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| 1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, |
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| 2 Son of man, set thy face against Jerusalem, and drop words against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, |
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| 3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. |
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| 4 Seeing that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north; |
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| 5 and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more. |
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| 6 Sigh then, thou son of man; with breaking of the loins, and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. |
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| 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore dost thou sigh? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall languish, and all knees shall melt into water: behold, it cometh; it is here, saith the Lord Jehovah. |
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| 8 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, |
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| 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished. |
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| 10 It is sharpened for sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter. Shall we then make mirth, saying, The sceptre of my son contemneth all wood? |
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| 11 And he hath given it to be furbished that it may be handled. The sword, --it is sharpened, and it is furbished to give it into the hand of the slayer. |
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| 12 Cry and howl, son of man; for it shall be against my people, it shall be against all the princes of Israel: they are given up to the sword along with my people: smite therefore upon the thigh. |
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| 13 For the trial is made; and what if even the contemning sceptre shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah. |
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| 14 And thou, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; for the strokes of the sword shall be doubled the third time: it is the sword of the slain, the sword that hath slain the great one, which encompasseth them privily. |
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| 15 In order that the heart may melt, and the stumbling-blocks be multiplied, I have set the threatening sword against all their gates: ah! it is made glittering, it is whetted for the slaughter. |
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| 16 Gather up strength, go to the right hand, turn thee, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is appointed. |
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| 17 And I myself will smite my hands together, and I will satisfy my fury: I Jehovah have spoken it2. |
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| 18 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, |
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| 19 And thou, son of man, set thee two ways, by which the sword of the king of Babylon may come--out of one land shall they both come--and make thee a signpost, make it at the head of the way to the city. |
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| 20 Appoint a way for the coming of the sword to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah at the fenced city of Jerusalem. |
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| 21 For the king of Babylon standeth at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shaketh his arrows, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the liver. |
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| 22 In his right hand is the lot of Jerusalem to appoint battering-rams, to open the mouth for bloodshed, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering-rams against the gates, to cast mounds, to build siege-towers. |
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| 23 And this shall be a false divination in their sight, for them that have sworn oaths; but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. |
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| 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye make your iniquity to be remembered in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand. |
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| 25 And thou, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, at the time of the iniquity of the end, |
And thou – Zedekiah, the last king of the Jewish nation. A248; R2401:2, R3616:1; SM416:1; PD47/59[PD47]
Profane wicked prince – "Death-deserving wicked one." (Leeser) R1372:6
Whose day is come – 3520 years after the fall in the Garden of Eden, and 3520 years before the end of the Millennial age in 2914 AD. R3460:3,4*
"Seven Times," or seven symbolic years, began on the day of Zedekiah's overthrow and are due to end October 1914. OV80:10
Not that the Gentiles would be fully out of power by 1914, but, their lease expiring, their eviction would begin.
Have an end – Termination of the typical kingdom of God. R1372:6[R1372]
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| 26 --thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre and take off the crown; what is shall be no more2.Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high. |
Take off the crown – The Davidic crown. OV52:4; PD47/59[PD47]
The crown and diadem of authority and power. R3687:4[R3687]
Because of sin, God removed his throne from the Davidic line. R507:2[R507]
The typical crown of the typical kingdom of God. A248; B76, B79; Q80:1, Q93:8, R507:2[R507]
Israel had proven themselves unfit for exaltation to universal dominion, having become corrupt, vain and idolatrous. B75[B75]
From king Zedekiah in 606 BC. R5598:6, R5406:2; SM416:2; Q80:1; B79
God gave the lease of earthly power to Nebuchadnezzar and his successors. SM478:T, R5328:5, R5526:1
God actually removed his typical kingdom to permit Nebuchadnezzar's government to become universal; for it would be impossible for the Gentiles to have universal sway so long as God's kingdom, even in a typical form, existed. R1979:1
In 606 BC, at the midpoint between the ending of Adam's 1000-year day and the 1000-year day of the second Adam. R3460:3*
Not be the same – I will discontinue this order of things. Q79:2; R166:1*, R419:5
Him that is low – Humble. R2401:2
The line of Nathan. E133
Him that is high – Proud. R2401:2
The line of Solomon. E133
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| 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it! This also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it to him2. |
Overturn, overturn – Satan's earthly empires. R362:5
Completely overturn Solomon's line. E133
The typical kingdom of God. A248; R1979:1, R4497:3, R4833:4, R5673:4; Q83:1
First to Babylon, then to Medo-Persia, then to Grecia, then to Rome. B76, B79; R5673:4
First at the Babylonian captivity, 606 BC; second at the destruction of Jerusalem, AD 70; third will be the one spoken of in Zech. 14. R107:6*
The new King (The Christ, complete) will dethrone and bind the former prince of the power of the air, Satan, and accomplish the final overturning. R362:1
The overturning of Zedekiah's government until the establishment of Messiah's Kingdom, corresponding to the 2520 years' lease to the Gentiles. R5526:2, R2977:1, R4867:2, R5564:3, R5598:6, R5710:3, R1979:2, R4497:3; CR41:3; PD47/59; HG48:1
Shall be no more – It shall not belong to anyone. R1372:6
There has been no king of Israel from Zedekiah's day to the present--the overturning has been very thorough. The kings of Israel at the first advent were not Israelitish nor of Israelitish birth, but appointees of Gentile governments. R3259:5[R3259], R4867:4; Q79:2, Q93:8; OV52:4; CR139:4
It was to remain overturned until Christ, the rightful heir, should claim it. Thus, inferentially, any claims by others to be "kingdoms of God" are spurious. A249
There has been no earthly kingdom of God from that time onward. Q79:2
During which time kings and emperors did not reign by the grace of God, though he permitted various experiments at self-government for an appointed time. R1094:5
Though restored to national existence by Cyrus, they were subjects and tribute-payers to the successive empires of Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. A248
Until he come – Until Messiah himself, at his second advent, shall take the throne as the antitypical Son of David. CR41:3
The Christ, Messiah. R166:1[R166], R419:5, R5328:4, R5589:3; SM478:T;
The glorified Christ, Jesus and the Church. R3616:2, R1979:1; SM416:1; HG675:6
The great Prophet, Priest, King and Judge. R2609:1
The immediate beginning of the legal restoration of the Jews by the Anglo-Saxon treaty is circumstantial and visible evidence that "he whose right it is" has come. R82:2*
The "Times of the Gentiles" applying to the interval between the removal of the typical kingdom and the establishment of its antitype, the true Kingdom, when Christ comes to be glorified in his saints. B73; A249
The treading down of Jerusalem would then cease. R5328:5
Whose right it is – In whose hands is the shaping of the destinies of nations and individuals. R1619:3
I will give it him – The dominion is about to be given. R5489:4
We believe that the time for the giving of the Kingdom to the Messiah is near at hand. (1915 comment) R5680:2
1914 is the date when Christendom will lose its crown and when he "whose right it is" will take his great power and reign. R3574:1*, R4867:5
Speedily following the introduction of the Millennial judgment reign. R2609:1
We are not to expect that this transfer will come as a flash of lightning it will require a little time. R5328:5
The time of trouble will be the natural consequence of the transfer of rulership from the devil, the prince of this world, to "him whose right it is." R592:2
For an inheritance. (Psa. 2:8) D12
At, or during, the sounding of the seventh and last trump. (Rev. 11:15) HG20:1
Has the Kingdom begun in any sense of the word? We so believe. The light now going forth is under the direction of the Captain of our Salvation. R5567:3
"And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him." (Dan. 7:14) R2609:1; OV83:4
"And the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom." (Dan. 7:22) R2609:1
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| 28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus speaketh the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, A sword, a sword is drawn; for the slaughter is it furbished, that it may consume, that it may glitter: |
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| 29 whilst they see vanity for thee, whilst they divine a lie unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are slain, whose day is come at the time of the iniquity of the end. |
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| 30 Restore it to its sheath. I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth. |
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| 31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow upon thee the fire of my wrath, and give thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy. |
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| 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt not be remembered: for I Jehovah have spoken. |
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