Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Saturday, January 18 Christ, he is a new creation;
In hill Baying "a new oovenant" the old things passed away.
he has made the former one look! new things have come
obsolete.-Heb. 8: 13, NW. into existence. But all things
On the day of Pentecost are from God." Such a thing
A.D. 33 the resurrected and as this "new creation" in union
glorified Jesus in heaven in- with Christ the Head had
augurated the new covenant never existed before, no, not
toward his followprs on earth. in all God's universe. So it
There they were begotten by could not be otherwise than
God's outpoured spirit and be- that new systems of things
came spiritual Israelites, or should be introduced, and these
Jews inwardly. Would not this in connection with the Chrismean,
then, the introdnction tian "new creation". Such new
of new systems of things? This systems were introduced. God
must be included in the mean- so indicated when he described
ing. of the apostle's words at the benefits of the new cove-
2 Corinthians 5: 17,18 (NW): nant, saying he would really
"If anyone is in union with remove sins. W 11/1
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Sunday. January 14 arated them from the horned
I will set up one shepherd over oppressors who horn and butt
them. and he shall feed them. the sick and weak and who
even my servant David. trample underfoot the King-
E ek 34 23 dom message and muddy up
- z. : . the clear water of truth. De-
The Great Shepherd Jeho- livering his sheep from all
vah holds the false shepherds these evils Jehovah sets them
guilty for leading the sheep of in good pastures amid the
his flock astray, and his burn- Kingdom heights of his monning
wrath and fierce anger are taint He has gathered the
ignited against all such. (Zech. "remnant" and their compan-
10: 3) By the hand of his ions out of the far countries
Chief Shepherd, the Greater of Christendom where they
David, he is fully capable of were scattered. Over them he
separating the sheep from the has set up his servant Christ
oppressive horned ones. So, Jesus, the Greater David, and
when he came to deliver his this "one shepherd" is feeding
flock from the power of the them. His fellow servants help
wicked shepherds he also sep- to feed the flock. W 1,/15
Monday. January 15
He said unto them, What have
I done now in comparison of
you' Is not the gleaning of
the grapes of llJphratm better
than the vintage of Abiezer'
God hath delimlred into your
hands the princes of Midian,
Oreb and Zeeb.--Juag. 8: 2, 3.
During the 1920's the "other
sheep" were not invited very
much to take part in the service,
the invitation being extended
to them later on, just
as in the type it came later to
the Ephraimites through Gideon.
After instruction the
"other sheep" appreciate why
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their ingathering had to wait,
that it was J ehoyah's purlXlse
to fully gather in the "lIttle
flock" first, and they are satisfied
with his arrangement of
matters and overjoyed by service
J!ri vileges they now possess.
So It is that now the "other
sheep" come in on the tail end
of the gospel-preaehing, after
it has been gomg on for nineteen
centuries and after the
death of the antitypical firstborn
of Satan's organization.
They rejoice that the closing
"gleaning" work they do contributes
so heavily to gathering
in the "great crowd". W 6/15