Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Monday, May 28 vah's universal organization,
t1l,e Jerusalem above i8 which he created and of which
and she is our mot1ler. he is the faithful Husband.
GIL 26 NW (Is8. 54: 5) By her he brings
- a. ,,:,. forth his beloved children for
The Watch Tower Society is his purpose. By her he gives
not the great mother orgamza- us law and instruction, protion
of Jehovah's witnesses vides for us, guides us and
who have received the King- looks out for our welfare with
dom truth through it and who a view to our everlasting life.
co-operate with it world-wide, Besides her sons for kingship
using it as their legal and busi- with Christ, she is interested
ness servant and advisory gov- also in the many "other sheep"
erning body. No; as Jehovah's who will eventually become her
witnesses we represent some- earthly children in God's image
thing greater than these minor and likeness. Her heart is big
visible organizations as the enough to hold love for them
Society or School of Gilead. all and to gather them to her
Thl" great "mother" is Jeho- warm. loving bosom. W 10/1
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Tuesday, May 29 he saves only when no strange
WilI1/oU take the Baal's part, god is amOng his people. (Isa.
or will 1/ou champion him' 43: 12, Before Jehovah direct­
..• If he is a god, let him ed steps against the invading
take his oWn part.. for his hordes of Mitlianites in Gidaltar
has been torn down! pon's day, Baal was cast down
--Judg. 6: 31, AT. and the sincere Israelites were
So away with all false reli- cIeansl'd of its taints. Antitypigion
that holds men's minds cally, before Jehovah sent his
captive, restrains and blinds witnesses against the Devil's
mental faculties so that they systems in bold attack after
cannot perceive God's true 1918 he caused them to underworship!
Down with Baal's go a spiritual cleansing under
altar, the images, the sacred the oversight of the Greater
poles, the offerinJ;S! God would Gideon Christ Jesus at the
not deliver anClent Israel as temple. It was that they might
long as the Baal stood to be "offer unto Jehovah offerings
credited with the deliverance; in righteousness". W 611
Wednesday, May 80
Look! new things have come
into existcncc.-2 Oor.
5: 17, NW.
We have come to the New
Jerusalem, God's capital of the
universe. We have a new temple,
of which Jesus Christ is
chief cornerstone and all his
spiritual followers arc living
stones, built upon him as the
foundation. We have a new
high priest, a new sacrifice of
a Buperior kind which actually
cleanses away sins by its blood,
a new law inscribed on our
hearts, a new mediator between
God and men, a new
covenant. Anything more? Yes,
new knowledge, new works of
---
God in fulfillment of past
prophecies and types, a new
ministry, and a new relationship
with God as his new nation
of spiritual Israel and as
his sons whose spirit cries
out to him, "Abba, Father!"
'l'rue Christians, living up to
their privileges, have long enjoyed
these things over the
centuries. Today a faithful
remnant of Christ's joint heirs
are enjoying them. All these
new things operating together
as new systems of things since
Pentecost are preliminarl: to
God's own new world. They
are an absolute guarantee of
the full coming of the new
world. W 11/1