THE OPPRESSIVE "ASSYRIAN"-TYPE YOKE OVER THE POOR.
"When you see the poor being oppressed, or right and justice tampered with in the state, be not surprised; it is one official preying on another. But over both there is a supreme authority; after all, a country prospers with a king who has control." (Eccles 5:8,9 Moffatt).
THE OPPRESSIVE POLITICAL CRADLE OF TYRANTS ORIGINATED IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Concerning the last tyrants on earth, it is written: "Woe to those who are enacting harmful regulations and those who, constantly writing, have written out sheer trouble, in order to push away the lowly ones from a legal case and to wrest away justice from the afflicted ones of My people, for the widows to become their spoil, and that they may plunder even the fatherless boys! And what will you men do at the day of being given attention and at the ruin, when it comes from far away? Toward whom will you flee for assistance, and where will you leave your glory"? (Isaiah 10:1-3 NWT).
Unquestionably, those who are "enacting harmful regulations" today within their so-called legal clauses against the interests of the poor of this country, are Ministers of the State. They are the authority who decree and regulate the pittance being paid to the afflicted, those without land, property, or any other means of support.
These tyrants are those "constantly writing" new oppressive changes (Isaiah 10:1 NWT), updating their complex jargon of "harmful regulations" in order to wrest away justice from the poor, to keep them poor. This momentum is kept up by "one official preying on another" as it says in Ecclesiastes 5:8 (Moffatt). All administrative tyrants use the same kind of excuse: 'I'm only doing my job'.
During the "time of the end" of the present systems of oppression, it is prophesied that these oppressors will be those "driving others to work". It says: "How has the one driving others to work come to a stop, the oppression come to a stop! Jehovah has broken the rod of the wicked ones, the staff of the ruling ones". (Isaiah 14:4,5). This has yet to be fulfilled.
These political ruling ones are also described in Scripture as a "detested sprout", "the offspring of evildoers", and as "Babylon". (See Isaiah 14:19,20,22). "And I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant and progeny and posterity, is the utterance of Jehovah." (V.22). In the UK, their offspring today are to be found in such places as Employment Centres and D.S.S. offices. "Make ready, you men, a slaughtering block for his own sons because of the error of their forefathers, that they may not rise up and actually take possession of the earth and fill the face of the productive land with cities". (V.21 NWT).
GOD WILL BREAK THE "ASSYRIAN" "YOKE" IN HIS LAND. (V. 25).
Of course, in this exposure we must not omit oppressive employers, who also "drive others to work" within their systems of deprivation. They achieve this by making and keeping their slaves poor, by unjust distribution of wealth, by unjust rewards for work done within the societies they rule over, through finance and unfair rates of exchange for money and goods with poorer countries that they exploit and now keep poor. All these detestable sons have disabled the nations (V.12), without any real benefit to themselves, or to others as to the true quality of life and the wellbeing they spent their lives robbing their fellow man of; a quality of life available to all out of the abundance on earth that God gave to man.
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