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| 1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, |
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| 2 'Son of man, set thy face unto Jerusalem, and prophesy unto the holy places, and prophesy unto the ground of Israel; |
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| 3 and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, And have brought out My sword from its scabbard, And have cut off from thee righteous and wicked. |
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| 4 Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north. |
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| 5 And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more. |
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| 6 And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes, |
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| 7 and it hath come to pass, when they say unto thee, For what art thou sighing that thou hast said: Because of the report, for it is coming, And melted hath every heart, And feeble hath been all hands, And weak is every spirit, And all knees go waters, Lo, it is coming, yea, it hath been, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.' |
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| 8 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, |
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| 9 'Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said Jehovah, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished. |
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| 10 So as to slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened. So as to have brightness it is polished, Desire hath rejoiced the sceptre of my son, It is despising every tree. |
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| 11 And he giveth it for polishing, For laying hold of by the hand. It is sharpened the sword and polished, To give it into the hand of a slayer. |
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| 12 Cry and howl, son of man, For it hath been among My people, It [is] among all the princes of Israel, Cast unto the sword have been My people. Therefore strike on thy thigh, |
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| 13 Because [it is] a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. |
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| 14 And thou, son of man, prophesy, And smite hand on hand, And bent is the sword a third time, The sword of the wounded! It [is] the sword of the wounded the great one, That is entering the inner chamber to them. |
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| 15 To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapt up for slaughter. |
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| 16 Take possession of the right, place thyself at the left, Whither thy face is appointed. |
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| 17 And I also, I smite My hand on my hand, And have caused My fury to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.' |
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| 18 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, |
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| 19 'And thou, son of man, appoint for thee two ways, for the coming in of the sword of the king of Babylon; from one land they come forth, both of them, and a station prepare thou, at the top of the way of the city prepare [it]. |
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| 20 A way appoint for the coming of the sword, Unto Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, And to Judah, in Jerusalem the fenced. |
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| 21 For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver. |
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| 22 At his right hath been the divination Jerusalem, To place battering-rams, To open the mouth with slaughter, To lift up a voice with shouting, To place battering-rams against the gates, To pour out a mount, to build a fortification. |
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| 23 And it hath been to them as a false divination in their eyes, Who have sworn oaths to them, And he is causing iniquity to be remembered to be caught. |
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| 24 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your causing your iniquity to be remembered, In your transgressions being revealed, For your sins being seen, in all your doings, Because of your being remembered, By the hand ye are caught. |
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| 25 And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In 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 said the Lord Jehovah: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This not this the low make high, And the high make low. |
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 An overturn, overturn, overturn, I make it, Also this hath not been till the coming of Him, Whose [is] the judgment, and I have given it. |
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 thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and thou hast said: A sword, a sword, open for slaughter, Polished to the utmost for brightness! |
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| 29 In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end. |
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| 30 Turn [it] back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee. |
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| 31 And I have poured on thee Mine indignation, With fire of My wrath I blow against thee, And have given thee into the hand of brutish men artificers of destruction. |
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| 32 To the fire thou art for fuel, Thy blood is in the midst of the land, Thou art not remembered, For I, Jehovah, have spoken!' |
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