Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Wednesday, January 31 His strong affirmation is:
You must accordinglfl be com- "There is no God else beside
plete, as flour heaven If/ Father me; a just God and a Saviour;
ill complete.-Matt_ 5: 48, NW_ there is none beside me."
Jehovah's attributes are (Deut. 32:4; Isa. 45:21) Jepower,
wisdom, justice and hovah is a God of love. Of
love. The Scriptures say that him it can be rightly said:
all power belongs to him and "God is love." By him love is
that he is thus the source of expressed in perfect unselfishall
power in the universe. His ness and for the lasting benefit
wisdom is perfect; he does of all his creatures who serve
nothing wrong. Everything he him with unbreakable devotion.
says or does is right. The wise To have love his creatures
One, he is the source of wis- must be unselfishly devoted to
dom. (Ps. 62: 11; 33: 4; Provo him and must strive to reflect
2: 6, 7) He is just and is the all four of his attributes to
beginning of justice. His de- all creatures.-1 John 4: 8, 16.
cisions are righteous and f_al_·r_. __ W::--5115
Thursday, February 1 should she have been surprised
Warn them from me.-]j}zck. when enemy hosts took her by
00 ... storm? And what of the deso-
.N: t. lation that struck Jerusalem
Jehovah God never strikps during the first century A.D.,
without warning. Did he del- did that blow fall without
uge the first world in watery warning? To each of these
destruction without warning'! questions the facts shout the
Did he burn out depraved answer, No! Out of considera­
Sodom and Gomorrah in a tion for man's perishable frame
fiery downfall without warn- of flesh Jehovah God sends his
ing? Did the Almighty take warnings by messengers in hu­
Egypt unawares as he sent man form, messengers that the
wave after wave of destruetive warned ones can comfortably
plague through the land? When listen to and question for de­
Jehovah maneuvered the over- tails. Of this practice he says:
throw of Israel and Judah by "I spoke to you early and late,
foreign invasions. were the vic- but you would not listen, . _ .
tims unwarned? Mighty Baby- I sent all my servants the
Ion that ruled like a glamorous prophets, early and late."queen
over peoples and nations, Jer. 7: 13.25. AT. W 1/15
Friday, February 2 certainly necessary, and God
"Look! the days are coming," made it by his Son Jesus
saY8 Jehovah, "when I shall Christ. (Heb. 1: 1, 2) The old
consummate a new covenant Law covenant prevented Jesus
toward the house oj I arael and the Messiah from becoming a
toward the house of Judah." priest on earth and it only con-
-Heb. 8.' 8, NW. demned men for sins instead of
relieving them of such. So if
The priests of the tribe of there was to be a new high
Levi were part of the system priest of God with a sacrifice
of things that existed under removing sins, and if Messiah
the Law covenant. Sacrifices of the tribe of Judah was to
they offered could never take be this High Priest, then there
human sins away and make must be a new covenant. Christ
men perfect, and so they were Jesus was made High Priest
merely pictorial of the coming by the sworn oath of Jehovah
real sacrifice. If men were to God, and then he was given to
get lasting good. a new alld be the High Priest of the new
better system of things was covenant. W 11/1