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DeclarationThe Watchtower—1969 | December 1
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Even though this hurts the religious sensibilities of those religious leaders and is a woe to them, we shall continue to do this as long as we live and they are around in influential positions over Christendom. We will not join them in putting our hope and trust in any man-made international organization for world peace and security, but will continue to declare the doom of such organization.
7. (a) At whose disposal for active service do we hold ourselves, and why? (b) What do we hold ourselves under orders to reveal, and what publicity vehicles will we use to increase our capabilities as publishers of God’s message?
7 We hold ourselves at God’s disposal for his service at any time according to his appointment. He has untied us, loosed us from captivity to Babylon the Great, the. figurative mistress of the Euphrates River. Our religious liberty being due to Jehovah God through Jesus Christ, we must use it in harmony with his will at this most crucial time in human history. In obedience to his Holy Bible we confess ourselves to be under orders to reveal to the people that there is no possibility for spiritual life now and everlasting life in the future in or by means of Christendom. She spells spiritual death for her tremendous church membership now and literal death for them in the fast-approaching “day of vengeance on the part of our God.” We Christian witnesses of Jehovah are few in comparison with the 977,383,000 members of Christendom. But God has increased our capabilities as publishers of his present-day message a hundredfold, yes, double that. Through his own earthly organization he has supplied us hundreds of millions of printed pieces of literature, Bibles, books, booklets, magazines, tracts, as vehicles for us to ride in spiritual warfare against the strongholds of error in spiritually dead Christendom. By means of these myriads of publicity vehicles we shall carry out to the end our duty to declare the “day of vengeance on the part of our God,” as a “woe” to Christendom.
8. (a) What is it our happy privilege to announce? (b) What do we join our voices with heaven in saying, and so for what do we give thanks?
8 Mankind’s only hope for peace, happiness, prosperity, life, yes, resurrection of the dead, is God’s Messianic kingdom. Happy is our privilege to announce to all nations the establishment of that kingdom in the heavens at the end of the Gentile Times in 1914. We join our voices with those in heaven in saying that the kingship of the world of mankind has become the kingship of our Lord God Jehovah and of his Messiah or Christ. We publicly thank Him that he has taken his great power and begun his everlasting reign by his Messiah, his Son Jesus.
9. (a) What will God’s kingdom mean to the nations in the day of his vengeance? (b) Yet what will we loyally do with regard to that kingdom?
9 We know that this kingdom means finally a disastrous woe to the political nations at the climax of the day of God’s vengeance, but we will not fear their wrath because of this. Loyally we will, to the end, give our unqualified allegiance to God’s Messianic kingdom. We will obey our reigning King Jesus Christ and carry out further his command to preach “this good news of the kingdom” everywhere for a witness to all the nations until their end comes. We will without letup turn teachable people to God’s Messianic kingdom for realization of the hope of ‘glory to God in the highest with peace on earth forever for his men of good will.’
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“Peace on Earth” AssembliesThe Watchtower—1969 | December 1
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“Peace on Earth” Assemblies
On October 16, 14,644 persons attended the “Peace on Earth” International Assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Korea, and a few days later 12,614 attended in Japan. These are in addition to the 840,572 assembly delegates in North America and Europe. In Korea, an amazing total of 1,511 were baptized; 798 in Japan.
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