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“Figs” That Give Pleasure Even to GodThe Watchtower—1979 | September 15
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And I will set my eye upon them in a good way, and I shall certainly cause them to return to this land. And I will build them up, and I shall not tear down; and I will plant them, and I shall not uproot.
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“Figs” That Give Pleasure Even to GodThe Watchtower—1979 | September 15
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10. How did Jehovah live up to his declared purpose regarding the “good figs,” and how did they display “sweetness” to him?
10 By what Jehovah said in connection with the vision of the good figs he indicated better times. He told of good things that he would do to the faithful remnant of his covenant people. This would be at the end of the “seventy years” that he had foretold just seven years earlier. (Jer. 25:11, 12) Jehovah is the God of truth, and historical records show that, in 537 B.C.E., he lived up to his declared purpose. He used the Persian Cyrus the Great to overthrow Babylon in 539 B.C.E., and then moved him to restore the symbolic “good figs” back to the land where the symbolic tree from which they had come had first been planted.
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