Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Monday, September 10 the old world: mental sufi'cJ'-
Now we are not the kind t71al ing, misery, unhappiness. Bur
shrink back to destruction, flui if we truly love God we will
the kind that have faith to the turn to him and seek his help.
presert-ing alive of the s01l/. as a child will go to its father.
-Heb.l0: 39, NW. When we sincerely repent and
seek to go in the right way,
When we carelesslr. drift getting back into God's worl,
back to the old world s ways and determining to stick to it.
and become ensnared in any of there is Jehovah to help us
Satan's many pits or traps we to recover. At the very least,
suffer the untold miseries that the period of suffering is cerwe
bring upon ourselves. Very tain to be a most difficult tim!'
pitiful is the state into which -there nre many who never
failing to stick to God's work recover-and 80 the wise servand
his organi!IJation has led ant of Jehovah will keep hiR
some individuals. That is what vision of the issue clear and
Satan will bring upon those will stick to his work. not takwho
give him an opening by ing any risks with his life in
pausing to associate again with the new world. W 2/15
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Tuesday, September 11 or through anything he has
Jehovah is our king: he will established. As "ruler of this
aave us.-laa. 88: 22, AS. world" and as "god of this
system of things" he has failed.
How strange it is that It has not meant life or good
earth's inhabitants do not want government for us, but the
as their King the Creator of direct opposite. Now a lifethe
earth and of man upon it! giving change is under way.
Not the men of this atomic The settling of the age-old
age, but God is the One who issue of universal sovereignty
pre-eminently knows how to will shortly take place at Arrun
the earth and can regnlate mageddon. Jehovah onr God
it for mankind's good, keeping the Almighty now reigns as
a perfect balance between all King of earth and heaven. Hc
forces in and about the earth. is the Conqueror who has oust­
Satan the Devil has misused ed the Devil from heaven and
all these forces. He has exer- will shortly destroy that one's
cised only the "means to cause world and create a new world
death". There is no life in him of life and joy. W 12/15
Wednesday. September 12
Ohrist Buffered for 1/0U, leaving
1/0U a model tor 1/0U to follow
MS steps closelv.-1 Pet.
2:21, NW.
Jehovah's witnesses preach
as did the ).!rimitive followe1'8
of Jesus. They have a far
grander privilege than the early
disciples, because they are
now advertising in this "time
of the end" the complete fuI­
:fillment of all that has been
written in the Bible. They accept
the responsibility imposed
by God and the Lord Jesus
Christ to declare now the good
news of God's kingdom over all
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the earth. They have answered
the great challenge of preaching
this gospel in all the world
as a witness to all nations by
employing modern inventions,
such as radio, the printing
press and modern transportation,
to supplement their primitive
method_ This sharing of
the truth with others they do
without financial reward. It is
only by this wise course, as
sons of God, that they can have
a part in vindicating Jehovah's
name and live up to the name
as his witnesses. making glad
his heart, that he may answer
his reproachers. W 5/15