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What Do the Dragnet and Fish Mean for You?The Watchtower—1992 | June 15
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13. Why can it be said that Christendom had a role in the dragnet operation?
13 Do you think that unfaithful professors of Christianity had any part in the illustration of the dragnet? Well, there is reason to answer, yes, they did. The symbolic dragnet included Christendom. True, for ages the Catholic Church tried to keep the Bible from the common people. Nevertheless, over the centuries members of Christendom played a key role in translating, copying, and distributing God’s Word. Churches later formed or supported Bible societies, which rendered the Bible into the languages of remote lands. They also sent out medical missionaries and teachers, who made rice Christians. This gathered vast numbers of unsuitable fish, who did not have God’s approval. But at least it exposed millions of non-Christians to the Bible and to a form of Christianity, although corrupted.
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What Do the Dragnet and Fish Mean for You?The Watchtower—1992 | June 15
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True, the collecting of fine fish was going on, even though most being gathered by Christendom were unsuitable from God’s standpoint.
15. Pointedly, what is represented by the dragnet of the parable?
15 So the dragnet represents an earthly instrument that professes to be God’s congregation and that gathers in fish. It has included both Christendom and the congregation of anointed Christians, the latter having continued to collect fine fish, under the invisible guidance of the angels, in line with Matthew 13:49.
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