Posted by Shaun [Shaun] on March 29, 1999 at 19:55:29 {7nb3mCfGvUs89exBncZYd.wU5y0utY}:
*** w59 1/15 40-1� Down with the Old-Up withthe New! ***
13 The fact that decides the answer to the question is, not, Do all the clergy of Roman Catholicism and of Protestantism
agree that Jehovah�s witnesses have been and are God�s prophet to the nations? but, Who discerned the divine will for Christians in this time of the world�s end and offered themselves to do it? Who have undertaken God�s foreordained work for this
day of judgment of the nations? Who have answered the call to the work and have done it down till this year 1958? Whom has God actually used as his prophet?14 By the historical facts of the case Christendom is beaten back in defeat.
Jehovah�s witnesses are deeply grateful today that the plain facts show that God has been pleased to use them. All the preaching and all the� Bible educational work that they have done till now in 175 countries and islands of the sea
they confess has� been, not by help of a military army, nor by human power, but by God�s spirit, his invisible active force.(Zech. 4:6, AV) It has been because Jehovah thrust out his hand of power and touched their lips and put his
words in their mouths. It has evidently been because he commissioned them to be over the nations and over the kingdoms. Happy are all those who have seen what the work of Jehovah God for now is and who have volunteered to do it.
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*** w72 4/1 197� 'They Shall Know that a Prophet Was Among Them'
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�He had a �prophet� to warn them. This �prophet� was not one man, but was a body of men and women. Itwas the small group of footstep followers of Jesus
Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah�s Christian witnesses. They are still proclaiming a warning, and have been joined and assisted in their commissioned work by hundreds of
thousands of persons who have listened to their message with belief.
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*** w72 4/1 198� 'They Shall Know that a Prophet Was Among Them'
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THE �PROPHET� SPEAKS TO CHRISTENDOM
A General Convention was
held by the International Bible Students at Cedar Point, Ohio, September 1-8, 1919. Thousands of Jehovah�s servants were present from the United States and Canada. There the Watch Tower Society�s president urged the fearless resumption of the
work, and this with the use of the outspoken magazine entitled �The Golden Age.� In the public talk delivered on the subject �The Hope for Distressed Humanity,� the speaker declared that the Lord�s displeasure was certain to be visited upon the
League of Nations,
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The Prophet spoken of here in this article was Rutherford.
*** w82 10/1 27� Be as Men Who Are Facing Har-Magedon Unafraid
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�In behalf of such individuals who at heart seek
God�s rule instead of man�s rule, the �prophet� whom Jehovah has raised up has been, not an individual man as in the case of Jeremiah, but a class. The members of this class are, like the prophet-priest Jeremiah, wholly dedicated
to Jehovah God through Christ and, by the begettal of Jehovah�s holy spirit, they have been made part of �a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for special possession.� (1 Peter 2:9) At this late date there is a
mere remnant of this �prophet� class yet on earth. The �war of the great day of God the Almighty� at Har�Magedon could not start before this composite �prophet� ends his work.
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*** g86 6/8 9� "Would That All Were Prophets!" ***
You will be interested to learn that God has on earth a people, all of whom are prophets, or witnesses for God. In fact, they are known throughout the world as Jehovah�s Witnesses.
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*** w72 3/15 189 , 190� Wanted-a Messenger ***
Therefore, when it came time for the name of Jehovah and his purposes to be
declared to the people, along with God�s warning that Christendom is in her �time of the end,� who qualified to be commissioned? Who was willing to undertake this monumental task as Jehovah�s �servant�? Was there anyone to whom Jehovah�s heavenly �chariot�
could roll up and whom it could confront? More accurately, was there any group on whom Jehovah would be willing to bestow the commission to speak as a �prophet� in His name, as was done toward Ezekiel back there in 613 B.C.E.? What were
the qualifications?.......... It is of importance to every individual on earth to identify the group that Jehovah has commissioned as his �servant� or messenger. ............ For this reason forthcoming issues of The Watchtower will further
discuss the identity and work of Jehovah�s commissioned messenger as revealed in His vision to Ezekiel.
See w72 4/1 p197 ( Quoted above) Says Prophets are Jehovah's Witnesses
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*** w79 9/1 29� The Royal "Shepherd"
of Bible Prophecy ***
28 Unlike the clergy class, those of the Jeremiah class have been sent by Jehovah to speak in his name.Nevertheless, the clergy prophets also claim to speak in his name and, hence, to tell the Bible
truth.
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*** Rbi8 Deuteronomy 18:20-22 ***
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��However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must
die. 21 And in case you should say in your heart: �How shall we know the word
that Jehovah has not spoken?� 22 when the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it. You must not get frightened at
him.�
*** Rbi8 1 John 4:1 ***
4 Beloved ones, do not believe everyinspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
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Ezekiel 13:8-9 ***
8 ��Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: ��For the reason that YOU men have spoken untruth and YOU have visioned a lie, therefore here I am against YOU,� is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.� 9
And my hand has come to be against the prophets that are visioning untruth and that are divining a lie. In the intimate group of my people they will not continue on, and in the register of the house of Israel they will not be written, and
to the soil of Israel they will not come; and YOU people will have to
know that I am the Sovereign Lord Jehovah,
*** Rbi8 Matthew 7:15-16 ***
15 �Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep�s covering, but
inside they are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits YOU will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they?
*** Rbi8 2 Peter 2:1 ***
2 However, there also came to be false prophets
among the people, as there will also be false teachers among YOU. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon
themselves.
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Ephesians 5:6-10 ***
6 Let no man deceive YOU with empty words, for because of the aforesaid things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become
partakers with them; 8 for YOU were once
darkness, but YOU are now light in connection with [the] Lord. Go on walking as children of light, 9 for the fruitage of the
light consists of every sort of goodnessand righteousness and truth. 10 Keep on making sure of what is
acceptable to the Lord;
Shaun