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FOREFATHERS.
WE ALL HAVE MANY FOREFATHERS BUT:
"Woe to those who are
going very deep in concealing counsel from Jehovah Himself, and whose deeds have
occurred in a dark place, while they say: "Who is seeing us, and who is knowing
of us?" The perversity of you men! Should the potter Himself be accounted just
like the clay? For should the thing made say respecting its Maker: "He did not
make me"? And does the very thing formed actually say respecting its Former: "He
showed no understanding"?"
(Isaiah 29:15,16).
There is only One God and
Father, the Creator of us all. (Acts 7:32).
THE REWARD FOR PERVERSITY.*
To repeatedly
suppress righteousness with wickedness requires constant effort, especially
after acquiring accurate knowledge of the truth. To do so entails that such
persons take pleasure in wickedness. (2 Thess 2:9 12).
Almighty God is gradually
desolating the tyrants of Lebanon. (Isaiah 29:17-21
NEB). He is also bringing the stubborn rebellion of Ethiopians to an end
by their deaths. (Jer 15:2-4). Jehovah uses the wicked example of men like
Manasseh to describe a nation's current degree of wickedness.
(See 1 Sam 3:11-14. 2 Kings 21:1-6)
(1 Kings 16:30 33).
For those who choose to be schooled in evil, no matter how much more time were
to be granted, the process of spirit reconciliation to God is not possible.
(Jer 13:23-27
NEB).
Both they and their forefathers will each be judged for their own
guilt. The Christ has removed any pretext for continuance in spirit rebellion
inherited from one's forefathers. (Col 2:13,14. 1 Peter 4:6).
Consequently, knowledge of the
perversity of sinful forefathers must be used to one's advantage, avoiding those
things that God hates. In particular, "Babylonian" errors still being practiced
among the nations for it is prophesied that those
considered to be of satan's progeny will be cut off without a remnant. (Isaiah
14:20-22). As prophesied, they are to be destroyed. (Jer 15:2-4). "Here a
little there a little". (Isaiah 28:13).
THE FOREFATHERS OF JEWS.
While most
natural born Jews have had their "sensibilities blunted"
concerning The Christ, it has meant salvation for people
of the nations. (Rom 11:7). So in
consideration of the errors handed-down to them from their forefathers that have
deprived successive generations of spirit creation, Jehovah will remove their
sins and extend to them His mercy. It is in this way they are
"beloved for the sake
of their forefathers."
(Rom 11:25 32) (See Page 14/12/83). The Christ
sprang from obedient forefathers, and from him children of the "seed" according
to a promise (not according to works) dependant solely upon the
One who called. Christ continued in obedience to our Heavenly Father's Will. But
it should be noted that "not all descendants of Israel are truly Israel,
nor, because they are Abraham's offspring, are they all His true children"
(of God). (Rom 9:5 9 NEB).
For though "'the Israelites be countless as the sands of the sea, only a
remnant shall be saved; for the Lord's sentence on the land will be summary and
final'". (Rom 9:27-29 NEB).
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PERVERSE: |
Obstinately
wrong; stubborn; intractable; petulant. |
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FOREFATHER: |
A
progenitor; an ancestor. |
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