Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Thursday, October 4, Hhould take a tumble as a re-
Now have come to pa8S 'he suit of Jehovah's judgment
salvation ana the power and against her, and should be put
the kingdom 0/ our God and underfoot. How did this occur?
the authority of his Christ, be- By casting the invisible king
cause the accuser of our broth- of mystic Babylon, Satan the
ers has been hurlea down . .. Devil, and his demon organizaknowing
he has a short pedod tion out of the heavenly
/ t' R 12 1012 NW heights from association with
o Jme.- ev. " -, . the holy angels and down to
The Babylonian empire was God's footstool, the earth. Acused
to destroy Jerusalem in tion to bring this about began
607 B.C. and to start off the right after the kingdom of God
"appointed times of the na- was born in 1914. At the battions".
The kingdom of God in tie of Armageddon, after the
Israel was tllen suspended. "short period of time" left to
Quite fitting, then, that at the Satan, his world organization,
close of the appointed times modern Baby lon, will be dein
1914 the modern Babylon, stroyed. Then a new world!
the Devil's world organization, W 12/15
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Friday, October 5 creature has been cultivating
Gi1:() 11113 lmderstanding, and 1 for the past 6,000 years. It haR
shall live.-Ps. 119,' 1H. to enlighten us to the fact
that there can be no security
The great mass of so-called or preservation apart from J e­
"Christians" follow the course hovah God and his King Christ
of action that worldly men of Jesus. When we do get that
wealth follow through lack of understanding we fully apprcunderstanding.
They are blind- ciate that the apostles of Jesus
cd to the true facts of life by chose the wise course. They
Satan the Devil, who uses as accepted their commission to
willing instruments unfaithful go out and preach with gladpreachers,
unprincipled politi- ness. They realized that J ehocians
and greedy profiteers. vah alone could direct their
They perish from lack of un- steps. And they were willing
derstanding. This nnderstand- to accept that direction and
ing has to cut throngh every not lean upon their own underhuman
tradition and base, lust- standing.-Prov. 3: 5, 6. lV
ful craving that the human 5/1
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Saturday, October 6 ing to let thorny-like obstruc-
"-ls for that which jell among tions invade their lives and
the thorns, these al"e the on6S hearts and choke their spiritthat
have hcal"d, but, by being ual productiveness. \Ve can
carried away by anxieties and warn them. When the young
wealth and pleasul"es of this man let his love of deceptive
life, they are completely choked wealth choke off his fruit-bearand.
brinu nothing to _llerjcc- ing possibilities as a Christian,
tlOn.-Luke 8,' 14, NW. Jesus warned his disciples: "It
will be a difficult thing for
'1'he thorny-soil class waste a rich man to get into the
God's undeserved kindness to kingdom of the heavens."
them and let worldly things (Matt. 19: 23,24, NW) We
combine to choke off their want to avoid letting this
fruit bearing. This resnlts in thorn-infested condition overfiery
destruction to them. \Ve run the soil of our own hearts.
may see some who are in our In harmon,Y with such an efcongregation
or some whom we fort withIn ourselves, we
have sown with the seed tend- should help others too. W 12/1