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WORK What is it that is "driving [others] to work"? It is the oppressive "rod" of satanic authority administered through "goatlike leaders" over all nations on earth. I pose this question to clarify the meaning of the prophecy of God through His servant Isaiah when He says: "…you must raise up this proverbial saying against the king of Babylon and say: "How has the one driving [others] to work come to a stop!"" (Isaiah 14:4). "Even She'ol (the grave) underneath has become agitated at you in order to meet you on coming in. At you it has awakened those impotent (1) in death, all the goatlike (2) leaders of the earth. It has made all the kings of the nations get up from their thrones. All of them speak up and say to you, 'Have you yourself also been made weak like us? Is it to us that you have been made comparable?'" (14:9,10). It means that their "goatlike" power to drive others to work through demonic persecution and oppression shall be terminated by Jehovah. ( 14:5). When a man stops practicing sin by the exercise of faith in The Christ, he is being freed from the curse of Adamic sin and the sentence common to men (1 Cor 15:22): ("cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life… In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground"). (See Gen 3:17-19). It is satan the "king of Babylon" who kills his own people by enslaving them to the curse of sin and pain without release. (Isaiah 14:16-20). But spirit sons of "Jacob" held captive in this way shall be released. Jehovah has promised that He will show mercy upon spirit sons of "Jacob" and give them rest upon their own soil. (14:1-3). It was satan the demon "king of Babylon" who instituted over fifty idolatrous religions in ancient Babylon, from which sectarian idolatrous worship today originates.
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