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Unrest—Why So Widespread?The Watchtower—1966 | December 15
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as those adopting the declaration in 1928. That hundreds of thousands more are doing so was emphasized by 454,977 attending the series of “Everlasting Good News” assemblies in different parts of the earth in 1963. These adopted and distributed earth wide a resolution, which in its last two paragraphs stated in part:
THAT, although at present we are obliged to be in this world, we will not breathe in the spirit of this world, For it is not the spirit of God but is the spirit of the devilish “ruler of this world.” Led by the spirit of its unseen ruler, the world of mankind has for thousands of years cultivated the works of the fallen, degraded flesh. Now the world is reaping the results of breathing in the spirit of Satan the Devil and cultivating the works of their flesh, which is at enmity with God. Babylon’s modern religious counterpart has not cultivated in the people the spirit of God, that they might reap the fruitage of God’s spirit to the attainment of eternal life in His new order of things. . . .
. . . We thank Jehovah God for the ministry of his holy angels under Jesus Christ in our behalf. With their help and with the help of his holy spirit and Word we will continue to declare to all peoples without partiality the “everlasting good news” concerning God’s Messianic kingdom and concerning his judgments, which are like plagues to his enemies but which will be executed for the liberation of all persons who desire to worship God the Creator acceptably with spirit and with truth.
The contaminated “air,” the spirit of the Devil in the world, as revealed by the plague, can kill you spiritually and find you physically dead at God’s hands in the coming “war of the great day of God the Almighty.” Do not take it in and let it involve you in the death-dealing unrest and violence of the world, but breathe the fresh, pure, invigorating, life-giving spirit obtained by reading God’s Word, the Bible, and by associating with those who believe and teach its truths.
Jehovah’s angels pour out the plagues and his servants on earth are empowered by his spirit to announce the plagues. Jehovah expresses satisfaction when they do the work. But since the plagues express not only God’s anger as declared but also the actual spiritual and physical results of his anger upon the world, bringing calamity to his enemies and good to all following God’s Word, we will await the next issue of The Watchtower for a description of the world-shaking outcome of the outpouring of the seventh plague.
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Full-Time Service Brings True RichesThe Watchtower—1966 | December 15
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Full-Time Service Brings True Riches
I CAN picture myself, more than fifty-five years ago, standing in front of a shop window on a street in northwest London. There were many books and pamphlets on the Bible in that window, but the attraction to me was a booklet entitled “What Say the Scriptures About Hell?”
There was a reason why I wanted that booklet. On his way to work the previous day my brother had been handed a tract entitled “The Wages of Sin Is Death, Not Eternal Torment.” Later in the day he
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