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“Who Is Jehovah,” So That All Should Worship Him?The Watchtower—1975 | April 15
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And they worshiped the dragon because it gave the authority to the wild beast, and they worshiped the wild beast with the words: ‘Who is like the wild beast, and who can do battle with it?’ . . .
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“Who Is Jehovah,” So That All Should Worship Him?The Watchtower—1975 | April 15
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5, 6. What does that oddly formed wild beast picture, in the light of Daniel’s dream of the wild beasts out of the sea?
5 People asked: “Who is like the wild beast?” So we ask: What does it picture? From John’s description of this symbolic wild beast and what happens to it, there can be no question about what it pictures.
6 The role that the wild beast plays in the book of Revelation shows what it pictures, the worldwide system of political rule over all mankind.
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“Who Is Jehovah,” So That All Should Worship Him?The Watchtower—1975 | April 15
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The big thing upon which we here desire to focus our attention is that this “wild beast” out of the sea was worshiped by the whole world of people; it was treated as an unconquerable god. The worship of the political State as a god, which was thus pictured in John’s vision, was at the same time the worship of someone higher than the political State. Who was that? That one was the dragonlike Satan the Devil, for he is pictured as giving the authority, the power, the throne or seat of government to the political State.
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