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RAISING UP THE "PROVERBIAL SAYING". "And it must occur in the day when Jehovah gives you rest from your pain and from your agitation and from the hard slavery in which you were made a slave, that you must raise up this proverbial saying against the king of Babylon and say: "How has the one driving [others] to work come to stop, the oppression come to a stop! Jehovah has broken the rod of the wicked ones, the staff of the ruling ones, the one striking peoples in fury with a stroke incessantly, the one subduing nations in sheer anger with a persecution without restraint. The whole earth has come to rest, has become free of disturbance. People have become cheerful with joyful cries. Even the juniper trees have also rejoiced at you, the cedars of Lebanon, [saying,] 'Ever since you have lain down, no woodcutter comes up against us.' Even She'ol underneath has become agitated at you in order to meet you on coming in. At you it has awakened those impotent in death, all the goatlike 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?'" (Isaiah 14:3-10). There are many individuals who are directly involved in "driving [others] to work" and who can easily be identified. But to identify the signs leading up to the end of their tyranny requires closer scrutiny; particularly now that this oppressive "staff of the ruling ones" is about to be broken. We know that the previous seven world powers of the past had the dispositions that make up today's "eighth" world political power that is the world empire of political government, the "image" of the "wild beast" that satan (the dragon# ) gave all his authority to. (Rev 13:4. 17:11). In the UK the authority "driving [others] to work" is the Department of Employment. But its staff do no beneficial productive work, nor do thousands of its subordinate bureaucrats. Doing productive work themselves has never been their goal. In the UK alone they are employed to dispose of billions of pounds each year, enacting harmful regulations and wasteful schemes for "driving [others] to work", while they are ensconced in expensive offices at vast public expense squandering precious national resources. (Isaiah 10:1-3). Because of the source# of their origin, it is not difficult to understand why they have not created any agencies for the just distribution of wealth to disadvantaged individuals from the resources created by the nation. (Rev 13:16,17). A few years ago, an unemployed person who had not the advantage of an inheritance of land, money or other means to keep himself and his family, was refused financial assistance unless he first consented to be driven to any kind of work that State bureaucrats chose, while under their veiled threat of enforced deprivation if he refused. But the tyrannical "staff of the ruling ones" will be broken by Jehovah. And as people come to recognize the deeply cunning ways by which those "driving [others] to work" manipulate and deprive them, they demonstrate against their persecutors, from the ruling ones, down. Their kind, along with those already dead and in torments, will "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?'" (Isaiah 14:10). 15/10/86. |
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