He tries to break up our unity with our brothers and sisters.

It removes fears that would weaken and break down our defenses.

With faith added to the accurate knowledge that Jehovah gives, the defenses are built up.

He said to the Jews: “Break down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Therefore by this means the error of Jacob will be atoned for, and this is all the fruit when he takes away his sin, when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that have been pulverized, so that the sacred poles and the incense stands will not rise up.

When her sprigs have dried up, women coming in will break them off, lighting them up.

One must break free from these, too, if he is to find life in God’s new world.

However, heathendom, so called, is now borrowing “Christmas” back again, as shown by the following news report from Tokyo in Buddhist Japan: “According to a police poll up until the morning of the 25th, Christmas Eve crowds totaled 3,700,000.

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He said: “Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal.”

Together they make up an international brotherhood, the population of which exceeds that of at least 57 of the nations making up the so-called United Nations.

16. What is accomplished by the “watchman” class in sounding the warning?

¹⁶ This makes it urgent for the “watchman” class to sound the warning that the “year” of Jehovah’s goodwill is about to end and his “day of vengeance” is about to break.

Their obediently sounding the divine warning will not save this patched-up old system of things and its devoted supporters from being destroyed in the coming “great tribulation.”

He began by saying: “Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal.”​—Matt. 6:19.

These who were ‘stirring up tribulation’ for Paul were mainly Jews who had claimed to become Christians, but had broken away from Paul’s pure apostolic teaching.

They did not have pure motives, but sought to cause doubts, strifes, divisions​—in short, to tear down the apostle’s work and the spirituality of those he had worked so hard to build up.

So we should never let up on conducting ourselves in harmony with that awesome fact.

At 2 Peter 3:11, The New English Bible presents the matter in these words: “Since the whole universe is to break up in this way, think what sort of people you ought to be, what devout and dedicated lives you should live!”