The Watchtower, December 15, 1952
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The WATCHTOWER
Announcing
JEHOVAH'S
KINGDOM
DECEMBER 15, 1952
Semimonthly
THE VOICE OF JEHOVAH
HEARKENING TO HIS VOICE
THE UNCHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS
THEOCRATIC ASSEMBLIES IN BIBLE TIMES
DISTRICT ASSEMBLIES DURING 1952
"YOU ARE MY WITNESSES," SAYS JEHOVAH.—Isa. 43:12 THE PURPOSE OF "THE WATCHTOWER"
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It sees things Scripturally. When it observes this generation afflicted with greed, delinquency, hypocrisy, atheism, war, famine, pestilence, perplexity and fear, and persecution of unpopular minorities, it does not parrot the old fable about history repeating itself. Informed by Bible prophecy, it sees in these things the sign of the world's time of the end. But with bright hope it also sees opening up for us just beyond these woes the portals of a new world.
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CONTENTS
The Unchristian Christmas
Theocratic Assemblies in Bible Times
District Assemblies During 1952
The Voice of Jehovah
Hearkening to His Voice
“Few Read the Bible”
Questions from Readers
Announcements
Scripture Index for Texts Explained, 1952
Subject Index for The Watchtower, 1952
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THE UNCHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS
"JEHOVAH'S Witnesses-Christmas Not Observed by Them. One religious group in New Ulm, Jehovah's witnesses, will not be following the usual tradition of celebrating Christmas. The local congregation has no special services planned for the yuletide holidays." Thus began an article in the New Ulm, Minnesota, Daily Journal, last December 22.
Do you wonder why, when nearly all other professing Christians make so much ado over Christmas, Jehovah's witnesses deliberately ignore it? You do? But would you wonder if you knew that Christmas is not Christian; that in spite of its name it not only is non-Christian but is unChristian; that it is based on pagan customs and superstitions and medieval traditions; that it is in fact the very antithesis of everything that is truly Christian? These statements no doubt seem radical to you, but if you will read on you will learn the reasons why Jehovah's witnesses, who take God's Word seriously, cannot afford to have anything to do with Christmas. Nor need we offer any apology for taking the Bible seriously. After all, Christmas is supposed to be a Christian holiday, celebrated by Christians, and both Christ Jesus and his apostles accepted the Bible as God's inspired truth.—John 17:17; 2 Tim. 3:15-17; 2 Pet. 1:20, 21, NW.
WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?
Jehovah's witnesses do not celebrate December 25 because, among other reasons, that is not the date of Jesus' birth, practically all historians being agreed on that fact. However, to state, as did one prominent United States clergyman a year ago, that "it might very well have been any one of the 365 days in the year" is to betray ignorance of Scriptural information on the subject, for the Bible does indicate, at least approximately, the date on which Jesus was born. How so? By several lines of evidence, among the strongest of which is the prophecy concerning the coming of the Messiah as recorded at Daniel 9:24-27 (AS). This prophecy speaks of seventy weeks and foretells that from the time of the giving of the command to rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah would be sixty-nine weeks.
According to the latest findings of archaeology, Artaxerxes III began ruling in 474 B.C.; and according to Nehemiah 2:1- 10, in the twentieth year of his reign he issued the decree for the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. Since the Messiah did not come after 483 literal days (69 weeks), we must conclude that the Scriptural rule of a "day for a year" must apply. (See Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6.) Counting 483 years from 455 B.C. we come to A.D. 29. There was no year 0 B.C. or 0 A.D.; therefore from 455 B.C.
to A.D.29 was 483 years instead of 484 years.
Jesus began his ministry as the Messiah when he was about thirty years old; and since that was the age according to the Mosaic law for a priest to begin to serve it seems reasonable to conclude that Jesus began his ministry as soon as he reached that age, which, according to the prophecy above referred to, was A.D. 29. This date, incidentally, agrees with what the Bible shows to have been the time when John the Baptist began his ministry.—See Numbers 4:3, 23; Luke 1:26-45; 3:1-4, 23, NW.
Daniel's prophecy further foretold that the Messiah would be cut off after the sixty-ninth week and that in the middle of the seventieth week (or, after three and a half years of it) he would "cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease". Since it was by his cutting off or death that Jesus made an end to the validity of the Jewish sacrifices, their code being
nailed to the tree with him this prophecy foretells that Jesus would die after three and a half years of ministry. (Col. 2:14, NW) This is the length of time generally accepted by Bible scholars as the duration of Jesus' ministry and harmonizes with the evidence available in John's Gospel that Jesus' ministry saw four passovers come and go. (John 2:13; 5:1;
years prior thereto, or on about October 1, and in the year 2 B.C.
Equipped for Every Good Work, page 280. There being no question about Jesus' being cut off at passover time, about the first of April, A.D.33, it follows from the foregoing calculations that he was born 3 3 \frac {1}{2}
This October date is in keeping with all the circumstantial evidence available. The shepherds were watching their flocks at night at the time and Joseph and Mary had traveled a long way to Bethlehem to be registered in keeping with the decree of Caesar Augustus. The shepherds would not have their flocks outside during the cold wet rainy winter season of Palestine, nor is it reasonable to conclude that Caesar would require all the Jews to do so much traveling at the worst time of the year for it; a fact apparent from Jesus' words, "Keep praying that your flight may not occur in wintertime."—Matt. 24:20; Luke 2:1-20, NW.
ITS PAGAN ANTECEDENTS
In view of these facts, what accounts for December 25 as being chosen for the
celebration of Jesus' birth? Julian
bishop of Rome (A.D. 337- 352), is reputed to have been the first to fix the celebration of Christmas on December 25. And on what basis? Says the Catholic Encyclopedia (Vol. 3, page 727) "The well-known solar feast however, Natalis Invicti [Birthday of the Unconquered] has a strong claim on the responsibility for our Decem er date." And according to the clopedia Americana, the
church of Rome arranged for the celebration of Jesus' birthday on December 25 "on the day of the old Roman [pagan] feast of the birth of Sol, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ's birth existed".
(Vol. 6, page 623, 1942 ed.) Other authorities tell us that the church, being unable to wean the people away from this feast, adopted it and gave it a new significance. This caused Tertullian to complain: "By us, who are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia [and other pagan feasts] are now frequented, gifts are carried to and fro, . . . and sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar."
But perhaps someone will ask, Granted that December 25 is of pagan origin and that Jesus was born on about October 1, why not celebrate that date? Why not? Because the very celebration of birthdays is pagan. Nowhere in the Scriptures do we find recorded the date of anyone's birth; nor any record of birthday celebrations by Jehovah's servants, either before or after the time of Christ. The only two birthday celebrations mentioned in the Scriptures were held by pagan emperors and each was marred by an execution, the one by Pharaoh by the execution of his chief baker and the one by Herod by the execution, the beheading, of John the Baptist.—Gen. 40:20-22; Matt. 14:6-11.
Nor are its date, the merrymaking and the giving of gifts the only pagan aspects of Christmas. Its use of the evergreen tree, the mistletoe and the holly are based on the pagan reverence for the things of nature. According to the historian Professor Hislop, the Christmas tree celebration actually harks back to the time of Nimrod some 4,000 years ago: "Now the Yule Log is the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his enemies; the Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus—the slain god come to life again."—The Two Babylons, pages 97, 98.
Christmas tree decorations go back to pre-Christian Teutons who decorated their evergreens with coiled strings of fruit and
grain in honor of the sacred dragon Nithager. Glittering balls of gold were used to pay homage to Balder, god of the ever mystical sun. (Today, antigod communist lands such as Romania make a great deal of the Winter Tree Festival; decorated evergreens are featured, and last year in Bucharest, the capital, the center of attraction was "a tree 70 feet tall, on which there were thousands of lights, golden globes and metal bells".)
The same is true regarding the mistletoe. According to pagan traditions it was a divine branch that had come from heaven and represented the Savior; it was claimed that the god Loki in envy killed the handsome god Balder with a dart made from the mistletoe; all other plants having vowed not to harm Balder; the mistletoe, having been overlooked, was therefore used. According to this pagan tradition the mistletoe dart was plucked out of Balder's fatal wound and given to the goddess of love, Freya, whence the custom that a lad may kiss a lass if he sees her under the mistletoe.
In ancient times both the mistletoe and wreaths of holly were hung in windows and doorways for their curative and protective powers, to keep witches and evil spirits from entering. According to another pagan superstition the red berries of the holly represented drops of blood of the pagan god Balder.
And what about the three wise men appearing on Christmas cards? More paganism. In the first place, note that the Bible does not state how many wise men there were. Secondly, it is most likely that they visited Jesus and his mother Mary when Jesus was about two years old, for the account refers to Jesus not as an infant but as a young child; and not as being in a manger but in a house; note also Herod's decree to kill all male babes two years old and under. Further, it is quite evident that the one directing the wise men with the light was not the same one that directed the shepherds to Jesus' manger by means of the angels; otherwise why direct them to Jesus' greatest enemy, and cause Jesus' life to be put in jeopardy and the death of so many children?
No, it is not at all reasonable to conclude that the God who warned his people not to have anything to do with pagan religions would direct astrologers or magi, pagan worshipers of demon gods, to his Son.—Isa. 47:13; compare Matthew 2:1-18 with Luke 2:8-20, NW.
And what about the hanging up of stockings, Santa Claus and St. Nicholas? To the extent that these may not be of pagan origin they can be traced to early medieval origin and, of course, find no basis in the Scriptures.
WHY NOT CELEBRATE
It may be asked, Why not celebrate Christmas, since it seems to bring much joy in spite of its pagan antecedents? Because God's Word repeatedly warns his servants not to have anything to do with false worship. For example, note how emphatically the apostle Paul states this matter. In discussing the matter of foods offered to idols, after making the point that idols actually are not anything, he goes on to say: "The things which the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with the demons. You cannot be drinking the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons; you cannot be partaking of 'the table of Jehovah' and the table of demons. Or 'are we inciting Jehovah to jealousy'? We are not stronger than he is, are we?"—1 Cor. 10:19-22, NW; see also Exodus 23:24, 32, 33; Deuteronomy 7:16; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; James 1:26, 27, NW.
In view of the foregoing, what lack of Scriptural understanding is evinced by
Donald Harrington, pastor of the New York Community Church, who, in seeking to justify the celebration of Christmas in spite of its pagan antecedents, states: "It is this integration of pagan rites and ceremonies which stand as an example of the universality of God and makes one realize that Christmas is not merely a Christian festival but a holiday of mankind."—New York Times, December 24, 1951.
Nor is that all. Note some of the material ills associated with it. In 1951 Christmas holiday deaths totaled 789 in the United States, many of which were caused by drunken Christmas drivers. The New York Times for December 12, 1951, editorialized on the "starkly tragic" aspects of many of the fires caused by Christmas trees. And not only undertakers and firemen but also doctors have extra work during the holiday season as hospitals fill up with victims of overindulgence.
Big business exploits the season, overcharging the public, selling them inferior goods and doing everything within its power to give one and all the Christmas fever, to have 'the holiday spirit get into their blood'. Estimates as to how many hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by the Christmas shoppers of the United States vary, but the fact that in New York city alone the sanitation department had 25,000 tons of rubbish to clean up after the 1951 holiday indicates to what extent the people are taken in.
Sensing that Christmas is being greatly commercialized, certain clergymen are agitating for a more "Christian" Christmas, actually a contradiction in terms. To what extent their campaign has been successful may be determined from the fullpage advertisement that appeared in a daily to the effect that "we think it's a bright-eyed idea to give someone manure for Christmas. We'll ship a magnificent one-ton of Daisy's best to your door (or to the rear of your barn door) for $19".
True, Jesus said that "there is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving", but such is true only if one's giving is sincere and unselfish. Remember he also said: "When you spread a dinner or evening meal, do not call your friends, or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors. Perhaps some time they might also invite you in return and it would become a repayment to you. But when you spread a feast, invite poor people, crippled, lame, blind; and you will be happy, because they have nothing with which to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous ones."—Luke 14:12-14, NW.
Under the artificial stimulation of the Christmas fever some unfortunates may
get some "charity". But that hardly compensates for the fact that Christmas is in reality a snare of the Devil, to deceive the people into thinking that they are Christians by reason of indulging in pagan customs and ceremonies that gratify the fleshly instincts, waste money, health and lives and, worst of all, arouse Jehovah God to jealousy.
True Christianity does not work that way. It does good to its fellow men 365 days a year and not just one day, and not just in material ways but in the far more important spiritual treasures which lead to everlasting life. Jehovah's witnesses have devoted their lives to doing this very thing.
And now do you understand why they do not celebrate Christmas?
THE great Creator of the universe, the Almighty God, Jehovah, is a wise and loving God. He knows best what will advance his righteous
and loving purposes and how best to equip his servants so that they may co-operate with their Maker to his praise and to their own happiness. Proof of this is seen in his provision for having his servants come together in assemblies. And since he is the great God-Ruler or Theocrat, it follows that all assemblies arranged by him would be theocratic assemblies.
Among the very first assemblies that
Theocratic Assemblies in Bible Times
Jehovah caused to be held by his earthly servants was the one that took place when Jehovah's time came to deliver the children of
Israel from Egyptian bondage. At that assembly "Aaron spake all the words which Jehovah had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed: . . . bowed their heads and worshipped". (Ex. 4:29-31, AS) Without doubt, that assembly was a joyous occasion, revealing as it did Jehovah's purpose to deliver his name-people.
Some months later the Israelites were assembled at Jehovah's command at the foot of Mount Sinai for the purpose of witnessing the giving of the law.
"And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And . . . the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder." (Ex. 19:18, 19, AS) What a strong basis for faith, what abundant proof was there given that Moses was no impostor but was indeed the spokesman of the Supreme Being, Jehovah God! At that assembly the children of Israel agreed 'to do all the things Jehovah commanded and to be obedient'. At that assembly also the law covenant, previously made in Egypt with the celebration of the Passover, was inaugurated. Ex.24:7.
However, the Israelites failed to live up to the agreement they made at that assembly and so, instead of entering the Promised Land in a matter of months, the older ones, with few exceptions, all perished in the wilderness; and we find their offspring thirty-nine years later assembled on the plains of Moab, still on this side of the Jordan river. At this assembly Moses reiterated God's law and recounted the marvelous way in which Jehovah had preserved and led them, repeatedly exhorting them to faithfulness, and introduced to them Joshua as his successor. To appreciate the heart-warming lesson of faith that Moses there gave to the assembled Israelites one must read the book of Deuteronomy.
Without a doubt that assembly and the words uttered by Moses deeply impressed themselves upon the mind of Joshua, for after leading the Israelites across the Jordan and serving as their military commander and theocratic judge for some twenty years, shortly before his death he also called together an assembly. Gathering
all the people at Shechem, he recounted the way Jehovah had dealt with his people and voiced his determination that, regardless of what they decided to do, 'he and his house would serve Jehovah.' (Josh. 24:1-28, AS) The people voiced a like determination.
After having had judges such as Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Samuel for some 350 years, another outstanding assembly, marking another milestone in the history of the nation of Israel, was held. The occasion was the request of the people to have a king like those of the surrounding nations, they not being content to have Jehovah as their invisible King. Having first determined Jehovah's will and choice in the matter, Samuel told the people assembled at Mizpah what Jehovah had said regarding their request. By lots Saul was found to be Jehovah's choice, he in fact having been previously anointed to be king by Samuel.—1 Sam. 10:17-24, AS.
ASSEMBLIES AT JERUSALEM
The law which Jehovah gave the children of Israel by the hand of Moses provided for three annual assemblies at which every male was to be present. These assemblies were to be held in the city that God would choose, which turned out to be Jerusalem. The first of these annual assemblies was the feast of unleavened bread, which immediately followed the Passover, lasting for seven days beginning with the fifteenth day of Abib or Nisan. This feast, like the Passover that preceded it, commemorated the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt, at which time they were in such great haste that they had to bake their bread before it was leavened.—Ex. 12:39; 23:14-17, AS.
Next came the feast of the harvest or first fruits, celebrated fifty days after the first sheaf of grain had been brought to the priest to be waved before Jehovah. And finally, there was the feast of ingathering or of tabernacles in the seventh month, at the conclusion of the harvest, and which was celebrated for seven days beginning with the fifth day after the day of atonement.
Regarding that feast the Israelites were commanded: "Ye shall dwell in booths [made of branches] seven days; . . . that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt."—Lev. 23:39-43, AS.
The convening of yearly assemblies at Jerusalem undoubtedly taxed the housing facilities of that city and its suburbs to the limit, requiring many to use tents and other improvised shelters, except for the feast of tabernacles, when all were required to live in booths. The people saw the significant ceremonies, such as that of the day of atonement, performed by the priests, heard God's Word read to them and listened to the singing of thousands of trained Levite singers accompanied by huge orchestras.
These annual assemblies impressed upon the minds of the Israelites the awesome majesty of Jehovah their God and of his laws as well as graphically reminding them of the marvelous deliverances he had performed for them in times past, all of which would cause them to rejoice with songs of praise and thanksgiving. Those assemblies, no doubt, also meant the making of many new acquaintances, and we may be sure that even the traveling to them had a broadening effect as they became more and more acquainted with other parts of their land of Palestine.
David called together a special assembly at Jerusalem after all the material needed for the building of the temple had been gathered, at which time he gave Solomon instructions regarding his office and the building of the temple and exhorted the people to faithfulness. To catch the spirit
of that occasion read 1 Chronicles 29:10 to 19, AS.
About eleven years later Solomon caused another great assembly to be convened at Jerusalem, this one to mark the dedication of the glorious temple, at which 'all the congregation of Israel was present with King Solomon and so many sacrifices were made that they could not be counted or numbered for multitude'. That assembly lasted more than three weeks, the people returning to their homes on the twenty-third day "joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Jehovah had showed". 2 Chron. 5:2 to 7:10, AS.
EARLY CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLIES
At the time of Jesus the Jews were scrupulously observing the feasts commanded by the law. And while in a sense it might be said that the public meetings held by Jesus at which thousands were in attendance, lasting for hours and making it necessary that Jesus provide them with food, were the first Christian assemblies, it was the feast of Pentecost that really was the first of all Christian assemblies.
The supernatural phenomenon accompanying the outpouring of the holy spirit, and which marked the beginning of the Christian congregation, might well be compared with the assembly held at Mount Sinai at the inauguration of the law covenant. "And they all became filled with holy spirit and started to speak with different tongues," thus enabling them to preach to the many reverent Jews in Jerusalem at the time for the celebration of the feast of Pentecost from "every nation of those under heaven".
That assembly of 120 Christians saw a twenty-fivefold increase on its very first day, for the number grew to three thousand. (Acts 1:15; 2:1-41, NW) No question about that's being a joyful occasion! Truly, the theocratic assemblies of Bible times brought praise to Jehovah, knowledge and instruction to his people, and invariably
gave them much cause for rejoicing. The same is true of theocratic assemblies held in modern times.
District Assemblies During 1952
THE expansion of true worship in the earth has been shown in the increase in the size of modern theocratic assemblies. Back in 1893, 360 were in attendance; in 1919, at the Cedar Point, Ohio, international assembly, some 7,000 heard the president of the Watch Tower Society, J. F. Rutherford, speak; while 123,707 heard the president of that Society, N. H. Knorr, give the public lecture at the Yankee Stadium, New York city, in 1950.
In 1952, instead of one international assembly, some 70 district assemblies were held during the months of August and September alone in upward of twenty different lands, with a combined peak attendance of 313,751 persons. Of these assemblies, 35 were held in the United States, 11 in Canada, 8 in Germany and 6 in England and Wales. The programs of these assemblies were identical.
Growing to maturity by making good use of Jehovah's undeserved kindness was the theme of these assemblies. The outstanding feature was the public discourse "World Unity, Is It Just a Dream?"
ADVERTISING THE PUBLIC LECTURE
Every conceivable and possible means of advertising, ancient and modern, was used to invite the people to come to hear the public discourse Sunday afternoon. Among the ancient means used were those of going from house to house and standing on the streets, particularly on Friday and
Saturday mornings, as well as by the witnesses' making use of every contact with the public to give the invitation. By such methods millions of handbills also were distributed and much Bible literature was placed.
Signs were also extensively used. Many of the witnesses had one or more signs on their cars; bumper signs, signs on the sides and rear and some signs even attached to the tops of their cars. Motorcades toured the streets advertising the lecture. Large signs were put up along the highways, across streets, on the sides of buildings and on hotel marquees. Thousands of signs were placed in store windows. At Galveston, Texas, the request by one of the witnesses to be permitted to put a sign in a certain window resulted in a heated argument between two business partners, one a Jew, the other a Catholic; the Jew was in favor of having the sign placed in the window, the Catholic was opposed thereto. Thinking it futile to wait, the witness left them arguing and proceeded to the next store. However, before reaching it the Jewish businessman called, "Hey, you, come back here and put one of those signs in my window. We won!"
News releases were given to all the newspapers in each area, and very favorable response was given in many cities. In the Syracuse, New York, area some 70 different papers carried items regarding the assembly. Some welcomed the witnesses in their editorial columns, such as the Portland, Maine, Evening Express, and from which we quote: "A more earnest, more orderly gathering of men, women and children (whole families are attending this assembly) one could hardly hope to see.
. The Witnesses are here on serious business and their assembly is attending strictly and devotedly to that business. And Portland is glad to have them."
Nor was such fair and even favorable publicity limited to the press. Many radio stations gave good co-operation both by having ten- and fifteen-minute interviews and by spot announcements. In some cities television lent the final word to the modern means of advertising the assembly and particularly the public lecture. As a result of all these various means of advertising, the previously mentioned total of 313,751 persons attended the public lecture Sunday at the assembly points.
HOW JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IMPRESSED OTHERS
Vainly the world tries by selfish pursuits, by self-indulgence, pleasure-seeking and excesses to find joy and happiness. On the other hand, Jehovah's witnesses by engaging in the pure worship are seen to be the happiest and most joyful people under the sun. The world calls the Bible and its principles old-fashioned and impractical, but in spite of itself it has to gape in utter amazement as it sees Jehovah's witnesses apply the principles of the Bible in this twentieth century and obtain results possible in no other way. And yet those of the world continue in their selfish course, overlooking entirely that generosity, love and unselfishness are just as contagious as are greed and selfishness, and far more powerful.—Luke 6:38.
A fire department official at Allentown, Pennsylvania, marveled at the way Jehovah's witnesses not only succeed in interesting young people in their message but also get the young folks to share in the work at hand. The obvious unity between all races and the very good behavior of the children caused a Bridgeport, Connecticut, newspaper reporter to exclaim, "What you are doing is very practical indeed!" But the world continues too proud to imitate such practical Christianity.
At that same assembly a city official expressed wonderment: "You mean to tell me people are working like that for nothing?" Being assured that such was the case, he replied, "I just don't get it! We pay people and can't get them to work like that!" But that is just it: people working for selfish ends do not work that hard. This fact was clearly appreciated by a certain Philadelphia professional tent erector who supervised the erection of the tents for the Wilmington, Delaware, assembly. Commenting on the co-operation he received from Jehovah's witnesses in the erection of these tents, he said: "You can tell that those men are volunteers. Men working for money just do not work that hard!"
Expressing the same sentiment was the comment of a Buffalo, New York, auditorium official, "You can't get men to work like that if you paid them money. In my language, you fellows are tops!" And noticing such activity an official at Portland, Maine, moaned, "Why can't I get men to work like that instead of griping all the time?" Yes, the world wonders why, yet it is all so simple. Love for one's Creator, Jehovah God, and for one's neighbor is the strongest force in the world. It accomplishes what no selfish inducement ever could. And yet they say the Bible is impractical!
And that such unselfishness is contagious, as already noted, was particularly apparent from the experiences had by those engaged in the work of obtaining rooms.
Many people offered rooms freely, some turning their entire homes over to the witnesses. In more than one city upward of a hundred free rooms were obtained. At Rockford, Illinois, a householder, regretting that he would not be in town during the assembly, offered to pay the cost of two rooms for three days at a hotel At Amarillo Texas another house-
ever, they were so impressed by what they heard they forgot why they came there and listened attentively to the lecture. Afterward they shame-facedly confessed why they had come and who had sent them!
Some in the United States also experienced a change in heart. A union official at Zanesville, Ohio, stated: "Before your assembly there was an ill-feeling toward Jehovah's witnesses in this town but your
holder expressed regrets at not being able to accommodate any of the witnesses, and contributed five dollars to help provide hotel accommodations for one of the witnesses. In every city the response for rooms was better the second and third times than at the first time the householders were approached.
SOME OPPOSITION
However, not all were ready to cooperate with Jehovah's witnesses. The American Legion at Rockford, Illinois, did
assembly has surely changed a lot of minds. I am one that changed his mind." At another assembly, the official in charge, a World War II veteran, started out by doing all he could to make it difficult for the witnesses, and ended up by doing all he could to assist them.
Needless to say, no district assemblies were held behind the Iron Curtain and the Communists in East Germany did their best to keep Jehovah's witnesses from attending any of these assemblies. But in spite of their opposition, of the some 9,000
its best, or worst, to keep the witnesses from using the armory, for which a contract had been signed. But state officials did the American thing by standing for freedom of worship, not being cowed by the un-American position of the Legion.
And the American Legion at Galveston, Texas, tried to prevent Jehovah's witnesses not only from meeting at the city auditorium which had been contracted for, but also from meeting anywhere else in the city, charging that Jehovah's witnesses were "opposed to the defense of our country and followed the direct teachings of
witnesses that attended the Berlin district assembly fully half of them crossed over from the Eastern zone. Incidentally, at the Berlin public meeting 14,800 attended, exceeding even the best United States attendance, which was some 13,000 at Los Angeles.
And now Jehovah's witnesses all over the world look forward to the great international convention to be held July 19 through 26 at the Yankee Stadium, New York city. They are not only looking forward to it but praying for it and making plans to attend it. Are you planning to be
Russian theology", a charge which obviously revealed either ignorance or prejudice. However, their efforts not only proved to be futile but served to better advertise the assembly and the position of the witnesses on communism, etc.
At one of the district assembly public meetings held in Austria a bishop sent 30 students to disrupt the meeting. How-
there? Those who attended the assembly there in 1950 do not need to be urged.
If you can possibly get there, in faith arrange to come. Remember that according to our faith it will be unto us, that the arm of Jehovah is not shortened, and that 'positive thinkers and actors will be there'. "If Jehovah wills, we shall live" and be present.—Jas. 4:15, NW. The Voice of JEHOVAH
"Worship Jehovah in holy array." Ps. 29:2, AS.
EHOVAH'S witnesses are dedicated to the publishing of Jehovah's name. His name is clearly indicated in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures by the tetragrammaton for which the Latin characters are JHVH, or English YHWH. While the exact pronunciation of the four Hebrew characters for this name is not known, the name of the Sovereign Ruler of the universe as we have long known it is Jehovah in English. Jehovah's witnesses want all peoples from one end of the earth to the other to become acquainted with that name and its meaning. The inhabitants of all nations should know the divine name in their own languages. But to the reasoning mind it is a strange thing that the religious leaders in Christendom should try to hide, even destroy, that name. This they have done in the recently released Revised Standard Version of the Bible, because the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America wants it removed and so takes the credit and the responsibility for removing the name Jehovah from their new revised English text.
2 One wondered how they would make Psalm 83:18 read, where the King James Version states: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." This Christian educational committee of the National Council now holding the copyright for the Revised Standard Version says it should read, "whose name is the LORD." However, that rendering of the Hebrew tetragrammaton does not give any distinction or sovereignty or supremacy to the highest Being in all the universe. "Lord" to the ordinary person of today has many meanings. Is this religious committee trying to make the Sovereign Ruler a common individual or less than that by not letting the people of the world know his real name? Or are they saying that he has no real name? Why hide it? Why let the people think that God Almighty is just another master, ruler or nobleman, by letting the tetragrammaton read as a title, "the Lord," instead of giving him his actual name? Why this degrading of God's name by the removal of it? When God spoke to Moses, he said: "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them." (Ex. 6:3, AS) The Revised Standard Version now reads: "but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them." However, this committee, by a wide circulation of its Revised Standard Version, cannot destroy the name of the only true God of the universe, Jehovah. Why? Because Jehovah's witnesses are still alive, and they will be busier and more energetic than ever announcing and making known Jehovah's name to all kindreds and tongues in all nations of the earth.
3 These religionists of modern days may
To what publishing are Jehovah's witnesses dedicated, and so in what way do publishers of a new Bible version appear strange?
How have they degraded God's name, and yet why without the power to destroy it?
What will the "voice of Jehovah" now do, and for making what decision is it now the time?
do what they will with God's name, Jehovah, but the Great Ruler will see to it that his people proclaim his name and make it known. "The voice of Jehovah" will do this. Nothing, not even Christendom's religionists, will stop Almighty God from making his name known throughout all the earth, for he himself says: "I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah." (Ezek. 13:23, AS) Jehovah knows that the clergy of Christendom are serving this old system of things, which he himself is going to destroy at the battle of Armageddon. They are certainly not serving him. That is why Jehovah's Word says to those that love him: "Get out of her, my people." (Rev. 18:4, NW) The time has come for all persons to make a decision as to whose side they are going to be on, Jehovah's, or that of those who are against Jehovah.
4 Let us listen to what Jehovah himself has to say through his writer, David, when he wrote the 29th Psalm. The opening verses of this very descriptive psalm say: "Ascribe unto Jehovah, O ye sons of the mighty, ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength. Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name; worship Jehovah in holy array." (Ps. 29:1, 2, AS) From this description it appears a time has arrived for celebration, a time for a joyous occasion.
In considering these two verses we might wonder, Just who are these "sons of the mighty"? It could be those who hold very high positions in the theocratic organization of Jehovah God, maybe the powerful servants that Jehovah has appointed to special work. On the other hand, it could mean "sons of God", as is pointed out in the footnote of the American Standard Version. If that be so, then "sons of God" could take in all the angels of the heavens
that are invisible to man but form Jehovah's universal organization. In the book of Job it is stated: "Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them." (Job 1:6, AS) On festive occasions such as this what singing and praise must have been given to the name of the Most High God, Jehovah! It must have been a beautiful, majestic spectacle to behold! Even the rebellious Satan came to look in on this magnificent assembly and to hear the songs the faithful servants must have been singing. On this particular occasion, Jehovah said to Satan, "Whence comest thou?" or "Where did you come from?" to which Satan answered, saying he had been going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it. (Job 1:7) What was on the earth was the Devil's world. He had corrupted it. He had not come to this assembly before the mighty ones of Jehovah to praise the Sovereign Ruler. He was just an observer of the splendor and majesty that surround the Creator of heaven and earth.
The psalmist expressed beautifully Jehovah's superiority over these powerful ones, saying in Psalm 89:5-7 (AS): "And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah, a God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all them that are round about him?"
"SONS OF THE GODS"
There is still another possible rendering of Psalm 29:1, according to a second footnote in the American Standard Ver-
5. What "sons" does Psalm 29:1 mention, and who could they be? Why?
How does Psalm 89:5-7 show Jehovah's superiority? 7. What other possible rendering of Psalm 29:1 does the AS footnote show, and who, then, would those sons be?
sion. The Hebrew text could read, "Ascribe unto Jehovah, O ye sons of the gods." This then would refer to the sons of the nations who have forgotten the first man's true parentage, the Creator, Jehovah God. Men of all nations have arranged themselves under the imaginary protection of deified heroes. Of course, to help their imaginations, they have made great idols of silver and stone and gold and wood. In this way the peoples of the world have invented and made their own gods. These they have worshiped for centuries; but what has this worship gotten them? The many religions in the world have often been the cause of wars, strifes, hatreds between peoples and nations, class distinction, isolationism. Jesus said to false religionists: "You are from your father the Devil." (John 8:44, NW) The sons of the gods they worship are still carrying on the false religion which began in early mythology, and their doctrines, ideas and philosophies of life have been carried right down to our day. The Sovereign Ruler Jehovah calls on all these sons of the many gods now to ascribe to Jehovah the glory that is due, to ascribe strength to him. Nimrod of centuries past placed himself above God. He wanted to be a mighty one ahead of Jehovah. Where are his strength and glory today? Let the followers of Nimrod and the followers of the many pagan gods, practices and beliefs all forsake their gods and their false religion if they want to live, and give glory to Jehovah, not to some man or image. But the religionists with their many gods will not recognize Jehovah; rather, "modernists" try to hide him.
8 Today we have throughout the world many kinds of religions with their many different gods. Even Christendom wants to have many gods and lords, and she
wants the sons of these many gods to be satisfied with the latest product of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, their new Revised Standard Version Bible. So they remove the name Jehovah and make it "the LORD". But their new version or their revision of their old version makes the translators look vague when we read Psalm 29:2 (RS): "Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name." Hence we ask the Committee, What is his name? Is it the LORD? No! At Psalm 83:18, according to the book entitled "Studies in The Psalms", by J. B. Rotherham, a very accurate translation is: "That men may know that thou, whose name is Jehovah, thou alone art most high over all the earth." While Christendom goes on its wayward course, the faithful followers of the Almighty will hearken to the voice of Jehovah, and they will make his message and his name known to the nations. If we allow as possible this third rendering of the text inviting the "sons of the gods" to praise Jehovah, it means that all creation should tremble before him, not only the creatures of the invisible heavens, but all humankind. The writer of the 96th Psalm expresses this thought in verses 7 to 9, where it is stated: "Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. Oh worship Jehovah in holy array: tremble before him, all the earth." (AS) Here the appeal is to all earthlings to worship Jehovah, and the expression is very similar to that at Psalm 29:1, 2.
While the majority of the peoples of the nations of earth turn a deaf ear to this call, there are many of the other sheep who are listening to the group of praisers in the earth who love to call their God by his name Jehovah, and these sheep are coming to them and joining them in this
How have the RS translators rendered Psalm 29:2 vaguely, and upon whom does this verse call and to do what?
Who are listening to the praisers of God's name, and how is their turning and worshiping him foretold?
song of praise. If Jesus said he had "other sheep", which he must also bring to associate with the "little flock" who are being called out as joint heirs with him in heavenly glory, then these he must bring and make one flock, and Christ Jesus will be their "one shepherd". (John 10:16) Those whose hearts are right will find Jehovah and know him because of Jesus the
Shepherd, and they will be guided to Jehovah's organization, just as the psalmist pointed out in the 22d Psalm, verses 26 and 27: "The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek after him: let your heart live for ever. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah; and all the kindreds of the nations sh
worship before thee." (AS) This is in full accord with the expression in Revelation where the thought is brought out that a great crowd shall come from all nations, kindreds and tongues. They will worship before Jehovah, because they know that glory is due to his name. (Rev. 7:9, NW) Jesus their Shepherd acknowledged that there is one living and true God; not many gods, not many lords. And this unique God, the Sovereign Ruler of the universe, has been distinguished from all the false gods by having a name which is worthy of praise on the part of all creatures in heaven and on earth.
thousands know what Jehovah's name stands for. They know that Jehovah is revealing his purposes toward his creatures. They know that Jehovah has fulfilled his promises, and they have confidence in him. They have turned to his Word and have found it to be reliable. And who is the one who has done all this for the lovers of
10 Jehovah's witnesses are not going to be mixed up with a lot of other gods. Now that we are in the last days of the Devil's organization, the other sheep are seeing the confusion of the worship among the peoples of the nations and they are fleeing from this confusion. Already hundreds of
right things and truth? Jehovah that is his name, and they worship him.
11 The expression in Psalm 29:2 (AS), "Worship Jehovah in holy array," takes in so much. It is hard to comprehend the magnificent spectacle that takes place in the heavens and upon the earth when this Psalm comes into complete fulfillment. When Jehovah God
as a special people, he had his priests array themselves in holy garments. Aaron's garments are described at Exodus chapter 28 and they were most beautiful. His garments distinguished him from all the other priests. When he appeared before Jehovah God he was on certain occasions in his robes of glory and beauty. In days gone by when Jehovah's people were marching through the wilderness, he had them array themselves in proper positions. All this was done according to his direction. It was organization. Each tribe was happy to take its right position. It was not that one tribe was trying to be the first in position. It was that God had placed them by his own direction. Jehovah was their God and he guided them. He led them through the wilderness and eventually into the Promised Land. They should have worshiped him in holy array. So when they went to the worship
Why does this crowd of other sheep do this?
11, 12. How and why should Israel have worshiped Jehovah in holy array, and how did they fail to do this?
of other gods, then Jehovah showed his displeasure.
12 Time and time again the children of Israel went to the worship of false gods, even after Jehovah had provided them with food, with clothing that did not wear out, with shoes that did not get full of holes from walking. Even though they were well acquainted with God's deliverance of them from Egypt and his power demonstrated in the destruction of Pharaoh and the Egyptians who followed after him, still they forsook Jehovah and went to the worshiping of other gods. These gods were not able to do anything for the Israelites, no more than they were able to do anything for the nations that worshiped them. The prophet Jeremiah put it very forcefully and plainly when he said in his second chapter, verses 26-28 (AS): "As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets; who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah."
13 As it was with the children of Israel, it is with the nations of the world today. Where are the powers of the gods of the nations? Where do they bring blessings to the people? The nations of the earth have marched forth with their armies, they have fought their murderous battles, they have taken possession of new countries, their priests and clergymen have blessed them in their actions, but where is the blessing? The priests that blessed the
losing nations have become captives with the losers. The religious leaders who have blessed the victorious nations have not brought peace and prosperity to the winners. Why do not the peoples of the world turn from these religious leaders? Some few do, but the majority of the peoples of this earth are following their blind religious guides and when the guides fall into the pit so will the peoples of the nations. (Matt. 15:14, NW) The falling into the pit of all such peoples of the wicked governments along with their rulers is not far distant. The battle of Armageddon is not too far away, when Jehovah God in holy array will strike against all these nations and destroy them utterly.
14 The 29th Psalm gives us a beautiful description of the power of God and how he can destroy the nations, and what an easy matter it will be for him to bring low the great power of the organized governments of the world. Jehovah God, through his kindness and mercy, has spoken through his Word and through his people for centuries. Today he has massed together hundreds of thousands of his witnesses for making proclamation of his name to the ends of the earth. They listen to his voice through his Word. But in a short while the voice of Jehovah will speak in an altogether different manner. He will speak from the heavens in thunderous tones.
LIKE THUNDER
15 The 29th Psalm shows that the thunder of the heavens is like the voice of God. The terrible phenomena of the storm in the heavens are an expression of God's majesty, his eternalness, his sovereignty and his unshakableness. When Jehovah speaks
How has it been similar with the worldly nations today, and that with what end near at hand?
How has Jehovah spoken for centuries, but how will he speak shortly?
To what did Jehovah's voice get likened, and what example of this did Israel have at Sinai?
with his voice of authority from heaven, then all the nations of earth will tremble and shake and pass out of existence. Now the time has come for those of sheeplike disposition to heed the voice of God as spoken in his Word before his voice will speak from the heavens at Armageddon. Jehovah's expressions are powerful. When he gave the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai, it presented an awesome spectacle. He had just effected a great deliverance of his people. Probably over two million of them, men, women and children, had been brought out of Egypt now into the wilderness. He was going to lead them on to the Promised Land. They were his chosen ones; they were his theocratic organization. And he showed them his power from the heavens. "And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled." (Ex. 19:16, AS) And then, in the 18th verse, we read: "And Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly."—See also Exodus 20:18.
16 The great God of heaven is not a softspoken individual. He is a God of indignation, a God who will express his wrath against those who do not serve him and who are fighting against him. He is not a god who can be pushed around by those whom he has created. "Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire." (Isa. 30:27, AS) The God that Jehovah's witnesses worship is the Sovereign Ruler of the universe and
he has shown forth his magnificence and his wonderfulness as the only rightful ruler of the universe. His people are acquainted with his creation, they are acquainted with his Word, they are acquainted with his mighty acts in times past, and they have faith in what he is going to do in the near future. They can say with the psalmist, "Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty: who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh winds his messengers; flames of fire his ministers; who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved for ever." (Ps. 104:1-5, AS) So his witnesses beware when Jehovah speaks.
17 Those who have now come to know the true God of the universe and his name Jehovah are delighted to honor his name. They want to do something; they want to express to others their knowledge of Jehovah. That is why you will find Jehovah's witnesses so active. And they say: "I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have any being." (Ps. 104:33, AS) They are anxious to join in the worship of Jehovah in holy array. They recognize that there is an organization that has been formed in the earth, Jehovah's visible organization.
18 Just as Jehovah has an invisible organization of principalities and powers, of cherubim, seraphim and angels, all in their proper station in his organization, so upon the earth Jehovah God has built up a great organization. God's servants in the earth
Why do his witnesses beware when Jehovah speaks?
What is it that those who have now come to know him want to do?
What has Jehovah built up on earth, and so where is our safety?
speak one language, the language that Jehovah God teaches in his Word. At the same time they are able to speak these truths from God's Word in many tongues throughout the earth. God has not gathered his people together into one city or locality or one earthly place of safety and refuge. Through their Leader, Christ Jesus, they are sent forth to the ends of the earth, there to preach the good news of God's kingdom. But as long as they are in his organization speaking the many tongues of the peoples, they are still sending forth the pure language of God's Word. It is not a matter of geographic location that brings protection. It is a matter of being faithful to Jehovah God and close to him in his organization, worshiping him in holy array when Jehovah strikes at Armageddon. There must be unity among God's people; no matter where we find them in the earth, they must see in harmony now that Jehovah has brought forth his organization Zion. Even as the children of Israel were organized in their day for marching from one place to another, and had their respective positions in the camp in the wilderness, so it is today.
19 We find Jehovah's people organized in small units where they carry on Bible studies, in larger units where they carry on company organization, and in still larger arrangements where they have their circuit assemblies. Then many circuits are gathered together into district organizations, and all of these districts in certain localities come under the direction of a branch organization. These branch organizations are scattered throughout the world, but they still come under the direction of the home office. All receive the same organizational instructions through the Watchtower magazine. They know how to act, what to say and to do, how to comfort the poor and the meek, how to release the prisoners, how to bring them forth from the Devil's organization into God's organization, how to help these take their stand in the midst of God's people and worship Jehovah in holy array. There are many full-time ministers associated with these company organizations, and they devote their full time to preaching the good news, singing praises continually before the throne of God. Some of these have been trained in the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead and have been sent off into other lands as missionaries. Sometimes they are alone there for a while until they have found the other sheep, and then these assemble with them in a small group for Bible study and eventually a company is started. Then in that part of the earth another segment of Jehovah's organization grows.
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