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"For behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder..." (Isaiah 3:1,2 RSV).

Jehovah is taking away His spiritual "food" from unsealed JW 'elders' appointed to positions of authority and thereby guilty of apostasy in Christ's congregations: All who have spiritually warred against, falsely judged, falsely prophesied against, and falsely condemned spiritual sons of "Judah" and "Jerusalem". (3:1-3 RSV). Apostate teachings masquerading as spiritual "food" shall become so discredited in the minds of JW congregation members that "the people will oppress one another", "the youth will be insolent to the elder" and mere "boys" claiming to be "princes" will rule over them! (3:4,5 RSV). Though the people may look for others to lead them, they will fear the consequences of leading such an "overthrown mass" and refuse: "I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor mantle ("robe of office". Moffatt); you shall not make me leader of the people." (3:6,7 RSV & NWT).

By the consuming Spirit of the Lord's Judgement within them Jehovah will remove the "dungy idols" of so called JW "elders and princes" and the excrement of their apostate teachings. (3:14 & 4:4 RSV). All those falsely claiming to belong to the spiritual "land" of God will stumble and fall "because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying His glorious presence". (3:8 RSV). "The look on their faces testifies against them; like Sodom they proclaim their sins and do not conceal them. Woe upon them! They have earned their own disaster." (3:9 NEB).

When the self-appointed "daughters of Zion" witness the deaths of their apostate husbands and sons (men who annexed the spiritual "land" with their own apostate kind), their congregational "houses" will become "an outright object of astonishment, without an inhabitant." (5:8,9). After mourning their deaths, several women will appeal to faithful male servants of God to marry them to take away the reproach of still bearing the name of their dead apostate husbands who warred against the Spirit of God. (3:24-26 & 4:1 RSV).

"THE PLANT THAT THE LORD HAS GROWN". (4:2 NEB).
The "plant" that the Lord Jehovah has grown are His faithful anointed sons, who shall be resurrected to heaven and "come to be for decoration and for glory". (4:2). The spiritual "fruitage of the land" that will be "something to be proud of and something beautiful" are spiritually obedient male offspring of these faithful anointed ones, who with the rest of the "great crowd" prove faithful to God as survivors of the "great tribulation". This will include those who truly give glory to God after witnessing fear-inspiring calamities taking place on earth. (See Rev 7:9-14) (See Rev 11:11-13). Only those "who are left in Zion" shall be "enrolled in the book of life" and be called holy. (Isaiah 4:3 NEB).

When "Jehovah will have washed away the excrement of the daughters of Zion" and "rinsed away even the bloodshed of Jerusalem" by a consuming Spirit of Judgement and "burning", He will create over every established assembly of Mount Zion a protective cloud canopy by day and a flaming fire by night. These festivals of booths will be places of shelter and refuge, in which the spiritually obedient male offspring of faithful anointed ones will be the "princes" of the "new earth" and will administer true justice under the "new heavens" of faithful anointed sons of God. (Isaiah 4:4-6. 32:1,2. 65:17-19).

9/11/94.