful to birth.”—Isa. 59:1-4.
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Humanity’s State of Health That Might Have BeenThe Watchtower—1980 | November 15
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Certainly her taking international problems to the United Nations or to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, is not the same as taking matters into the divine court of justice “in faithfulness” before all heaven and earth. In such a divine court Christendom could never clear herself!
15, 16. From what is being internationally conceived, what naturally must be brought to birth, and all the diplomatic talk is a speaking and muttering of what?
15 In the United Nations the non-Christian nations already outnumber the nations of Christendom. Yet her clergy and religious leaders look to that makeshift for God’s kingdom as “the only hope of the world” and are acting and proceeding as if it were such. If this is not a case of “trusting in unreality,” then what is? All the public and private talk about relying on the United Nations and other man-made agencies for world peace and security—has this not been a “speaking of worthlessness,” especially on Christendom’s part? Otherwise, what has all this palaver proved to be?
16 Since only “trouble,” not peaceful relations with Jehovah God, is being internationally conceived, only “what is hurtful” is what is naturally to be expected or brought to birth. What a “problem child” it is bound to be! From Jehovah’s standpoint, all the diplomatic talk between nations, Christian and non-Christian, has been only ‘speaking falsehood’ and ‘muttering of sheer unrighteousness.’
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